Rick James is the President
of Business Acquisitions Inc. and a previous Business owner with
twenty-five years of experience within the Industrial and Service
Fields. He has bought and sold five businesses through Business
Brokers, acquiring extensive experience as a Buyer and a Seller.
This experience is invaluable today as he uses that knowledge
in the normal day to day business of dealing with both Buyer and
Seller.
He started his career as a Business Broker
in 1990, training for two years with Venture Resources in Austin
Texas, the oldest and largest national Business Brokerage firm
in the country at that time. He relocated to Phoenix in 1992 and
acquired a Real Estate license with the state of Arizona and continued
his practices.
Rick is a member of the Valley Board of
Business Brokers. The VBBB has over 70 members and is the largest
networking organizations for profession business brokers serving
Arizona. They network with other professionals, organizations
and each other on a regular basis using the business opportunities
database available to the local Brokerage community.
He is also a member of The International
Business Brokers association(IBBA ®) the largest international
association operating exclusively for the benefit of people and
firms engaged in the various aspects of a business brokerage,
mergers, and acquisitions. Today, the IBBA has more than 1,500
cooperative business brokers and intermediaries across Canada,
Mexico, Asia, Europe and the United States.
Rick has earned the
Certified Business Intermediary(CBI), one of America's most highly
qualified and credentialed business designation which is awarded
to those brokers demonstrating a superior knowledge about the
functions and applications of business broker services and practical
experience, participating in a rigorous curriculum of at least
60 credit hours of courses, passing a comprehensive examination
and pledging to uphold and practice the Code of Ethics. |