PINO L. BACINELLO CBI, M&AMI, CMEA, CSBA

Pino Bacinello is the President and founder of Pacific Business Brokers Inc., Pacific Mergers & Acquisitions Inc. He is a CBI (Certified Business Intermediary), an M&AMI (Mergers and Acquisitions Master Intermediary), a CMEA(Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser) and a CSBA (Certified Senior Business Analyst).

Having owned several businesses both in Canada and in South Africa over the past 30 plus years, he has garnered much knowledge and expertise in buying, selling, developing and restructuring of businesses, including all financial requirements. Through his own experiences, Mr. Bacinello recognizes that the process of buying or selling a business is a major undertaking. “There is a lot at stake and it must be done right the first time”. The alternative consequences can be devastating. His vision for the creation of Pacific Business Brokers Inc. is to provide a highly confidential and professional environment that allows him and his associates to make the best use of their collective experience and specialized knowledge in helping others who are looking to sell or buy a business and/or prepare it in order to be in a state he calls Change Readiness™ and ready for market. Pino's vast knowledge of divestitures, acquisitions, mergers and succession has earned him the reputation he currently enjoys as an authority on the subject and a mentor to other professional business brokers and intermediaries.

Pino lives in Vancouver and is a member of the International Business Brokers Association, where he serves on the board of directors and is the Chairman of the Board and a recipient of the Chairman's Award in 2008. He also served as Chair for the International committee, Treasurer in 2010/2011 and Chairman of the Board in 2012.

He is an active member of M&A Source, a founding member of the IBBA Canada, a member of the National Equipment and Business Brokers Institute, the Association for Corporate Growth, the BBB of BC, and the Vancouver Board of Trade in Vancouver. He is the co-host of the "Entrepreneurial Insights" weekly internet radio talk show on VoiceAmerica. He has served on the board of various not-for-profit organizations including Peace Arch Community Service, is a founding member and past President of the Semiahmoo Peninsula Marine Rescue Society as well as the founder and past Unit leader of the Current Crescent Beach Coast Guard Auxiliary unit 5. He currently also serves on the board of the Winston College and is the current Chairman of the Board and Chief Governance Office for Small Business BC where he also teaches on the subjects of Buying and Selling Businesses as well as Succession and Divestiture planning. Pino is a certified instructor at the International Business Brokers Association, he holds a Trading and Managing Broker License under the Province of British Columbia.

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