The First 100 Days as Owner-CEO
For new owners in the handoff. Standing counsel through the transition: earning the team you just inherited, finding the true levers, setting your operating cadence, and not breaking what you just bought. Ten hours across your first months in the seat.
What's included
- A standing thinking partner for the decisions that set the tone of your ownership
- An operating cadence, priorities, and transition plan for your first months in the seat
Meet your expert
Chase M.
Buy the Right Company, Then Run It Well — Counsel from a 5x Acquirer
Through Patina Capital, my personal investment and advisory firm, I serve as counsel to a small number of CEOs and business owners: a standing thinking partner for the person in the seat, built on judgment rather than frameworks. The name is the thesis: a patina forms slowly, and what forms slowly lasts. That counsel draws on my own seat time. I'm the CEO of Decada Group, a self-funded holding company in Salt Lake City. We buy small businesses and hold them indefinitely, with no outside investors and no plans to sell. When we acquire a company, it's a baton pass, honoring what came before while working carefully to build what comes next. I came to this through the search model myself. I've completed multiple acquisitions, operated the companies afterward, and stayed close to the ETA community for years, including a Utah searcher network several hundred strong. I've watched the model create great owner-CEOs, and I've watched it break people who bought the wrong company. Both shaped how I coach. Outside the work, I serve on nonprofit boards, write essays on judgment and ownership at patina.capital, and spend as much time as I can outdoors with my son.
