Deal Talk with 7MA

“We at 7 Mile Advisors are serving companies who are helping businesses procure and use technology in an effort to develop, capture, connect, move, store, compute, and secure data,” explains Founding Partner Tripp Davis, of his work at 7MA. 

On this episode of Deal Talk with 7MA, host Ben Bruggeworth talks with 7MA colleagues Tripp Davis, a Founding Partner, and Tim Frye, a Managing Director, about the Managed Services Provider...

7MA’s Sydney Scadden, Nic Anderle, and Tyler Ratterree all have one significant thing in common - they sought internships to propel their careers. 

While in college, Nic had two internships  - one at RSM, which gave him great hands-on accounting experience, and another at Copper Run, which ultimately swayed him to pursue an investment banking career path. 

With a plethora of internship experiences under his belt - ...

Happy New Year and thank you for joining us in our first 2023 episode of Deal Talk with 7MA. 

In today’s episode, 7 Mile’s co-founders Leroy Davis, Andy Johnston, and Tripp Davis join Steve Sypek to reflect on the eventful period in the M&A world over the past couple years.

They recount coming off a historic year in 2021, where M&A activity in the technology services space and the broader market was at all time highs. Th...

After attending the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, Andy Johnston and Ben Garber have insight into the top industry trends as they relate to digital transformation. According to Andy and Ben, healthcare providers and digital service companies are increasingly coming together to shape a more interconnected data environment.

The focus on cybersecurity initiatives was an emerging topic of particular interest. As compan...

Pablo Hernández became an entrepreneur at just 14 years old when he founded Ingenia Agency, the company he still runs today. As the oldest of seven boys, he had an early start to entrepreneurship through his father, who owned a successful chain of language schools in Mexico. Pablo would accompany his father to work over the summer months, where he first discovered the possibilities available through the internet.

"I was one of the f...

Tom Delbrook grew up loading trucks at UPS. What was originally just a part-time job to get through college led him to discover deals and acquisitions.

“UPS was a great business to learn from. They're willing to constantly challenge you and give you jobs you're not prepared for to see if you can pull it off,” Tom says.

Tom recently joined the 7 Mile Advisors Atlanta team. Just as he experienced at UPS, he believes that people need to...

In this special episode of Deal Talk with 7MA, Partner Tripp Davis leads a discussion on navigating M&A as a business owner or operator.

For the panel discussion, which was part of 7MA’s ACCESS Conference 2021, Tripp is joined by David Lewis, Founder and CEO of DemandGen (acquired by BDO) and Partner at BDO Digital; Andy Fay, Chief Revenue Officer of Innovasource (acquired by Energizer); and George Young, Founder, CEO, and now M...

In this special episode, recorded during 7 Mile Advisors’ 2021’s ACCESS Conference, 7MA Managing Director Horacio Yenaropulos hosts a panel discussion on exploring international M&A trends, focused on Latin America.

Joining Horacio are experienced international investor Mario Masrieh, Principal at Trivest Partners, which recently invested in Argentinian FinTech company Veritran; and Daniel Lopatin, Co-founder and CFO of tech con...

Join 7MA Partner Leroy Davis as he sits down for a fireside chat with the Assistant Director for Science and Exploration Science Directorate at NASA Headquarters, Richard (Rick) Davis. On this special episode of Deal Talk, as part of the 2021 ACCESS Conference, they discuss Richard’s background and the fascinating work his team is doing on the Mission to Mars program.

Leroy takes the opportunity to ask Rick how he first became inter...

How has the IT Services sector fared in M&A activity over the last 18 months?

On this episode of Deal Talk with 7MA — part of a series recorded during the ACCESS 2021 Conference Hosted by 7 Mile Advisors — Partner John Cooper provides an update on the M&A landscape. He walks us through how 7MA sees the M&A landscape including general market trends, commentary from the firm, target markets, and Q&A from the audience. ...

If there’s a key to success in entrepreneurship, it could be peer-to-peer networks. Alex Robbio learned this firsthand.

With his brother, Federico, and father, Luis, Alex co-founded Belatrix Software, a company that provides digital solutions and IT outsourcing services from Latin America mostly to clients in the U.S.

Together they bootstrapped from zero to over 700 employees, with delivery centers in and operations in five different...

In the wake of COVID-19, 7 Mile Advisors’ recently appointed Managing Director of the Latin America (LATAM) sector, Horacio Yenaropulos, is seeing many companies reflect on the shortcomings the pandemic revealed. In particular, many realized they were well behind in terms of digital transformation.

As companies try to catch up, the good news is that there are new projects on the horizon. Notably, a significant number of Europea...

With more than 25 years of experience advising businesses, Leroy Davis knows the sweet spot for selling a company. While many entrepreneurs have heard of the $20 million valuation rule, he shares there’s much more to it than numbers and forecasting.

“We don’t put a hard line on 20 [million of revenue], we try to dig on some of these more intangible factors,” Leroy says. “And we get surprised regularly with some of the revenue multip...

When Zilker Technology co-founders Rob Thomas and Sean Wyrick attended 7MA’s annual conference in 2019, they noticed a shift in the conversations they were having with other businesses and with investors. They decided it was time to test the M&A market for Zilker, a digital consultancy and systems integrator with deep experience in a number of sectors.

Not surprisingly, Zilker’s co-founders turned to 7 Mile Advisors, with whom t...

2020 was quite a year. Despite unprecedented setbacks and volatility, business moved and deals took place.

On this episode of Deal Talk with 7MA, the firm’s Founding Partners Andy Johnston, Tripp Davis, and Leroy Davis review major transactions from the past year and discuss market opportunities that arose over 2020.

Despite the various challenges over the year, 7MA closed 14 deals since April and the firm increased its staff by 25%....

On this episode of Deal Talk with 7MA, Managing Director Ben Lunka joins us to provide an update on the M&A market over the course of this exceptional year. This episode is part of a series recorded during the ACCESS 2020 Event.

In this episode, Ben discusses how the M&A market has navigated COVID-19, general market trends and themes we saw over the course of the year, particular segments of the market that the 7 Mile team f...

Jeff Vogel, Partner at Court Square Capital Partners; Jared Ruger, Partner at Bertram Capital; and Iveshu Bhatia, Managing Director of Private Equity at Audax Group, can all agree on one important piece of advice: your partner matters more than the cost of capital, so be honest with them.

“Things that allow you to communicate well will fundamentally come from having command of your business and being honest about where you're good, ...

Scott Kaplan, Director of Corporate Development at S4 Capital, and Blake Clifton, Head of Corporate Development at Cognizant, are both overseeing M&A at people-based organizations, which requires a commitment to effective communication and culture.

“How do we maintain cultural alignment as we expand into new geographies and new capabilities with new entrepreneurs?” Scott recalls, explaining the question he posed to his team when...

Glenn Youngkin didn’t plan on becoming the Co-CEO of one of the world's largest private capital firms. He was shooting for the moon — and wherever else NASA would be sending astronauts by the time he graduated.

“I went to college with this ridiculous ambition to be in the space program,” Glenn says. “And I guess no one really told me that when you're 6’6” and weigh 220 pounds, they're not going to let you into a rocket ship.”

He stud...