Meet Our Team

Nickey Owens has nearly two decades of experience in the finance and banking industry.  She has a gift for customer service and treats everyone the way they want to be treated in all facets of business transactions.  With experience dealing with business owners directly on the front lines over the past several years, Nickey Owens is the perfect agent for your business sale transaction. She is an empathetic ear, who understands the daily challenges facing business owners.

Nickey's expertise and experience in commercial lending is very helpful to those buyers and sellers whose business transaction will likely begin and end with a commercial lending facility. She has the inside scoop on how the lending industry works and can help you as a business owner or business buyer on day one, avoid the pitfalls and land mines associated with financing a business.

Nickey Owens is a Smeal College of Business graduate from Penn State University.  She lives in the Greater Cincinnati area, enjoying time with her children (4 total) and three grandchildren.  When she's not working to help business owners sell or buyers purchase a business, she can be found hiking the local woods and trails of Southwest Ohio or any other part of the country.  

Jim Williams comes from Indiana where he earned his undergraduate degree from Purdue University, later receiving his MBA from the University of Dayton.  His career includes 38 years of professional sales starting off in agri-business before transitioning to human pharmaceuticals, followed by 2 years in banking.  He has been recognized as a member of “International Who’s Who of Professionals”. 

Jim and his wife, Bobbie reside in historic, Germantown, Ohio.  They are parents of 5 grown children, 12 grandchildren and one very large, friendly dog named “Lenny”.  Jim and Bobbie are actively involved in their community as well as being their grandkids biggest fans at their many sports, school and band events.  They enjoy hiking, biking and kayaking.

Jim’s business experience and expertise make him a great fit selling a variety of businesses in the marketplace.  Being a member of the First Choice Business Brokers-Cincinnati team is an exciting career, helping many business owners make this important transition.

Joe was born and raised in Detroit, MI where, after high school, he began his career in the automotive industry as an Industrial Truck Operator.  Joe worked his way through the ranks of his company’s as he progressed to his highest title of Assistant Plant Manager in 2013. Joe spent a long career in Operations Management until 2015 when he decided to pursue a career in the Lean Management and Six Sigma field where he earned his Green Belt Certification in Six Sigma along with his certification in Lean Management and VSM. Joe once again climbed the ranks in his new field becoming the Corporate Continuous Improvement Coordinator where he was responsible for improvement efforts at 10 sites across our country. Joe has dabbled in many facets of each company he has worked for over the years, as he always welcomes a challenge.  Joe is the type of person who tends to learn something, master it, and then looks for new challenges.  This philosophy is applied to his personal life as well.

As Joe felt he reached the pinnacle of the Continuous Improvement field, he decided to pursue a career in another industry, the business brokerage world.  Joe has acquired an immense knowledge of business fundamentals through transactions, financials, vendor relationships, sales, etc.  He hopes to apply what he has learned throughout his career to this new and exciting venture. As a former business owner himself, Joe understands the complexities of owning and running  business.  He knows the importance of confidentiality when it comes to buying or selling a business.

When Joe is not busy working to help current and future entrepreneurs realize their dreams, he loves spending time traveling to new places around the world and creating new and long lasting relationships.

Zachery Ailing is a hardworking individual with an entrepreneurial spirt, grounded in a background of accounting and finance. He understands the difficulties of buying or selling a business at the deepest level as a former business owner himself. Zack is an expert in the intricacies of valuing, listing, and selling a business, and is always eager to answer any questions that may arise.