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Marla DiCarlo

CEO

An accomplished business consultant with more than 30 years of professional accounting experience, Marla DiCarlo is the Co-owner and CEO of Raincatcher. Raincatcher has been named by Inc. Magazine as #1 Business Broker, Best Workplace in 2020, and #376 on Inc. 5000 List in 2021.

Born into a family of entrepreneurs, Marla’s experience spans many different facets of business, including accounting, M&A, finance and management.

From 2000 to 2008, Marla worked as Director of Accounting for an M&A and investment group that specialized in the purchase, capitalization, and management of real estate and businesses in various sectors. While there, she was responsible for new business deals, investments, and financing, and has worked with groups such as Credit Suisse First Boston, ISS Group, Venture West Group, and Madison Dearborn Partners. In 2009, Marla started a fractional CFO, accounting and bookkeeping company which she eventually sold to a private equity group in 2016.

Marla has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and is a member of several professional organizations. Originally from Arizona, she currently lives in Colorado with her family.

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Jason Thomas

COO

Jason has more than 15 years of business and transaction experience focused on the lower-middle market and commercial real estate development. As the COO of Raincatcher, he oversees all business brokerage and mergers and acquisition initiatives across the organization.

Prior to Raincatcher, he was a partner in a $150 million, mixed-use commercial real estate development in Denver as well as the Director for Commercial Real Estate for Trevey Commercial Real Estate, where he specialized in complex land entitlement and development projects. Before moving to Denver full time, Jason was the Director of Real Estate Sales for Timbers Resorts Sebastian-Vail and Timbers Bachelor Gulch projects in Vail, CO.

As an entrepreneur and owner of multiple businesses, he understands the challenges that business owners face and is working to build an organization that raises the bar for services offered to the small business community.

Jason holds an MBA from the University of Colorado.

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Aaron Linnebach

Managing Director - West

Aaron Linnebach is the Managing Director for Raincatcher, responsible for leading our regional efforts to help family, founder and entrepreneur-led businesses navigate the complexity of selling or recapitalizing their business. A seasoned investment banker with nearly $1.0 billion in transactions closed and a passion for entrepreneurs, Aaron leverages his deep deal experience to bring a middle market investment banking level of service and expertise to clients historically underserved by traditional business brokers or lower middle market investment banks.

Prior to joining Raincatcher, Aaron co-founded the investment bank of the largest CPA firm in Colorado, serving in that capacity through its sale to a national firm. Previously, he served as Vice President for a regional investment bank in CO, and earlier in his career, worked with global financial institutions as a consultant with Deloitte & Touche LLP and as the Director of Finance for a large mental health provider Arizona. He holds an active Colorado CPA license and FINRA Series 79, 63 and 24 licenses.

Aaron Linnebach of Raincatcher is a registered representative offering securities and investment banking services through Britehorn Securities, a registered broker-dealer (member FINRA/SIPC).

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Cameron Bishop

Managing Director - Midwest

Cam has over 40 years of executive-level business experience covering a broad array of business scenarios involving start-ups, product line extensions, organic growth, international business, mergers & acquisitions, deal integrations as well as business reorganization and digital transformation. In his early career, he began as a copywriter for a $7 million company and rose through the ranks to serve as CEO for this same company that grew to $400 million in revenue and $100 million in EBITDA profits with 2000 employees located in 23 U.S. cities and several foreign countries. From there, he launched a company in partnership with JP Morgan Chase Bank's Private Equity group that grew from $0 to $120 million in under 4 years.

He has since served as a partner in a consulting firm specializing in exit and transition planning and led a business turnaround and digital transformation under contract for the board of directors of a $60 million 501c3 company. But, his real passion remains in M&A since, over the years, he has executed 40 buys-side and 20+ sell-side deals and has seen many business owners who were improperly represented which resulted in them leaving their businesses with less value than they should have. He has a passion for helping business owners achieve their financial goals with proper support and representation, so he is thrilled to have an opportunity to do this each and every day with Raincatcher.

Cameron Bishop of Raincatcher is a registered representative offering securities and investment banking services through Britehorn Securities, a registered broker-dealer (member FINRA/SIPC).

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Steve Fisher

Managing Director - East

Steve has over 15 years of business and transaction advisory experience focused on middle-market mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, valuations, and strategic consulting. His clients have included entrepreneurs, multi-generational family-owned businesses, large international companies, and private equity covering a wide range of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and business services.

Prior to joining Raincatcher, Steve was a Vice President with investment bank PMCF, providing tailored merger and acquisition services to specialty companies and niche leaders in the middle market. Steve has an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from Lehigh University and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Steve Fisher of Raincatcher is a registered representative offering securities and investment banking services through Britehorn Securities, a registered broker-dealer (member FINRA/SIPC).

