The team
The bench is the product.
Our clients are first-time buyers competing against private equity. What levels that is a team that has raised, acquired, financed, built and operated at a scale no individual could hire — engaged deal by deal, so the cost never lands on the acquired company’s payroll.
Executive team
Ryan Morgan
CEO & Founder
Built the product, the model and the team. Four years turning marketing spend into qualified acquisition conversations, then assembled the bench that closes them.
Jim O'Leary
Chief Operating Officer
20-year sales and operations executive. Scaled a company from $1M to $200M+, running 450 locations across 30 countries.
Bruce Shallet
Chairman
Harvard Business School. Three decades in private finance and family-office investing; has raised hundreds of millions in private capital. Leads investor relations.
Steve Johnson
Chief Financial Officer
20-year finance executive. Advised a $1.2B beverage bottler on roll-up acquisitions and on raising over $700M. Owns diligence, deal structuring and the underwriting framework.
David Dowda
Head of M&A
15 years in M&A, and has personally bought and operated ten companies over the last decade. Negotiates and closes the transaction.
Dr. Ty Richardson
Head of Product & Lending
Commercial lender and product specialist. Has issued 18 term sheets across the network and owns the lender relationships and the product roadmap.
Hany K. Syed
Partner, Strategic Business Development
Leads the sports and NIL partnership and the relationships behind it. Co-founder and CEO of Lens of Sport, an education and workforce-development venture built with the former Associate Dean of Berkeley Haas and leaders across higher education and global sport, and Managing Director of Bridge Technology Capital, a cross-border investment advisory platform. Previously Investment Director on the five-person founding team of a UAE private equity firm, directing more than $100M in transactions and structuring the SPV behind one of the largest cross-sector UAE deals of 2009. MBA, Columbia Business School and Berkeley Haas.
Chris Paul
Chief Revenue Officer
Career closer and top performer in high-ticket sales. Owns the number, the enrolment process and the sales bench.
Marv
Chief Marketing Officer
Owns demand generation across the buyer, consultant and seller campaigns, and the content engine behind them.
Cody
Chief of Staff
Owns the operating cadence — reporting, follow-through and the weekly rhythm that keeps deals moving across the bench.
Nicole
Director, Done-For-You Fulfilment
Grew a company from $1M to $125M in four years. Owns client delivery from engagement through to the first 90 days after close.
Angela 'Angie' Martínez
Client Success Manager
Owns the client relationship from enrolment onward — the check-ins, the blockers and the follow-through that keep a buyer moving toward a close. CEO of Mayora Consulting and a performance coach and international speaker; previously Human Resources Director at a consulting firm, and a registered respiratory therapist. Veteran. MPA in Health Care Management and a PhD candidate in Performance Psychology at Grand Canyon University.
Elijah Jetson
Community Success Manager
Owns the member community — onboarding new members into the network, keeping workgroups and project pipelines active, and carrying what members say back into the product. A coach and strategic partner who works with founders and creators on building structured, durable businesses rather than reactive ones.
Ben
Customer Experience Operator
Owns the member experience across the platform — onboarding, support and the feedback loop into product.
Operating partners
Joseph 'Rock' Thompson
Operating Partner & Angel Investor
Partners with buyers to find, evaluate and close the right companies — targeting through diligence, surfacing operational risk and pressure-testing the thesis before money moves. An investor in the company as well as an operator in it. Two decades leading product teams through growth, scale and acquisition; former Army officer and CEO of Targatek. University of Richmond, Computer Science.
Nick Trouy
Operating Partner & Angel Investor
Serial entrepreneur, private-equity investor and an investor in the company, where he also sits on the board. Owner of Dominion Ventures for seventeen years; most recently a business banker at U.S. Bank, and before that Market President of a lending group placing traditional and private financing — unsecured, commercial real estate and equipment — with business owners banks turn away. Former US Army infantry officer. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Brian Wyss
Senior Operating Partner
20-year corporate operator, now general manager of an acquired $3M medical practice managing $1M a year in net cash flow. Places and supports the operators who run companies after close.
Dr. David Doriscar
Operating Partner
Principal of Doriscar Capital Group, where for seven years he has helped businesses obtain financing from small working-capital facilities up to nine figures, and maintained relationships across a wide network of lending and capital partners. Former Program Director and Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University; EdD.
