Meet Our Team

Tim Johnson has been in the business of buying and selling businesses for just about 30 years. His love of business began at the young age of 12 when he began his own company mowing lawns in his neighborhood so he could begin saving for college!

Many years later, having earned an MBA in Organizational Diagnosis from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Tim entered the world of corporate franchising and spent fifteen years helping small business owners buy, manage, and sell their franchises. Real-world, in-the-trenches experience helped him develop the fine art of evaluating and negotiating scores of business deals. In his “down time” Tim negotiated, purchased, successfully grew, and sold nearly a dozen businesses of his own . He has developed true insider understanding of the opportunities,  intricacies, and challenges that come along with buying and selling businesses, and he knows how it feels to be both the buyer and the seller.

Having been through the process countless times, Tim has come to realize how important it is to have brokers that are trustworthy, knowledgeable, friendly, and efficient – the very traits that have made him successful over the past two decades.

Originally from the Green Mountains of New England, Tim has been happily settled with his family in the Chesapeake area for the past 20 years. In his spare time you might find him spending time with his amazing wife and three young kids, doing things with his church family, getting in a good workout, or camping – which lately includes a beast of a 30-foot travel trailer.

Stanley (Stan) Mattison, MBA, First Choice Business Broker

stanlym@fcbb.com  757.621.5091

Stan’s experience includes operating a Commercial Finance Advisory firm by working with a network of lenders to inject capital to small businesses that operate outside of current banking standards.

Stan’s  experience includes military, engineering and management in  industry and government contracting, as well as business. Stan’s career can be summed up as one of identifying and solving problems for equipment, systems and people. Through the military and private sector industry, he has been instrumental in developing/configuring workable solutions.

Stan held various engineering roles in his 18 year career at a major contracting firm and it was during this time Stan went back to school to earn a Master’s Degree in Acquisitions. While working in government contracting, Stan provided consulting services for his wife’s CPA firm clients. He noticed far too many business owners were busy working at the business instead of taking time to work on the business’ future. A key indicator of whether their businesses survived difficult times was based on the business owner’s ability to save or secure capital to maintain and grow the business.

After several years in private industry, Stan decided to make a change to help businesses in the area of acquiring financing. During this time, he was introduced to an opportunity to help business owners sell or expand their business through First Choice.