About

We are passionate about helping our clients achieve successful outcomes
and finding the ideal financial or strategic partner/acquirer.

Award Winning Team
Members of our team have a deep proven track record of which their activities and outcomes have been recognized by some of the most prominent peers and prestigious industry associations.

Our team members transacted the 2023 Cross Border Deal of the Year as well as the 2019 Corporate Deal of the Year, recognized by peers and the prominent M&A Atlas Awards. Earned by providing OUTSTANDING value to the client through a well structured and negotiated M&A process.

Three decades of successful transactions, deals and corporate development projects.
Here are a few of the companies we've collaborated with, transacted or represented (investors or investments).
Contact us for a full list of our transactions and deals.

Not your ordinary investment advisors ...

TKV6's industry expertise creates powerful opportunities for its clients. Our professionals have served clients in a wide range of industries; providing strategic and corporate development advice, advising on mergers and acquisitions, advising on capital raises to fund growth or recapitalize a client’s balance sheet and most importantly deriving significant shareholder value for our clients.
Our team of industry-focused professionals have strong relationships with strategic buyers and financial investors globally, enabling our clients to meet their objectives.

A number of our partners are former CEO’s and business owners who have “walked in the shoes” of our clients. We are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill investment bankers. We have built businesses, transitioned businesses and sold businesses to both strategic buyers and investment (private equity) groups. We have run small businesses and divisions of publicly traded companies. We are entrepreneurs at heart, embracing tough challenges and excelling.

This experience provides our team with the ability to derive unique insights into our clients’ businesses and provide perspective on what is attractive to buyers, sellers and investors. Given our experience, we are able to learn our clients’ businesses quickly and craft an effective marketing message tailored to our clients’ objectives.

As a firm specializing in software, IT services and technology enabled platforms, TKV6 offers an in-depth understanding of each industry sector including macro and micro drivers that lead to a successful transaction.

More on Industry Focus Areas here.

Todd Viegut
Managing Director

Mr. Viegut is a seasoned M&A specialist in positioning companies and technical innovations into dynamic growth markets at solid valuations. With a pedigree of building companies from the ground floor through fostering numerous corporate transactions for investors and founders, he focuses on small to mid companies with a proven technological, intellectual property or market foundation that provides a springboard into emerging and high growth market spaces. Mr. Viegut employs a hands on entrepreneurial drive, has built numerous divisions within the corporate world, as well as built, grown and sold companies from seed through exit. Mr. Viegut has been recognized by peers and major industry award associations for the transactions and value he has created for his clients. He has collaborated with some of the largest tech firms including facilitating transactions with Quantum, Intel Capital, Expand Networks, ScanSource, EMC and others.

Tim Sullivan
Managing Director

Timothy P. Sullivan is an innovative technology leader and experienced board member with accomplishments in directing broad components of companies of all sizes. He has created, restructured and built businesses while leading high technology (covering optical, software, data center, cloud, wireless, security, storage, routing and server products). Mr. Sullivan has vast experience in IT direction, engineering and operations management, collaboration for business development, marketing, applied technology including device/silicon creation, and international deployments. He has formed partnerships and collaborated with some of the world’s top technology, telecom, and defense contracting firms: Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, HPE, Sun/Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Air Force, Qualcomm, Verizon, and Citrix. Mr. Sullivan has served as the President of Lucent's Optical Group and COO/CTO of Internap Network Services Corp.

Hans Grossling
Managing Director

Mr. Grossling has been involved in the logistics industry for over 20 years. His experience entails active business unit build in is currently very active in the world of Investment Banking, M&A, capital restructuring and venture management in all modes of transportation, cross-docking, and 3PL warehousing. A specialist at uncovering supply chain value for large and medium sized companies. Heavy experience in the specialty retail sector. Completely fluent in Spanish and very familiar with the Latin American market. Well versed in supply chain visibility and an expert in account management.

Specialties: US domestic logistics distribution services, cross-docking, truckload, LTL, small package services, warehousing & consolidation, with a heavy emphasis on logistics technology platforms. In addition I also specialize in English-Spanish and Spanish-English professional translation.

Peter Vroom
Managing Director

Mr. Vroom has been a serial entrepreneur and founder/CEO of new software ventures in B2B markets for several decades. His core focus is on solving tough business problems and positioning clients in emerging markets for an M&A transaction. Peter has worked with fast growing SMEs to large corporations throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and the US, and has personally built several large companies which have sold to IBM and Riverbed.

Peter has authored coursework on M&A strategies, early stage exits and entrepreneurship and as an avocation is an adjunct professor for the Applied Entrepreneurship program at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Drey Anthony
Managing Director & Deal Origination

Mr. Anthony has over 30 years of experience in sales, business investment, and M&A. He has invested, built, and exited companies in multiple industries, such as IT, finance, currencies, and real estate. He joins TKV-6 Strategies after exiting a successful staffing firm which he built. He is the principal of his family investment firm Proserve Group LP, where he oversees the deal flow review, due diligence, and management of current holdings. Additionally, he is an executive board member of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of Texas, a networking and philanthropic organization for high net worth individuals and business leaders. Drey is a 1988 graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS in Economics.

Mark Herndon
Advisor

Mr. Herndon has an extensive background in M&A including services leader for Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global top-twenty consulting firm, where his clients included Boeing, Dell, McNeil Consumer Products and more. He currently serves as Chairman of M&A Leadership Council which focuses on education, program development and certifications. Mr. Herndon is the former President of M&A Partners that provides strategy, due diligence, integration management and change management helping acquirers manage M&A change along with building internal M&A capabilities. Mark is the co-author of The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level (John Wiley/July 2014), which has been translated into five languages and is used as a foundational guide for various consulting firms and university programs. Mr. Herndon also serves as a board director for various privately held companies and charitable organizations.

Gage Dutkin
Associate Director

Mr. Dutkin is an Associate with the firm focusing on go-to-market strategies and supporting client activities. Mr. Dutkin has an undergraduate BA in Entrepreneurship along with an MBA, both from Texas Tech University. Mr. Dutkin also works with several investment groups and private equity firms. He has been instrumental to the founding of several early-stage ventures and is a Venture Manager for the Lubbock (TX) Angel Network.

Hear what people have to say about our team ...

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Todd's actions are driven by both his innate integrity and by what he considers the most effective strategic path. He is diligent, insightful and effective in the way he manages both the people and resources at his disposal towards those outcomes.

Richard Carter

Head of Strategy
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Honeycomb

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Your involvement has been instrumental in helping Advance Business Consulting run as a more profitable and sustainable business. We now have a new focus on accountability and results.

John-Paul Della-Putta

Managing Director,
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Advance ABC

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Great ability to identify strategic opportunities and position organizations messaging to take advantage of those opportunities. They can create a bridge for tech companies to enter markets and open doors that would otherwise not be open.

Kym Welsby

Director APAC
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Clearswift

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I couldn't have asked for a better partner to assist me through the process of building to a strategic exit. They led me through some tough challenges, kept me focused on the vision, and closed the deal well beyond my expectations. He really became a true partner and trusted advisory every step of the way.

Jeff Borden

CEO - Founder
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Brand Protection Agency

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Todd's deep understanding of our business and strategic objectives helped facilitate an efficient transaction that resulted in a great outcome for me and my employees

Roger Balm

CEO - Founder
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RPM Software

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Peter showed incredible persistence and skill in building value in a software company that IBM invested in, and moving that company into a position which attracted a highly respected trade buyer