The Silver Tsunami Group is an M&A advisory firm built for the largest wealth transfer in American history. We deliver buyer representation, certified business valuations, strategic capital, and exit readiness for owners — all coordinated under one firm.
Award-winning M&A advisor, founder, and dealmaker with 15+ years leading complex transactions. Nationally recognized as a strategic connector and speaker at the intersection of dealmaking and economic inclusion.
Erika Baez-Grimes, CM&AP, is an award-winning M&A advisor, founder, and dealmaker with more than 15 years of experience leading complex transactions across a range of industries. Her portfolio of companies delivers certified business valuations, transaction strategy, and ownership transition services — guiding founders through critical inflection points in their businesses. Those who know her best call her the Linchpin.
Her firms have earned a national reputation for achieving premium outcomes for founder-led and family-owned businesses, operating at the intersection of capital, optimization, scale, and exit. Collectively, the companies she has founded, led, advised, or holds ownership interests in have generated more than $400 million in business scale and exit activity. Beyond advisory, Erika holds active LP ownership stakes across multiple industries, giving her firsthand understanding of what founders stand to gain and lose in any transaction.
That dual perspective has made her one of the most trusted voices at the intersection of dealmaking and economic inclusion. She is recognized for advancing topics like entrepreneurship through acquisition and expanding the ownership conversation in underserved and underrepresented communities.
Erika is a proud member of Entrepreneurs of Purpose, a legacy program of the Enterprising Women Foundation, and several executive leadership organizations — including the world's largest CEO peer advisory organization. She believes peer advisory is one of the most powerful catalysts for leadership growth, accountability, and long-term business success.
For Erika, the work does not end at the closing table. She contributes to national initiatives focused on pathways to ownership, economic mobility, and youth entrepreneurship — because she believes the next generation of owners is already out there. They just need someone to show them the door.
We don't publish a vision statement. Here's what we believe — measured against every deal we take.
We represent buyers or sellers — never both on the same deal. Dual agency is a conflict of interest wrapped in a smile.
Every valuation triangulates three approaches, and every number is sourced. If it can't be defended in an audit, we don't publish it.
The best exits are planned a year in advance — not the year they happen. We tell owners the truth about timing, even when it's not what they want to hear.
One team quarterbacks broker, lender, attorney, CPA, and wealth. Nothing falls through the cracks between LOI and close.
Our associated brands and strategic partners specialize in the disciplines around the transaction. Independent operators. Coordinated engagement. One relationship.
Full-service listing, marketing, and deal management for owner-operators bringing a business to market.
CRE strategy tied to the operating business — sale-leaseback, purchase, or partition at close.
Post-transaction planning — preserve, invest, distribute. The money after the money.
Deal counsel, LOI through close. Definitive agreements, reps & warranties, escrow structure.
Quality of earnings, tax structure, after-tax outcome modeling before you sign.
Fractional CFOs, integration operators, HR & benefits consultants for the first 100 days.
National chambers and industry membership organizations we're active in.
