Meet Our Business Acquisition Experts
Meet our business acquisition experts, with decades of combined expertise in business acquisitions, marketing, finance, and strategic growth. We specialize in helping business owners transition their kitchen and bathroom remodeling businesses smoothly and stress-free. We focus on kitchen and bathroom remodeling businesses looking for a trusted buyer who will honor their legacy while providing flexible and fair acquisition options.
Our leadership team brings deep industry knowledge and hands-on experience in M&A, marketing, financial planning, and business operations. We analyze market positioning, legal structures, and financial strategies to ensure smooth transitions and long-term success.
Whether you’re retiring, need to sell quickly, or have inherited a business you’re not looking to run, we offer tailored solutions that fit your needs—without the stress of working with a broker. Let’s build a transition plan that works for you.
Walid Costandi
Walid Costandi has over twenty years of experience in business ownership, M&A, and commercial real estate. In addition, Walid has a technology background and has technical and management skills in information security.
Walid has the lead role on the team but acts with team input and collaboration. Walid’s strengths are financial analysis and projection, fiscally responsible budgeting and growth planning, recruitment, and team development. In supporting business owners’ exit, Walid helps modernize organizations by adopting enterprise software and streamlining operations. In addition, he identifies the roles of the owners so the roles can be delegated to existing or new team members to allow the owners to exit.
Gia Cilento
Gia Cilento has a history of entrepreneurship spanning several decades. With deep insight into M&A as well as revenue growth, her role in Are You Ready to Exit is that of strategic acquisitions, marketing, and business development.
More specifically, she performs strategic analysis and market niche strategy and positioning, legal document review, and heads the marketing and social media campaigns. Gia also oversees the human resources aspects of the organizations including corporate culture development. In regards to her background, and in addition to being a published author in coaching and self-help, Gia has thirty years of marketing, advertising, and publishing experience, ten years of business consulting experience, and has been mentored by the renowned Jay Abraham. She works with business owners on optimization, marketing, and acquisition strategies to meet their growth and exit goals.
Ron Skelton
Ron Skelton has 35 years of experience in business startups and M&A. Ron is a marketing and operations automation guru.
Outreach marketing and operations are the growth path. Ron’s vital role is to use automation to increase sales and increase production capacity. With an MBA in marketing, 25 years experience in that field, and 15 years in technical operations, Ron’s experience includes Director of Operations at Excite.com. At Are You Ready to Exit, Ron focuses on growth through guerilla and automation marketing to double or triple revenues. He develops automation and other processes and puts in place these post-acquisition growth strategies. Ron is also a popular podcaster in the M&A world and leverages his connections in the small to medium business sector to support us in buying, growing, and selling businesses.
Katie Lavvorn
Katie Lovvorn is a true business developer, with deep experience in sales and marketing management to talent recruitment.
Her role in Are You Ready to Exit is to take the outreach and lead generation capabilities of e-commerce businesses through stages of growth that deliver higher and consistent revenue streams to the stakeholders. Combined with her recruiting and partnership-building skills, Katie is a key player in growing each online business through the next level of growth, while ensuring consistent SEO and SEM adaptability sustains and grows that level of visitors and sales. Katie has a combined 20+ years in digital marketing sales and international development in multiple industries. She has helped grow revenue for hundreds of businesses in numerous industries through improved online presence, SEO, and digital marketing.
