Meet Our Team

      Larry Lane
      Principal Intermediary

      After 21 years in senior management with FASTSIGNS International, Inc., including nearly four years as its president, Larry Lane opened the McKinney, TX office of VR Business Brokers in 2009.

 While at FASTSIGNS, Larry helped build the international sign and graphics franchisor's network of 500+ centers.  He joined the company in 1988, working directly with franchisees to help insure their success.  From 1989 through 2005, Larry held various management positions including, Director of Operations, Vice President of International Development, Vice President Franchise Development, and Senior Vice President of Franchise Relations and Development.  In January 2006, he became the company's president and held that position until he opened the VR office in McKinney in October 2009.

 During his tenure with FASTSIGNS, Larry helped people through all phases of their business life - purchasing the franchise, successfully managing the business, and then helping the franchisee exit the business at the right time to maximize their investment.

While at FASTSIGNS Larry was also exposed to the world of private equity, having experienced first hand the purchase of FASTSIGNS International, Inc. by two different private equity firms over a 10 year period.

 

Jeff Goldblatt

Business Intermediary

Upon graduation from the State University of New York at Brockport, Jeff began a successful 33 year career in the wholesale apparel industry. For the first 17 years of his career, Jeff owned & operated an apparel distribution company. Jeff than accepted an offer join the prestigious Polo Ralph Lauren brand as Vice President of Regional Sales for the Southwest & Southeast regions. This position moved Jeff and his family to the Dallas – Ft. Worth area. After achieving success in building the Polo Ralph Lauren brand with his retail account base, Jeff was promoted to nationally manage two new brand launches for Polo Ralph Lauren. With his position being centralized to the New York office in 2010, Jeff decided to remain in Dallas – Ft. Worth and pursue new career opportunities in this diverse, dynamic business market.

              

“Over the last 18 years I have had the privilege of sitting on both sides of the negotiating table; as a purchaser and seller of several sign companies.  I believe this gives me a unique insight to the needs of both sellers and purchasers. I also understand small business operations from both the franchisee and independent perspective. I look forward to working with owners throughout sales cycle, from the determining initial market value, structuring the listing, and finally marketing the business helping to attract the right buyer.”

     

 

 Larry Dunn

My mission, as an agent for VR McKinney, is to make the clients, the partners, and the enterprises that I represent more profitable and competitive.  Profitability is addressed by growing the business, increasing revenue, avoiding expenses and/or reducing expenses.  Competitiveness is achieved by focusing on quality and service while leveraging technology and partnerships.

My name is Larry E Dunn, I am educated as and I am a practicing Management Engineer and Business Management Professional.  I have held corporate and field executive management positions with enterprises such as Ageless Business Concepts, Lockheed Martin, Electronic Data Systems, the Boeing Company and the United States Air Force.

I have lead or been members of teams that have had the responsibility to make acquisitions, divestitures or mergers successful.

I have experience working with clients and solutions for industries such as but not limited to Agribusiness; Discrete Manufacturing; Education; Energy; Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate; Government (Federal, State, Local); Health Care; Process Manufacturing; Retail & Wholesale Distribution; Technology & Telecommunications; Transportation (Airway, Railway, Roadway; Waterway and Pipeline).

I leverage the authored situation management methodology, ICARES, and other traditional and unique business concepts to insure that both your mission, as a client, and my mission are a success.

As your agent, I focus on factors such as Command-ability; Communicate-ability; Compete-ability; Compute-ability; Control-ability; Inform-ability; Integrate-ability; Intelligence-ability; Interoperate-ability; Liquidate-ability; Orange-ability; Profit-ability; Reconnaissance-ability; Reliable-ability; Safety-ability; Secure-ability; Solvency-ability; Stable-ability; Survive-ability; Sustain/Green-ability; Synergy-ability; Value-ability

Viable-ability.

I provide expertise in the enterprise functions and sub-functions such as Corporate Support - Corporate Management, Corporate Administration, Stakeholder/Investor Services, Public Services, Government Services, History Services, and Audit Services; Mission Support - Mission Control, Situation Control, Resource Control, Production Control and Quality Control;  Enterprise Support - Legal Services, Financial Services, Information Services, Talent Services, Safety & Security Services, and Facilities & Environment Services; Business Support - Business Management, Business Administration, Client Acquisition and Deliverable Management; Delivery Support - Delivery Management, Delivery Administration and Business Integration; Operational Support; Fabrication Support; Research & Development Support and Deliverables.

The success of my clients is my focus.  You can reach me at 214-733-8282 or ledunn@vrmckinney.com.