Not your father's advisory firm.
Value add service built on relationships and results, like we're family.
A FRESH PERSPECTIVE
Meet Grow Solutions
Privately held companies and assets are often presented with complex situations - transactions, capital raises, restructurings, transitions, analyzing risks, implementations, growth initiatives. Our expertise brings the strategic and financial sophistication to navigate through a broad spectrum of scenarios.
How can we help?
Our network of trusted partners have done it all: sold a myriad of family operating assets, supported roll ups and management of portfolios of assets from $2M - $150M, analyzed and mitigated risks that can stifle potential, capitalized projects that generate outsized returns and impact, built and executed strategic roadmaps alongside management, and more. We do not sell services based off a set menu, rather we get to know you and your project or company(s) to scope how we can plug and effectuate desired initiatives. As a compliment to your team, we quickly analyze and execute to avoid wasted time and resources.
Financial Advisory
✓ Have you outgrown and need to rebuild or modernize your accounting and operating back end?
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✓ Do you need help modeling and forecasting cash flow, growth, M&A, a business idea, exit planning?
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✓ Have you been asked to calculate a business valuation or present a fairness opinion?
Transactional Advisory
✓ Have you been approached to sell your business? Now what?
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✓ Not your first rodeo, but do you need support on your next LBO, tuck in acquisition, or future projects?
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✓ You want out in 5 years, so how do you project your family’s wealth, prep your assets for marketing, and set yourself up for a smooth liquidation event?
Capital Solutions
✓ Do you need to recapitalize or restructure the debt on your asset(s), and want to understand what options are available?
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✓ How do I raise capital, where do I seek it, and what are they looking for as a financial partner?
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✓ What can I expect to be included in negotiations and who can negotiate on my behalf or at least sit in the room with me?
Augmented CFO/COO
✓ Not ready to hire that expensive executive to the team or unsure on bringing another partner into the fold, but urgently need sophistication in management?
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✓ Would a seasoned utility player give you the support and freedom to make the next step forward?
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✓ Wonder what it feels like to know where your business currently stands and foresight to see your cash flows 13-52 weeks in the future?
Strategic & Operational Advisory
✓ Your startup has several opportunities to consider or you have hit a few bumps in the road, so how do you calibrate the risk associated with the next move, and the next, etc.?
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✓ Do you need assistance scoping the potential and building a defensible business model?
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✓ Ever wish you had another critical thinking and problem solving officer in the room to troubleshoot, brainstorm, analyze?
Our Sectors
We partner with our clients to seize business opportunities and structure the necessary resources to succeed.
Agriculture
From family roots to healthy living, we all have a connection to the land that nurtures us.
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From family roots to healthy living, we all have a connection to the land that nurtures us. We believe the food system is going through an innovative phase, while regenerative and conscious leaders are key to the longevity and success of our world. We work with big ag producers, processors, supply chain service providers, family farming operations, land owners, not for profit missions, etc.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Our economy relies on the efficient production...
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Our economy relies on the efficient production and movement of goods, in a profitable manner. We have worked with the founders and leaders of these storied operations to continue the quality and service that have been counted on for generations. As generational transition continues to accelerate, in conjunction with reshoring, we are very active in this space.
Real Estate
There is one commonality across the wealth generation stories that we know - real estate.
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There are a multitude of productive assets in the public and private markets, but there is one commonality across the wealth generation stories that we know - real estate. We’ve seen just about every way possible to capitalize, develop, manage, cross collateralize, consolidate, etc., so whether you need business support for the portfolio, a funding strategy to expand, or thinking about diversifying, we’d love to talk.
B2B & B2C Services
Whether you are servicing businesses or individuals, scale is built on strong leadership.
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Whether you are providing services to businesses or individuals, scale is built on strong leadership. Founders and their families establish their brand through hard work, quality, and integrity, and then work tirelessly to train employees to adopt their systems and culture to expand their reach. We know these businesses have intricate dynamics, which we can help you navigate.
Impact Ventures
Businesses generate a return on capital, but equally, they can yield a societal impact.
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Businesses generate a return on capital, but equally, if not more, interesting to us, they can yield a societal impact. We believe in business integrity, helping the next man/woman up, leaving this place better than we found it, educating and advocating for anyone struggling, hard work can generate happiness and generational benefits, among other things. If you have something we need to hear about, let's talk.
FACT
There are “Generational Responsibilities and Obligations associated with Wealth.”
How do we know? Many years packed full of education, thousands of conversations, hundreds of clients, podcasts and random articles, daily CNBC viewership, family lessons, mistakes and failures, etc. We use those experiences and past performances to assist our clients and partners in being a good steward of their assets. Our toolbox of skills has assisted families, owners, equity groups, and the like with successfully shepherding that growth of wealth, while maintaining and creating value to parlay with future endeavors.
Who is Grow Solutions?
Led by William Crenshaw, Grow Solutions has assembled a network of financial and strategic professionals, bankers, capital allocators, and experienced operators, built over many years and forged by successful projects and ventures. We are based in Nashville, TN and support assets and operators across the nation.
William Crenshaw
Founder & Principal
William is a seasoned finance professional, CPA, adviser, and strategist. He is enthusiastic about assisting business owners and executive management via strategy and planning, financial analysis and reporting, cash flow management, forecasting, restructuring/turnaround, M&A, due diligence, capital solutions, negotiations, succession, problem solving, and critical thinking. Having worked in detail with 300+ privately held entities of all shapes and sizes, across a multitude of industries, he has developed dynamic skills to craft and execute financial and strategic solutions.
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William grew up in the middle of Western Kentucky’s farm country, and has been enamored by the agriculture industry since childhood. Raised by entrepreneurial parents, he watched the stresses, freedoms, economics, innovations, dedication, and responsibilities that are required to succeed at work and at home. His grandfather, mother, and father gave him a front row seat to real estate investing, acquiring and operating businesses, a professional services practice, and civic and philanthropic leadership.
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More on William can be found on his LinkedIn profile.
William's Thoughts to Live By
“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”
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“All that is not given is lost.”
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“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
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“Relationships are an investment of your time, effort, energy, and trust. If done well, they promise great returns.”