Kristi Bodin has become a member of Country Business, Inc (CBI), New England’s largest business broker and merger and acquisition firm. She brings ten years of manufacturing management experience and twenty years of legal expertise to the firm. Her manufacturing background includes materials management and production control for companies involved in metal cutting tools, time recording and building management systems, and consumer health products. Her law practice focused on business law and business transactions where she has guided dozens of privately held companies through the process of purchasing and selling a business. She is skilled in strategic analysis, business planning and management.
Additional activities include serving as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Assistant Town Counsel for several communities. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Franklin County Community Development Corporations, a Town Meeting member in Montague, and an active member and President Elect of the Amherst Rotary Club.
CBI manages the sale of businesses throughout New England, upstate New York, and Atlantic Canada. “I am excited to become a member of a firm where I can work with business owners and buyers, while contributing to the growth and vitality of Western Massachusetts” states Kristi.
Kristi joins a firm founded in 1976 which has managed the sale of over 1,200 businesses ranging in sales prices from $500,000 to almost $30 million. “Western Massachusetts is a prime market place for our services” states Philip Steckler a principal of CBI. We have managed the sale of numerous businesses in the region, which includes such varied businesses as Snow’s and Bart’s Ice Cream, Quabbin Industries, Graphic Printing, and New England Wetland Plants. Steckler adds: “We are fortunate to have Kristi as part of our firm. She is an experienced professional person which enables us to provide an immediate presence and a higher level of service to our clients.”
Kristi can be reached at 413 549 3766 or via email at [email protected]. For more information about CBI, please visit our website at www.countrybusiness.net.