Our People

Chief Executive Officer

David Boim, DSB & Associates CEO, has transformed businesses into flexible, responsive, flat organizations that drive dynamic growth. He enables companies and their executives to reach their potential. He worked with 17 clients that sold for high valuations over the considerably past 25+ years. The DSB mission is to enable company ownership to maximize valuations today so their company can execute it exit strategy tomorrow. DSB drives valuations through business planning, strategic marketing, sales, and financial planning, process improvement, leadership training, and better technology and security; so, they can execute their exit strategy on their terms tomorrow.

Technology & Security Lead

BestMacs and Best bSafe founder, Brian Best. has been helping clients with IT challenges for over 20 years.

Your company might handle your own day-to-day tech needs, but do you feel prepared for a security breach? Brian makes world-class cybersecurity easy and affordable. He handles defenses, trains you and your people, and consults on best practices. His passion is keeping your assets and your customer’s assets safe.

PMO Lead

With years of experience managing multi-million-dollar projects across industries: software engineering, financial services, railways, organ procurement organizations, and non-profits, Desiree knows how tough it can be to balance big-picture strategy with day-to-day execution.

Her work focuses on clarifying priorities, streamlining processes, and ensuring follow through on their plans. She’s developed and implemented structured, no-nonsense approaches and takes a practical, results-driven approach to solving organizational challenges—cutting through the noise, focusing on what matters, and ensuring real progress.

Leadership Coaching Lead

For 26+ years, Lina Calcagno has helped executives upgrade their thinking, reach their goals, and grow to their fullest potential and beyond through Lina’s dynamic executive coaching. Her coaching focuses on helping business owners and their leaders increase productivity and employee engagement by implementing, practicing, and reinforcing the tools and strategies that will benefit the specific needs of each organization.

Marketing Lead

Susan J. Campbell is the head of SJC Marketing, a full-service marketing, communications and content company offering strategic solutions for organizations seeking to have their voices heard in crowded markets. Susan is a professional writer and consultant, with expertise in marketing, communications, content creation and strategy. A graduate of Missouri Western State University with a core focus on marketing, and the University of Missouri, Columbia with a Master’s in Strategic Communications, Susan is a St. Louis native who found herself married to a farmer.

Susan is also active in the local community, serving on a number of boards and committees, including the Missouri Western State University Foundation Board, the Craig School of Business Advisory Council, Rotary International and as president of the American Marketing Association, Kansas City chapter. When not working with her team or her clients, Susan tries to use her marketing skills to convince her grown children to move back to the Midwest. She has a 50% success rate to date.

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Sales Planning Lead

Michael is the founder and President of The Gansman Group.

Michael oversees the entire revenue ecosystem, including all marketing, sales, and client retention, starting at the top of the funnel of marketing efforts to sales/business development to client retention. A to Z. Michael, and his firm, integrates all revenue-related functions to ensure holistic revenue growth.

Michel specializes in scaling companies to the next level of sales, revenue, and profit through strategic planning, tactical sales, and marketing planning, active sales and marketing leadership, sales team development, and sales operational improvements for small to medium-sized companies and business units.

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Financial Planning Co-Lead

Power CFO founder Shane Glavin is a servant-leader and has built a company on the premise that it's essential in life and business to have purpose and to be intentional. He has saved corporations millions of dollars and has been recognized extensively for his innovative solutions to common problems. He founded Power CFO to help smaller companies realize the enormous financial and operational benefits that enterprise-level organizations expect and experience every day.

Telecom and Energy Optimization Lead

Jenny provides clients with leading-edge solutions for voice, data, technology, and energy, producing enhanced profitability and efficiency.

Process Improvement Lead

Dan Pinkham, the owner of Lakehurst Consulting, has over 35 years of experience building and guiding teams in industrial operations, operational excellence, engineering, and project management.  He helps companies increase their bottom lines through operational improvement consulting, structured problem-solving facilitation, and fractional operations management. Dan worked in the chemical, fiberglass, and mining industries prior to founding the consultancy and has additional consulting experience in the private equity, food machinery manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, insurance, and hospitality industries. He has an MBA from Marshall University, a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Maine, and is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

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Human Resources Lead

Kelly Price is the CEO and founder of ThriveHR. She prides herself on successfully building programs that reduce compliance and turnover risk, enhance employee satisfaction, and revolutionize people and HR strategies across many industries, including financial services, healthcare, technology, not-for-profit, and hospitality. She holds a degree in Hospitality Management from Kansas State University and believes that continuous improvement, positive, focused energy, and partnership between Human Resources and executive leadership are key to any successful business.

Divestitures & Capital Raises Lead

As a Managing Director with FOCUS Investment Banking, Cole Strandberg specializes in M&A and capital raising for companies in the lower middle market. With a proven track record of hundreds of transactions completed in recent years, Cole and his team are recognized leaders in investment banking within the lower middle market. Cole's passion for the industry stems from his upbringing in a family business, which- with his guidance- eventually sold to a private equity group and achieved significant success. Prior to joining FOCUS, Cole was a Director with Autotality (formerly Filterworks USA) and an Associate with Noble Capital Markets. He holds a bachelor’s degree in managerial finance from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in entrepreneurship from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.

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Business Planning Lead

Tom is an industrial engineer with an MBA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Strategic Management Professional (SMP). He has executive experience in business transformation, strategy design and execution, large-scale program management, and post-merger integration. Tom has been in the business for over 30 years, with professional experience in leadership, corporate development, and merger & acquisition integration. As the founder of Strategy Execution Advisors, he advises C-level teams on opportunities to leverage emerging technology, process engineering, and strategy design and implementation to improve revenue and margins.

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