{ Chester Advisory Group }
™
About
Since our inception, the Chester Advisory Group
has been focused on bringing hard-to-find expertise to the little guy.
Chester Advisory Group {CAG} has deep skill sets and expertise in a miriad of functions that start-up and small businesses may not have the managerial depth to keep in-house. Such skills range from fundraising for start-ups, corporate alliances and partnerships that bring credibilty and sales, to high level financial modeling, strategy and merger & aquisitions.
Adam is the founder of Chester Advisory Group (formerly SPA Enterprises), which launched in 2007 to advise/consult, purchase, and operate small to medium size ventures, including start-ups. The Chester Advisory Group {CAG} was then started to take advantage of the {CAG} core advisory competencies...which include: M&A, acquisition valuation, acquisition integration, competitive analysis, angel investing, seed financing, venture capital, private equity, corporate development, strategic marketing, strategic planning, strategic partnerships, operations, etc.
Adam Scott Perl
Managing Partner
Adam's experience encompasses close to two decades of guiding companies in the technology and financial services industries. Adam’s international experience includes Corporate Strategy for Sony’s Wireless Technology Group in Tokyo, Japan and U.S. and South American Mergers & Acquisitions (Corporate Development and Strategy Group) with FleetBoston Financial (now Bank of America).
He was a lead team member in the merger between Fleet Financial Group and the BankBoston Corporation and then went on to head up Kessler Financial Services’ Corporate Venturing / Investment Group & Primary Business-to-Business Initiative - where he sourced, negotiated and oversaw the fulfillment of co-branded marketing campaigns for KFS’s major clients and alliances.
Adam was then the SVP of Corporate Development & CFO of MyeSuperstore.com in Anaheim, CA followed by founding the Alex & Me Company in Essex CT - which became the Internet’s largest brand retailer of Sun Protective Clothing for close to a decade. Most recently Adam has been appointed as Board Member to QBand in Miami, FLA - an event social media company and sits on the Advisory board of Work Wingman in Boston, MA.
Adam earned his Bachelor of Science (BS) with Distinction from Babson College and his MBA (then known as an MSIA) from the Tepper School of Business (then known as GSIA) of Carnegie Mellon University - where he won the TRW’s 1997 Tomorrow’s Leaders Award & 1998 GSIA Entrepreneurial Leadership Award.
Eric Wentworth
Partner
Eric is an award-winning marketing communications professional with 360 degrees of expertise...including advertising campaigns, copywriting, creative direction, public relations, strategic marketing, sales, web design, promotion, digital, event planning/execution, traditional and social media, content development, print and broadcast production...the Swiss Army Knife of marketing.
Eric’s core strength is in copywriting and creative concept development, with more than 50 top awards for creative work in all media and a wide cross-section of industries...from automotive to healthcare to hospitality.
Eric has demonstrated the ability leading companies to significant sales, market share, and branding increases by conceptualizing and implementing innovative strategic marketing campaigns across diverse industries.
Eric is also an experienced public relations professional with proven results, including "PR Campaign of the Year.” His marketing skills include new product/company launch and brand reposition expertise---including dozens of new products, start-ups, and major global corporations---as well as consumer and b2b experience at advertising and public relations agencies, and at major corporations.
Eric has been the Marketing Advisor to Keiretsu Forum, the world's largest angel investor organization, since 2009 and the author of A Plan for Life: The 21st Century Guide to Success in Wealth, Health, Career, Education, Love, Place...and You! A Plan for Life is a practical guide to surviving and thriving amid the chaotic changes of the 21st Century.
Eric has his Bachelor of Journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia where he was the Political Editor of the School Newspaper and was on the Varsity Swimming Team