Chief Executive Officer
VR's dynamic and intuitive business leader, Mr. King began his career on Bay Street in Toronto with one of Canada's oldest Merger's and Acquisitions firms. Upon relocating in 1989 to the United States, King was an instrumental part of Canada's largest real estate company's American development plans. His responsibilities included all legal and franchise arena's through which his franchising intrigue arose. From 1994 until his acquisition of VR in 1999, Mr. King returned to his roots and joined one of America's largest investment banks on Wall St. servicing large institutional clients.
In 1999, King saw an opportunity that would bring the professionalism and service of investment banking to the small and mid-size business owner, and thus acquired VR Business Brokers. After relocating the Corporate Offices to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the new vision for VR started to unfold. Today King and his partner and President, JoAnn Lombardi, lead VR as the only full-time network of Professional Business Intermediaries in the world.
King believes that with strategic alliances with organizations servicing other needs to the small and mid-size business markets, allows VR to differentiate itself now and into the future.
As President of VR Business Sales and VR Mergers & Acquisitions for the past 14 years, JoAnn Lombardi, not only develops the vision for the global organization, she makes sure the vision is strategically implemented.
Her recognition and appreciation of how the entrepreneurial boom has changed the face of business around the world, combined with her personable leadership, continues to push VR Business Sales, and, VR Mergers & Acquisitions to reach for new levels of success. More and more business buyers and sellers demand the proven skills of the people she leads in VR, and by helping clients negotiate in an increasingly complex market, her legacy lives on through successful acquisitions and divestitures of privately and family owned businesses.
In 1979, VR set out to revolutionize the way businesses change hands. In 1999, King Lombardi Acquisitions, Inc., began leading VR to its present position as the innovative leader in the sale of any size privately held company. With diligence and expertise, and a commitment to the client, Ms. Lombardi has proven that objective decision making skills can take a localized company and turn it into an international brand.