WOLLERMANN CORPORATE BROKERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Business Broker
- Senior Business Consultant
Andrew has had a 35-year career in the built environment professions, working for global consultancies. He is now combining his love for the built environment, with his experience in corporate transactions, and has turned his focus to business advisory services and corporate business broking.
Andrew has led the successful acquisition and integration of over15 consulting businesses and has concluded over 5 sales of consulting firms ranging in size from 10 people to 450 people. These transactions have taken place in Australia, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Job Titles:
- Senior Business Consultant
Barry's career spans both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds and he is well qualified in both the operational and transactional aspects of selling large corporate business.
He has also been very successful in the corporate arena having held various senior management positions including a senior management role with one of the largest fashion footwear companies in the United Kingdom with 92 stores.
Barry has extensive experience in listing, marketing and selling large corporate businesses across many industries.
One of Barry's key strengths as a business broker, consultant and facilitator is his innovative and entrepreneurial problem-solving ability. His values of honesty and integrity have also been crucial to his success as a business owner, and this continues to be the basis upon which he helps his clients reach their goals. His experience in business broking spans many industries including manufacturing, automotive, hospitality, tourism, import & export industries.
His background and experience is gained from his involvement in hundreds of successful business transactions since 2006, along with his work ethic. Barry excels in keeping his clients regularly updated and has a real commitment and passion to achieve the best financial outcome for his clients, whether he acts for the buyer or the seller. This will ensure he is an ideal partner to assist you in achieving your goals.
Job Titles:
- Senior Business Consultant
Colin enjoys assisting people to achieve their financial and family security. They could be a purchaser buying their first business or a seasoned business owner looking to expand or to exit their current business.
Having owned and managed a major Australia-wide franchising and business consultancy, Colin is well aware of the key skills required to build a successful individual business or a national network. Colin was involved in developing the Optus World franchise, the Shell and Coles multi-site business model, and appointing franchisees for Bread Top, Gloria Jeans, RACV, United Home Services, Subway, Hardy Spicer, AMC Commercial Cleaning and Network Pacific Strata Management.
Colin is one of only a very few business specialists who advises business owners across a broad range of industries and has been a director and adviser to client companies, including engineering, renting equipment, commercial and residential maintenance, food/hospitality, automotive mechanical repairs and sports store retailing.
Job Titles:
- Senior Business Consultant
With an extensive background as a successful small business operator and senior manager in local government, Gary turned his attention to business sales over 14 years ago. He has established himself as a top performer in the field of business broking.
Specialising in Professional Services (including Real Estate Agencies and Owners Corporations), Import/Export, Wholesale, Distribution, Service, Retail and General Businesses, Gary offers his clients extensive support and service throughout the sale process. His depth of knowledge in the industry allows him to thoroughly assess any business's ability to be sold and create the ideal campaign to successfully target potential buyers, providing meaningful empathy and advice to vendors and purchasers alike.
Gary has a strong focus on honest and ethical standards, a devotion and perseverance that has seen him achieve outstanding results for business owners, which has resulted in maintaining long term loyalty and ongoing business relationships with his clients.
If you are considering selling your business, contact Gary for a confidential chat about your plans, aspirations and goals.
Gary would be delighted to provide you with a no obligation, free market appraisal of your business.
Geoff began his brokering career in 1998 in suburban Melbourne, establishing the business brokering arm of a small real estate agency, but was soon identified by Wollermann Business Brokers and then recruited by them in April 1999.
During the 1980s, Geoff assisted many business migrants settle into Australia, providing financial and investment advice. In a ten-year period he assisted a range of business owners to understand their businesses better, particularly in the financial arena, by adopting a simple and understandable approach to business and financial management.
A career as a business broker has enabled him to combine a very broad background in banking and finance with business development, sales, organizational systems and people skills to achieve a high level of success. Geoff's overall experience, communication skills and ability to quickly grasp new concepts enables him to gain the trust of those with whom he deals and which places him in a sound position to assist business owners within a wide range of industries.
Geoff was invited to become the General Manager of Wollermann Business Brokers in December 2005, a new position created to drive the strategic growth of the company.
The strategy moving forward will be to further develop Wollermann Corporate Brokers specialty market i.e. the sale of larger businesses ($1M plus) for which they have developed a fine reputation, as well as other project work. Geoff brings with him extensive experience in the business sales arena, and has been personally responsible for many sales in excess of $1M, to both private and public companies.
Job Titles:
- Senior Business Consultant
Graham gained his broad commercial and business experience from being a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young and has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom as a consultant and in the insolvency and reconstruction division. He has worked upon some of the world's largest corporate collapses and/or restructures of their time including Channel 10, Lake Hume Resort, Dreamworld, British and Commonwealth, Lloyds Bank and Barings Bank. Whilst in the UK, Graham had the opportunity to work with the World Bank on the privatisation of State owned assets in Russia.
Graham has sold and/or restructured hundreds of businesses over this time in a broad range of industries and business sizes. He has also owned and built his own sales and distribution business with a combined annual turnover of $200 million. He has hands on commercial experience and his business knowledge is invaluable to both the vendors and purchasers.
Graham is committed to his clients and undertakes to follow these simple values:
• Professionalism
Following his completion of a Bachelor of Arts Degree and Diploma of Education, and a short period as a secondary school teacher, Ian opened his first business at the age of 22, and in doing so became the youngest franchisee in Australia for a prominent franchise company.
During the following year Ian became involved in a number of successful business operations including retail, wholesale, manufacturing, importing and property development.
In 1987 Ian entered business sales as a partner in a small business brokerage firm, which was soon purchased by Ed Doherty Pty Ltd. He stayed on as a consultant with Doherty for 12 months and subsequently became a partner in Doherty's Business Broking division, arguably one of the highest achieving business brokers in Southern Australia.
Corporate Business Brokers became a wholly owned subsidiary of IL Wollermann Pty Ltd in 2015, and as Managing Director, Ian's primary role is to oversee its ongoing success as Wollermann Corporate Brokers.
Ian is in his 26th year as an active member of the Business Brokers Branch of the R.E.I.V. (including a four year period as President), which is at the forefront of developments in the business brokerage industry.