Credentials of Bob Ross

After receiving his MBA degree from what is now Texas A & M - Commerce, he entered the management training program with Sears, Roebuck & Company. In 1966, he resigned his management position and started his own chain of consumer electronic retail stores. After seven years of successfully running these stores, he sold them and established a consumer electronics wholesale distributorship. Nine years later, after having grown to the third largest distributor of its type in the Southwest, the business was sold to a large holding company. Mr. Ross joined the staff of the merger and acquisition firm that acquired his company as head of their acquisition team. After a year with that firm he formed Bob Ross & Associates and entered the business brokerage arena. His company was one of the original five members in the Alliance of Independent Brokers group. In 1991, Bob Ross & Associates was incorporated as the Fuller-Ross Group. In 1993, he became involved in the national expansion program of one of the largest organizations in the business brokerage industry. He wrote the vast majority of their operational manual and has trained over 500 business brokers on the fundamentals of the industry. In 1998, he sold his interest to return to his first love of helping people buy and sell businesses and building the web site of the company he left.

Mr. Ross is a member of the Institute of Certified Business Counselors, and Texas Association of Business Brokers (TABB). He has served on the board of directors and as vice-president of the D/FW Chapter of TABB. Bob has earned the Board Certified Broker (BCB), Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Certified Business Counselor (CBC), and Certified Business Broker (CBB) designations. In 2005 he was awarded the Master Certified Business Counselor designation. He is one of only eleven people to be honored with this designation by the Institute of Certified Business Counselors. Bob is the immediate Past-President of this national organization.

He authored and teaches, "Recasting and Analyzing a Business For Valuation." This is a required course to receive the Board Certified Broker designation. Mr. Ross has been a speaker at several state business brokerage conventions, as well as being a feature speaker at the annual convention of the Institute of Certified Business Counselors in 1995 and 2002. In 1995, he addressed the Small Business Committee of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Ross was invited to speak as an expert on valuing a business and the importance of using proper and legally accepted valuation methods.

Mr. Ross can help you with marketing for listings, deal structure, buyer/seller negations, quick business value pricing, ways to make listing have better appeal to buyers on the web sites, and just about any phase of business brokerage.