About Ontario Business Brokers

For over 18 years, we've helped family-owned business owners across Ontario and Canada sell what took a lifetime to build — with confidentiality, professionalism, and control.

OUR STORY

Business Owners Helping Business Owners

Ontario Business Brokers was founded on a simple belief: business owners deserve professional representation when selling one of the largest assets they will ever own. We are not a franchise. We are not a marketplace. We are a boutique M&A advisory firm built around the people we represent — family-owned and founder-led businesses across manufacturing, industrial services, trades, construction, transportation, and distribution.

We aren't just advisors, we are business owners. We've acquired companies, operated them, grown them, and sold them. Every aspect of ownership — the risk, the pressure, the decisions that keep you up at night — we understand because we've lived it. That perspective changes how we approach every engagement. When you work with OBB, you're working with people who've sat exactly where you're sitting.

OUR VALUES

Principles That Guide Us

Confidentiality First

Every conversation, every document, every buyer contact is treated as if the future of your business depends on it — because it does.

Confidentiality isn't a policy at OBB. It's a discipline.

Seller Representation Only

We do not represent buyers.

Our loyalty is not divided.

From the first confidential conversation through closing, our only job is to protect and maximize your outcome.

Selective by Design

We limit the number of engagements we accept.

Every client works directly with senior advisors.

No handoffs, no call centers, no bureaucracy. Every business we represent gets our full attention.

Standards We Live By

We do not represent businesses we wouldn't consider owning ourselves.

That's the bar. It filters out the wrong-fit engagements before they start — and it's why our clients trust us to protect what they've built.

LEADERSHIP

Meet Our Team

Dwayne M. Mitchell

M&A Advisor, CBI, Founder & CEO

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Founded Ontario Business Brokers. Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), personally representing sellers through every engagement. With over 18 years of M&A advisory experience, he leads the confidential, seller-first sale of family-owned and privately held businesses across Ontario and Canada.

Karen Mitchell

Client Relations & Operations

Oversees client relations and the day-to-day coordination of active engagements. Coordinating valuations, preparing materials, and managing communication and scheduling — to keep each confidential sale organized and moving. Karen is the steady point of contact from the first meeting through to closing.

Mike Denomme

CPA, CEPA, Business Advisor

Specializing in business succession and ownership transition planning. With a background in accounting and exit planning, he works with privately owned businesses to prepare for sale, support business valuations, and guide owners through the transition process.

Ron Hunter

Broker of Record - Equitas

CPA, BCA

Ron Hunter is the Broker of Record, providing regulatory oversight under his firm, Equitas M&A. Ron brings decades of professional depth in business brokerage, financial analysis, and private company valuation. His registered brokerage provides the framework under which OBB operates as an independent M&A advisory practice.

Scott Jarvie

Client Intake Specialist

First point of contact for owners exploring a sale. He guides initial conversations, coordinates confidentiality agreements, and makes sure every inquiry is handled promptly and discreetly, helping owners understand the process and connecting qualified prospects with the advisory team.

Louis Lui

Student Intern

Supporting the advisory team's research and deal-preparation work. He assists in preparing Confidential Information Memoranda (CIMs), compiling market and financial data, and developing the charts and analysis used to present a business to prospective buyers.

John Aidan

Research & Operations Support

provides research and administrative support to the advisory team. He runs weekly market sweeps across multiple listing platforms to identify Ontario businesses that fit the firm's criteria, and helps keep engagements organized and moving.

Every engagement begins with a

confidential conversation.

No obligation. No pressure. Complete confidentiality. If we are the right firm for you, we will know within one conversation. If we are not, we will tell you honestly.