Matthew DiGeronimo (MBA)

Title: President Languages: English Island: Oahu Phone: (808) 597-1101 Fax: (808) 356-0342 Email: mdigeronimo@vrhonolulu.com Address: 3555 Harding Avenue Suite 2A, Honolulu, HI 96816

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Matthew DiGeronimo is the Owner and President of Strategic Vision Advisory Partners LLC, the exclusive Hawaii franchisee of VR Mergers & Acquisitions. Matthew leads the largest and most professional team of business intermediaries in Hawaii - more than 10 agents strong on three islands.

Prior to acquiring VR Hawaii, Matthew served as a nuclear submarine officer in the United Staes Navy specializing in nuclear power plant operations and submarine warfare tactics aboard Los Angeles class fast attack submarines. Additionally, he served as the Submarine Operations Officer to COMMANDER MIDDLE EAST FORCE during the global war on terrorism and the lead submarine tactics instructor at Navy Submarine School.

Matthew earned an MBA from the University of Connecticut and a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Steve Abdalla (M&AMI, CBI, MBA, B)

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Stephen M. Abdalla is the company's Principal Broker and the founder of VR Hawaii.

Steve sold more businesses than any other franchise owner in VR's worldwide network of 115 offices during 2007. In addition, he was named "Most Valuable Intermediary" (MVI) in the worldwide VR network for 2006 from more than 500 owners and agents. VR selects one MVI each year from its worldwide network to recognize outstanding contributions to the company in sales, marketing and organizational development.

Steve is the only business broker in the state of Hawaii honored with the International Business Brokers Association's (IBBA's) prestigious designation of Mergers and Acquisitions Master Intermediary ("M&AMI") and the only broker on Oahu with its Certified Business Intermediary ("CBI") designation. The M&AMI certification is awarded only to intermediaries who have demonstrated competence on middle market transactions ($1-100 million) and completed extensive advanced educational requirements. The CBI is granted based on demonstrated knowledge in small market transactions (< $1 million) and adherence to IBBA ethical standards. Steve is one of only a few dozen business brokers nationwide selected by the IBBA to teach workshops at its biannual educational conventions.

He has formed key partnerships with the mainland's leading health care practice brokerage and Hawaii's leading residential realtor, Coldwell Banker, among others. VR dominates business brokerage in the state of Hawaii, and is bringing truly professional service and unmatched experience to the Aloha state.

Prior to founding VR Hawaii, Steve served as Vice President of Marketing of Launch Pad, one of California's premier sales and marketing consulting firms. At Launch Pad, he helped launch more than thirty start up companies, most of them venture capital financed, with invested capital ranging from $250,000 to $50 million. For these clients, he was instrumental in systematizing all aspects of the launch process, including marketing strategy & positioning, segmentation, Internet design and strategy, collateral, public relations, direct marketing programs, sales channels, and pricing strategies. The result: dozens of successful company launches, with one client acquired by Verisign for $750 million and another by Critical Path for $100 million. Prior to Launch Pad, Steve worked for CSC Index and Bain & Company, two leading management consulting firms advising Fortune 1000 companies. For these clients, he specialized in operations redesign, marketing and mergers & acquisitions. In more than 12 separate projects, documented client value added exceeded $1 MM.

Steve has an MBA from Stanford University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Honolulu Executives Association, International Association of Business Brokers and the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce. He has written numerous articles on business acquisitions and strategy that have been published in the Pacific Business News. He enjoys historical novels, scuba diving, traveling, golfing (badly) and dining out at Honolulu's many fabulous restaurants.

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David Greene (S)

Title: Health Care Practice Specialist Languages: English Island: All Phone: (719) 487-9973 Fax: (719) 487-9974 Email: david@vrhi.com Address: 115847 Woodmeadow Ct., Colorado Springs, CO 80921

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David Greene is a medical practice consultant for VR Hawaii. In addition, he is President and founder of Medical Practice Brokers, Inc., the mainland's leading business brokerage firm specializing exclusively in sales of medical related professional practices. Mr. Greene and the associates at Medical Practice Brokers, Inc. have assisted Sellers and Buyers in the successful transactions and valuations of numerous medical practices of varied types including medical primary care and surgical subspecialties, dental, chiropractic, veterinary, psychiatric, and others.

