Joe Ranalla 714.260.1979    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent As a highly recognized sales professional with a vision of success for every project Joe takes on, Joe Ranalla’s focus is on adding value to the service he provides by a hands on approach allowing clients to know his hands their needs are always his first priority. His knowledgeable and aggressive business style gives clients results not excuses. Joe comes to SellingRestaurants as a seasoned business brokerage intermediary in sales, acquisitions and mergers. He brings with him the knowledge and skill sets required to facilitate a successful business transaction to include expediting solutions not just seeing problems, communicating effectively on behalf of his clients, and representing their interests with discretion and integrity. Joe has a close connection to business owners and entrepreneurs, which has provided him with understanding of their wants and needs. His work ethic is simple; to work as tirelessly as business owners do to bring their goals to fruition. The attention he spends with his client’s forges a strong bond, which ensures his clients needs and concerns are never compromised. Joe would be thrilled to speak to anyone with questions or desiring his assistance. California Real Estate Salesperson License # 01719969. Area: CA - Los Angeles Business For Sale CA - Orange County Business For Sale Keith Simpson 530-545-2451    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent Keith joins us from a long and respectable history in the Hotel and Restaurant Industry. Keith is a graduate of the Catering College in London, England, where he received a degree in Hotel and Catering Management. Keith immediately worked as a chef and manager for 10 years for various Hotels and Restaurants in and around London. Then Keith became the Managing Director of a large privately held catering company in London where some of his clients were the British Royal Family, Government Dinners and Receptions, and many Corporate staged events (including American Aerospace Companies, Bell Helicopters Textron and Lockheed Martin). He came to the United States in 1997 where he settle in South Lake Tahoe. Keith quickly recognized the demand for an English Style Pub and Restaurant in the South Lake Tahoe area. So he purchased a restaurant and converted it to Tudor English Pub upstairs and Dory’s Oar Restaurant on the ground floor. He sold the restaurant in 2006. Keith's ambitions didn't stop there. In the year 2000, he started Celtic Catering, an Outdoor Catering Company, catering for weddings and corporate events, which became the premier Caterer in Lake Tahoe. He sold this business in 2006. Keith currently owns and operates Murphy’s Irish Pub and the Rockwater Restaurant. Keith is the Vice President on the board of the Lake Tahoe Wedding and Honeymoon Association and a Member of the Tahoe/Douglas Rotary Club. DRE #01791868 Area: CA - Lake Tahoe Area Business For Sale CA - Sacramento Metro Businesses For Sale Larry Braden (206) 795-3329    Email Me Online, Click Here. Broker Larry Braden is a Senior Business Intermediary serving as a finance specialist in many diverse business areas. Larry has 14 years experience in leading various levels of merger and acquisition transactions with companies such as Universal Music Group, Time Warner, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, News Corporation, and Vulcan Ventures. Larry earned his CPA working for PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, and Deloitte & Touch. Larry holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from USC, and an MBA in Marketing & Strategy from UCLA. Larry holds a California Brokers License (#01492583) and Washington Brokers License(#8619). Area: OR - Portland Businesses For Sale WA - Central Washington Businesses For Sale WA - Eastern Washington Businesses For Sale WA - Northern Washington Businesses For Sale WA - Seattle Metro Area Businesses For Sale WA - Southern Washington Businesses For Sale Mary Keller Wynn 360.551.1902    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent Area: WA - Northern Washington Businesses For Sale WA - Seattle Metro Area Businesses For Sale Mel Jones 916.632.9003    Email Me Online, Click Here. Management After nearly 9 years in the entertainment industry as a Chief Financial Officer for Universal Music Group, Mel started to search for businesses to buy. After searching for two years, Mel realized the business brokerage industry lacked good service, quality brokers, and most important, basic relationship building tools. This led Mel to develop a business model to: (1) provide quality decision making information to buyers at their finger-tips using website technology, eliminating a major time consumer for business brokers who spend far too much time on the front-end early part of the buying cycle shuffling paperwork and faxes with buyers, and not enough time on the important part of the sales cycle - after a buyer has seen the business and obtain key information and then calls the broker, which is the most critical contact point in buying cycle; (2) to provide our clients, the Sellers, with quality brokers who have the knowledge and experience to broker their restaurant, which is among the more complicated businesses to broker, provide our Seller's with results based advertising, and be responsive to our client's needs through good communications, and: (3) finally, to be on the cutting-edge of technologies helping sell our clients properties. The restaurant and retail industry fit together well with his model whereby buyers could easy obtain information about the business from a well thought through website and would be able to visit the business without a broker being involved and slowing down, or worse yet, stopping, the interest of