Instructor / Practice Development Advisor: Ms. Denise Huginnie
J. Denise Huginnie is one of the lead instructors for
The Business Broker Academy. She has more than 20 years senior financial management experience in major corporations,
family-owned companies, start-up enterprises, and financial advisory firms. Specialist in mergers & acquisitions, commercial
finance, business planning and development. Extensive business valuation and appraisal experience. Corporate,
middle market, and small business M&A experience exceeding $3.5 billion. Ms. Huginnie has previously served
as the Chief Financial Analyst of a nationally-ranked M&A advisory firm. She holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering
from Stanford University, and an MBA degree in Finance/Accounting and Operations Management from Stanford Graduate School
of Business. She is currently the Managing Director of Succees Partners Group based in Frisco, Texas.
Instructor / Curriculum Developer: Mr. Bob
Ross
Bob Ross is one of
the lead instructors for The Business Broker Academy. During his career, Mr. Ross has trained over 500 business brokers.
He is currently the President of Brokers Network Group, a professional network composed of highly experienced Business Brokers
and Intermediaries. Founded by Bob Ross, this is an association of independent co-operative business brokerage firms
located throughout the U.S. and Canada. He brings more than 25 years experience in the business brokerage field, with
additional general management experience as a business owner / operator. In 2005 he was awarded the Master Certified
Business Counselor designation. He is one of only eleven people to be honored with this designation by the Institutute of
Certified Business Counselors. Mr. Ross is the immediate Past-President of this national organization.
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Full Profile / Credentials: Mr. Bob Ross
Mr. Bob Ross is one of the lead instructors for The
Business Broker Academy. During his career, Mr. Ross has trained over 500 business brokers. He is currently the President
of Brokers Network Group, a professional network composed of highly experienced Business Brokers and Intermediaries.
Founded by Bob Ross, this is an association of independent co-operative business brokerage firms located throughout the U.S.
and Canada. He brings more than 25 years experience in the business brokerage field, with additional general management
experience as a business owner / operator.
Mr.
Ross is a member of the Institute of Certified Business Counselors, and Texas Association of Business Brokers (TABB). He has
served on the board of directors and as vice-president of the D/FW Chapter of TABB. Bob has earned the Board Certified Broker
(BCB), Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Certified Business Counselor (CBC), and Certified Business Broker (CBB) designations.
In 2005 he was awarded the Master Certified Business Counselor designation. He is one of only eleven people to be honored
with this designation by the Institute of Certified Business Counselors. Mr. Ross is the immediate Past-President
of this national organization.
He has
authored and taught, "Recasting and Analyzing a Business For Valuation." This is a required course to receive the
Board Certified Broker designation. Mr. Ross has been a speaker at several state business brokerage conventions, as well as
being a feature speaker at the annual convention of the Institute of Certified Business Counselors in 1995 and 2002. In 1995,
he addressed the Small Business Committee of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Ross was invited to speak as
an expert on valuing a business and the importance of using proper and legally accepted valuation methods.
After receiving his MBA degree from what is now Texas A & M
- Commerce, he entered the management training program with Sears, Roebuck & Company. In 1966, he resigned his management
position and started his own chain of consumer electronic retail stores. After seven years of successfully running these stores,
he sold them and established a consumer electronics wholesale distributorship. Nine years later, after having grown to the
third largest distributor of its type in the Southwest, the business was sold to a large holding company. Mr. Ross joined
the staff of the merger and acquisition firm that acquired his company as head of their acquisition team.
After a year with that firm he formed Bob Ross & Associates
and entered the business brokerage arena. His company was one of the original five members in the Alliance of Independent
Brokers group. In 1991, Bob Ross & Associates was incorporated as the Fuller-Ross Group. In 1993, he became involved in
the national expansion program of one of the largest organizations in the business brokerage industry. He wrote the vast majority
of their operational manual and has trained over 500 business brokers on the fundamentals of the industry. In 1998, he sold
his interest in that company and founded the Brokers Network Group.
