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Anthony Manna On Growing His Family Business

News Article

Smart Business Dealmakers Cleveland features Anthony S. Manna

Tony Manna, Co-Founder and Chairman of BMD and Founder and Chairman of both M7 Holdings, LLC and Signet, LLC, shares the visionary journey of M7 Holdings.

Originally published by Adam Burroughs in Smart Business, June 2024. 

Anthony Manna represents the first generation of his family business, M7 Holdings. It has a focus on real estate development through M7 Signet Holdings, private equity through M7 Ventures, and venture capital through M7 Ace Neo.

"We took a lot of time to put together our family business to make sure that we can start the process and the culture to move on to the next generation," Manna, the company's chairman, says.

The company's purpose as it moves forward is to grow, get his children involved, which they are now, and develop long-term relationships with the people inside and outside the business.

"Many of the partners we have in our businesses have been with me for 25-plus years," he says. "It's very, very important. The most important relationship in these businesses — because we always talk about management and different things like that, which are incredibly important — but it is the family dynamic."

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