Ross Tomkins – Business Acquisition Virtual Summit 2025

Here’s What You Get:

Who is this Online Summit for?

1. Acquisition Entrepreneurs and Consultants

• Develop the Art of Buying Businesses: Get proven strategies to identify, negotiate, and acquire high-value companies (even for little-to-zero money down)
• Discover Proven Due Diligence Methods: Protect yourself & avoid the pitfalls of a bad deal
• Consultants — Uncover ways to leverage your expertise to earn percentages in companies with consulting-for-equity offerings

2. Business Owners

• Scale Like a Pro: Discover how to rapidly grow your company using uncommon and counterintuitive techniques — including growth-through-acquisition
• Enjoy More Time Freedom: Remove yourself from the day-to-day operations to enjoy more personal time while the business grows
• Boost Your Business Value: See what could make your company irresistible to investors or buyers

3. Investors

• Spot Winning Deals: Find out more about identifying high-potential M&A opportunities
• Wealth Protection: Discover new ways to manage and grow your existing wealth
• Capital-Raising Tips for 2025: Looking to raise outside money? See innovative techniques to connect with fellow investors, family offices, and more

4. M&A Professionals

• See What’s Working Now: Get the latest trends in negotiations, acquisitions, business advising
• Close Deals Faster: Discover tools & tactics to streamline complex transactions.
• Grow Your Network: Connect with business owners, investors, and acquisition experts

Meet Your Expert Speakers

Enjoy Live & Pre-Recorded Talks from the World’s Leading Business, M&A, and Financial Experts Experts as They Reveal Their Industry Secrets for 2025

Jeremy Harbour

• Topics: Why Buy Companies Instead of Starting Them, How to Identify Target Acquisitions, How to Create Wealth Doing Deals, and More
• Jeremy is a globally renowned M&A expert who runs a 1000+ member community of acquisition entrepreneurs.
• He has investments in 12 countries & has been involved in over 300 deals.
• As a sought-after speaker, he’s been featured on stages all over the world — even having been invited to The British Houses of Parliament to advise on matters of business and enterprise.

Carl Allen

• Topics: Be a 9-Figure Dealmaker: M&A, Creative Financing, and Business Roll-Ups
• Carl is an entrepreneur, investor, and dealmaker who’s worked on more than $48 billion in transactions, including 450+ acquisitions & sales.
• With nearly 3 decades of experience — including time as a Wall Street executive — he’s analyzed thousands of businesses across 23 sectors in 17 different countries.
• Carl has coached & mentored over 27,000 people to leverage acquisitions to create cash flow, wealth, and impact.

Nick Bradley

• Topic: “Exit For Millions – The Private Equity Blueprint For Scaling & Selling Your Business For Maximum Value”
• Known as “The Exit Guy,” Nick is an independent business advisor who has over a decade of experience in private equity — with 100+ lifetime acquisitions, 26 businesses sold, and $5 billion+ in value created.
• His business podcast about scaling has been ranked in the top 1% globally, and his new book will release in 2025 (with the same title as his Summit topic above).

Roland Frasier

• Topics: Acquiring for Growth Through Bolt-on & Adjacent Market Acquisitions, Creative Financing, Consulting For Equity
• Roland Frasier is an investor, mentor, and business strategist with over 1,000 acquisitions and exits completed for himself and his clients.
• His current portfolio of companies generates annual sales of over $6.3B across 38 different verticals.
• He has been a principle of 6 different Inc. fastest growing companies, and he serves on the Stanford University Advisory Board for Global Projects.
• He has interviewed Sir Richard Branson, Sarah Blakely, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many other well-known entrepreneurs on his award winning business podcast.

Adam Coffey

• Topics: Scaling Businesses, Using M&A as a Growth Accelerator, Exits & Private Equity
• With 21+ years of experience as a CEO, Adam built 3 national service companies for 9 private equity sponsors, during which time he completed 58 acquisitions.
• His track record includes outcomes measured in the billions, averaging 5x MOIC at exit.
• Known well as the best-selling author of “The Private Equity Playbook”, Adam is also an international speaker, former GE executive, pilot, and US Army veteran.

Allison Maslan

• Topic: “Building a Founder-Independent Enterprise for Maximum Acquisition Value”
• Strategic exits don’t happen by accident — they’re engineered through intentional system design & scalable operations.
• If your company still depends on your daily involvement, you’re not just limiting your growth, you’re significantly reducing your acquisition value.
• In this high-impact session, Allison Maslan — CEO of Pinnacle Global Network®, founder of 10 successful companies, and WSJ Best-Selling Author of “Scale or Fail” — will reveal the blueprint for building a company that attracts premium acquisition offers.
• With experience helping 150,000+ founders scale, she’ll also show strategic buyers how to find opportunities.

