We are a full service intermediary firm specializing in Main Street brokerage and M & A.  Our services include preparation of valuation reports, preparation of offering portfolios, direct marketing through our international network, and confidential presentation of your business offer to qualified buyers only.  We will assist in all negotiations and see the transaction through the closing process.  

In addition we provide full service acquisition services to strategic, investment and entrepreneurial buyers.  We will assist you in determining your needs, locating a business to meet your goals, negotiate and close the transaction.

Our staff and their biographies:

Dave Long brings more than 20 years management experience to the Sunbelt team. He has owned and sold four successful companies in that time span. Dave has been on both the buying and selling sides of business transactions and offers his clients a broad base of “real life” experiences. 

He is an active member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and the Prescott Area Chamber of Commerce and has earned the highly respected accreditation of Certified Business Intermediary. 

Dave has been a principal at Sunbelt Business Advisors for four years and has been directly involved in dozens of business transfers.

Bernie Amos
Assoicate Broker for Sunbelt Business Brokers of North and Central Arizona, is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur. His extensive experience includes executive management, marketing management, engineering management, manufacturing management, project management, and hands-on engineering.   An engineering graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his career began as a project engineer with Grumman Aerospace Corp.

Bernie’s entrepreneurial experience began when he opened a restaurant while still with Grumman.  This eventually led to his first business sale in 1973.  Later, in 1980, M. Amos co-founded a small engineering company.  Here he led an innovative development team to create state of the art communication equipment, SCE Corp.

Bernie moved from New York in late 1995 to Arizona founding Arizona Sunbelt Business Brokers LLC, in 1996. After seven years as Managing Partner, Mr. Amos sold the company.

Over the last twenty years Mr. Amos has been directly involved in deals ranging from $10,000 to $10,000,000 and has worked with well over one hundred business owners seeking a sale of or restructuring of their companies.

Brian Harron

Designated Broker for Sunbelt Business Brokers of North and Central Arizona. Prescott, Arizona Office.  Brian has been actively involved in the buying, selling and leasing of restaurant businesses since 1980.  He is the author of TIPS ON SELLING A RESTAURANT BUSINESS which he published in 1992, a frequent contributor of restaurant brokerage articles to restaurant and real estate publications and regularly leads workshops on how to buy or sell a restaurant business.

During his career, Brian has been the owner of a restaurant management, operations and consulting company, president of a meat and grocery company, the chief operating officer of the National Restaurant Association, publisher of a news magazine for the restaurant  business, a college professor directing a hotel and restaurant management program and the owner / operator of several restaurants.

Brian is a graduate of The School of Hotel and Restaurant Management at Cornell University and holds a Master’s Degree in Education and Marketing from the University of North Dakota.