Get To Know
Sara Burden
Principal, CBI, M&AMI, CM&AP, FIBBA, FMAS
John Chesnutt, Owner | A&R Ironworks, LLC
John Fitzgerald, President | AF&S Products and Services, Inc.
Rhonda Wylie, Chief Financial Officer | Division 5, Inc.
Chad Perez, CEO | Pinnacle Security
Dixit Suthar, Owner | Legacy Building Systems, Inc
Rodney Moore, Franchise Owner | Express Employment Professionals
Deborah Latham, President | Georgia Tank Lines
Peter Mangal, President | Global Flags Unlimited, LLC
John Chesnutt, Owner | A&R Ironworks, LLC
John Fitzgerald, President | AF&S Products and Services, Inc.
Rhonda Wylie, Chief Financial Officer | Division 5, Inc.
Chad Perez, CEO | Pinnacle Security
Dixit Suthar, Owner | Legacy Building Systems, Inc
Rodney Moore, Franchise Owner | Express Employment Professionals
Deborah Latham, President | Georgia Tank Lines
Peter Mangal, President | Global Flags Unlimited, LLC
Meet Sara Burden
Sara Burden entered the mergers and acquisitions industry in March 1991 and has been actively involved in Walden’s successful closings of small-to-middle market-sized companies.
As an M&A Advisor, Sara Burden has represented and sold companies with sophisticated high profiles in the service sector, heavy manufacturing, and distribution with equal success.
While she specializes in owner representation, Sara has handled unique buyer representations in the national marketplace and is closely involved in the firm’s valuation services.
M&A Industry Leadership
Sara holds a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) certification through theInternational Business Brokers Association, and she is one of fewer than100 individuals worldwide to earn the Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary. The M&AMI certification is through M&A Source.
Sara’s M&A expertise has led to engagements as an expert witness with several Atlanta accounting and legal firms and guest appearances on talk radio shows.
Sara also participates in numerous business panels and speaking engagements at local and national levels, including as an M&A Source and IBBA Conference instructor/speaker/trainer.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Fellow of the IBBA, 2011
Fellow of the M&A Source, 2014
M&A Source Executive Club, 2024
EXPERIENCED EXECUTIVE AND ENTREPRENEUR
Prior to joining Walden, Sara was a successful entrepreneur. In 1981 she created a permanent staffing service that specialized in placing high-end administrative support personnel.
In 1984, her acquisition of a temporary services provider expanded her firm to one of the largest of its type in Atlanta at that time. The temporary division was divested in 1988, and the permanent division in 1991.
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