Meet Shaun Thornton

Shaun Thornton is a trusted, award-winning business broker who draws on his decades of commercial experience to help those selling and buying companies strike the deal that’s right for them.

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Multisector expertise

 

In 2004 Shaun made the life-changing decision to leverage his corporate dealmaking expertise , gained from decades of working for global companies in multiple continents, by relocating to Central Florida to become a business broker.

 

Since then he has gained a reputation as an astute and incisive assessor of a business’s sale potential, and as a trusted partner to both sellers and buyers, who provides insight and guidance at every stage of the sale process.

 

Over the past two decades Shaun has successfully brokered the sale of companies at a range of price points and across a diversity of sectors, from manufacturing to auto repair centers, pet boarding facilities to mortgage brokers, construction and HVAC businesses and, naturally, restaurants and bars.

 

Shaun helps owners by explaining the mechanism of business selling, and the process of valuation and preparation for sale, through to the marketing and financing, the pre-vetting of buyers, the preparation of contracts, due diligence procedures and the ultimate route to a smooth closing. This meticulous, laser-focused approach means Shaun’s latest brokering sale completion rate sits at a 90% success level, well ahead of the industry average of 15% to 20%.

 

Shaun holds the prestigious qualification of Master Certified Business Intermediary (MCBI), one of just a handful to have been awarded by the International Business Brokers Association to brokers with proven and exemplary commitment to professional intermediary excellence. He is also a long-standing member of Business Brokers of Florida, from which he is a Board-Certified Intermediary. He also holds a real estate broker’s license.

 

As part of his commitment to help SME entrepreneurs, Shaun has been a pro-bono advisor to the Orlando Small Business Development Center for many years, and was presented with the Regional Volunteer of the Year Award in 2016. A past Vice President of the Central Florida chapter of the British American Chamber of Commerce, and now Vice President of the British American Business Council of Central Florida, he also served for a decade as a board member of Dreamflight USA, a charity dedicated to providing seriously ill and disabled children with the holiday of a lifetime in the Orlando area.

 

Corporate background

 

Shaun came to brokering armed with the experience of decades of high-level business in the global metals industry. As a qualified electrical engineer in Britain’s steel sector, Shaun quickly moved on to project management and then to sales and general management.

 

Transferring to the United States, he forged a successful negotiating career,  winning a significant numbers of orders from major players in both the steel and the aluminum industries before becoming Head of Global Technical Sales at a multinational engineering corporation. He then built a skilled sales team and was personally responsible for leading the negotiation of high value contracts in diverse markets including South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Russia, Europe and the USA. That success then led to Shaun being appointed president of an engineering and manufacturing company supplying bespoke solutions to the steel industry as well as brass and copper manufacturers. He left the metals business to become a business broker in 2004.

 

Contact

 

With his decades of experience across a huge variety of business sectors, Shaun Thornton is the person to call for an honest and forthright assessment of your business prior to sale.

 

Shaun can be reached via our contact page. The FitzGibbon Alexander Inc. principal office can be found on Lake Underhill Road in East Orlando. Don’t have time to travel? Shaun is always available to meet at your office, a venue close to your location or at the Citrus Club, a business club located in the heart of the City Beautiful.

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