NEBX is an experienced and successful
business brokerage firm working with buyers and sellers throughout
New England and the East Coast.
The principal of NEBX, Mike Maak, is an experienced
Business Intermediary who has owned and operated several small
and middle market businesses, holds CBI (Certified Business Intermediary),
CPA and MBA credentials, and has an extensive background in business
brokering, mergers and acquisitions, and the structure and finance
of complex business transactions. Mike is a powerful dealmaker
who brings a sense of fairness and equality to the transaction.
Mike earned a Bachelors of Accounting degree from
Western New England College and an MBA degree from American International
College. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified
Business Intermediary. His early working career included the public
accounting firms of Touché Ross and Coopers and Lybrand,
as well as several senior financial positions at a $60 million
high-tech computer company in south Florida.
Mike quickly left the corporate world for more challenging
entrepreneurial opportunities, buying into a training and technologies
partnership. Mike transitioned this company from a small, marginally
profitable operation to a very profitable and well-positioned
middle market player. Along his successful 30-year career, Mike
has owned and operated several multi-million-dollar training,
high technology, and distribution companies.
For the past ten years, Mike has utilized his financial
and entrepreneurial skills to successfully position and sell small
and middle market businesses through his privately held company,
North East Business eXchange. Mike is actively involved in the
predominant professional organizations representing the mergers
and acquisitions industry, including the International Business
Brokers Association (IBBA), Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)
and the New England Business Brokers Association (NEBBA).