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Tom Caltrider (CBI, CEPA, MBA, S)


Tom Caltrider
Title: Managing Director
Languages: English
Island: Maui
Phone: (808) 573-4752
Fax: (808) 655-1761
Email:
Address: P. O. Box 790129; Paia, HI 96779

Profile

Tom Caltrider is the Managing Director with the Maui Office of VR Mergers & Acquisitions, and brings to VR more than 30 years of senior management experience in a variety of companies and industries. His last corporate position was as Senior Vice President of Johns Manville responsible for the $1 billion fiberglass insulation business, with 14 plants in North America and over 4,000 employees. Prior to that he was President and CEO of Gundle Environmental Services a $250 million revenue plastic manufacturing and environmental construction firm; Vice President of GE Plastics Pacific based in Singapore; and, Vice President and General Manager of Borg Warner Petrochemicals, a $600 million producer of basic petrochemicals.

Tom was a member of the National Petroleum Association's Petrochemical committee, was chairman of the North American Insulation Manufactures Association and has served on several corporate and joint venture boards of directors in the USA and abroad.

He has a strong background in sales, marketing, finance, business development, purchasing, and joint venture and trade association leadership, all of which are employed in the complex endeavor of business brokerage.

Tom received an MBA from Ohio University, attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and has a BS in business from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the International Business Brokers Association, the industry's leading trade association, which awarded him its Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation. He has also been awarded Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) status from the Exit Planning Institute, the premier provider of learning, knowledge, and future-oriented research for exit planning professionals. Tom is also a Qualified Registered Representative affiliated with Burch & Company, a FINRA registered broker dealer, to effect securities transactions. Steve Abdalla and Tom Caltrider of VR Hawaii are the only business intermediaries based in Hawaii licensed for securities transactions.

He is very active in the local Maui community, as Past President of the Rotary Club of Maui, and as a member of the Maui Executives Association and Maui Chamber of Commerce.

Highlights
  • The only Certified Business Intermediary on Maui
  • The only Certified Exit Planning Advisor in the state of Hawaii
  • Served as General Manager of three businesses with more than $250 million in annual revenues
  • Past President of Rotary Club of Maui
  • One of only two business intermediaries licensed for securities transactions in the state of Hawaii
Sector Experience
  • Manufacturing
  • Restaurants
  • Distribution
  • Retail
  • Automotive
  • Medical
  • Education
  • Sports/ Activities
  • Construction
  • Marine