Mike Agugliaro

• Topic: “How I started & scaled 2 companies in 2 different industries before selling each for 8-figures”
• After founding a small electrical business in 1994, Mike transformed his company into a $32 million p/ year home services empire with over 200 employees.
• He exited that company and then founded CEO Warrior, which coached over 1,000 home services business owners to scale revenue beyond $10 million.
• He sold that company to private equity in 2020.

Ryan Tansom

• Topic: Independence by Design™ – The Owner’s Playbook for Time, Cash Flow, and Wealth
• Ryan’s journey began in his family’s $21 million business, where he helped turnaround a $1M annual loss into an 8-figure sale.
• While the exit was financially successful, it also came with hard lessons — massive taxes, team losses, and a realization that most owners don’t have a clear framework for aligning their business with their personal and financial goals.
• Since then, he’s worked with thousands of business owners to generate time freedom, sustainable cash flow, and long-term wealth.

Ron Diamond

• Topic: Everything You Need to Know about Family Offices
• Ron is the founder of Family Office World Media & of Diamond Wealth — a syndicate of over 100 Family Offices sized from $250M to $30B.
• He leads the Chicago chapter of TIGER 21, an organization for ultra-high-net-worth entrepreneurs, investors, and executives.
• Earlier in his career, he also founded Pinnacle Capital —a $250 million hedge fund that outperformed the S&P 500 for a decade.
• Beyond his leadership roles, Ron has been involved in academia & advisory work, with current & former involvement at the University of Chicago Family Office Initiative, Stanford Family Office Initiative, and Aspen Institute.

Perry Marshall

• Topics: What is Network Effect for Mere Mortals? What TWIST makes dialing in sales/ operations/ systems different from pitching investors? What is the “7-figure desert?”
• Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world.
• He is endorsed in Forbes and INC Magazine, and has authored 10 books.
• At London’s Royal Society he announced the world’s largest science research challenge, the $10 million Evolution 2.0 Prize.
• His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review, and his early book on Google laid the foundations for the $400 billion digital advertising industry.

Marisa Murgatroyd

• Topic: How Placing “Dopamine Triggers” In Key Points of Your Customer’s Experience Can Massively Increase Referrals, Repeat Sales, and Lifetime Customer Value
• Marisa has helped over 18,000 people grow their online business — while generating over $51 million in online sales for her own company, Live Your Message.
• She’s a “go-to” course creation expert for dozens of industry leaders & sought-after speaker who’s taken the stage at many leading business events worldwide.

Chris Moore

• Topics: Consulting for Equity, Post-Acquisition Integration & Growth
• Chris is an entrepreneur, investor, business growth specialist, full stack digital marketer, and best-selling author.
• He’s the co-owner at Dealmaker Wealth Society, and he’s helped build & scale several companies, earning him 2 INC 5000 awards in the last 3 years.

Jeremy Bellotti

• Topic: How to Navigate the Mental & Emotional Roller-Coaster of Business Acquisitions — without Sabotaging Your Deal, Wealth, or Sanity
• Known as the go-to expert on mindset & business for entrepreneurs, Jeremy is the founder of Personal Mastery — which helps entrepreneurs get unstuck and create a life and business on their own terms.
• Over the past decade, he’s worked with 20,000+ clients from over 63 countries, and had clients invest up to $1M per year to access his proprietary MasteryCODE™ methodology.

Kane Minkus

• Topic: *Coming soon*
• Kane is known for helping 6, 7, and 8 figure founders create breakthroughs that help them rapidly scale up towards an exit.
• He’s also an AI/ tech investor, 3x best selling author, board advisor, positioning expert, award-wining speaker, and 40x serial entrepreneur with more than $500 million in revenue generated.

Callum Laing

• Topic: “How to Raise Capital in 2025”
• Callum is an investor & entrepreneur who helps ambitious people to raise money, get board seats, and take companies public.
• He has more than 2 decades of experience in starting, building, buying, and selling businesses in a range of sectors.
• He’s also published 3 best-selling books on business and investing & has published more than 1,000 interviews with entrepreneurs

Ammon McKinlay

• Topic: “How To Find & Retain Million Dollar Sales Reps” [Sponsored]
• Ammon is the Director of Partnerships & the Account Management Team Lead at Closers.io — an industry leading sales training & recruitment company.
• He has worked directly with 200+ clients and impacted hundreds more, helping businesses scale through high-converting messaging and sales optimization.
• From ad angles to sales scripts, Ammon’s proven ability to craft compelling offers drives results for clients.