Eschbach Enterprises is a comprehensive business advisory consulting firm with expertise in helping you achieve your strategic goals and objectives. The firm’s extensive experience includes business brokerage services for business buyers, sellers, and franchises, as well commercial real estate services, insurance services, business expense reduction, and many additional services which help business owners grow to their maximum potential, or prepare for a planned exit.
Steven P. Eschbach, CBI, CFA, CFC, is the President of Eschbach Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Transworld Business Advisors of Naperville (www.tworld.com/naperville). Outside of this business ownership, Steve is a Senior Commercial Broker with Caton Commercial Real Estate Group, a family-owned Naperville brokerage and property management business.
Steve has over 40 years of mergers and acquisitions experience in various financial executive roles with Fortune 1000 companies. He has been involved in dozens of transactions ranging in size from less than $100,000 to over $20 billion. His expertise spans many industries, including but not limited to energy, healthcare, technology, retail, entertainment, manufacturing, and construction, as well as franchise sales and franchise development.
Steve has been involved in a number of national industry and nonprofit organizations and is recent past Board President of the Career & Networking Center based in Naperville. He is also an active member of the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce since 2016, currently a co-chair of Ambassadors Committee (recipient of the 2023 Ambassador of the Year for outstanding efforts) and co-chair of the Small Business Owners Roundtable. He is also a frequently requested speaker on subjects such as executive job transition, business development networking, optimizing corporate value and effective communications with investors.
Steve has written and published two books, one of them an Amazon Best Seller, and hosts a video/audio podcast entitled Building Better Businesses.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of Connecticut, an MBA in Investment Finance from the University of Hartford, and has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1989. He is a registered business broker and licensed real estate professional in Illinois, a licensed life and health insurance producer in Illinois, a Certified Business Intermediary through the International Business Brokers Association, and a Certified Franchise Consultant with the International Franchise Professionals Group.
Steve and his wife, Kathy, have lived in Naperville since 2007. In his spare time, Steve enjoys golfing and spending time with his three children and seven grandchildren.
Executive Vice President
Senior Vice President – Finance & Communications
Lisa Ciota is a strategic and financial communications executive professional with significant experience enhancing and protecting a company’s reputation and value. Currently, Ciota serves as a Director on the Board of the DuPage Symphony Orchestra and is a Docent at the Chicago Architecture Center where she sits on that organization’s communications committee.
Ciota was president of Lead-IR Advisors, Inc., an independent investor relations consultancy, from 2016 through 2020. Previously, Ciota headed the investor and corporate relations functions at SunCoke Energy, Inc., which was ranked as among the best such programs by Institutional Investor Magazine. Between 1992 – 2010, Ciota was with McDonald’s Corporation, where she held progressively more responsible positions, eventually becoming director, investor relations.
Ciota served on the Chicago Chapter board of the National Investor Relations Institute from 2005 through 2020. During this time, she held a variety of leadership roles including chairman, president, executive vice president and vice president-programming.
Ciota has received local and national recognition for her work at both SunCoke and McDonald’s and is a two-time recipient of the National Investor Relations Institute’s national leadership award. Ciota holds an MBA from Northern Illinois University and a B.S. in finance from the University of Illinois.
Senior Business Broker
Manager
Sarah Tegeler is the manager of Eschbach Enterprises, Inc. (EE), a comprehensive business advisory firm focused on enhancing corporate value to take business owners to their next level of success. She has professional experience in sales, client relations, administration and is a certified Microsoft Office Associate. Sarah’s enthusiastic about the creative aspect of entrepreneurship. She admires the courage and perseverance it takes to own and operate a business, which is why she finds her current profession both rewarding and enjoyable. In her downtime, Sarah likes to bike ride, be outdoors, and spend time with her family.
Project Coordinator – Finance & Marketing
Isha Elandassery is Project Coordinator – Finance & Marketing for Eschbach Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Transworld Business Advisors of Naperville. Her primary role is to work with the team in support of financial analysis and related collateral marketing materials for both selling and buying clients of the firm.
Isha is a 2023 Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce ‘4 Under 40’ award recipient, demonstrating excellence in Leadership in Community, Leadership in Business, Excellence in Career and Work/Life Balance.
In 2024, she placed first in Indiana University’s National Diversity Case Competition, presenting a Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiative to Delta Airlines.
Isha is in her sophomore year at Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Bloomington Indiana, where she is majoring in Finance, Business Analytics, Communications and Public Advocacy.
Between semesters, she resides in Naperville, IL.
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