Chris Ayers is an M&A advisor at Cornerstone Business Services, helping learning and development business owners grow value and navigate exits.
Chris Ayers is an entrepreneur, advisor, and M&A professional with nearly four decades of experience helping business owners turn expertise into enterprise value. As Senior Vice President and M&A Advisor at Cornerstone Business Services, he helps learning and development business owners grow value and navigate successful exits. His perspective comes from starting, growing, and selling companies himself, including a sales training business he sold for about five times its purchase price and Yukon Learning, the e-learning company he founded and later sold to his oldest daughter. He also founded Expert Leverage, working with speakers, trainers, and subject-matter experts to protect, package, market, and monetize their intellectual property. His work emphasizes addressing business risks before going to market, from owner dependence and customer concentration to management capability and financial understanding—improvements that benefit owners whether or not they plan to sell. An Army veteran, Ayers lives outside Richmond, Virginia. For more information, connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayerschris/.
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