Dora Lanza co-founded Plethora Businesses after completing the divestiture of her previous company, a mortgage banking organization that grew from a single branch to a multi-branch company, with locations in three states and over 175 employees.

Since 1985, she has been working with business owners, as well as institutional and private investors. As the Operations Manager for Plethora Businesses, Ms. Lanza works with business owners and dealmakers in assessing the value of privately held companies, structuring and financing the complexities of the business transactions.

Ms. Lanza has been awarded the highly coveted designations of Merger and Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI) by The M&A Source, and Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) by the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA). These designations have become the recognized symbols of professionalism in the M&A industry. Individuals who have been awarded these designations have met stringent documentation of completed M&A transactions and extensive educational requirements. She has received her senior appraiser certification in business valuations; is a machinery & equipment appraisals and a certified credit underwriter. In addition, Dora holds series 79, 7, and 63 securities licenses and is a licensed real estate broker in the state of California.

As a nationally recognized lecturer and instructor; she leads educational seminars and workshops for M&A intermediaries on a regional and national basis. Ms. Lanza is an IBBA University and M&A Source Association faculty member, she writes and teaches courses to M&A Bankers, Business Professional Advisors and Broker Professionals. She is a popular speaker to professional groups on M&A subjects dealing with business sales, growth through acquisition, and negotiating the M&A process.

Ms. Lanza is member of the M&A Source organization (www.masource.org), the leading national association whose membership is made up exclusively of M&A intermediaries who specialize in lower middle market M&A transaction and serves as the Conference Planning Committee Chair. Ms Lanza is an active member of the International Business Brokers Association, the California Association of Business Brokers, serving on the Forms Committee; the Society of Business Analysts, the National Business Brokers Institute and the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) where she serves as the Chair of the Participating Organizations for its renown annual Remarkable Women’s Award Event.