Tim Hughes cultivates both direct and indirect M&A client engagements specific to lower-middle-market-sized companies. With a client-first approach, he and Align provide a white glove M&A support apparatus with a robust company infrastructure that delivers its clients successful transaction outcomes. Before joining AlignBA in 2021, Tim was an operator who held various front-line and business development roles in family-owned, strategic, & venture capital-backed organizations, where each completed numerous M&A transactions. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, where he was an All-American swimmer, and an M.B.A. from Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.