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Dara serves as Managing Partner at Benchmark International charged with running the Tampa Transaction office and the two transaction teams therein. His role has three primary pillars: 1. Managerial. He is responsible for the success of Benchmark International’s first US office and the two transaction teams. 2. Operational. He takes an active, leadership role in some of our more complex engagements and serves as a sounding board for the teams on all others. 3. Corporate. The third element of his role is strategic in nature; to represent the Tampa Transaction team in leadership discussions helping our leadership team to architect and navigate the path forward.
He also holds the rare distinction of having served in every role over the course of his career. His career in finance started in financial services, where he was a bona fide phone basher. Further into his career, he authored dozens of business plans and pitch decks to mobilize capital and negotiated and closed dozens of deals. In addition to serving as a buyer of businesses, an operator of businesses and board member of companies contemplating an exit, he has played virtually every role in the execution of the sale of businesses.
His diverse background as both an operator of business and an investor into businesses allows him to anticipate issues in deals before they happen. Having been in each of their shoes, this allows him to think like both a seller and a buyer
One of the most exciting aspects of Dara’s job is the opportunity it affords him to play with dozens of industries and business models. He has successfully facilitated transactions in sectors as diverse as SaaS, Commercial Landscaping, Vertical Market Software, Healthcare, Retail, Commercial Printing, Business Services, Marketing, IT Services, Niche Manufacturing, and Engineering. What is perhaps most remarkable about the Benchmark International model is that it transcends specific industries and business models. The sample mentioned above illustrates the point emphatically; Benchmark International’s unique approach translates across sectors and geographic borders.
Lehigh University - BS, Finance
University of Rochester Simon School of Business - MBA, Competitive & Organizational Strategy
Dara has a passion for entrepreneurship. He has reviewed thousands of business plans and written dozens more. He has mentored CEOs of growing businesses in the Center for Economic Growth’s CEO Connex program; He’s lectured at dozens of universities, graduate schools and law schools, served on panels, judged business plan competitions, and been a mentor at several business incubators. Served on many boards and was recognized for his contributions to the community as a 40 Under Forty designee in 2010. His history is based on funding/starting small businesses and growing them to a point where they can successfully exit. Dara has a tremendous passion for both the small business and the art of deal-making. Benchmark International allows Dara to stitch these two passions together, working with small to medium-sized companies to facilitate their transactions and to do so in a way that others in the industry simply can’t.
Negotiation, Finance, Strategy, M&A, Leadership, Venture Capital, Marketing, Sales, Entrepreneurship, Financial Modeling
Before arriving at Benchmark International, Dara served as COO of GSL Solutions. GSL provides web design and content management for roughly half of the US Senate and many school districts. Before GSL, he was a VC working for three different funds and held C-Suite operational roles in several businesses. Dara was formerly Vice Chairman of Sunmark Federal Credit Union in NY.
Ich möchte dem gesamten Transaktionsteam von Benchmark International danken. Ihre M&A-Deal-Expertise kam in den schwierigsten und wichtigsten Momenten zum Tragen. Während des gesamten Prozesses fanden sie weiterhin Wert in dem Deal für mich in Bereichen, von denen ich nie wusste, dass ich sie suchen sollte. Ich kann wirklich sagen, dass ich eine so erfolgreiche Transaktion ohne Benchmark an meiner Seite nicht hätte abschließen können. Vielleicht genauso wichtig, sie konnten einen internationalen strategischen Käufer finden, der mein Unternehmen nicht nur aufgrund der finanziellen Leistung bewertete. Benchmark stellte sicher, dass der Käufer wirklich verstand, dass der einzigartige Wert meines Unternehmens in den robusten Vertriebskanälen liegt, an deren Aufbau ich so hart gearbeitet habe. Jetzt, da die Unternehmen zusammen sind, kann der Käufer mit seiner bestehenden Produktlinie in den US-Markt eindringen und die Produkte von Garden Innovations, LLC über seine europäischen Kanäle verkaufen. Die Fähigkeit, einen internationalen Acquirer an den Tisch zu bringen, unterscheidet Benchmark International wirklich von ihrer Konkurrenz.
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