Vance Baker Business Broker

Vance Baker is a serial entrepreneur who, over twenty years before joining DealPipe, started and operated eight companies across healthcare, retail and real estate, both commercial and residential, structured variously as LLCs, Limited Partnerships, S-Corporations and a non-profit. Most were brick-and-mortar, with several internet and ecommerce businesses including Shopify assets and an Amazon seller account with brand registry. He built and scaled a Medicare Certified Home Healthcare Agency over sixteen years, averaging 55 salaried professional staff for close to two decades, and it was named one of the top 100 healthcare agencies in the US in several separate years out of roughly 15,000 providers. He currently manages two private label brands and a real estate investment firm. In the past twelve months alone he has brought and represented over $450 million in solid offers. The part he enjoys is meeting other entrepreneurs and the C-suite executives he deals with daily. Twenty years of successes and lessons mean he understands where a seller is standing, having put everything into a company and then handed it to someone else to sell. He is equally clear on the buyer’s side, whether that is someone’s first acquisition or one of twenty this year for a portfolio of fifty-plus brands. He has been on both sides. He is also familiar with burnout, and with the point where an owner knows what scaling requires and accepts they are no longer the right person to do it. Honesty and integrity are what he leads with, in a profession where he notes those claims are made more often than they are kept. Married twenty-three years and a father to three daughters, Vance values family time. He is drawn to the outdoors and to water, and fishes seriously. He likes the stillness of early mornings and a good non-fiction book when there is time for one.