Partner Profiles ________
Meet the partners behind the Academy.
Three complementary perspectives. One shared objective: helping owners build stronger companies, create greater value, and complete successful transitions on their own terms.
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Distinct perspectives working together to help owners build, prepare, and transition with intention.
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Distinct perspectives working together to help owners build, prepare, and transition with intention.
Experience from strategy to successful transition
Experience from every side ________
Three perspectives.One complete
path forward.
The Get Ready 4 Sale Academy brings together experience in strategic growth, enterprise value, transaction execution, leadership development, and successful business ownership.
Each partner provides a different perspective, giving owners practical guidance from building a stronger company through completing a successful transition.
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Build an enduring enterprise
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Create and protect value
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Complete the transition
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Build an enduring enterprise
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Create and protect value
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Complete the transition
The Architect ______
Lane Sloan
Build a business that can thrive without you.
Lane Sloan has spent more than five decades helping organizations create sustainable growth, develop strong leaders, and build enduring enterprise value. His perspective combines the discipline of a global corporate executive, the rigor of an educator, and the practical judgment of an investor, board member, and advisor to privately held companies.
Lane earned an undergraduate degree in marketing and management and graduate degrees in quantitative management science, accounting, and finance. He then built a distinguished career spanning nearly 30 years with Shell Oil Company. During that time, he held senior executive roles that included Chief Financial Officer, President of Shell Chemical Company in the United States, and leadership responsibility for Royal Dutch Shell
operations in the Far East.
After his corporate career, Lane served as an Executive Professor at the University of Houston, where he taught Strategic Leadership and Corporate Strategy. For more than twenty years, he has also worked closely with smaller and middle-market companies as a consultant, investor, board member, and strategic advisor.
Lane is the creator of the 4-Stage Growth Model, a framework that helps owners understand how companies progress from development through growth, take-off, and expansion.
Within the Academy, Lane helps owners strengthen strategic planning, develop leadership depth, reduce owner dependence, and build an organization capable of performing well into the future.
The Architect ______
Lane Sloan
Build a business that can thrive without you.
Lane Sloan has spent more than five decades helping organizations create sustainable growth, develop strong leaders, and build enduring enterprise value. His perspective combines the discipline of a global corporate executive, the rigor of an educator, and the practical judgment of an investor, board member, and advisor to privately held companies.
Lane earned an undergraduate degree in marketing and management and graduate degrees in quantitative management science, accounting, and finance. He then built a distinguished career spanning nearly 30 years with Shell Oil Company. During that time, he held senior executive roles that included Chief Financial Officer, President of Shell Chemical Company in the United States, and leadership responsibility for Royal Dutch Shell
operations in the Far East.
After his corporate career, Lane served as an Executive Professor at the University of Houston, where he taught Strategic Leadership and Corporate Strategy. For more than twenty years, he has also worked closely with smaller and middle-market companies as a consultant, investor, board member, and strategic advisor.
Lane is the creator of the 4-Stage Growth Model, a framework that helps owners understand how companies progress from development through growth, take-off, and expansion.
Within the Academy, Lane helps owners strengthen strategic planning, develop leadership depth, reduce owner dependence, and build an organization capable of performing well into the future.
The Value Builder & Deal Guide _______
Rich Hall, CEPA
Increase enterprise value, prepare for
the market, and navigate the sale.
Rich Hall is an Exit Strategy Architect, Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), and M&A Advisor who helps owners build more valuable, transferable, and marketable companies—and then guides them through the process of turning that value into a successful transaction.
With more than 35 years of experience in executive leadership, finance, strategy, business ownership, and advisory work, Rich has worked with companies across manufacturing, healthcare, technology, construction, energy, professional services, and other lower middle-market industries.
Rich earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Houston. As a CEPA, he helps owners align their business, personal, and financial objectives well before a transition.
His value-acceleration work focuses on increasing sustainable earnings, reducing risk, strengthening leadership, improving systems and reporting, addressing customer and owner concentration, and creating a company that can withstand buyer scrutiny.
Rich also advises owners on valuation, market positioning, buyer-facing materials, diligence preparation, buyer qualification, letters of intent, deal structure, negotiation, and coordination with legal, tax, accounting, and wealth professionals.
