Experience. Integrity. Commitment.
Our experienced deal team members are regarded as skilled transaction Intermediaries for all the right reasons. Each Managing Director has been engaged in M&A transactions for most of their working lives. Our team’s unique ability to simplify complex issues, recognize opportunities and help move a transaction to a close are legendary, according to our clients. With more than 90 years of collective business ownership and senior management experience, including work with public, private and non-profit companies, the team has the knowledge you need. Their experience spans a wide variety of transaction oriented projects including initial public offerings (IPO’s), buy and sell side transactions, business turnarounds, start-ups and recapitalization projects that combined, represent over $2 Billion in value. If you want results oriented experience on your side, think of Affinity Ventures.
Albuquerque

Bruce Burns
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER
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John Bessone
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Lew Fisher
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Andrew Melendrez
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Cody Clemens
TRANSACTION ADVISOR & FINANCIAL ANALYST
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John Bower
FINANCIAL ANALYST
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Matt Wieland
FINANCIAL ANALYST
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Arizona/Colorado

Fred Hess
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Associates
Arizona
Steve Gilbert
SENIOR ADVISOR
Joe Rademacher
SENIOR ADVISOR
California
Bob Griffith
SENIOR ADVISOR
Chicago
Mike Vander Weit
SENIOR ADVISOR
Georgia
Jeff Sikes
SENIOR ADVISOR
Minnesota
Doug Arneson
SENIOR ADVISOR
Joe Rademacher
SENIOR ADVISOR
NY / CT
Aaron Korngold
SENIOR ADVISOR
Affiliates
Montana
Tom Nelson
AFFILIATE
Ezra Grantham
AFFILIATE
Peggy Kragh
AFFILIATE
South Dakota
Jerry Grode
AFFILIATE
Josh Grode
AFFILIATE
Georgia
Art Lennig
AFFILIATE
Greg Younts
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Florida
Nancy Diller Shively
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