Sharon Rues

About

Sharon Rues is the founder of SGR Advisors and a contrarian voice in lower middle market M&A. Her premise is unpopular. Most deals do not fail on the spreadsheet. They fail because the people side, the culture, the talent, the integration plan, gets shoved to the end of the runway and treated as someone else’s problem until it is too expensive to fix.

After 25 years of people leadership across Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups, including serving as Chief Human Resources Officer for a former Nebraska governor and leading the largest state agency merger in Nebraska history, Sharon built SGR Advisors to close the gap she kept watching deals fall into. That 2,200-person integration taught her the lesson behind her work: people and trust are often the deciding factors between a deal that holds and one that falls apart. She partners with sell-side M&A advisors who want to deliver more than a transaction, equipping their practice with a culture and integration framework their competitors are not bringing.

Her position is simple. M&A does not have to be a rocky, dreaded experience. Someone just has to design for the humans inside it.