CHRIS SHIPFERLING

Managing Partner

As the first point of contact for our clients, Chris offers invaluable insight to help sellers and buyers reach their full potential before and during, and after the sale of their business. Chris also serves as the Head of Business Development for Global Wired Advisors, leveraging his background in sales and digital marketing to grow our brand. For the past seven years, he has focused exclusively on high-level consulting for multi-million-dollar omni channel, digitally native, and Amazon-based private label and re-seller brands.

Chris is especially adept at finding Client Companies that are poised for sale, guiding them through the initial steps, and preparing them to make the best possible first impression. Chris enjoys working closely with owners throughout the process of selling their business, getting to know them on a personal level so that we can better assist them in realizing their goals.

Jason Somerville

Managing Partner

Jason is a serial entrepreneur, having owned and operated several successful businesses before founding Global Wired Advisors with Joe Hogg, Chris Bodnar, and Chris Shipferling. In addition to his success growing and selling small to mid-sized businesses, Jason has almost 20 years of experience in investment banking. He spent the early years of his career executing capital markets trades for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies, honing skills that would later help him buy and sell both traditional and digitally native businesses at a profit.

Now, Jason applies his expertise to our Client Companies, looking for unique opportunities for buyers to make a return on their investment, maximizing the value for our clients. 

Joe Hogg

Managing Partner

Prior to founding Global Wired Advisors with Jason Somerville, Chris Bodnar, and Chris Shipferling, Joe was the global head of funding for Wells Fargo’s trading and investment banking division, Wells Fargo Securities. There, he oversaw the daily financing of $110 Billion of broker dealer assets, and between $25 Billion and $40 Billion of additional capital market’s deal flow annually across all industry verticals.  Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Joe managed the Structured Finance desk at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for building structured derivative solutions for bank clients and hedging interest rate and equity market exposure.  Joe began his career on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he traded foreign exchange and interest futures for some of the world’s largest investment banks.

He has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Virginia Tech and has completed graduate work at the University of Chicago in Quantitative Finance.  Joe is also a GARP certified Financial Risk Manager and a member of the International Association of Financial Engineers.