Bill McCalpin is the CEO and Founder of Capitalize Network (CapitalizeNetwork.com), providing investment banking and pre-transaction planning and preparation consulting services to business owners seeking an exit transaction. McCalpin is also the COO and Co-Founder of BizForesight (BizForesight.com), an AI-powered platform to help business owners plan and prepare for business transitions at scale and match the required advisory service opportunities with participating M&A advisors. McCalpin has spent his 40-year career in M&A, entrepreneurship, and corporate management. He has worked for 12 years in sell-side investment banking and pre-transaction planning/preparation services at Capitalize Network; for five years as Director of M&A at a Fortune 500 in buy-side M&A; for eight years successfully founding, growing, and selling two technology companies in Boulder, Colorado; and for 15 years in corporate management. McCalpin is the Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Alliance of M&A Advisors (AM&AA), an invited speaker to 20+ M&A industry events per year, a founder of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of AM&AA, and holds the CM&AA M&A advisor certification and the CBEC and CExP certifications in Business Exit Planning.