Dave Ford started out in Aviation as an apprentice and travelled the world through this. He learnt a lot about business, business leadership and he then went on to run several companies including an airport for the Duke of Richmond, professional coaching, and many other businesses.

In this episode Dave explains how he was able to structure a deal whereby he takes a stake in a business for just £1.

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Lana Coronado, her background is predominantly in IT. Lana spent 16 years working in New York, The Wall Street and worked extensively with Media companies. Lana retired early after 9/11 and became a traditional investor, stock market investment. 

She then got into M&A and is helping businesses grow and scale. Lana is involved in several groups one of them being AWE Holdings which is a women geared focussed business, wellness and health. 

Her passion is MBH and introducing the benefits to business owners of a new approach to building a robust group of companies, pioneering a strategic growth model, called Agglomeration™.

Jeff Lermer is a Chartered Accountant and he became a partner at Sobell Rhodes LLP in the construction industry and then he stepped out on his own and set up JLA, based in north London and has been a business owner for 18 years.

He really enjoys working in the construction area plus helping other business owners buy businesses.

He is a business owner in his own right and in this episode he explains how he bought 2 accountancy businesses.

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Jonathan Jay is a Acquisitions Strategist based in London. 

He first sold a business in 1999, 22 years ago and he learnt a lot about buying businesses from the interaction with the people who bought his.

He then built a group in the adult education, the credited adult education sector which he then sold to a private London based private equity firm.

He has done 26 deals in the last 18 months, so he owns 26 children’s nursery schools. He plans to do 50 more acquisitions across the course of 2021, which will make him the 3rd largest group in the UK by the end of the year.

In the podcast Jonathon discusses how he sources and structures his deals along with some top tips for business buyers.

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Chris Isbell is from Orange Beach, Alabama. He grew up in an entrepreneurial family primarily his Dad, he was always either coming up with a business or getting into a new business. 

He started working in a restaurant pizza delivery with his partner and they were able to save up some money to then be able to invest.

He then came across Carlton Sheets, a Real Estate Investor and he joined his "no money down" real estate program. Chris worked his way up the real estate ladder and also started a construction company and a property management company.

In this episode Chris explains his buying strategies and also how he was able to take advantage of some fantastic real estate deals through buying businesses.

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Hery Heny has been and entrepreneur since the age of 15 and is based in London.

He has worked in large companies as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions for 8 years.

He currently has 6 companies, 2 of which he purchased in 2020.

In this episode he talks about his acquisition of a training company which came about when the company made him the ofter!

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Daniel Kepka is a Canadian entrepreneur now living in Calgary. 

He started his first business at the age of 19, a speed dating business.

After several stumbles along the way he found out that it was easier to buy businesses as opposed to starting out again.

In this episode he talks about the electrical contracting company and also a roofing company which he has acquired is a short space of time.

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I am delighted to announce my first guest is Steven Eugene Kuhn

Enjoy the first episode of the MAD Podcast - Mergers, Acquisitions & Deals.