From GE Finance to M&A Advisor: Matt Coyne's 25 Years on the Front Lines of Business Exits

Matt Coyne, founder of Brandywine Mergers and Acquisitions and Formation LLC, spent a decade inside Fortune 100 companies before stepping away to help privately held business owners navigate the most important financial transaction of their lives. A deacon, author, and recovering alcoholic with a disarming honesty about all three, Matt shares what he has learned from hundreds of deals and why most owners leave an enormous amount of money on the table when they finally sell.

Key Insights You'll Learn:

• GE Financial Management Program: high-pressure training that shaped a career-long view of finance

• Watching a 30-year GE veteran face public humiliation for missing numbers at 25 years old

• Leaving Precision Castparts after a brutal Sunday review in Yorkshire and never looking back

• Starting Brandywine M&A in 2001 with a lifelong friend and zero corporate safety net

• The identity crisis that follows handing over 500 employees and an executive title overnight

• Why small business M&A and corporate M&A are entirely different animals

• Most common seller mistakes: weak books, customer concentration, and waiting too long

• The M&A Mastery Program: eight-week coaching for wealth advisors and business owners

• Why owners need their wealth advisor articulate in M&A before any deal conversation begins

• How sobriety, faith, and a seven-year deacon program reshaped Matt's approach to life and work

Matt's Key Mentors:

• Dennis Damerman (GE CFO): Walked into a room of new hires, shook Matt's hand, and asked about his wife by name; demonstrated that personal leadership scales

• Tom (GE VP): After being publicly dressed down, told a 25-year-old Matt to decide what he wanted his career to be; one of the rawest honest lessons Matt ever received

• Frank (Business Partner and Lifelong Friend): Pulled Matt out of burnout with a partnership offer and helped him build Brandywine from scratch

• Lisa (Wife): Held him accountable through recovery, supported the deacon program, and kept the faith when he couldn't

• Tim Ferriss (Author): The Four-Hour Workweek prompted Matt to write his own book and think differently about information as a tool

Don't miss this conversation about what business exits really look like from the inside, and why the owners who get what they deserve are the ones who started the conversation years before they were ready.

Connect with Matt Coyne:

Website: formation-llc.com

Email: mcoyne@bma1.com

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