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Martha Fouts (Rainmaker)
Rainmaker   Martha Fouts, BCB, CBI & M&AMI, is a highly successful Board Certified Broker, Certified Business Intermediary & Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary who is frequently sought after as an entertaining speaker on topics relating to exit strategies, industry trends, and creative ways to maximize corporate value. Less than 100 M&A intermediaries worldwide have completed the rigorous educational and deal closing requirements earning them the right to use the M&AMI designation.

Martha began her entrepreneurial career straight out of college --- not in the rarified air of investment banking but as a secondhand rag merchant in London, England. “The bottom of the barrel was a great place to start”, says Fouts, “there was no place to go but up!”

She has applied her street savvy sales and negotiation skills in numerous businesses from punk rock retail stores, to apparel manufacturing, to international sportswear licensing. Ten years of corporate sales experience with venture capital and private equity backed companies added a little snap to her bite. She continues to hone her natural entrepreneurial skills in her current role as the President and CEO of Trademark. She has survived no less than three recessions with her quirky sense of humor still firmly intact.

mfouts@trademarkmergers.com
     
Tim Cook (Ninth-Hole Closer)
tim   Tim Cook has 20 years of entrepreneurial experience as the owner of a medical transcription business. He brings his extensive true life in-the-trenches know-how in business management, financial administration and sales and marketing to his work as a mergers & acquisitions advisor. Tim understands the challenges and rewards of business ownership as well as the trials and tribulations of exiting a business. His insight and personal experience as an entrepreneur provide him with a unique ability to understand and communicate the mergers & acquisitions process and the many liquidity options available to sellers.

Tim uses his professional negotiating skills to secure winning outcomes for the sellers of businesses in industries as diverse as construction, financial services, manufacturing, engineering and healthcare services.

We call Tim our ninth-hole closer. He has distinguished himself with a unique ability to resolve last minute deal-killer issues on and off the golf course.

tcook@trademarkmergers.com
     
Adriana R. Midkiff (Networker Extraordinaire)
adriana   Adriana Rosas Midkiff's background as a business and transactional attorney provides her with unique abilities to assist those involved in buying or selling a business. In particular Adriana has the skills to address issues involved with marketing a business and managing the transaction process from the begining to end from both a business and legal perspective. Her compassion for business owners coupled with her experience and education in strategy, negotiation, mediation and compromise make her an invaluable resource in navigating the acquisition or divestiture process.

Adriana’s career started right after high school when she obtained her real estate license (in Texas and then again in Florida). She went on to study International Business at Florida International University in Miami hoping to pursue a career helping businesses establish themselves in Mexico. Just before graduation, Adriana decided to top off her education with a law degree from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law. Committed to a focus in corporate and international law, Adriana then spent five years working with Ferguson Law Group as an M&A, general counsel and corporate transactions attorney before she transitioned into private practice and working as an intermediary for Trademark Mergers & Acquisitions. In addition to her solo practice and her work with Trademark, Adriana is an avid entrepreneur and inventor. Adriana is happily married to her husband, Glenn, an entrepreneur in the roadway construction business. Adriana and Glenn have an absolutely gorgeous baby girl, Juliet.

armidkiff@trademarkmergers.com
     
Satkrit Acharya (eMarketing Account Manager)
shakrit   Satkrit Acharya comes to Trademark all the way from Kathmandu, Nepal . He speaks at least 4 languages and can use them fluently to talk rust off a tin can. Satkrit is a proud graduate of Dallas Baptist University. He is putting his MBA in marketing and project management to good use at Trademark as he exposes the rest of us to the dizzying array of 21st century communication tools. He is young, smart and ambitious. Sorry, girls, he’s married.

sacharya@trademarkmergers.com
     
Betty Haverfield, (CHO Chief Happiness Officer)
betty   Betty miraculously showed up when Trademark needed her most. Thankfully she arrived with a well-used B.A. in Psychology which she dusted off and now puts to use daily in her quotidian interactions with buyers, sellers and the most emotionally unstable of all, intermediaries. Betty has done it all from flying high with Eastern Airlines to working down low for Imaging Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami. She possesses superior verbal and written communication skills which she employs to convert even the most skeptical into having not just a happy day, but a happy life. She is an organized, highly motivated, detail-directed problem solver willing and eager to go the extra mile just for the sheer joy of it.

Prior to showing up at Trademark she was a valued Instructional Designer for Steinbrucher and Associates where she created and designed facilitator –led customized leadership and customer service training programs --- skills which are now being utilized at Trademark to develop a new proprietary intermediary training program.

Betty devotes much of her life outside of work to the development of her very own Happiness Workshops where she teaches those willing to follow how to manifest their desires and live the joyous and fulfilling life they deserve.

bhaverfield@trademarkmergers.com
     
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