Marion Van Keken-Rietkerk MBA, CBI

Focused on matching and transitioning business ownership, Marion has helped both family and non-family enterprises successfully transition business ownership. Having worked as an entrepreneur, she understands what makes businesses successful. Having studied Business administration and Family Business consulting, she understands the complexities of governance, growth and succession.

Marion is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), a designation held by only a handful of business brokers in Canada. She emigrated from The Netherlands in 1983 and has since called Canada her home.

In addition to business administration, her background includes Food service, Hospitality, Real Estate, Special events, Event Rentals and Athletic Apparel. She is an MBA graduate from Athabasca University and wrote her applied project on Family Business Succession. She continues to study at the Sauder School of Business in the area of Family Business Advising and has chosen to apply her background, experience and education to help business owners plan for succession, intergenerational transfers and divestitures.

Her 25 years of experience includes family and personal businesses. The process of starting and growing businesses, separating related companies and selling a company has given her great insight into due diligence requirements, general and specific knowledge required to buy or sell a business, as well as the need for careful planning and execution. As a business Intermediary, she brings value to the process with intuition, knowledge and ethics.

As an active member of the International Business Brokers Association she gives back to industry as a speaker and committee member. Interested individuals can attend Marion’s seminars on buying or selling businesses at Small Business BC in the Waterfront station.

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