the buyer. To accomplish these goals Mel acquired Paramount Restaurant Brokers, Inc. in 2003 and purchased the name SellingRestaurants.com. In early 2004 Sellingrestaurants was launched. This business model has been so successful that SellingRestaurants in four short years is now the largest restaurant broker not only in California, but the nation in terms of number of restaurant listings, sales transactions, number of agents, area covered and website traffic. SellingRestaurants has close over $50 million of deals in 4 years. Mel is an accomplished business intermediary and leader having completed over $12 Billion of merger and acquisition transactions at the fortune 50 level. In addition to holding senior executive and Chief Financial Officer positions for multi-national corporations such as Universal Music Group, the world's largest music recording company and Nestle Foods, one of the largest food companies in the world, Mel has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from California State University Northridge and he studied law at Gonzaga University School of Law. Mel is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Mel holds a California and Georgia Real Estate Brokers license. Area: CA - Chico Yuba City Redding Business For Sale CA - Sacramento Metro Businesses For Sale Rob Tade 619-892-2765    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent Rob comes to us with a strong background in food service. After graduating form San Diego State University with a degree in Business Administration he worked his way up from General Manager to District Manager to Regional Manager of a national restaurant chain. When the opportunity arose to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning his own restaurants he bought a few. Rob successfully ran the restaurants until deciding it was time to retire from the “running of restaurants” and began helping others reach their dream of owning their own restaurant. Rob has been inside the four walls and fully understands what it takes to own, operate, buy and sell restaurants. He is accessible at all times to service your needs. Rob\'s goal is to facilitate the reaching of your goal. Give him a call and put him to work for you. Rob holds a California Real Estate License #01339409. Area: CA - San Diego Businesses For Sale Rodger Gibson 909-709-1010    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent Rodger is a retail veteran and entrepreneur and has been SellingStores top sales person two years in a row. He owned a specialty hamburger restaurant for nearly 10 years before joining SellingStores. Prior to that, Rodger applied his business and selling skills to the security alarm industry where he built a company that was eventually acquired by a larger security alarm company. This experience makes Rodger a great asset to our customers and to the SellingStores team. California Real Estate License #017022100. Area: CA - Inland Empire Business For Sale CA - Los Angeles Business For Sale Seyna Jones 916.632.9003    Email Me Online, Click Here. Management Seyna is an accomplished leader in the area of accounting and finance having been a Chief Financial Officer for a Southern California commercial real estate developer and a Cost Accounting manager for Universal Music and Video Distribution. She actively joined Paramount Restaurant Brokers, Inc. in 2005 as the CFO and Secretary. Seyna Holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting. She also holds a California Real Estate Sales License. Area: CA - Sacramento Metro Businesses For Sale Steve McFarland 909-706-2539    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent As they say, "there is no substitute for experience" and Steve comes to us with over 19 years of successful experience in the food industry, having owned and operated three restaurants and a large catering company. Steve was a SellingRestaurants customer. Over the years, his restaurants have won numerous awards and critically acclaimed reviews in "Bon Appetite" and "westways" magazine. His restaurant experience is invaluable to his clients as it gives him a unique understanding of his client's needs. Prior to the restaurant business, Steve spent 16 year in the transportation industry as a regional and national sales manager, negotiating large transportation contracts with Fortune 500 companies. Thus, Steve's experience in the restaurant and sales business gives Steve the perfect blend of skills to service his customers, negotiate deals, and close the deals too! Give Steve a call, his got a great sense of humor! DRE # 00674075 Area: CA - Inland Empire Business For Sale CA - Los Angeles Business For Sale Stuart Schlosser 818-519-2748    Email Me Online, Click Here. Agent Stuart Schlosser brings over 25 years of significant restaurant experience to the SellingRestaurants. Stuart’s vast knowledge comes from having run all aspects of restaurants, both front of the house and back of the house. His experience extends to having served as chef at white-table cloth restaurant, a steak house, a cafe and a hotel’s food operations, among other establishments. In addition to being an accomplished chef, Stuart was the co-founder/owner of a 13 unit Yogurt store chain, overseeing over 200 employees, responsible for new store openings, product development, operating procedures, training and overall operations. He is also owner of two sub franchises and served on the franchisor’s advertising board and as Chair of its Southern California Food Council. He attended the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York. Stuart brings a valuable combination of skills to SellingRestaurants, based on experience, knowledge, intellect, integrity and honesty. Stuart is a licensed Real Estate Agent in California (01809021). Area: CA - Los Angeles Business For Sale