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Mark Woodbury

Managing Director - Raincatcher Digital

Mark Woodbury serves as Managing Director of the Raincatcher Digital Division. The Digital Division is dedicated to assisting successful entrepreneurs through the nuanced process of evaluating and selling their eCommerce, SaaS, media website, marketing agency or other digital service business.

Mark jumped on the opportunity to join the Raincatcher team and assist in building out the digital division after cofounding and acting as the CEO of a boutique brokerage firm that worked exclusively with digitally native companies. Mark has been a guest on a handful of podcasts and conferences to discuss everything from the nuances of selling an Amazon business to how business owners can mitigate risk with content websites and prepare them for an optimal exit.

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Cameron Kolb

Senior Broker

Cameron joined Raincatcher after serving as the managing partner of Exit Brokers – a Colorado business brokerage firm serving small to midsize businesses. Cameron has worked in business planning and sales for 10 years. He started his career working as a financial advisor where he worked predominantly with small business owners. Cameron left financial advising in favor of business brokering after seeing many of his clients struggling to sell their small businesses. He prides himself on his methodical and disciplined approach to identify exit goals and prepare a business for sale. Cameron and his wife, Jamie, live in Littleton with their daughter and two dogs and can be found on the ski slopes whenever possible.

Cameron Kolb of Raincatcher is a registered representative offering securities and investment banking services through Britehorn Securities, a registered broker-dealer (member FINRA/SIPC).

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Gary Wofford

Senior Broker

Gary is an accomplished consultant, corporate executive, entrepreneur, and small business owner with diverse business experience. He offers significant value to Raincatcher clients by contributing to their business objectives and assisting them in realizing their goals.

As an outgrowth of broad experience and success in franchising, business acquisitions, strategic planning, business development, operations, marketing, and finance Gary joined the Raincatcher team in 2021 as a Senior Broker.

Gary brings years of experience and a demonstrated track record of success in assisting sellers with the positioning, valuation, and marketing of their businesses for sale and the sourcing of qualified buyers.

His background also includes management of large business owners - trade association, senior level positions with national and international companies, charter membership in a global entrepreneurship organization, and serving his community as an advisory commissioner. Gary studied business administration at Oklahoma State University and is a licensed real estate broker.

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Mark Halma

Senior Broker

Mark Halma has been a deal-maker since he began his professional career. He has spent time working for organizations across multiple industries and phases such as tech start-ups, Fortune 100 consulting companies, and business brokerage firms. This array of experience has made Mark a savvy business-minded individual who enjoys working with organizations of all backgrounds and situations. As a Senior Broker at Raincatcher, Mark is passionate about helping business owners navigate the exit process, ensuring maximum value and return for all the hard work they’ve put in. He understands the value of a strong partnership and has a track record of delivering successful outcomes for clients. Mark has been a part of deal teams that have transacted over $400m in assets.

Mark was a student-athlete at Loyola University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Quinlan School of Business. As someone who truly believes in giving back, Mark is an active volunteer with Denver Kids Inc, and works with the elderly through Volunteers of America. When Mark isn’t working on deals, he can be found enjoying time with his wife, Sophie, and their daughter.

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Marvin Karlow

Senior Broker

Marvin Karlow is a former small business owner, large-company C-suite executive, and equity investor. Prior to joining Raincatcher, Marvin bought, operated, and exited several businesses, including an e-commerce retailer in the sporting goods vertical and a manufacturing services provider in the metal finishing space. The latter was carved out of a distressed PE portfolio in 2014, rehabilitated, merged to form a super-regional player, and finally acquired in 2019 by AZZ, Inc [NYSE:AZZ]. Earlier in his career, Marvin held various leadership positions with LexisNexis, ChoicePoint, JPMorganChase and Texas Instruments, where he developed successful business units, teams, products and services in multiple industries, including retail, business services manufacturing, enterprise software, financial technology, insurance, and healthcare.

Marvin has been directly involved in numerous M&A transactions as both buyer and seller and frequently as the person responsible for the post-deal success of the business. Marvin has a passion for assisting other business owners in achieving even greater success in exiting their businesses, as he was fortunate enough to enjoy.

Marvin holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BS degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Loma Linda University and received one of 100 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships awarded nationally in 1990. Marvin lives in Dallas, TX; is married with one daughter; and is passionate about triathlon, long-distance hiking, and other endurance sports.

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Andy Henderson

Business Broker

Andy is an Associate Broker at Raincatcher in the Midwest Division with a strong business sense and an entrepreneurial spirit. Andy has over 15 years of experience with a Big Four public accounting firm. He has specialized in providing audit, technical accounting and advisory services to public and private companies in the technology, retail, and consumer industries.

