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Articles Exclusively for APPA Members from Mergers & Acquisitions Expert, Carol Frank

Carol Frank is a contributing author for educational articles in APPA's e-newsletter and presenter for many of APPA's educational webcasts.  To view her list of archived articles, click here.

 Article topics inlcude:

• A Little Good News among the Craziness
• Access to Capital: How does a small but growing pet company find capital?
• The State of the M&A Markets: What will 2020 bring?
• Why Exit Planning Could be The Project you Tackle During the Pandemic

About Carol:  Carol Frank is passionate about business, pets and the intersection of the two. After starting her career as a CPA, over the next 20 years Carol founded and operated four pet companies– a retail pet store, a wholesale distribution company, a pet product manufacturing company, and an e-commerce website. 

She then leveraged her significant experience in both finance and entrepreneurship to start BirdsEye Advisory Group.  BAG is a boutique Investment Bank that helps pet companies and private equity firms in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and M&A strategy.  Carol was a Managing Director with MHT Partners from 2015 to 2019 and a Managing Director with SDR Ventures from 2010 to 2015.

Carol began her career as an auditor with Ernst & Young.  To view her full bio, click here.

BirdsEye Advisory Group is the only investment bank in the country focusing exclusively on the pet industry.  BirdsEye delivers best-in-class M&A advisory services to entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, and private equity groups in the areas of selling a company, acquiring a company, planning for a sale or investment transaction, and M&A advisory services.  Services include:

• Exit Planning
• Private Equity Advisor
• Exit Planning strategies

To learn more about BirdsEye, click here.