Sunbelt of Raleigh Team

When you’re preparing to buy or sell a business in Raleigh, you need an experienced, winning team to guide you through the transaction process. At Sunbelt of Raleigh, our brokers and M&A advisors have decades of combined experience and are well-versed in the Raleigh marketplace. Give our team a call today to begin your search for a business or prepare your business for sale.

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Mark Richie
Office Owner
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Mark Richie
Office Owner

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After experiences in sales and as a retail stockbroker with a major Wall Street firm, he obtained his first business. He franchised his first small B2B firm into 40+ locations. Mark then started a small wholesale distributor that grew to reach $6 million+ in sales, eventually selling the business to a firm four times its size. Because of his own experience running and growing small businesses, Mark wants to help small business owners reach their goals. He believes that small businesses are the most important businesses in America. Mark is designated a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) by the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). He is a licensed real estate broker in NC and SC. He is a candidate for Merger and Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI). He is a member in good standing of the IBBA and M&A Source organizations. Mark can offer references from clients whose businesses he has successfully brokered across multiple values, from $1 million to $10 million. Experienced and knowledgeable, Mark can refer you to the best Sunbelt Business Broker who will fit your personal needs.

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Tom Guertin
Broker
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Tom Guertin
Broker

Tom has worked, lived, and traveled extensively throughout the U.S., and Internationally, including North Carolina for more than 40 years. He has 25+ years of Executive management experience in finance, retail, marketing, service, consulting, and operations. He has worked as a Senior Certified Business Broker in various states 16+ years after holding executive positions in the petroleum industry, as well as being President of a management and consulting services corporation. He holds degrees in Liberal Arts and Business Management. As a Senior Certified business broker, he has extensive experience working with various sizes of businesses, and holds a real estate broker’s license in NC and SC for when land and building may be part of a sale. He is a Charter member of the Carolina-Virginia Business Brokers Association (CVBBA, which includes both Carolinas and Virginia). Tom is a candidate for the prestigious credentials/designation of CBI (Certified Business Intermediary) on an International level within the industry association of the IBBA (International Business Brokers Association). He works with a very extensive database of buyers in search of retail, service, wholesale, distribution and manufacturing businesses while being involved with the successful sale of 200+ businesses. Tom provides the professional services needed by business owners and buyers through his extensive experience, which enables him to work successfully with all parties and through all phases of a transaction. His listings have ranged from $100,000 to $18,000,000. Tom’s beliefs are to serve his Clients and Customers in a timely, ethical and professional manner at all times.

You may reach Tom by writing to [email protected] He would enjoy meeting and assisting you with your business needs.

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Jim Martinez
Broker
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Jim Martinez
Broker

Mr. Martinez business career has included fortune 500 companies, such as The Southland Corp., Amoco Oil, Sunoco and Crown Central Petroleum. Over the last 18 years he has worked as a Business Broker for Sunbelt Business Brokers in Raleigh, NC. Jim has owned and sold 3 businesses, and is the founder and President of Triangle Management Group, Inc., established in 1998. He originally came from Denver Colorado to Raleigh, NC to work as a corporate executive for Sunoco’s retail division and started his career as a Business Broker/Advisor in 1996. During the last 18 years in general business brokerage he has performed valuations of hundreds of businesses for sellers and buyers, and has been involved in over 200 transactions ranging from $25,000 to $10,000,000. As a Business Broker, he has always shared his knowledge and experience with business associates, several hundred sellers and several thousand buyers of the many businesses he has listed in Retail, Service, Distribution and Manufacturing and his current main focus is on Distribution businesses with sales of $8,000,000 to $20,000,000 and EBITA of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.

Jim’s greatest pleasure is helping a seller prepare his business for sale with an exit plan that meets his needs, as well as helping and educating the many buyers that are ready to experience the ownership of a business.

Mr. Martinez attended the University of Denver, Metropolitan State College and University of Colorado. Mr. Martinez has degrees in Psychology and Business Management.

Mr. Martinez has established a very successful reputation with business associates, sellers and buyers over the last three decades.

Mr. Martinez is a Senior Certified Business Broker, a licensed Broker in Charge Real Estate Broker, is the owner and President of a Triangle Management Group, Inc. a consulting firm in North Carolina, a member of American Business Broker Association, Business Brokerage Group and Carolina-Virginia Business Brokers Association.

Mr. Martinez can be contacted at:
[email protected]:
919-787-0566 – Office:
919-585-2077 – Direct Number

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