Andy has strong technical skills including SEC rules and regulations, U.S. GAAP, revenue recognition, leases, sale-leaseback, business combinations, pro forma financial statements, carve-out financial statements, income taxes, stock compensation, and fair value accounting. Andy has significant experience with business acquisitions, financial due diligence and their integration into the acquiring companies. Andy has managed several public market debt and equity transactions, including the coordination with clients’ external SEC counsel and underwriters, review of applicable registration statements and pro forma financial information, as well as the issuance of comfort letters.

He holds an active Minnesota CPA license.


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Douglas Dolliff

Business Broker

Doug Dolliff has 20 years experience as a Senior Executive in Investment Banking and 10 years of experience in developing and operating a consumer-based franchise business. During his Investment Banking career, he specialized in commercial real estate finance working with real estate and business owners on capitalizing their businesses. He is considered an innovator in the industry working on early collateralized CMBS transactions along with being an expert on mezzanine and preferred equity capital structures. From an operating perspective, he ran a highly successful family portraiture franchise that was consistently one of the top three units in the brand along with being the brand’s US operating partner. This broad experience gives him the insight to understand industries, asset values and to analyze market trends, giving clients a comprehensive perspective on their business and value in the marketplace.

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Legend Atty

Business Broker

Legend is an experienced broker with a specialization in the healthcare space. He aspires to build strong relationships with his clients and be the most valuable asset in their process with Raincatcher. He has spent the last 2 years closing deals in the healthcare space and forming strong relationships with some of the top agencies in the nation. He prides himself on having complete transparency, integrity, and the drive to get every deal to the finish line.

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Keli Johnson

Business Broker

Keli Johnson is a natural at business and sales and understands firsthand what it takes to establish, run and sell a successful business. She brings Raincatcher her passion and understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit. As an Entrepreneur, Keli personally founded, built and sold Orange County, CA’s premier baby gear destination along with a very profitable online storefront. Prior to this venture, Keli established a successful sales career within several different industries exceeding yearly quotas. Keli has experience initiating and maintaining relationships with top US Retailers, and has strong knowledge of retail channel sales, contracts/negotiations, marketing/promotion and product merchandising both in store and online.

With close to 20 years in sales and marketing, Keli brings with her wide range of technical and marketing knowledge in a range of industries from notebook computers and home networking products to baby gear and equipment. Keli is a licensed business and real estate broker in the state of California. Keli has an innate ability to absorb, create and articulate ideas resulting in helping others succeed. This is apparent in her natural ability to connect, listen, navigate and achieve goals for her clients.

As a daughter of a very successful entrepreneur, she was raised in an entrepreneurial family, and along with husband have created numerous successful businesses. A California native, Keli’s passions are family, longtime friendships, cooking, reading, wellness, yoga, beach, snowboarding, hiking and her rescue dogs.

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Meagan Osgood

Marketing & Events Coordinator

Meagan Osgood is the Marketing & Events Coordinator with Raincatcher. Providing a comprehensive range of services to our team. Capitalizing on 10+ years of experience in event management, digital marketing, & website design, Meagan excels at adapting to new situations, learns quickly, and approaches tasks with creativity and ingenuity.

She is a Colorado native and graduate of Michigan State University where she received a bachelor of science degree in English & Professional Writing. She moved back to her home state to enjoy all the outdoor activities Colorado offers. Often spending time with friends and family on the hiking trails and at local eateries and breweries.

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Laura Dvornicky

Business Broker

Laura Dvornicky is a Business Broker with Raincatcher. She brings passion and compassion to each and every client interaction. She is a practitioner of Kaizen and servant leadership and believes that integrity and success are not mutually exclusive, there is no such thing as a stupid question, and there's a song or movie reference for pretty much any situation.

She grew up in the Chesapeake Bay area and began her career out of a graduate counseling program with youth-serving nonprofits, making it possible for youth to have safe supports they wouldn't otherwise have. She pivoted into nonprofit account management, then automotive & motorcycle/powersports sales, then internet sales and finance management. Her experience in working with such a diverse range of people and helping them with their needs has made her a dynamic addition to the Raincatcher team and a relentless advocate for our clients.

Laura lives in the mountains west of Denver with her outdoorsy rescue mutt. She enjoys hiking, skiing, climbing, fishing, and motorcycle riding and is a karaoke semi-star.

She has aspirations to serve on the board of a local nonprofit; and working with so many small business owners has her gears turning about opening her own business someday!

"Deal with good people...you can't make a good deal with bad people" -Steven Heese

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