Built by an Operator. Aligned to Owners.
EVAC, LLC was founded to solve a problem the traditional advisory industry won't — bringing institutional-quality exit guidance to the owners the Investment Banks serving the lower middle market overlook.
Why We Exist
Every year, thousands of good businesses are under-sold, mis-sold, or simply closed because their owners lacked professional guidance. The retainers are too high. The minimums are too large. The process is too opaque. EVAC, LLC was built to change that equation — pairing an AI-accelerated delivery model with a pure success-fee structure that aligns us, at every step, to the owner's outcome.
Our Approach
EVAC, LLC's advantage is operator-led advisory. Before a CIM is ever drafted or a buyer list built, the work is grounded in real experience running, scaling, and improving industrial businesses. We embed early, build value hands-on for up to twelve months, and then run the transaction ourselves. We understand buyer preferences, the evaluation criteria strategics and private equity sponsors actually apply, and the issues that kill deals in diligence — because we've lived through them, not merely observed them from a banker's seat.
Leadership
Founders
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
EVAC, LLC's CEO is a seasoned industrial automation executive with a demonstrated track record across operations, finance, strategy, and commercial leadership. His career spans Operations Management, Financial Management, Strategic Management, Sales and Sales Management, Manufacturing, and Lean Manufacturing — the exact disciplines that define enterprise value in the lower middle market industrial businesses EVAC, LLC serves.
As an operator, he built, improved, and commercialized the kinds of businesses EVAC, LLC's clients are preparing to sell. That gives EVAC, LLC's Phase 1 value-creation work a practical, execution-minded character that's uncommon in traditional M&A advisory: when we recommend tightening a production floor, reducing customer concentration, or strengthening a commercial pipeline, it's because we've done it ourselves.
Our CEO holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Business Administration and Management from St. Ambrose University, and brings a strong business development orientation to every engagement.
Chief Financial Officer & Founder
EVAC, LLC's CFO brings deep financial and transactional expertise, with senior leadership experience spanning the disciplines that drive enterprise value in lower middle market industrial businesses. His background covers Financial Management, M&A and Transaction Advisory, Strategic Planning, Quality of Earnings analysis, Lender and Investor Relations, and Sell-Side Readiness. These are the capabilities that determine whether a closely-held industrial business captures the value its founders have spent decades building.
Following an early career in public accounting, his perspective has been shaped by progressive finance leadership roles at industrial companies, advancing from controller into the CFO seat. He has owned the financial reporting, capital structure decisions, and diligence-grade documentation that buyers and lenders demand. EVAC, LLC's Phase 1 engagements are grounded in firsthand operating reality rather than advisory theory. When the team recommends normalizing earnings, restructuring lender reporting, sharpening cost discipline, or readying a business for exit, the guidance comes from work he has personally led inside companies just like EVAC, LLC's clients
Our CFO earned his Bachelor's degree in Accounting from St. Ambrose University and is a proud United States military veteran. He approaches each engagement with the discipline, analytical rigor, and numbers-first mindset that define his career.
Founding Principles
- Owner-aligned compensation. We get paid when you do — period.
- Early engagement beats late intervention. The best exit value is built, not found.
- AI + seniors, not juniors. Our workforce is machine-accelerated and human-judged.
- One relationship, full lifecycle. No hand-offs. No second firm. No second fee.
Let's Talk.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute confidential conversation.