About Dealonomy

Clint Fiore is the Founder and CEO of Dealonomy, where he and his team are reshaping how small businesses are bought and sold. Drawing on his blend of entrepreneurial experience, executive leadership, and systems thinking, Clint helped build Dealonomy to make the process of buying and selling businesses as frictionless as possible.

Over the past decade, Clint has guided countless entrepreneurs through life-changing transactions. He has founded, scaled, and sold businesses of his own, raised millions in startup capital, and advised business owners across industries on how to maximize value and achieve smooth exits. His diverse background in manufacturing, consumer brands, aviation, and technology gives him a practical, real-world perspective on what makes deals work.

Clint is also a recognized industry voice and trusted public speaker, frequently sharing insights on entrepreneurship, valuation, and deal strategy. He holds professional credentials as a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Certified M&A Professional (CM&AP), and Certified Value Builder (CVB), and is an active contributor to the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA).

Based in the Texas Hill Country, Clint lives with his wife, Melissa, and their four children, Amelia, Sophia, Cecilia, and Jetson. A private pilot and flight instructor, he carries the same passion for flight into his mission at Dealonomy: helping people engineer dream lives through successful business ownership and exits.

Dusty Block is the Director of M&A at Dealonomy, where he leads the firm’s advisory team and drives successful transactions for business owners and buyers nationwide. Since 2017, Dusty has been an integral part of CEO Clint Fiore’s team—first at Bison Business and now at Dealonomy—building a reputation as a trusted guide for entrepreneurs navigating the most important deals of their lives.

A seasoned business broker, entrepreneur, and investor, Dusty specializes in:

• Operations and financial analysis to uncover true business value.

• Pricing companies accurately to ensure bankable, fair-market deals.

• Structuring transactions across a wide range of banking and funding options.

• Coaching buyers and sellers through every stage of the process.

Beyond his brokerage expertise, Dusty has led Pitch Day events connecting startups with capital, advised nonprofits on fundraising, and earned recognition as both a Kerr EDC Top 40 Under 40 honoree and an IBBA Chairman’s Circle Award recipient.

Rooted in his hometown of Ingram, TX, Dusty is equally committed to community service. For over a decade, he has volunteered thousands of hours with the Mountain Home Fire Department and the Kerr County Swiftwater Rescue Team, where he serves as a rescue swimmer and instructor. An accomplished triathlete and former All-State athlete, he brings the same discipline and determination to emergency response as he does to deal-making.

Dusty lives in Ingram with his wife, Hannah, and their two sons, Maverick and Miles.

Elyssa Williams is the Director of Community at Dealonomy, where she leads the buyer experience and ensures entrepreneurs are matched with the right opportunities. With extensive experience in business brokerage, contract negotiation, and leadership, Elyssa plays a key role in helping buyers and sellers navigate the process with clarity and confidence.

Known as a connector and strategist, Elyssa has a gift for building relationships in influential business and civic circles and aligning the right people to make deals happen. Over her career, she has helped facilitate millions of dollars in business deals, contract negotiations, and nonprofit fundraising—experience that allows her to serve entrepreneurs with both expertise and empathy. She works alongside local and state leaders to support a thriving business community and is a trusted guide for entrepreneurs as they navigate each stage of their journey.

Elyssa’s leadership and impact have earned her recognition as a Top 40 Under 40 honoree by the Kerr EDC, and she serves on the Board of Directors for the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce. At Dealonomy, she combines executive vision with a people-first approach to advance the company’s mission of engineering dream lives through successful business ownership and exits.

Based in the Texas Hill Country, Elyssa enjoys time with family and friends and is a proud aunt to nine nieces and nephews.

Jan serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Dealonomy, where he leads the development and engineering of the company’s innovative platform. A seasoned technology expert, Jan brings deep expertise in backend architecture, mobile applications, security, cryptography, and artificial intelligence. 

In 2010, Jan founded his own software agency, specializing in custom web applications and cloud-based invoicing and accounting solutions. He was an early advocate for cloud computing, recognizing its transformative potential to replace desktop and local network systems. 

In 2012, Jan joined the social networking startup MeWe as Chief Technology Officer, spearheading the development of a scalable, feature-rich platform that grew to serve nearly 20 million users. 

Jan envisions technology and AI as tools to unlock human creativity and potential, enabling individuals to focus on high-value work by automating repetitive tasks. He views AI as a means to augment, rather than replace, human capabilities—fostering innovation and empowering better decision-making in both business and everyday life

Before joining Dealonomy, Jason built an impressive track record as a serial entrepreneur, achieving multi-million-dollar exits with his two most recent ventures. He has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as a top-performing executive for his exceptional adaptability to evolving markets and his ability to drive significant sales growth. 