Through the Academy, Rich gives owners a practical roadmap for building a company worth more and understanding what it will take to sell it successfully when the time is right.
The Value Builder & Deal Guide _______
Rich Hall, CEPA
Increase enterprise value, prepare for
the market, and navigate the sale.
Rich Hall is an Exit Strategy Architect, Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), and M&A Advisor who helps owners build more valuable, transferable, and marketable companies—and then guides them through the process of turning that value into a successful transaction.
With more than 35 years of experience in executive leadership, finance, strategy, business ownership, and advisory work, Rich has worked with companies across manufacturing, healthcare, technology, construction, energy, professional services, and other lower middle-market industries.
Rich earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Houston. As a CEPA, he helps owners align their business, personal, and financial objectives well before a transition.
His value-acceleration work focuses on increasing sustainable earnings, reducing risk, strengthening leadership, improving systems and reporting, addressing customer and owner concentration, and creating a company that can withstand buyer scrutiny.
Rich also advises owners on valuation, market positioning, buyer-facing materials, diligence preparation, buyer qualification, letters of intent, deal structure, negotiation, and coordination with legal, tax, accounting, and wealth professionals.
Through the Academy, Rich gives owners a practical roadmap for building a company worth more and understanding what it will take to sell it successfully when the time is right.
The Owner Who Did IT ______
Brett Binkley
Learn from someone who built, sold, transitioned, and moved successfully into the next chapter.
Brett Binkley brings the perspective every business owner wants access to: he has personally completed the journey. He helped build an exceptional company, created substantial enterprise value, completed a successful strategic sale, remained to support the post-acquisition transition, and ultimately stepped away from executive leadership on his own terms.
Over more than three decades, Brett helped transform Binkley & Barfield into a leading infrastructure consulting firm. As CEO, he guided the company through sustained growth by developing a capable leadership team, strengthening the organization, preserving a high-performance culture, and building a business that could succeed beyond any one individual.
Those decisions positioned the company to attract a sophisticated strategic buyer and complete a successful acquisition by DCCM.
Following the transaction, Brett remained with DCCM and served in executive leadership, helping guide integration, continued growth, and the next stage of the organization’s development. He has since retired from that CEO role.
Today, Brett helps other owners understand the personal decisions, leadership transitions, emotional pressures, and identity questions that accompany the sale of a business built over decades.
Brett helps owners understand what buyers truly value, why culture and leadership depth matter, how disciplined decisions shape transaction outcomes, and how to prepare for a meaningful life beyond the business.
The Owner Who Did IT ______
Brett Binkley
Learn from someone who built, sold, transitioned, and moved successfully into the next chapter.
Brett Binkley brings the perspective every business owner wants access to: he has personally completed the journey. He helped build an exceptional company, created substantial enterprise value, completed a successful strategic sale, remained to support the post-acquisition transition, and ultimately stepped away from executive leadership on his own terms.
Over more than three decades, Brett helped transform Binkley & Barfield into a leading infrastructure consulting firm. As CEO, he guided the company through sustained growth by developing a capable leadership team, strengthening the organization, preserving a high-performance culture, and building a business that could succeed beyond any one individual.
Those decisions positioned the company to attract a sophisticated strategic buyer and complete a successful acquisition by DCCM.
Following the transaction, Brett remained with DCCM and served in executive leadership, helping guide integration, continued growth, and the next stage of the organization’s development. He has since retired from that CEO role.
Today, Brett helps other owners understand the personal decisions, leadership transitions, emotional pressures, and identity questions that accompany the sale of a business built over decades.
Brett helps owners understand what buyers truly value, why culture and leadership depth matter, how disciplined decisions shape transaction outcomes, and how to prepare for a meaningful life beyond the business.
Start with clarity_______
Build a stronger company
before the transition
becomes urgent.
Discover your current growth stage and identify the structural
priorities that will help your company grow, create value,
and become more transferable.
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Helping owners build the structural
maturity that supports scalable
growth and future transferability.
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Helping owners build the structural
maturity that supports scalable
growth and future transferability.
Company
Legal
Get Started
Copyright 2026. Get Ready 4 Sale. All Rights Reserved.
GetReady4Sale Academy