Scott Hanrahan
Operating Partner, Product & Angel Investor
A year operating with us, and an investor in the company. Global VP of Sales at Rivery, a Series B data platform, where he leads the revenue organisation; previously Managing Director at Keyrus with full P&L responsibility and a 26% organic revenue CAGR from 2019 to 2022. Kenyon College, Economics and Computer Science.
Joseph Abboud, J.D.
M&A Investor Relations & Client Management
Bridges deal opportunities and capital — managing client relationships, running targeted investor outreach and preparing companies for sale. Juris Doctorate with over ten years of business and legal experience, including Chief Strategy Officer of a regulated equity-crowdfunding portal.
Active advisors
Dwight Moxie
Legal Counsel Advisor · Client and Investor
Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Government Affairs at Hello Heart; previously Chief Legal Officer at Revance Therapeutics, a vice president at Ultragenyx, and chief counsel to Allergan's $1.5B eye-care division. Two decades advising executive teams on M&A, compliance and business development. Howard University School of Law, JD.
Dominique Carroll
Counsel Advisor
Trial and appellate litigator with a national practice, and a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP since 2023 after joining the firm in 2019. Advises companies, directors and owners on corporate governance, litigation strategy and risk — commercial disputes, intellectual property, and labour and employment. University of Illinois College of Law, JD.
Femi Palmer
Go-To-Market Recruiting & B2B Consulting Advisor
Managing Partner at Initio Capital, advising founders on capital raising, go-to-market and operational build-out, and co-founder of an AI recruiting platform whose interview-preparation programme lifted successful placements 30%. University of Pennsylvania, Economics.
Jesse Navarro
Email & AI Marketing Advisor
Sends 21 million emails a month on behalf of his clients. Founder of eNZeTi, which builds real-time AI coaching for law-firm intake teams, and Chief Marketing Officer of Cultivate Inbox; previously Head of Growth at Zendrop and a director of marketing before that. Advises us on email strategy, lead generation and marketing automation. Keller Graduate School of Management, BBA.
Charlie Herrera
Media Buying Advisor
Has run our paid acquisition for three years and manages roughly $10 million a month in Facebook ad spend across his book of clients. A Meta partner and founder of CMH Agency. Owns the testing discipline behind how we reach buyers, sellers and consultants at scale.
Michael Blank
Syndication Advisor
Twenty-one years in real estate syndication. Partner at Nighthawk Equity, a multifamily investment firm, and the author and podcast host behind one of the better-known bodies of teaching on apartment-building investing. A founding member of webMethods before that.
Tavarse Green
Investor Relations Advisor
Private-equity and fintech operator with sixteen years across private equity, enterprise technology and operations. Managing Partner of EdenKode, where he leads investor relations and capital strategy, and COO of Kingdom Kode; previously Chief Investment Officer of a national outsourcing firm.
Saiday Mulbah
HR Recruiting Advisor
Founder and CEO of ECS Virtual Support, running a 1,000-plus virtual workforce serving Fortune 500 and luxury brands across healthcare, IT, supply chain and e-commerce, and of Ascend Consulting & Recruiting. Sixteen years in staffing and recruiting; a general partner and advisory board member at a private investment fund. Kansas State University.
Product and engineering
Jake Woodruff
Software Developer
Senior full-stack engineer — Flutter, Go, Rails, React and PostgreSQL. Built a property-maintenance platform end to end over three and a half years, and before that led eight engineers to launch a cross-platform fintech app that reached roughly 30,000 users in its first week.
Jordan Mahmood
AI Engineer
Founder of Wren Asset Management, an AI-native M&A intelligence platform acquired by Acquisition Network, and now the engineer behind the AI and data tooling under our sourcing and underwriting. Currently an artificial-intelligence engineer at Trumid working on fixed-income automation; previously lead software engineer on a private-credit lending platform, with analyst stints in investment banking and private equity. Economics, New York University.
David Blunk
Developer & Data
Two decades across digital marketing and the technology under it — search, paid media, automation and AI-driven pipelines, over 165 projects. A former chief technology officer with three filed US patents. Builds and mines the data behind our sourcing and outreach.
Byram Smith Jr
AI Automation Developer
Founder and CEO of Digital Flo, where for eleven years he has built AI-powered client acquisition and automation for service businesses — conversational agents across SMS, email, direct messages and voice. Georgia State University.
named team, partners and advisors
consultants sourcing deals
deals moving through the network
M&A experience when we started
Biographies are self-reported and years of experience are stated by the individual. Career figures describe individual experience across the team, its partners and its advisors — they are not results of Acquisition Network and not a representation of results any client would achieve.
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