Jason's keen understanding of user needs and commitment to delivering exceptional products culminated in the development of an app that successfully reached over 20 million users.

With over 30 years of experience in banking and lending, Steven Johnson brings a wealth of financial expertise to his ventures. He’s a seasoned real estate investor and serves as the Managing Partner of Fat Ass Ranch Winery & Brewery, the Managing Director of Orion Cost Segregation Services, as well as a limited partner in multiple oil and gas service companies. Steven is based in Medellín, Colombia, while traveling extensively between the U.S. and Colombia for his various business endeavors.

When he’s not working, Steven enjoys just about any outdoor activities, sporting events, concerts, etc. He’s beyond blessed with an amazing wife, Kely, and their children, Sebastian and Valentina… and of course, their golden retriever, Sasha.

Mike began his career with a Fortune 500 Company in San Antonio in the title and escrow services industry, where he specialized in business development and real estate transaction management. Corporate relocation landed him in the Dallas Fort Worth market and easily transitioned into a successful residential real estate career over a 10-year period. Coming from a line of entrepreneurs, Mike’s passion for small businesses led him to a brokerage career with Murphy Business Sales where he trained with tenured business intermediaries and certified M&A professionals. 

Mike leverages these skills to provide business owners with a seamless process of selling businesses. He is prepared to explain complicated subjects clearly and skillfully to negotiate on behalf of his clients, helping them manage change during seasons of transition with both empathy and grit. Mike approaches every situation with attention to detail and creative thinking. With both the seller and buyer in mind, he values and markets businesses to maximize bring the seller a solid price and qualifies buyers to ensure a successful fit. 

In his free time, Mike leads a local free men’s workout group to foster fitness, fellowship and faith. He has held several leadership positions with organizations such as Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Lena Pope Home, The Association of Former Students to name a few. He is also actively involved with his children’s school and church. Mike and his wife Stephanie are graduates of Texas A&M and are fortunate to have lived in many parts of Texas from the southern border in Laredo to San Antonio, Austin, College Station and Fort Worth but have chosen to make the Texas Hill Country home as they raise their two children.

Megan has over 12 years of experience as a Transaction Manager in the real estate industry. She has become a trusted expert in managing the behind-the-scenes details that make deals happen. Known for precision, reliability and deep industry knowledge, Megan has successfully supported agents, brokers and clients through thousands of seamless transactions. 

From contract to close, Megan ensures that every deadline is met, every document is accurate, and every communication is clear. By coordinating with buyers, sellers, escrow officers, lenders, and agents, she takes the stress out of the transaction process—allowing agents to focus on what they do best: selling real estate. 

With a strong command of compliance standards, digital platforms, and document management systems, Megan brings structure, efficiency, and peace of mind to every transaction. She is committed to delivering exceptional service and smooth closings, each and every time.

Rachel Payton has over 15 years of experience in real estate, coaching, and business management. She excels in creating streamlined systems that foster efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. Starting her career as a young office administrator, Rachel’s expertise has expanded across various industries, including real estate sales, team management, project development, and consulting. 

As a licensed real estate broker, Rachel has built successful sales teams, overhauled inefficient systems, and developed robust coaching programs. In leadership roles at Keller Williams, she managed productivity and training programs, designed courses, coached agents, and restructured business operations to reduce costs and improve workflow. 

Rachel specializes in identifying inefficiencies and transforming them into opportunities for growth. Whether building teams, designing operational systems, or developing training programs, her mission is to help businesses and individuals maximize their time and talents for optimal results. Rachel is a strategic thinker who delivers results by refining systems, empowering teams, and driving success.

Devon is a Deal Development Lead with extensive experience consulting for owner-led businesses. With experience helping business owners navigate life “post-sale”, he specializes in big-picture strategy, helping entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of selling a business with clarity and perspective.

Known for his ability to see the "whole picture," Devon focuses on streamlining the sales process to ensure both owners and buyers find the right fit. He balances a high-level strategic approach with the practical discipline required to move a deal from inquiry to valuation to closing.

Originally from the Chicago Suburbs, Devon moved to St. Augustine, Florida in 2022. Outside of working hours, you’ll find him on the baseball field coaching his two boys.

Theo Casey has built a career centered on B2B Business Development, Strategy, and Sales Execution. He specializes in outbound sales, Go-to-Market consulting, and process optimization—all with a singular focus on driving impactful revenue growth.

