Dave Clough is an experienced M&A Advisor and business consultant. He brings decades of experience helping business owners with mergers and acquisitions, exit strategies, growth initiatives and staff development. Dave has advised over 100 companies and recently wrote a book, Perfect Hire Blueprint, so that lower middle market businesses could improve their talent acquisition process. When businesses/owners are not quite ready to sell, Dave helps companies grow, develop exit strategies, and gets companies positioned to sell utilizing Touchstone’s Exit Advantage program.
Dave began his career as an Electrical and Computer Engineer, first in design, then sales support, and rather quickly into leadership positions. In large companies, he managed design teams, applications engineers and was the Director of Consulting. Dave was involved in many acquisitions at a tech company, which has grown to be on the Nasdaq-100.
Dave is currently serving as Chairman of the Board for a 100-person mechanical contractor and has helped companies with stints as temporary president and GM. Dave also served a 3-year term as a Selectman for the Town of Acton, MA. While Dave grew up in New Hampshire, most of his career was in Massachusetts. In 2017, he moved to Gilford, NH.