322 North Shore Drive, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
(412) 912-1600
322 North Shore Drive, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
(412) 912-1600
About Us
The Principals at Blackstone Business Advisors have a combined 70+ years in senior business and financial services roles focusing on businesses and business owners alike.
Our firm combines the unique talents and wide range of experiences of our Principals with the power of a Virtual Family Office (VFO). Our VFO provides our clients access to a world-class team of nationally recognized independent tax specialists, financial and transactional specialists, business consultants and professional subject matter experts on an as-needed basis.
Through the VFO, we are able to provide a team of experts that is specifically tailored to our clients needs on a cost effective basis.
About Us
The Principals at Blackstone Business Advisors have a combined 70+ years in senior business and financial services roles focusing on businesses and business owners alike.
Our firm combines the unique talents and wide range of experiences of our Principals with the power of a Virtual Family Office (VFO). Our VFO provides our clients access to a world-class team of nationally recognized independent tax specialists, financial and transactional specialists, business consultants and professional subject matter experts on an as-needed basis.
Through the VFO, we are able to provide a team of experts that is specifically tailored to our clients needs on a cost effective basis.
Our Mission
Private business owners are the lifeblood of a strong economy: Their businesses employ the largest share of people, and their successes have deeply important impacts on their communities. As an owner, you deserve a business that reflects the successes you’ve brought to others. That’s why at Blackstone Business Advisors we live by the words Vision. Plan. Prosper. and our mission, as your Business Advisor, is to make sure that you experience those successes over the long term.
You, your family, and your business legacy must reap the rewards of properly executed planning for us to consider our services successful. We will work tirelessly to get you what you want, because we want what you want: a prospering business that allows you to live the life that you want, while building and protecting your business's value.
Our firm uses proprietary systematic processes that are universal in their practice but unique in their outcomes. Our processes work because they center on your vision, your situation, and your needs. We have used these process for businesses of various sizes, scopes, and industries across North America, allowing owners who implement these process to experience the kind of success they envisioned when they got into the business.
Successful businesses are the result of thoughtful, long-term planning rather than chance. We here at Blackstone Business Advisors want the chance to help you create thoughtful, long-term plans for your business. We look forward to learning about your unique vision and helping you create and implement plans that lets your family, your business, your community, and, most importantly, you enjoy your business successes.
Our Mission
Private business owners are the lifeblood of a strong economy: Their businesses employ the largest share of people, and their successes have deeply important impacts on their communities. As an owner, you deserve a business that reflects the successes you’ve brought to others. That’s why at Blackstone Business Advisors we live by the words Vision. Plan. Prosper. and our mission, as your Business Advisor, is to make sure that you experience those successes over the long term.
You, your family, and your business legacy must reap the rewards of properly executed planning for us to consider our services successful. We will work tirelessly to get you what you want, because we want what you want: a prospering business that allows you to live the life that you want, while building and protecting your business's value.
Our firm uses proprietary systematic processes that are universal in their practice but unique in their outcomes. Our processes work because they center on your vision, your situation, and your needs. We have used these process for businesses of various sizes, scopes, and industries across North America, allowing owners who implement these process to experience the kind of success they envisioned when they got into the business.
Successful businesses are the result of thoughtful, long-term planning rather than chance. We here at Blackstone Business Advisors want the chance to help you create thoughtful, long-term plans for your business. We look forward to learning about your unique vision and helping you create and implement plans that lets your family, your business, your community, and, most importantly, you enjoy your business successes.
Meet Our Principals
David, one of the co-founding Principals of Blackstone Business Advisors, is a Certified Exit Planner (CExP) with 30 years of diverse business, finance and accounting experience.
He spent the first 25 years of his career in senior financial positions in multiple successful public and private companies, including most recently CFO and subsequently President and CEO of Montauk Energy Holdings, Director of Finance for Interstate Hotels Corporation and Duquesne Light Holdings. During his career, David has been involved in numerous M&A transactions totaling close to $2B, assembled and lead teams that facilitated exponential growth and has been involved in multiple successful public offerings. As a result, in addition to advising business owners he has had first-hand experience in building and monetizing successful businesses himself.
David began his career with the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and is a 1990 graduate of Wake Forest University.
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John G Harris
John is one of the co-founding Principals of Blackstone Business Advisors.
After graduating from Georgetown University in 1978, Mr. Harris began his career as stockbroker, then founded and edited an international newsletter for Vanguard Investors for 20 years. In 1996, he founded Harris Financial Management, a Registered Investment Advisor.
John is considered a leader in providing holistic client solutions by virtue of his four decades of experience in the Financial Services Industry. In co-founding Blackstone, Mr. Harris recognized the enormous benefit to clients, CPAs and business owners of engaging with a team of experts from all over America.
To that end, Blackstone is aligned with world-class specialists in advanced tax planning, law, wealth management, financial planning, insurance, specialty financing, mergers, acquisitions, exit planning, business advisory and virtual family office solutions.
Meet Our Principals
David R Herrman
CPA, CExP
David, one of the co-founding Principals of Blackstone Business Advisors, is a CPA and a Certified Exit Planner (CExP) with 30 years of diverse business, finance and accounting experience.
He spent the first 25 years of his career in senior financial positions in multiple successful public and private companies, including most recently CFO and subsequently President and CEO of Montauk Energy Holdings, Director of Finance for Interstate Hotels Corporation and Duquesne Light Holdings. During his career, David has been involved in numerous M&A transactions totaling close to $2B, assembled and lead teams that facilitated exponential growth and has been involved in multiple successful public offerings. As a result, in addition to advising business owners he has had first-hand experience in building and monetizing successful businesses himself.
David is also a licensed Continuing Education Instructor that instructs CPA’s in the areas of advanced tax planning and business succession. David began his career with the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and is a 1990 graduate of Wake Forest University.
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John G Harris
John is one of the co-founding Principals of Blackstone Business Advisors.
After graduating from Georgetown University in 1978, Mr. Harris began his career as stockbroker, then founded and edited an international newsletter for Vanguard Investors for 20 years. In 1996, he founded Harris Financial Management, a Registered Investment Advisor.
John is considered a leader in providing holistic client solutions by virtue of his four decades of experience in the Financial Services Industry. In co-founding Blackstone, Mr. Harris recognized the enormous benefit to clients, CPAs and business owners of engaging with a team of experts from all over America.
To that end, Blackstone is aligned with world-class specialists in advanced tax planning, law, wealth management, financial planning, insurance, specialty financing, mergers, acquisitions, exit planning, business advisory and virtual family office solutions.
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322 North Shore Drive, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
(412) 912-1600
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