Ney Grant, MBA, CBI
President / Partner
Ney Grant is an entrepreneur and executive who has been involved with buying and selling companies for almost 20 years - both for himself and others. Ney bought his first company in 1987 and founded a technology company in 1989, growing it to $4 million in sales and selling it in 1997. Ney then became co-founder and the VP of Acquisitions for a unique startup that raised $20 million in venture capital to fund a series of company acquisitions ranging from $200K to $7 million. Ney then ran his own consulting company that provided M&A services to McGraw Hill Education and others, and developed and holds a patent for an innovative wireless testing device for classroom use – his third startup. He still owns the first small business, with his wife, which was purchased in 1987. Ney has an engineering degree from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from UC Davis. He actively mentors young companies and is a former board member of the Sacramento Venture Capital Forum.

Ney is an expert advisor for AllBusiness.com on buying and selling busineses. You can read his latest here: www.allbusiness.com/neygrant.

Fred Hall, MBA
Partner
C. Fred Hall III received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business from U.C. Berkeley and his MBA from San Diego State. He was business loan officer with Union Bank of California, making business loans from under $1 million to over $8 million. Fred left Union Bank to buy and operate a hardware company in Portola Valley, California, then built two "ground-up" stores and 27 years later sold his $5 million lumberyard in Amador County. Fred became an experienced business broker, and at the same time pursued an education with the IBA (Institute of Business Appraisers) to become a valuation expert.

Craig Weber
Partner
Craig Weber graduated from UC Berkely with a BS in Business Administration and from UCLA School of Law with a JD Degree and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1972. Craig is also a retired captain in the US Army Reserve.

Craig has a unique blend of legal and business experience. Previous to Compass Point Craig was the Vice President and General Counsel for Imperial Steel and Tube Co, a private $20 million steel manufacturer.

Craig has been engaged in private practice law since 1972 with an emphasis on business law, estate planning, trusts, wills and probate.

Graeme Plant
Partner
In addition to assisting business owners in the sale of their business, Graeme is the managing director of the El Dorado Hills Technology Incubator and is an active "angel" investor in northern California growth companies. Graeme is on the board of several young growth companies.

Graeme started his career in with Sprint and Hewlett Packard before joining startups ShareWave and Little Mountain Group. Graeme led the acquisition efforts to sell Little Mountain Group, which was eventually sold to QLogic in 2001 for just under $30 million. Graeme has an engineering degree from UC Davis and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Tim Rogers
Advisory Board
Tim Rogers is on the Compass Point Advisory Board,and runs one of the top business brokerages in California, Murphy Business of Finance. Tim has been a business owner of small to multi-million dollar companies since 1980. In 1990, Tim founded the commercial division of C-21 in Sacramento, which was one of the larger firms in Northern California. In 1998, he opened the Sacramento Sunbelt Office, which became the largest in the country and was named Sunbelt Office of the Year. Tim is a respected seminar instructor in business brokerage and is sent throughout the United States to train agents in business valuations, pricing and selling business opportunities.

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