About Ed Weeks Jr.
Business advice grounded in the experience of ownership.
Ed Weeks Jr. brings an owner’s perspective to business consulting. He has built companies, sold an equity stake, acquired and operated businesses, and helped other owners work through decisions about growth, capital, and a sale.
He has also seen what happens when growth outruns funding, a business cannot transfer beyond its founder, or a proposed deal falls apart. That experience shapes how he advises: understand the business, examine the terms, and think carefully about what comes next.
Today, Ed leads Weeks Consulting Group, working directly with established business owners who want a clear view of their options and practical judgment about their next move.
A career across finance, business building, and advisory
Ed’s career began in brokerage on Long Island and continued on Park Avenue with the organization that became UBS. He later became executive vice president of a boutique brokerage, held approximately a 25 percent equity stake, and sold that stake near the height of the dot-com boom.
The proceeds funded Interactive Outdoors, a digital hunting and fishing publication with commerce built into its CD-ROM and DVD content. The company operated from about 2000 to 2002. Demand outpaced inventory funding, additional capital was not secured, and the business shut down.
Ed then spent about a decade at AstraZeneca as a sales professional responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmaceutical sales. That was commercial experience, not an M&A executive role.
Afterward, as Head of Advisory at a Wall Street advisory firm, he led origination and conversion into more than 10 paying engagements across M&A, capital, and strategic advisory. The work covered biotech, technology-enabled businesses, and entertainment companies.
The ownership experience behind the advice
Ed founded HV Social Media in 2015. He later acquired the e-commerce company GoldLeaf in 2021, operated it, brought in partners with sector experience, and sold the business to those partners.
A separate lead-generation agency acquisition under HV Media Group was less successful. Ed sourced, diligenced, negotiated, structured, and closed the acquisition, but the business remained dependent on its founder. Clients left, and the combined entities failed. HV Social Media itself was founded by Ed, not acquired by him in 2022.
He also worked on a proposed digital agency roll-up in 2020. The SPAC fell through, and the roll-up did not close. These principal experiences are distinct from his work advising other owners.
In owner advisory, Ed supported a Southern California home services owner with sale preparation and helped a digital education owner through a sale. Both sales closed; client identities, deal values, and multiples remain private.
On a MedSpa roll-up, Ed designed acquisition infrastructure and identified targets. At least six acquisitions, totaling more than $50 million to his knowledge, were subsequently completed using that infrastructure. His role did not include diligence, negotiation, structuring, or closing those six acquisitions.
The full experience record explains these situations and the role Ed played in each.
Why owners work directly with Ed
A decision about your business is also a decision about your time, capital, responsibilities, and future. Ed’s role is to help you weigh those considerations alongside the financial and operating realities.
That can mean preparing for a transaction, evaluating an acquisition, considering a different capital structure, or deciding to hold and improve the company. Owner advisory is the center of WCG’s practice; M&A, buy-side mandates, and capital strategy support that work when the situation calls for them.
Ed leads each engagement. Independent specialists from his network may contribute as needed. They are not employees or partners of Weeks Consulting Group, and collaborators named elsewhere on this site are independent professionals.
Background and credentials
Ed holds an MBA and earned the CM&AA designation in 2020 through the AM&AA program at Columbia University. His M&A and advisory experience dates to about 2015. He formed Weeks Consulting Group LLC in 2024.
- 33+ years describes Ed’s business and operating experience, not the age of WCG.
- $500M+ is Ed’s estimated mix of deal or transaction value and business revenue advised, operated, or supported. It is not closed M&A value. The experience figures explain the composition.
- 10+ advisory engagements refers to mixed M&A, capital, and strategic advisory work, not completed M&A transactions. Principal acquisitions and owner-advisory work are characterized separately.
Talk about what comes next
WCG works with established, owner-led businesses, generally with $2 million to $20 million or more in revenue, across the United States and in select situations elsewhere.
Explore the advisory services or see how an engagement starts. Qualification is free. Decision work and private advisory start at $5K+; advisory and mandates start at $10K+. Success fees of 2%+ apply only where appropriate and permitted, with final scope and fees agreed in writing.
Start with the qualification assessment. It helps determine fit before paid advisory work begins.