Our Team
We feel strongly that only persons with a strong history of operational success can best serve our clients. We do not accept anyone to be a Managing Director without those credentials. This allows us to quickly understand the business you wish to sell, or you wish to buy.
Cleive Dumas, Founder and President, has a long history in both the sales and general management for such companies as Ingersoll Rand, General Signal, Goulds Pumps, IDEX and Ingersoll Dresser where he was president of the $400 million worldwide industrial group prior to its sale to Flowserve. He was president of the second largest heat treat company in North America owned by private equity. He spent the last 10 years with Chapman Associates, a middle market M&A firm. Mr. Dumas graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University.
Anne Russell, Managing Director, has a long and successful history in the industrial distribution space. Earlier in her career she held a number of positions with both manufacturers and distribution. Moving onto what is now Flowserve Corporation, Anne was responsible for creating and implementing the marketing and sales plans for all North American distribution. She was responsible for Ingersoll-Rand’s North American air compressor distribution, a $135 million dollar business. Later she was general manager of Argo International’s $60 million industrial business located in four different North American locations. She joins us due to this deep knowledge that will greatly help both buyers and sellers in this space. Anne received her B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College.