Alan Melton

Alan is the founder and president of Empire Business Brokers, LLC and Small Business Coach & Associates. His companies are focused on Exit Planning and Business Acquisitions, as well as coaching small business owners. He is a member of the International Business Broker Association, with over 1700 business brokers worldwide; Alan is a Certified Business Intermediary. He has coached, advised, and taught hundreds of small business owners over the last ten years. Alan is a nationally known writer, speaker and business leader. Alan has started and led ten companies, and he presently leads five growing businesses. Alan Melton co-founded and served as CEO of a leading company. With 130 employees, the company was listed locally and nationally over a decade as one of the fastest growing privately held companies. Prior to selling the business to a publicly held company, Alan was recognized by the President of the United States as the SBA’s Small Business Person of the Year for the state of Florida, and by the Florida Governor as the recipient of the Sterling Award for organizational performance excellence; joining a distinguished list of recipients such as Merrill Lynch, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and Honeywell.