Jill Arena is the President of Arena Enterprises, a company that specializes in mergers and acquisitions and business development. Using skills developed over 30 years of experience, Jill helps her clients find and acquire profitable businesses, and implement effective marketing strategies for growth.

As an M&A Intermediary, Jill leverages an extensive network to provide companies and individuals with a blueprint to build a search process, evaluate deals and execute the acquisition phase. Arena provides concierge acquisition services to her clients helping them identify, evaluate, negotiate and close transactions. Her methodology creates value for both buyers and sellers.

Twenty years ago Arena searched for a high-quality source of information on the buy-side which illustrated how to acquire an existing company. It didn't exist. Jill spent the past two decades honing her skills and developing a proprietary search methodology during her work with institutions, private equity firms, strategic buyers and entrepreneurs. Arena’s world-class methodology serves as a framework for acquisitions, enabling clients to exceed their growth goals and maximize value.

She will be sharing what her lower middle market clients are doing to facilitate growth in 2025 organically and via acquisition.