First Name

Steve

Last Name

Brodhead

Job Title

Managing Partner

Company

The M&A Group NA

Type of Business

Investment banker, Intermediary, Business broker

Transaction Size "Sweet Spot" (USD)

Small Cap (Less than $10 mm), Lower Middle-Market ($10 mm - $100 mm)

City

Torrance

State

CA

Country

USA

About Me (Company description, Biography, Services I provide):

Steve Brodhead, an experienced M&A Advisor and sales strategist, provides micro- to lower-middle market businesses in the $2-20MM revenue range with Fortune 500 level merger, acquisition, exit and divestiture expertise coupled with expert advisory services.

For nearly 30 years he has assisted businesses of all sizes to grow, prosper and strategically position their enterprises for optimum Return-On-Investment. He enjoys a reputation for helping smaller companies, with limited resources and access to larger capital sources, compete effectively with larger deep-pocketed competition, and achieves this through his own unique system Maximize Value Perception, or MVP.

Mr. Brodhead has held executive and senior management positions – including consultant to executive management – in some of the country’s largest and most highly respected advertising/marketing agencies, among them DDB and davidandgoliath.

His experience includes work for: corporate clients like the Los Angeles Times, Wells Fargo Bank, Toyota, Amtrak, Volkswagen, the State of California (CA Energy Commission), Honda, The Howard Hughes Corporation (Summerlin), Kawasaki Motors, Mobil Oil and Kia Motors; small businesses like Lynx Golf, DeMar & Company, Skechers, Unifiber, Korner Kloset and ALD Landscape.

Whether business-to-business or business-to-consumer communications, he is experienced with every type of communication and media tool available. He served on the American Advertising Agencies Association (AAAA’s) Interactive Task Force during the dawn of the internet helping the industries’ leading practitioners understand how to utilize and leverage this new technology.

His depth of experience – operations, distribution, manufacturing, transportation, retail, marketing, services, sales and executive management – uniquely qualify him to assist Sellers prepare their business for sale in ways most advantageous to optimizing MVP. This experienced business strategist helps his clients recognize and draw on their businesses optimal points of leverage to generate buyer desirability, fine-tune and highlight focus on them, and then develops communications tools targeted to specific buyers and buyer communities to elicit purchase interest.

Mr. Brodhead was an instructor and judge in the AAAA’s Institute for Advanced Advertising Studies at Loyola Marymount University for many years, and has been an active member of the Los Angeles Ad Club, Western States Advertising Agencies Association as well as having served on the EMBA Alumni Board at USC. He has been a panelist for the "Getting to the Top as Entrepreneurs/Business Owners" career development program at the UCLA Anderson School, and has lectured at the USC Marshall School of Business’s The Entrepreneurial Program on the subject of “Small Business Transactions ~ Finding Targets and Financing” since 2008, and returning again in April, 2010.

He is a magna cum laude graduate of the Executive MBA program, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and a trusted advisor and member of the 1400 member strong ProVisors network. Steve is married, has three children, and resides in the South Bay area Los Angeles.

Network with Me (Types of transactions I seek, Professionals I like to be referred):

Privately held with revenue in the $2-20 million range.