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About Fast Foward Business Advisors
The Center for Free Enterprise (CFE) is proud to feature Fast Forward Business Advisors (FFBA) as a primary sponsor. FFBA is a premier independent M&A advisory firm specializing in ownership transition and strategic divestiture for middle-market companies across the Great Lakes region.
About Fast Forward Business Advisors
Fast Forward Business Advisors (FFBA) is a Northeast Ohio M&A advisory firm that helps people buy and sell privately owned businesses.
For Business Buyers
Most of the best business acquisition opportunities aren’t listed in any marketplace. They often aren’t yet on the market. We find them for you through our Buyer Search Program.
For Business Sellers
Most business owners sell once. The process is unfamiliar, the stakes are high, and the decisions you make early determine the outcome. We guide you through every stage — from understanding what your business is worth to closing the deal — so you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Leadership with Unparalleled Experience
The firm combines decades of transactional experience with rigorous operational discipline :
Ben Calkins, Founding Partner — Ben has worked on hundreds of business transactions over the past 40 years. He has seen how the best deals come together and where the problematic ones fall apart. His value to clients is straightforward: when you’re navigating a process that is unfamiliar, high-stakes, and full of decisions that are hard to evaluate without experience, Ben has seen it before and will tell you what he thinks.
ben.calkins@@fastforwardba.com
Brad Calkins, Managing Partner — Brad runs FFBA’s Buyer Search Program. Over two decades in marketing — from direct mail to search to programmatic media — he has built and operated the kind of integrated, multi-channel outreach systems that find people who aren’t looking to be found. For buyers, that means a systematic, disciplined search for acquisition targets that would never surface through a marketplace or a broker’s existing network.
brad.calkins@fastforwardba.com
Gary Burden, Director of Operations — Gary is a West Point graduate and Certified Exit Planning Advisor who brings rigorous financial and operational discipline to every engagement. He scrutinizes the deals FFBA brings forward with the same meticulous attention to process that separates transactions that close cleanly from those that don’t. For both buyers and sellers, Gary’s role is to make sure nothing important gets missed.
For more information or to request a confidential consultation regarding your ownership transition options, please visit FastForwardBA.com or contact Ben Calkins directly at 440-636-1919 or Ben.Calkins@fastforwardba.com.
CONTACT FAST FORWARD BUSINESS ADVISORS: ben.calkins@fastforwardba.com
