Our Team

David L. Perkins, Jr.
Managing Director

Mr. Perkins holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (psychology) from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration degree (accounting concentration) from the University of Notre Dame. He has completed post-graduate coursework in business valuation and business brokerage through the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and the Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA). He completed the Mergers and Acquisitions executive education course at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and he’s a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA).

Since 1997 Mr. Perkins has consulted full time on the purchase and sale of private companies. His firm, Acquisition Advisors, focuses on transactions valued between $10 million and $100 million. Perkins’ early career included commercial real estate brokerage, commercial banking, and a brief stint as the senior financial officer for a software company.

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J. Duff Weddle
Director

Duff is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, (B.B.A.) and the University of Texas School of Law, (J.D.), and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a registered Attorney.

Duff has 20 years active experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, business and corporate development, as well as structuring strategic deals and alliances as a corporate lawyer. He has personally owned, bought and sold five companies, designing an exit plan that resulted in asset sales from $5 million to $90 million per company. He has worked as a professional on M&A transactions ranging from $10 million to $450 million and has been an advisor in startups and new ventures, raised equity capital, secured institutional funding and project financing. Duff’s industry experience spans manufacturing, distribution, energy, petrochemicals, engineering, staffing, construction and transportation.

Renae Williams
Operations Manager

Credit for the smooth, seamless day-to-day business operations and financial controls of DL Perkins belongs to Renae Williams, who joined this company in 2004 and was promoted to operations manager three years later.

Renae began her career in publishing at PennWell Corporation where she spent ten years, rising through the ranks to positions in management and acquiring extensive experience in research, accounting, marketing and customer relationship management. Before joining Acquistion Advisors she also worked as financial controller for a commercial property company.

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Stephanie Coit
Director of Marketing

Stephanie is responsible for the advertising and marketing of the books, newsletters and other products and services of DL Perkins. A graduate of the University of Tulsa with a degree in psychology, she also earned an MBA from St John’s University in New York.

With over ten years’ experience in space, broadcast, direct mail and online marketing, Stephanie has a thorough understanding of web design principles, best online practices and multi-channel strategies to maximize impact. She has worked for such major marketers as Lillian Vernon, a 56-year-old catalog and online marketer; Hachette Fillipacchi Media, publishers of Woman’s Day, Elle, Road & Track and other magazines; and Value Line, publishers of investment guides. A high-energy marketer, Stephanie has a proven track record of creating an effective online presence.

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