Lou Vescio

Certified Business Intermediary
Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary
Licensed Real Estate Broker

Lou is the principal of Agency Brokerage Consultants and managing partner of the Florida office.  He brings many years of management and business ownership experience to the firm.

Lou is an Air Force veteran and flew both the F-4 and C-141 aircraft, including a combat tour in South East Asia during the Viet Nam conflict. Upon separation from active duty, Lou transferred to the reserve forces and continued flying F-4 aircraft until his retirement from the Air National Guard in 1994.

In 1977, Lou joined Texas Instruments, Defense Electronics Group, and worked in a variety of managerial positions to include manufacturing engineering, production control, operations analysis and product marketing. When he left the company in 1992, he was a Marketing Director for the Defense Electronics Group.

Lou and his wife Maggie then started Futurekids of Virginia Beach, a franchised computer training business, and grew it to one of the top five franchises in the country within the first year. He worked as a Regional Director for the franchise, training new franchisees in the operation of the business. In 1997, Lou was a cofounder of ICTS, Inc., a high end computer training business. This business grew to $11.5 million in sales in the next five years. Lou and his wife sold the Futurekids franchise in 2000 and their interest in ICTS in 2001.

After a brief retirement, Lou became a business consultant and brokerage intermediary. He is an active member of the International Business Brokers Association, serves on the education committee for the association and trains brokers across the nation on valuing small businesses. Lou also gives seminars on exit strategy development for small business owners and has been quoted by numerous publications including the New York Times and Florida Today Newspaper.

Mr. Vescio earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics from Clarion State College and Master’s of Science in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Dallas. He completed the Juran Quality Assurance Program and the Texas Instrument's Management and Senior Management Programs. He is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI), Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI) and Licensed Real Estate Broker in the state of Florida.