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Sunbelt Network Miami Team

The Naples, Fort Myers & Sarasota Sunbelt Team of Brokers has decades of combined business experience. Selling your business or buying a new one is easier when using a professional. Sunbelt’s Small Business Brokers will do all the footwork so you can save your time for more important matters. They will evaluate businesses and keep you on track. Give our team a call today to get started with selling your business or purchasing one.

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RYAN CAVE

Business Broker | Qualifying Broker

Ryan Cave is the President of Sunbelt Business Brokers of South Florida and is a licensed Florida Real Estate Broker. Ryan is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) as designated by the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and is a ten-time Sunbelt national sales award recipient.

Ryan has earned Florida’s “#1 TOP PRODUCER” award and the “TOP 5 PRODUCER” awards multiple times for the State of Florida for highest total sales (among over 1,500 other business brokers). He has received the Million Dollar Plus Award provided by the Business Brokers of Florida association each year since 2006.

Joe Alter

JOE ALTER

Managing Broker | Sunbelt Owner

Joe has over 20 years of experience owning and running a variety of family and investor-owned businesses prior to his M&A work. Beginning in 1995, Joe launched Internetfitness.com (dba Smooth Fitness) as the world’s first online Fitness Equipment eCommerce store specializing in treadmills and elliptical machines. As CEO, Joe grew the company to $32MM in revenue as the company climbed the Inc.® 5000 and Internet Retailer® 500 lists. In 2006 the company was recapitalized and sold to Private Equity in a complex M&A transaction.

For the past ten years, Joe has been consulting with entrepreneurs about Omni-Channel marketing and exit strategies. Joe has spoken at national conventions like the Internet Retailer Conference, and he is available as a guest speaker.

Today, Joe is the Owner of Sunbelt Business Brokers of Naples and Ft. Myers. He handles a wide variety of industries with an acute specialty in technology, manufacturing, B2B services, franchise resales, and trade-related contracting businesses. Joe is the Owner of Sunbelt Naples, Sunbelt Fort Myers and Sunbelt Sarasota and Joe’s team executes deals all over the state of Florida and beyond.

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