Byrne Veritas helps founders and families bring words, structure, and rhythm to major acquisition and exit transitions.
Byrne Veritas advises founders and their families through the business, wealth, and family transitions that surround major liquidity events, successions, and other pivotal turning points—helping them create coherence, continuity, and enduring legacy while working alongside legal, tax, and investment specialists.
Pre- and post-LOI support for founders navigating a sale, succession, or recapitalization. The work focuses on making sure the event lands closer to what the founder actually expected and intended — not just what the documents say.
Everything in Core Transition, plus family office transition preparation, governance design, philanthropy structuring, and succession planning. For founders who want to ensure the family can live well with the new structure over time, not just get through the transaction itself.
Ongoing governance check-ins, trustee-beneficiary dynamics, and philanthropic rhythm for founders whose transition is complete but whose intentions still need a steady hand to hold.
Byrne Veritas is built around the founder and family experience — not around an internal checklist, a predefined service sequence, or a timeline that suits the firm rather than the family. The starting point is always the people involved: where they are in their transition, what they're navigating, and what the next phase actually looks like for them. That means the work before a transaction looks different from the work during closing, which looks different again from the year after liquidity arrives and the structure of daily life has shifted in ways no one fully anticipated. Each phase carries its own emotional weight and its own practical demands, and each benefits from someone who already knows the family well — not someone being briefed for the first time at each stage. Byrne Veritas stays present across all of it, adapting to what the family needs at that moment rather than delivering a service designed for a generic client in a different situation.
Byrne Veritas engagements are designed to move with the family across every phase of a major transition — not just the closing table. Work can begin well before a transaction or succession is imminent, when the decisions being made still have the most room for thoughtful input. It continues through the event itself, when pace and pressure tend to crowd out reflection. And it extends into the period that follows, when new expectations, structures, and roles need time and attention to take shape in a way that actually holds.
Most transitions fall short not because of bad advice, but because no one put the right words around what was actually happening. Byrne Veritas brings language, frameworks, and steady practices to business, wealth, and family transitions — creating structure where there might otherwise be ambiguity, and rhythm where there might otherwise be drift. The goal is not to impose a process, but to make sure that what the founder actually wants has been clearly named, carefully documented, and consistently held throughout.
Byrne Veritas works alongside the legal, tax, and investment professionals already in a founder's life — not in place of them. The role is one of coordination and clarity: making sure that the right people are talking to each other at the right moments, and that nothing falls through the gaps between disciplines. Where advisors often operate in parallel without a shared view of the whole, Byrne Veritas holds that wider perspective, translating between lanes and keeping the founder's priorities at the center.
Byrne Veritas does not provide investment management, legal advice, or tax advice, and does not sell financial products of any kind. That clarity is intentional — knowing what is not on the table makes it easier to trust what is. The work is focused on transition guidance, family coordination, and the connective tissue between disciplines.
Byrne Veritas grew out of my experience leading global technology businesses through mergers, divestitures, restructurings, and major strategic shifts. Over 14 years at Xperi (parent of DTS and TiVo), I was accountable for execution when the stakes were high and outcomes uncertain, including leading a $128M global business through major portfolio and organizational change and the sale of our AutoSense and imaging business to Tobii AB — delivering positive change without disrupting what already worked.
That experience shaped how I work now: staying close to people — clients, colleagues, and partners — before, during, and after major events, protecting continuity where it matters, and helping everyone operate within the new reality once the moment itself has passed. Byrne Veritas exists so founders and families have a steady, experienced partner in those periods of transition — someone to help name what matters, prepare for the pressures of the moment, and make the new reality more livable for you, your business, and your family.
Earlier in my career, I held leadership and commercial roles in video technology, consulting, and strategic partnerships, including time at Google following its acquisition of On2 Technologies. Those experiences reinforced that transitions depend as much on language, expectations, and relationships as they do on strategy decks and legal documents.
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