Welcome to Empire Business Brokers
EMPIRE Business Brokers is an international network of Business Brokers that are dedicated professionally to the sale and purchase of on going businesses and franchises, as well as consulting services for Buyers, Investors, Entrepreneurs and Franchises.
EMPIRE's international network has more than 70 offices and hundreds of professionals with presence in the United States, Mexico, Spain and Central America, focused on providing services that translate into tangible benefits for their investment initiatives, expansion strategies and project financing.
Our Raleigh office, operated by Tim Martin, Pat Bentley, Steve Fromme and Mike Nolan, has been serving North Carolina’s Triangle area since early 2002 and are happy to help you as well. We are generalists, and very experienced in working with a wide variety of business types.
Our Background
Tim graduated from Appalachian State, became a CPA and has worked with public accounting firms for several years. He has also worked in the employee leasing business and has started and operated a successful small business. In addition to his work as a CPA Tim is also a real estate broker with extensive experience in working with small and medium sized businesses.
Pat holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has marketing experience with a number of Fortune 500 corporations. Pat completed his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California and later served three years in the US Army before attending Stanford. He worked for over 20 years in the computer industry, holding various marketing positions with Texas Instruments, Apple Computer, IBM, and Intuit, Inc.
Steve Fromme founded Chapel Hill Printing & Graphics, Inc. and operated this successful business for 33 years before selling. The UNC-Chapel Hill graduate has served on the Board of the Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina for over two decades, including three terms as its chairman, and served on its Board longer than anyone. Steve has been a participant on an ongoing basis in the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club and is the president-elect of that club.
Mike, a CPA for over twenty years, started his career at both large and small public accounting firms. He then went on to be the CFO of a $750 million solid waste services company, where he oversaw the acquisition of 240 small to medium sized companies. Subsequently, he owned a chain of laundromats and then spent two years consulting to manufacturing companies.
Feel free to call Tim at 919-524-7070, Pat at 858-7528, Steve at 919-923-3027 or Mike at 919-609-9998 or email us anytime. We’d enjoy meeting you and learning more about your business needs.
Affiliations
As members of the EMPIRE Business Brokers, Inc. network, we are affiliated with IBBA
Association of Convenience Store Owners
Association of Mini-Storage Facility Owners
