Mergers,Acquisitions,Corporate Finance, Buying, Selling, Adding value pre-exit, Raising Finance. Angel Investing. Being a Business Angel. Internet and Social Media Marketing experience. The M&A Rainmaker blogsite was created by Chris Windley who has been involved with start-up businesses since he was a teenager and who created a business called LanSwitch ( became Voyager Networks ) in 1993 with £2,000 pounds on his credit card ( and two of his business partners ) and sold in 2000 for £75 Million ( $110 Million ) prior to the dot com crash to Estee Lauder's son Ronald S, Lauder of NY,NY. Chris has extensive experience of the High Technology world ( particularly computer and optical fibre networking, convergence and unified communications ) but also of the Hospitality industry, the Marketing industry, Media, Fashion and other leading edge industries.