ACG San Diego | M&A on Fire: Capstone Fire & Safety's Sale to Global Medical Response

Matt is responsible for corporate policies, regulatory compliance, personnel management, corporate growth objectives, and adherence to budgets at Capstone. He believes in a servant leadership style with clear strategic initiatives empowering employees to make decisions and be accountable. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Kinesiology, a Master’s Degree in sports medicine from San Jose State University and is a published author. Matt is a licensed paramedic, a certified firefighter, and a member of a peer based leadership development group.

Ronald is responsible for providing executive leadership for the integration and management of key strategic functions including human capital management, IT, operations, administration, facilities, insurance, and training. This role brings together the critical strategic and administrative activities under one business unit with the intention of further increasing the strategic and tactical effectiveness, efficiency, and speed of these functions. Ron takes a disciplined and flexible problem-solving approach balancing business goals with employee needs. He has a Master of Business Administration and is a Senior Certified Professional with the Society of Human Resources. He maintains memberships with the Society of Human Resources Management, the American Payroll Association, and the Mergers and Acquisition Leadership Council.

Nicole demonstrated her accounting acumen early in her career as a top notch bookkeeper for a multitude of companies. As her implementation of consistent checklists, standards and best practices in accounting processes and month end close grew to help more businesses, Nicole's true passion of sharing her approach and experience as a trainer and mentor of staff accountants became her focus. Her love of financial and operational analysis emerged through years of working with businesses on a part-time consulting basis, and Nicole now spends the majority of her time managing accounting departments while advising business owners how to interpret their KPIs and financial statements to manage their business by numbers.

Mr. Donnelly joined Shoreline Partners in 2017 and became a Partner in the firm in 2020. He leads the sale process on behalf of his clients and is known for obtaining an unreasonable value for founder and family-owned companies. Before Shoreline, Josh was an investment banker with Stifel, Nicolaus & Company in Los Angeles and worked a series of jobs in production agriculture. Josh is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Programs Committee for the San Diego Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.