Mr. Greene has been brokering medical professional practices since 1997 and provides expert practice valuation services nationwide. He conducts seminars on buying and selling medical practices around the US. He is a member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), National Association of Healthcare Consultants (NAHC), Practice Valuation Study Group (PVSG), Optometric Practice Sales Group (OPSN), and Veterinary Practice Sales Group (VPSG).

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Fung Yang (S)

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Fung Yang is a Director with the Oahu office of VR Mergers & Acquisitions. Yang has lived in Hawaii off and on since 1990 when he first moved to the islands from Hong Kong. Yang brings to VR Hawaii four critical resources: 1) exceptional knowledge and understanding of the entrepreneurial process, having built three successful companies in the last dozen years; 2) extensive business contacts in Hong Kong and mainland China; 3) a thorough understanding of Chinese business practice and investment criteria; 4) fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese.

Yang is currently operating specialized local hauling company in Hawaii, which provides services to businesses and residential customers on the island of Oahu. He had managed at an innovative dental products company based in California, which develops, imports from China and markets its own brand of patented dental consumable products to dentists and dental specialists in the US.

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Albert Kam (S)

Title: Director Languages: English Island: Oahu Phone: (808) 597-1101 Fax: (866) 373-3035 Email: akam@vrhonolulu.com Address: 3555 Harding Avenue Suite 2A, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816

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Albert Kam ("Al") is a Director with the Oahu office of VR Mergers & Acquisitions. As a serial entrepreneur, Al brings 30+ years experience and an extraordinary passion for business to his seller and buyer clients. He has successfully founded, built and sold five successful businesses here in Hawaii. All sold for many times the initial investment.

Prior to joining VR, he was sales manager of a long established local manufacturer-distributor in the construction and building materials industry. During the 14 years there his strategic efforts helped launch successful branches that included Arizona, Las Vegas, Kona, and Maui. He was a major contributing factor that boosted sales of $8 million when he started to over $30 million when he left.

Al has a BA from the University of Hawaii. He grew up and has his roots here in Hawaii and has done business throughout the islands.

Al is a present member of Architects and Engineers of Hawaii, Structural Engineers of Hawaii, Masons Association of Hawaii and other business and charity organizations. He is married and the proud parent of triplets, two boys and a girl, all enrolled at Hawaii’s prestigious Punahou school.

 

 

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Grif Frost (MBA, S)

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Grif Frost, Managing Director of the Island of Hawaii for VR Mergers & Acquisitions, has nearly thirty years of experience in starting, building and selling 40+ of his own businesses in Japan, Australia, Mainland US and Hawaii.

Before joining VR as the Managing Director of the Island of Hawaii, Grif developed businesses in the education, fitness, housing, food and beverage, fashion, publishing, tourism, travel, furniture, restaurant, hotel, property development and agricultural business segments. Grif has been involved with developing businesses in manufacturing, wholesale, retail, direct response marketing and international sales

Since joining VR Mergers & Acquisitions on the Island of Hawaii in 2004, Grif has worked with over 200 business owners helping them prepare their businesses for sale and been involved in 40+ business sale transactions on the Island of Hawaii ranging in size from $120,000 to $12 million.

Grif, a published author, is passionate about helping people become owners of LQ Businesses. LQ=Life Quality. Grif works with business owners to help them LQ their businesses which adds value to their businesses and improve their lives. An LQ Business will command a premium in the market place when the business owner chooses to sell their business.

Grif has been a faculty member with the University of Hawaii Hilo College of Business and Economics teaching classes on business planning, international marketing and entrepreneurship.

Grif has been married to Noriko Nomura for 30+ years, has four adult children, Alexander, Anthony, Andrea and Aleshia, all educated overseas and all of whom have chosen to make the Island of Hawaii their home as it is a totally LQ environment.

Grif was raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, was a Rotary Club Scholar and sent to live and work in a beer brewery in France for a year at the age of fifteen, received his BA in Liberal Arts from Willamette University and Global MBA from Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management.

