Detroit, Michigan
Advisor, speaker, and CPA working at the seam where strategy meets execution.
CPA — State of Michigan Northwood University Walsh College
Middle-market professional service firms, on strategy, growth, and the gap before execution.
Accounting and advisory audiences on private equity, growth, and business development.
A catalogued bookshelf, a field guide to firm economics, a podcast archive, and side projects.
Alex Drost is a CPA and advisor who sees the through-line — connecting business models, strategy, and execution. He is Managing Principal of Connection Builders and host of the Branch Out Podcast, a 100+ episode archive of conversations with middle-market leaders. Across fifteen years in M&A and private capital markets he led capital raises and buy- and sell-side transactions totaling nearly $1 billion, across professional services, physician practices, and multi-site retail. He speaks regularly to accounting and advisory audiences on growth, private equity, and business development.