Wayne Slavitt

Wayne Slavitt is an expert in maximizing business value. Over the past few decades,

Wayne has been involved in a variety of entrepreneurial projects in both principal and

advisor capacities. Wayne’s broad involvement on both sides of the aisle ranges from

executive positions as CEO, CFO, and corporate controller, to advisory roles as an

investment banker, specialized business consultant, and business founder.

With extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions early in his career, Wayne

formed the boutique investment banking firm of The Slavitt Ellington Group (now

Acuity Advisors), serving the private middle market, providing merger and acquisition,

business valuation, and workout and turnaround services. In 1998, Wayne sold his

interest in the firm to his partners and pursued similar opportunities in the Inland

Empire in Southern California. Over the next two years, Wayne sold six companies,

including privately-held companies to publicly-traded firms, as part of various industry

roll-ups.

Among the many ventures Wayne has been involved with are the retail expansion of

Cal Spas in the late 1980s, the formation of an e-commerce and brick-and-mortar

platform for International E-Z UP, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of instant

shelters, the expansion of a successful real estate investment and management firm,

the creation and eventual sale of an innovative patent portfolio, and the development,

roll-out and eventual sale of Mobül: the mobility store, the most innovative retail

concept in the burgeoning senior market.

Wayne has extensive public speaking experience, having been a frequent lecturer for

Vistage and its predecessor company, The Executive Committee, as well as keynote

speaker at the ECRM Conference and a featured lecturer at Medtrade. Wayne has also

authored numerous business articles on a variety of topics.

Wayne, a magna cum laude graduate of Claremont McKenna College, served as

President of the CMC Alumni Association, was Alumni-mentor for the

Entrepreneurial Studies course at CMC and was a founding member of the Advisory

Board for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Claremont Colleges.

Wayne is also a member of the Long Beach Rotary and served on the Board of

Directors and President of the Small Business Council of the Long Beach Chamber of

Commerce. Wayne was also named a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses scholar

and has earned his designation as a Certified Exit Planning Advisor by the Exit Planning

Institute.

Recently, Wayne wrote his first book “Run It Like You’ll Sell It: Adopting the Seller’s

Mindset to Maximize the Value of Your Business”, a compendium of his decades of

experience in helping business owners maximize the value of their companies in

preparation for an eventual sale.