Andrew Sannes

Investor/Board Member/M&A Advisor to founder and family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups.

Greater Chicago Area

About

AJS Stable Capital is a business exit advisory firm built around helping founder and family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups, define and execute on their most important strategic and financial goals. We provide sell-side readiness consulting and M&A services, make capital connections, and invest growth capital in select opportunities, to help our clients achieve maximum value and successful exits by leveraging our in-depth experience, networks and resources traditionally only available to larger and highly profitable enterprises.

Experience

  • Founder and Managing Partner at AJS Stable Capital, LLC
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    AJS Stable Capital is a boutique advisory firm built around helping founder and family-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups, define and execute on their most important strategic and financial goals. We provide advisory, M&A services, make capital connections, and invest growth capital in select opportunities, to help our clients achieve unparalleled growth, innovation, and successful exits by leveraging our in-depth experience, networks and resources traditionally only available to larger and highly profitable enterprises.

  • Taureau Group, LLC (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
    • Senior Operating Partner
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Managing Director
      Oct 2020 - Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Specialties: Mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, valuation and strategic advisory.

  • Investor and Member of the Board of Advisors at Qfactor
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Developer and Provider of cloud-based software that integrates siloed critical project information for schedule & profitability management.

  • Investor at HIA Technologies Inc.
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    HIA Technologies, has created the world’s first 2-way interactive video solution, allowing content creators to have personalized 1-on-1 interactions with their audiences 24/7 where they can answer questions from them in real-time. The solution is powered by our "Author-Controlled AI" which assures that all viewer contact is pre-approved and controlled by the publisher with no chance of hallucination or bias, and that all details of the exchanges are available to the publisher for real-time improvements. The result is much deeper engagement between publishers and their audiences while the audiences have a much better learning experience.

  • Member of the Board of Advisors at Elexa Consumer Products
    May 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Technology that monitors and detects water leaks preventing expensive damage repairs and waste of large amounts of water.