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ABOUT JOHN SHEPPARD

John A. Sheppard (SHEP) is an entrepreneur, investor, and the CEO and Founder of Cross Street. He has over 20 years experience in investment banking, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions in North America and Europe. During that period, he reviewed over 500 deals and was involved in 15 buyouts, mergers and/or acquisitions with transactions totaling more than $5 billion.

Shep’s Top 7 Tips for Preparing Your Company for Sale.

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SHEP has brought businesses 4-10x returns in just 3-4 years of working with them. Listed below are some success stories of businesses who hired SHEP to take them to the next level.

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EXPERTISE

SHEP’s experience with selling and buying companies, along with extensive M&A, has placed him as a top expert in providing these services to small, medium, and large business owners:

Selling Companies

Shep helps business owners learn how to sell their company, and more importantly, how to prepare themselves to sell their company. Leveraging his experience of being involved with dozens of mergers, acquisitions and investments, personally and professionally, he guides them through the intricacies of selling a business.

Buying Companies

The process of buying a company can be exhilarating, but also complicated and confusing. Using his knowledge of reviewing over 500 potential business acquisitions/investments and being involved in over $5BN of mergers, acquisitions and investments, Shep assists would-be business owners in developing the process and preparing themselves to accomplish their dream.

Management & Operations

The success of a company is heavily dependent on the success of its management and operations functions. Shep consults with companies to help them fine-tune their day-to-day strategy and tactics to help them grow their companies, so they can work on their business, instead of in it.

TESTIMONIALS

“John Sheppard is an incredibly astute businessman, who is humble yet driven. He is a savvy investor and evaluator of business opportunities and is able to identify both strengths and weaknesses almost immediately.”

Patrick Watkins,
Owner and President of Watkins Insurance Group
Largest independent insurer in central Texas

“John Sheppard is an honest, hardworking, and determined human being.  As an investor, he knows exactly what he’s looking for and achieves that goal with every ounce of effort to be successful.  As an advisor, he is not afraid to give it to you straight – honest yet not offensive.  As a businessman, he observes the highest levels of integrity with a wealth of knowledge usually associated with a person 10-20 years his senior.  As a friend, there is no one more loyal.”

Loy Garcia
Former Owner/CEO Raillink International
Owner/CEO, Balcones Muster

“John Sheppard is one of the most intelligent and strategic people I know.  When I have a tough situation in my business, I often look to John for perspective and thoughtful guidance.”

Chris Taylor
CEO of Square Root, Inc.
#2 to work for in the US