Pilgrim Talks: Fritz Strehlow and Matthew Silk

Fritz Strehlow, Managing Director of The Mentor Group

Fritz Strehlow is a Managing Director with expertise and experience in business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, raising equity, and business management. His work has involved private and public entities - corporations and partnerships. In addition, he has provided expert testimony in financial valuations.

The Mentor Group, Inc. was started in 1987. The initial and continuing vision was to perform preeminent services based upon employing only senior professionals with superior experience and expertise. That philosophy and culture thrive today, creating an unmatched capability in investment banking valuations and appraisals, and financial consulting.

The Mentor Group is a full service, national investment banking, financial advisory, valuation and appraisal firm. They are preeminent in the due diligence and support provided for selling companies, private placements and value opinions. Their senior professional have valued and sold nearly every type of business and business asset. They are experience, responsive and results driven.

The professionals at The Mentor Group are experienced, responsive and results driven.

To learn more about The Mentor Group, go to  thementorgroup.biz

Matthew Silk, SVP of Waterfall Mobile, Inc.

Waterfall Mobile empowers marketers, media owners and emergency coordinators to create, manage, track and analyze powerful mobile campaigns.

By reducing the inherent complexity of mobile campaign creation and management, Waterfall Mobile continues to set new standards for mobile communications.

As SVP for Waterfall Mobile, Inc., Silk is responsible for corporate development, strategic partnerships, and client services. He leads the marketing and media efforts for the company's West coast operations as general manager of Waterfall's Los Angeles office.

Prior to joining Waterfall Mobile, Silk held a number of senior positions with E*TRADE Financial including Director of Retail Product Management, where he was responsible for all web brokerage and core user experience products. Over his tenure there, he led several site re-designs, launched an in-house charting system, and re-engineered the company's content architecture and aggregation strategies. Silk began his career as a business consultant for the Wharton Small Business Development Center, where he managed a portfolio of clients providing one-on-one management consulting to entrepreneurs in the Philadelphia region. Silk received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

To learn more about Waterfall Mobile, go to  waterfallmobile.com