Thomas G. Varga – Kreshmore Group | Restructuring, Mergers, & Acquisitions

Thomas G. Varga

Vice President, Operations

Business Advisory

Thomas is a versatile and proven executive bringing over 35 years of experience in organizational leadership, business development/consulting, integrated B2B marketing/public relations and general management. Tom is a creative business plan-focused professional who gains top performance by building complementary, goal-oriented teams.
Tom has led complex business plan strategies for lower-middle/mid-market private companies and for global 500 corporations, covering multiple business sectors, segments & geographies. He has full P&L experience of up to $20mil in sales, has managed 70+ employees and has a consistent commitment to shareholder return on investment and ongoing business successes.

Since 2002 Tom has led strategic lower-middle market M&A transactions as intermediary, as equity player and as independent sponsor. Industries include Manufacturing, Information Technology, Sports Training, Value-Added Warehousing & Distribution (VAWD), Supply Chain (SC) and Transportation & Logistics (T&L).

Notable Event Experience:

M&A: Managing (2021/2022) multiple sell-side engagements as intermediary and project lead for lower and mid-market businesses within the IT, manufacturing, hospitality, VAWD and T&L industries.

Operations: Tom (2021) was promoted to Vice President of Operations. He is responsible for coordinating and overseeing company operations, general business advisory support, marketing & public relations activities for KG.

M&A: Assisted in exit strategy (2016) for Consolidated Distribution Corporation at $485MM topline revenue. Enterprise Value: (8X EBITDA). Normalized NewCo (2017).

M&A: Active equity investor, board advisor (2008-2016). Responsible for business development resulting in $145MM directly and $50MM indirectly (2009-2016) in revenue growth for Consolidated Distribution Corporation. 8-year CAGR track record of 11.7%.

M&A: Spearheaded acquisition (2008) of national $195MM cost-plus food channel value-add warehousing & distribution company, Consolidated Distribution Corporation, servicing $6B foodservice industry. Enterprise Value: $33MM (6X EBITDA).

M&A: Co-Founded (2005) Liberty Sports, a national Sports Training Services co., for LifeTime® Fitness. Active equity investor, board advisor.

M&A: Spearheaded acquisition (2004) of national Gourmet Gift Food Wholesaler: Imperial Foods. Active equity investor, board advisor.

M&A: Started (2003) multi-patented medical device manufacturing firms, NanoBlade and IntraTherm. Active equity investor, board advisor.

M&A: Co-Founded (2002) SmalTec International, a micro-technology firm. Active equity investor, board advisor.

Thomas is a graduate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is a Lambda Chi Alpha Alumnus. He is conversational in Hungarian and is experienced in multi-cultural environments. Away from the office Tom enjoys spending time with his family, golfing and traveling.