Master Certified Business Intermediary Rob Lewis, MBA, MCBI, and Deploy colleagues empower business owners with strategic guidance and support, providing highly personalized business brokerage and advisory services. Specifically tailored for privately-held businesses, Deploy is recognized as the leading independent, non-franchised brokerage and advisory group on the Grand Strand- with a wide local network of professionals across the Carolinas. Deploy business partners have attained the top credentialing, training, resources, and experience available to the industry and profession.
Company Vision | Educate. Inspire. Achieve 2025!
Professional broker expertise paired with a highly personalized approach is featured. An emphasis on integrity, action, and results is at the core of the Company's business values. Deploy takes a no-spin grassroots approach and ensures accessibility and responsiveness for clients venturing into unfamiliar territory.
Industry-leading methodologies for analyzing adjusted earnings, expenses, and market multiples are fully leveraged to provide the essential foundation for pricing and client decision-making. Packaging a business is both art and science and requires a seasoned expertise with no shortcuts. If you can't support it, you can't maximize it!
Preliminary preparation is key to driving value, pricing, and maximizing returns within preferred timelines in a future transaction. Deploy provides a realistic market perspective and answers questions such as, "What should I be thinking and doing now? What is the process? How will it effect my family?"
Established business owners often own the real estate- a beautiful synergy of value in the marketplace! Deploy is uniquely qualified in the niche between servicing projects with both on-going business enterprise value and commercial real estate, with top commercial real estate firms and regional CCIM partnerships in network.
Colleagues are strategically connected to local and regional networks, providing access to both on and off-market entrepreneurial opportunities and offering a unique window to deals not be visible on the open market. In reality a big percentage of Deploy's closed transactions are from tremendous off-market connections.
Deploy Advisors understand that sometimes the enterprise value is not there, but the business owner requires a cash-out and exit. Significant FF&E value can often be realized through network connectivity and a willingness to package the hard assets. Even in an asset sale scenario, the goal of maximizing the transaction remains firm.
Rob and his wife, Heather, are both from Horry County. Friends since high school, Rob graduated Salutatorian in the NMBHS class of 1985, and Heather from Coastal Academy in Myrtle Beach in 1987. Married in 2004, they both remain deeply entrenched in local social and professional networks on the Grand Strand. Rob and Heather enjoy living the coastal, country lifestyle on the family farm in Longs.
Rob's oldest son, Brayden, is 24 years old and graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC in 2023, with a degree in Public Health. He is now working as a Lead Medical Scribe in Columbia and making plans for Graduate school. Jackson, born in 2005, is 20 years old and a Junior at USC. He is also matriculating in the School of Public Health, with a minor in Psychology. He enjoys the piano and many friends.
Our family loves going to the mountains, but the coast of SC will always be home. In recent years, we have made more concerted efforts to travel together- and with friends. We have learned that you don't have to travel far, to be together! We can be found at Williams Brice stadium for all USC home games and would love to see you there. College football and the fall season is our favorite time!
The International Business Brokers Association® (IBBA) is the largest international non-profit association operating exclusively for people and firms engaged in Business Brokerage. The IBBA provides Business Brokers with resource benefits, education, conferences, professional designations, and networking to build their skills, connections, and client support. Formed in 1984, the IBBA has members across the world. The IBBA supports entrepreneurship, and the concept that the investment risks of owning a business deserve a straightforward, professional and honest presentation to both seller and buyer.
With a primary focus on education, the IBBA awards the Certified Business Intermediary® (CBI) designation and the Master Certified Business Intermediary® (MCBI) designation to individuals who meet certain education and experience standards. These designations show a commitment to excellence in our profession, and clients are encouraged to look for a CBI® when choosing their Business Broker.
When it comes time to sell or buy a business, choose to work with an experienced IBBA Member who will guide you through every step of the process. Look for the Certified Business Intermediary® (CBI) designation to identify individuals who have met our highest standards for education, ethics and professionalism.