Having worked across diverse verticals—including Business Lending, SaaS, and Finance & Accounting solutions—Theo understands how to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes for both buyers and sellers. From startups to enterprise organizations, his broad background has fueled a deep passion for helping stakeholders navigate equitable company acquisitions and sales.

Kristi is the Office Manager in charge of keeping our operations running smoothly. She has been an entrepreneur for over 24 years where she was the founder and chief planner at Survivorship Now LLC. She built a business weaving financial, legal and logistical details that made the process of planning for death easy to understand and manage. She has worked closely with estate attorneys, financial advisors, CPAs, bookkeepers, and families to solve problems before and after they happen. She loves this business because every case is different from every other one, it has a direct impact on people, and the learning never stops. 

Her background in financial planning and the tech industry has given her a broad range of skills from working one-on-one with clients, building business operations and launching large offerings of voice and data products in the telecom space.  She received awards in the tech industry for her contributions to telecom engineering builds, building onboarding processes for strategic accounts and marketing support to software development.     

Kristi has an MBA in Business Management and a BBA in Marketing Management from NMSU. She currently lives in Kerrville with her dog, Ms. Bird, and keeps busy with online classes, volunteer work, DIY home projects (some with questionable results) and learning Thai cooking.

At Dealonomy, Erik is a Software Engineer, who specializes in developing systems that make business deals as frictionless as possible. Before joining Dealonomy he built his credentials working as a software engineer and data scientist at multiple companies. From these experiences, he obtained widespread knowledge and skillsets in full-stack development, backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning.  With this broad tech experience, he discovered that he excels in multi-hat environments, which makes him a great fit for Dealonomy.

On a more personal note, he is genuinely intrigued by complex topics.  True to his technical nature, he enjoys conversing about distributed systems, formal languages, and discrete mathematics to mention a few.   He even likes to ponder simple things like why seeing rainbows when the sun is out is impossible.  He admits he is a total nerd by all accounts. Apart from nerdy stuff, he enjoys rock climbing, hiking, gaming (especially Turing-complete games and automation simulators), reading books, good food, and traveling across Europe with his wife and golden retriever.

He is based in Košice, Slovakia. His professional background is in building websites, which he has been doing for almost seven years. Beyond that, he has always had a significant interest in machine learning and in how AI knowledge can be applied to build innovative products.

Outside of work, he is a passionate squash player—a sport he has been playing for about 15 years. He recently helped some friends set up a new sports center in Košice, where he spends most of his free time training on court or helping with running the center off court. A few months ago, he also earned his squash coaching certification so he can coach a new generation of players.

Andrew brings over 15 years of marketing experience building systems for bootstrapped SaaS startups, VC-funded fintech companies, and established businesses. His career spans both B2B and B2C environments, including a role as head of marketing for a large construction and home services business.

As a part-owner of his own home services company, Andrew understands the challenges business owners face firsthand. That perspective shapes how he approaches marketing at Dealonomy: with empathy for sellers navigating one of the biggest decisions of their lives, and a commitment to clear, honest communication that builds trust.

Originally from the Bay Area in California, Andrew now lives outside Dallas, Texas with his wife and three sons. When he's not building marketing campaigns, he's usually thinking about business anyway. He even helped his retired mom launch what's now a thriving cookie business.

Aleah Niemczyk uses her expertise in branding and design to create experiences that captivate users on interfaces from web, to apps, to print, and presentation. A senior designer with a wealth of knowledge from brand strategy, marketing, and design systems, she specializes in developing intuitive interfaces that lead to seamless interactions.

Throughout her career, Aleah has worked on countless teams and startups in the financial consulting, and technology sectors, as well as healthcare, education, and retail. She prides herself on her versatility, as well as her deep connection to and understanding of the

brands she works for. Joining Dealonomy in 2025, she is well equipped and ready

to bring this passion to the M&A space.

Originally from Wisconsin, Aleah earned her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota – Duluth. From there, she worked in Minneapolis’ thriving startup community for the next 6 years. Following that time, she moved to France and launched a business as a full-time freelancer, working for clients all over the world, including Canada and the U.S. As a passionate creator, she dabbles in photography and furniture making, while keeping her career focused on her most practiced strengths of UI and web design.

Fun Facts about Aleah:

• She was a competitive swimmer for 15 years

• She has visited all but 4 of the 50 states

• She got married in September 2025 and her family, including her 2 ½ year old son is her most precious joy