Our purpose is unleashing YOUR growth.
Our passion is developing YOUR talent.
Our promise is to be trustworthy, inclusive, genuine, passionate and holistic, ALWAYS.
Your growth team of trusted advisors include:
Paul Sherman
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Dynamic C-suite leader
Strategy, operations, customer service, finance and business development
Healthcare services and technology, commercial real estate and multi-unit restaurants
PE-owned, public, family offices and entrepreneur-founded
As co-founder of ShermanSamuels, I have great passion for developing talent and ability to enhance culture, professionalize and transform highly motivated teams to exceed expectations. I build authentic relationships focused on helping people, with a healthy mix of self-awareness, humility, curiosity and confidence.
I humbly accepted South Florida Business Journal’s 2011 CFO Award for the large private company category and was a finalist again in 2016. I am a proud Board Member and Audit Committee Chair of Step Up For Students and Co-Founder and Board Member of South Florida Business Forum – connecting business leaders.
Jay Samuels
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Dynamic senior leader
Financial modeling, business planning and strategy
Healthcare services and technology, commercial real estate, multi-unit restaurants and investments
PE-owned, public, family offices and entrepreneur-founded
As co-founder of ShermanSamuels, I am a senior executive with thirty years of experience leading business strategy, financial modeling, financial reporting, operations and business development.
In my spare time, I create, code and build a system of complex financial models including a proprietary global macro investment platform featuring investment models and dashboards. I am a trusted advisor, investor and trader.
Kara Murtha
I am a business leader with 26 years of experience working in a variety of industries where I have helped define and implement solutions for executive teams. I truly enjoy the challenge of solving a problem and then putting processes in place to maintain the solution.
Brent Alvord
Managing Director
C-suite leader with Board Experience
Sales, marketing, business development, distribution, strategy, operations, inventory management, IT, customer service, supply chain logistics, franchise businesses, customer profitability, business intelligence, finance and financial modeling
Healthcare services, technology, distribution, logistics, commercial real estate, franchising, purchasing groups, practice roll-ups and multi-unit restaurants
PE-owned, public, family offices and entrepreneur-founded
Experienced with complete cycle of investment – raising capital,
acquisition, increasing value of business and successful exit
Ambidextrous skill set (even English/Spanish bilingual) and able to advise on a wide range of topics and industries – from B2B/B2C sales and marketing to data and dashboards to getting deals done.
Currently serving on the board for two for-profit businesses and previously served on the board for several non-profit businesses. Scoutmaster for local Boy Scout Troop that has a very high rate of Scouts achieving their Eagle Scout rank.