Founder/M&A Advisor

Mike Mensch

Mike Mensch is the CEO and founding partner of Agency Brokerage Consultants, a leading advisory firm serving independent insurance agencies. ABC’s work focuses on helping agency owners maximize enterprise value by providing them with free educational content, offering consulting services, and representing them through M&A transactions.

As the principal of ABC, Mike has advised on more than 500 M&A transactions and over 3,000 valuations of independent agencies across the country. He has personally represented clients small and large (up to $50M+ revenue) and across the spectrum of retail agencies, MGAs/program administrators, networks, and even service providers to insurance brokerages.

Mike’s presentations on agency management, succession planning, valuation, and M&A have been heard by thousands of agency principals over the years. He helped Oak Street Funding launch its educational webinar program, which has been on-going since 2012, and has contributed numerous industry articles and appeared on a variety of industry podcasts including the “Insura-Preneur” podcast with host Michael Jans, “Spot on Insurance” with hosts Ted and Arlene Tavares, “Fix My Agency” with Dr. Billy Williams, and “Agents Growth Academy” podcast with host Jim Schubert, and the “Bricks and Risk” podcast with Sean Mooney and Tim Garity.

Under his leadership, ABC has won the “Top Firm” award from the M&A Source association multiple times and rose to one of top 3 M&A advisors in the insurance industry according to S&P Global. For more than a decade, Mike has won numerous awards within the M&A industry including the “Chairman’s Circle Award”, “Deal Maker Award” and “CBI of the Year” award, and was named to the prestigious National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts “40 Under Forty” list of brightest emerging leaders in the business valuation profession in 2017.

Mike is a lifetime Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and lifetime Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI), and holds real estate broker, Property & Casualty, and Life & Health licenses in Florida. He has a master’s degree in science from Virginia Tech, where he continued through Ph.D. candidacy.