Grif's hobby is sharing his passion for premium chilled sake as he was the "Robert Mondavi of the world of sake" for ten years when he was the founder/CEO of SakeOne Corporation, the first premium sake producer in the U.S. During that time he created the Momokawa and Moonstone brands of premium chilled sake, was founder/Chairman of the International Sake Institute, wrote the best selling sake book, Sake Pure & Simple and ran sakes seminars in 300+ cities.

 

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Josh Mason (S)

Title: Special Projects Manager Languages: English Island: Hawaii (Big Island) Phone: (808) 895-5816 Fax: (808) 811-6825 Email: joshmason@vrbigisland.com

Josh's responsibilities for VR Hawaii Island include: client communication and tracking system development and management; listing/marketing/deal process systems development and management; financial analysis and valuations; client management and relationship building; marketing; administration; and overall strategic development.

Josh has a Bachelor's of Business Administration with a focus in Finance and Quantitative Business Analysis from the University of Hawaii, Hilo. He graduated at the top of his business class. He plans to use the skills and knowledge he has learned both in school and in his experience with VR to not only allow him to develop his own businesses but also help others purchase, start, and/or develop businesses that they will love and enjoy in the best place in the world, Hawaii.

Josh has worked in all aspects of the operations, and has a strong desire to use his knowledge of business brokerage to fulfill the dreams of those looking to fulfill their business ownership dreams in Paradise!

 

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Tom Caltrider (CBI, CEPA, MBA, S)

Title: Managing Director Languages: English Island: Maui Phone: (808) 573-4752 Fax: (866) 655-1761 Email: caltrider@vraloha.com Address: P. O. Box 790129; Paia, HI 96779

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Tom Caltrider is the Managing Director with the Maui Office of VR Mergers & Acquisitions, and brings to VR more than 30 years of senior management experience in a variety of companies and industries. His last corporate position was as Senior Vice President of Johns Manville responsible for the $1 billion fiberglass insulation business, with 14 plants in North America and over 4,000 employees. Prior to that he was President and CEO of Gundle Environmental Services a $250 million revenue plastic manufacturing and environmental construction firm; Vice President of GE Plastics Pacific based in Singapore; and, Vice President and General Manager of Borg Warner Petrochemicals, a $600 million producer of basic petrochemicals.

Tom was a member of the National Petroleum Association's Petrochemical committee, was chairman of the North American Insulation Manufactures Association and has served on several corporate and joint venture boards of directors in the USA and abroad.

He has a strong background in sales, marketing, finance, business development, purchasing, and joint venture and trade association leadership, all of which are employed in the complex endeavor of business brokerage.

Tom received an MBA from Ohio University, attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and has a BS in business from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the International Business Brokers Association, the industry's leading trade association, which awarded him its Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation. He has also been awarded Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) status from the Exit Planning Institute, the premier provider of learning, knowledge, and future-oriented research for exit planning professionals.

 

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Rosalyn Caltrider (S)

Title: Director Languages: English Island: Maui Phone: (808) 573-4752 Fax: (866) 655-1761 Email: rosalyn@vraloha.com Address: P. O. Box 790129; Paia, HI 96779

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Rosalyn Caltrider is a Director with the Maui office of VR Mergers & Acquisitions. She brings a diverse background to VR, with experience in Law, Business Development and Real Estate Development.

Prior to joining VR, Rosalyn began her career as an attorney in a general practice law firm, Johnston, Turner & Henritze. After leaving the firm, she spent fourteen years with Norfolk Southern Corporation, a multi-billion dollar transportation company. Starting with the company as an attorney handling all aspects of real estate transactions, she quickly discovered that her passion was negotiating the deals rather than documenting them. Switching to the business side of real estate as the Manager of Business Development, she was then promoted to the position of Director of Real Estate Development.

With this position, Rosalyn became responsible for the development of non-operational company properties, over an area covering most of the eastern half of the United States. The position included creating non-traditional income streams from underutilized properties, as well as P&L responsibility for 16 joint ventures valued at $400 million and comprised of office buildings, shopping centers, warehouses and vacant land.

Her most challenging and rewarding deal was coordinating the successful effort to secure the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office's award for 2,000,000 square feet of office space. Several years after initiating the endeavor, an old Norfolk Southern rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia became the PTO's new home. Her background places her in the optimal position of understanding the complexities of developing, selling and buying a business.

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