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Biographies

Principals

Chris Kassardjian

"Experienced leadership in negotiating a business transaction is paramount to achieving success."

Chris brings to his clients a wealth of experience and a complete understanding of the factors involved in managing a small to medium-sized business. Focused and highly motivated, Chris has the leadership, marketing, and management skills needed to advise business owners on the best strategies to pursue in order to successfully grow their company in the world economy. He holds a Bachelor of Science and MBA from California State University of Hayward, and is a graduate of the Faculté des Sciences in Lille, France. An accomplished international executive, his background includes senior management and small business experience in North America and Africa. His successful ventures have varied from liquor and wine distribution to environmental protection services and banking equipment supplies. Fluently bilingual in French and English, and experienced in working with diverse cultures, Chris uses his business acumen to assist business owners with consulting services, ranging from business coaching, transition strategies, and mergers & acquisitions. He is the proud father of two beautiful teenage daughters and has strong interests in travelling, exploring, helping others succeed, tennis, and a passion for flying airplanes.

Frank Kusmer

"Planning for a business transition using experts you can trust is too often overlooked and we want to see people who have worked hard building a business succeed in taking the next step.”

Frank is known as a transformational business leader who engages others through respect and trust to attain bottom line results. Frank has extensive experience in leadership, strategy development, and business change over the past 20 years. Growing up near Chicago, he was deeply influenced by his father’s entrepreneurial spirit and his family's values, including integrity, optimism, and creativity. Growing up in a family that owned a housing contracting business for over 30 years, he understands the work ethic and drive required to be successful in a private business. Frank places a strong emphasis on building the capacity of people, marketing, business systems, and bottom line results. He holds a BBA from Simon Fraser University, where he majored in Organizational Development. His broad range of skills include financial and data analysis, strategic business transformation, change management, risk assessment, project management, negotiation, legal process, balanced scorecard, and performance management. Frank loves sports, the arts, travel, tennis, and is a member of two non-profit boards. He developed The Harmony Matrix© – a framework for understanding and shifting an organization’s culture and strategy toward a higher functioning and self-sustaining enterprise.

Associates

Bev Harshenin

Beverley brings a diverse background in sales and marketing, project delivery, financial management, and real estate. She has owned her own businesses in graphic design and rehabilitation therapy. She understands the effort and issues faced by small business owners. She has extensive experience representing clients, many international connections, and has lived in both the USA and Canada. Beverley also has skills and experience in developing sales strategies, public relations, advertising, artistic projects, teambuilding, investments, and event consulting.

Mike Haines

Mike Haines has established a successful career built on years of involvement in finance, credit, banking and business development, with an overlay of computer technology, database development and data management. Mike's extensive background in financial services has been marked by many achievements in the field of corporate credit, overall business development and market share accomplishment - primarily with one of Canada's Big 5 banks. Mike also served as a systems analyst for the world's best-known credit reporting firm, and owns and operates a successful computer consulting practice serving commercial and industrial businesses.

Mike's key strengths include insightful business assessment ability, extensive knowledge of PC software and hardware and an intimate understanding of corporate financial systems and services. Mike possesses excellent relationship and business development skills, together with a singular strength in identifying key success factors in the businesses he serves.

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