About Us  

"We sell businesses through an effective and confidential process to 
maximize owners' total return."

The Crest Group is an affiliate of Business Brokers Network (BBN), a national group of over 450 affiliated business brokers that has been in business since 1981.  We have a network of offices and brokers throughout the United States through which we buy and sell companies. The BBN web site at www.bbnbrokers.com is a key part of our approach to matching buyers and sellers. The Crest Group also uses a number of other web sites and approaches through which we advertise companies for sale.

The Crest Group team brings together local and national experts on every industry SIC segment and business functional area to assist in the sale or purchase of your business.  We will work with you to understand your personal and business requirements and develop a strategy with you to meet your needs based on financial, insurance, accounting, legal, and estate planning considerations, including before, during and after we help you sell your business.   

Background

The Crest Group is also a subsidiary of Seelbach Associates LLC, which was formed in 1987 to provide corporate mergers, acquisition, financing and strategic planning experience to small companies and other organizations.  The founder and owner has over 40 years of management experience working with small to mid-sized companies as a president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, and venture capitalist.  In addition he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company and Probe Research as well as with Seelbach Associates LLC.  He also served as a director of two public and six private companies and two industry associations and he is currently a director of a public company.

This background brings together direct industry operating experience in telecommunications; manufacturing; software; the Internet; and sales, marketing and distribution of industrial and retail products through channels including OEMs, VARs and directly.  It also includes management of an Internet services and content provider and experience in product businesses in the HVAC, semiconductor, laser, computer display, wireless handset, and solar energy industries. During this business career, the founder and owner bought and sold companies in size from $1 million to $15 million in sales and raised over $50 million for the companies. 

Contacts 

The Crest Group founder has extensive contacts developed through his business career and through his education. He has contacts among alumni of the U.S. Naval Academy and Columbia Business School, from former consultants of McKinsey and Company, and with venture capitalists and operating executives of Exxon Enterprises.  He has also developed many contacts in the executive recruiting, investment banking, private equity and venture capital industries.  These contacts have proven valuable as sources of buyers and sellers of businesses; sources of capital and of full time and temporary executives and consultants; and as customers and partners.

With this background and many contacts, The Crest Group brings sellers specific industry experience and a national  network of associates to help maximize the total return from the sale of your business. For buyers, this experience and the extensive national network is available to help you find companies that meet you acquisition requirements.