Janet Ackerson - EA, CBI, The Dimensions Group, Inc.
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Janet is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), who also brings 25 years of business, accounting and tax experience as a resource from which to draw. She maintains her Enrolled Agent Designation (EA) that is maintained through the Internal Revenue Service. This knowledge base covers many areas of business, including: Accounting, Tax, Finance Education & Training, Real Estate (Commercial & Residential) and Management.

Ms. Ackerson has worked as a controller, internal auditor, accountant, manager, and senior executive. She has trained numerous people for a variety of positions, taught classes, and provided one on one coaching in the areas of finance, tax, business and personal achievement. She is well schooled in a variety of programs and continues her education through a variety of venues required by her various designations.

She frequently volunteers her skills and talents with various charitable organizations. She was the General Chair for a very well know program known as "Adventures In Faith™" where she managed 250 volunteers. She held the position of treasurer for her church at different times.

Ms. Ackerson's talents do not end there, she periodically sings with the Utah Opera Chorus. She has also sung with a 9 member Christian Gospel Group, and traveled 5 states in 2004 raising money for the Habitat for Humanity. She has participated with music groups singing in both Europe and Australia, raising money for a variety of charitable causes.

Ms. Ackerson received her Bachelor of Arts in Accounting at Westminster College, a highly accredited private college in Salt Lake City. She is an active member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), from which she has received the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation. She is also an Enrolled Agent a designation provided by the Internal Revenue Service. She is a licensed Realtor and a member of the Salt Lake Board of Realtors.

Greg Aihart - Exit Strategist (email at )

Greg has been involved in Real Estate and Financial Services since 1976. His major focus has been in business development and brokering, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and financial planning. He has taught credit repair and managing your assets, along with successful strategies in real estate investing, and business ownership.

Greg has coached individuals and businesses for over 20 years in personal and business finance, debt elimination, tax reduction, pension planning, real estate investing, wealth creation and retirement planning. He also served as a financial consultant for Financially Fit, Inc.

Greg’s background includes business and real estate transactions. “ I remember the first business I listed and sold in 1979, a carpet cleaning company.” Greg has partnered in building several successful businesses: Progressive Mortgage, Inc. (Mortgage Loans), Superior Soft Water (water softening and purification) and Progressive Funding and Lending (commercial and bridge loans). He teaches and coaches entrepreneurship.

Greg did his undergraduate in Accounting and Business Management. As a business consultant he has listed and sold all types of businesses. He also business brokered for Great Western Business Services.
As a real estate investor he has bought and sold homes and apartment buildings. As a financial planner he teaches financial strategies and solutions.

He practices what he preaches. He enjoys assisting others in selling or buying a business without stress.

George Pollard - Exit Strategist (email at )

George enjoys the beautiful state of Utah! He enjoys bike riding, hiking, skiing, camping, and fishing.  He has been married for 43 years to his wife (and business partner) Dian. Together, they have owned and operated 4 businesses.

At the age of 28, George and his wife Dian decided to stop working for others and start their own business. It all began while pursuing a hobby in plaster craft that they had enjoyed while living in California. The business grew rapidly and soon George was able to quit his job and become his own full-time boss. The business became a huge success when they made the decision to move it from the basement of their home to a storefront. Soon the business had two locations and became the largest wholesale, manufacturing, and retail outlet for the hobby they had enjoyed so much.

Over the course of time, the popularity for plaster craft changed and George felt he had to supplement his income. That is when he made the decision to purchase a lawn-spraying business through a broker listing.  This business came with a fair customer base which quickly grew over the next 3 years. He then purchased a hydro-seeding company from another broker to complement the lawn-spray business. During this time, George and Dian decided to sell their plaster craft business. Shortly after, they purchased an electroplating company which George owned and operated until they decided to sell both it and the lawn business.

After over 30 years of self-employment George is now actively helping other first-time business owners find their dream. He himself comes from a background of self-employment. While growing up, he watched his father own and operate several businesses. He has learned a lot through his experiences as a child watching his father, as well as owning businesses of his own. He has now had the opportunity to encourage and advise others who have started their own companies and he continues to find an excitement for those who are interested in business ownership. He also feels a strong importance for those who have owned, operated, fed and nourished their own “baby”. He encourages those who have cared for their business for years, to think about “adopting” it out in order to bless someone else who is looking for an opportunity to grow their own business and continue to build upon the foundation that they have laid.

Bruce Ackerson - Founder - The Dimensions Group and
Dimensions Business Broker - CISSP
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Bruce has worked many years designing computer hardware and many years after that writing computer software. He then found his passion in management, as well as many years experience dealing with process and scheduling. He prides himself as being the kind of person who sees the true value and skill set of people, and provides the opportunity for the person (or people), as well as the company, to leverage these skills and bring together a successful result.

Bruce has taught classes in effective communications, time utilization and proper meeting planning and strategy in large corporate environments. This involved training middle and senior management to break down the barriers that existed between geographically distant sites, inter-departmental boundaries, and basic interpersonal skills.

Bruce has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering as well as being a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He volunteers to maintain the facilities at his church and is the bass singer in a Christian Gospel Quartet, Joy4Him.