We sell the largest of California’s small businesses, with offices in the Bay Area and Sacramento.

Compass Point specializes in the sale of companies that are too large for a main street business broker, yet are too small for an investment bank.  We successfully sold companies valued between $1 and $12 million in 2009 and 2010, when most brokers were idle.  We can guide you to a successful exit of your company.

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Ney Grant

Ney has been involved in buying and selling companies for over 20 years. He bought his first company in 1987 and started a technology company, Ibex Technologies, in 1989. Ney grew Ibex and sold it to a public company in 1997 for $7 million. Ney then served as a founder and vice president of acquisitions for a startup, Wirestone, that raised $20 million in private equity capital to fund a series of company acquisitions.  Ney acquired 11 companies around the west coast in 18 months, helping to establish Wirestone as one of the nation’s top interactive ad agencies according to Advertising Age.   Ney also worked as an M&A advisor to McGraw Hill education before starting Compass Point in 2006.

Ney holds an engineering degree from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from UC Davis. Ney has earned a CBI (Certified Business Intermediary) with the IBBA and is licensed with the CA department of Real Estate.

Ney is also a deal maker and regional director for Woodbridge Group, a nationally recognized M&A firm focused on the middle market. Ney holds a FINRA / SEC Series 7 license.

Ney flies a single engine Cessna airplane to visit clients around California.   All website photos were taken by Ney above California, and you can visit his personal blog about his flying adventures at www.westcoastflyingadventures.com.

Email: neycompasspointcapitalcom
Direct phone: 530-417-2947

Graeme Plant

In addition to assisting business owners in the sale of their business, Graeme is the managing director of the El Dorado Hills Technology Incubator and is an active “angel” investor in northern California growth companies. Graeme is on the board of several young growth companies. Graeme started his career with Sprint and then Hewlett Packard before joining startups ShareWave and Little Mountain Group. Graeme led the acquisition efforts to sell Little Mountain Group, which sold to QLogic in 2001 for $30 million.

Graeme has an engineering degree from UC Davis and an MBA from UC Berkeley.  Graeme is a registered broker with the California Department of Real Estate.

Graeme is also a deal maker for Woodbridge Group, a nationally recognized M&A firm focused on the middle market. Graeme holds a FINRA/SEC Series 68 license.

Email: graemecompasspointcapitalcom
Direct phone: 530-304-0181

Advisors / Associates

Fred Hall

Fred is the CEO of Affordable Business Valuations. He received his Bachelors Degree in Business from U.C. Berkeley and his MBA from San Diego State University. He was a business loan officer with Union Bank, making business loans from $1 million to over $8 million. Fred left Union Bank to buy and operate a hardware company with his wife, Joanie, in Portola Valley, California, then built two “ground-up” stores. Twenty-seven years later they sold their $5 million lumberyard in Amador County. Fred was a founding partner in Compass Point Capital in 2004.   In 2004 he pursued an education with the IBA (Institute of Business Appraisers) to become a certified valuation expert with an AIBA credential. Fred has done over 250 valuations for business owners, SBA lenders, 401K equity transactions, IRS valuations, partnership dissolutions, and divorces as well as offering expert witness testimony. He has also spent thousands of hours in research creating a low-cost, accurate valuation program.  Fred does valuations through www.affordablebusinessappraisals.com