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SENTINEL CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTABOUT THE FIRMEST. 2020 · TORONTO & SAN FRANCISCO

Who we are

Principals, not process.

Sentinel is the buy-side origination practice of Wolfson Equity — a small group of principals, an AI arm, and a data engine built to reach a thousand business owners a day. No account executives, no hand-offs. The people on this page are the people on your deal.

The firm story

Built to be the sourcing engine you can't staff in-house.

Six years ago, Sentinel started as a simple bet: that most acquisitive platforms were losing their best targets to brokers and their own limited reach — not to bad judgment. So we built the opposite of a broker's list. A proprietary data engine, a team that calls owners directly in seven-plus languages, and a discipline — one target, one partner — that keeps every introduction exclusive to the mandate it was sourced for.

That engine now reaches over a million owners, has arranged 5,000+ qualified calls since 2020, and has supported 100+ closings alongside partners — ranging from a single dental practice to a $96M platform acquisition — all while never once naming a partner publicly. Confidentiality isn't a policy we tolerate. It's the product.

Wolfson Equity is our parent practice — a North American M&A and investment firm. Sentinel is its buy-side origination arm, built specifically to source, qualify, and introduce off-market acquisition targets for PE-backed consolidators and acquisitive platforms.

Every principal on this page is hands-on in every mandate we run. There is no junior tier we hand you off to.

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The Masthead

Who answers when you call.

The principals below are hands-on in every mandate — the people who answer when you call, not a rotating account team. You'll meet all of them on your first call.

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Tamir Wolfson, Managing Partner
Founder · Est. 2020

Tamir Wolfson, MBA

Managing Partner

Founder of Wolfson Equity. Sourcing at scale, capital relationships, and the standard behind every engagement — including a $90M+ single-company exit advised through closing.

"The standard behind every engagement is the same one I'd want applied to my own deal."

Louise Crivelenti, Head of Partner Development
Your first conversation

Louise Crivelenti

Head of Partner Development

Louise leads new-partner development — the first person most platforms speak with when they're weighing a retained partnership. She scopes your mandate, walks you through the live pipeline, and makes sure the fit is right before anything begins.

"If you're exploring a partnership with Sentinel, you'll be talking to me first."

The principals

Tharaka Paulis

Tharaka Paulis

VP, Acquisitions

Partner mandates, qualification, and deal advancement — the person keeping 3–5 qualified calls per partner landing every week.

Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI

Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI

Clinical & Valuation

A practicing clinician's eye and certified valuation credentials on every healthcare business we qualify — so what reaches you is real.

Fayez Arheam

Fayez Arheam

Director, Partner Accounts

Deal advancement and partner-side execution — the back channel keeping momentum from first introduction through LOI to close.

Adam Taha

Adam Taha

Director, Deal Advisory

Structuring and diligence coordination from LOI through close — the moving parts on both sides of the table, handled.

Liz Hardy

Liz Hardy

VP, Partner Relationships

The steady hand on every retained partnership — review cadence, reporting, and making sure your pipeline never goes quiet.

Kevin Rollins

Kevin Rollins

Senior Associate, Origination

Owner outreach and qualification at the front of the funnel — the conversations that become your introductions.

Behind the principals runs a proprietary technology and AI layer — a 10M+ record sourcing platform, automated market mapping and verification, and the live dashboards every partner sees in review — so human hours go only to the owners worth calling.

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Since 2020

Six years, one discipline.

A short history of the engine — from a founding bet on off-market sourcing to a team across nine countries running a live pipeline for acquisitive platforms today.

2020

The firm is founded

Sentinel launches as the buy-side origination practice of Wolfson Equity, built on one idea: reach owners directly, before a broker ever does.

2021

The engine starts to scale

Direct owner outreach crosses into the thousands of conversations monthly; the first multi-site dental platform mandate goes live.

2022

Data engine, global team

The sourcing platform crosses five million business records; the team expands across time zones to support round-the-clock coverage.

2023

A portfolio platform triples

A PE-backed portfolio DSO grows from 25 to over 100 locations under a retained mandate — sourced end-to-end by our practice.

2024

A fund hires us directly

The same fund brings us on at the fund level to launch an entirely new platform in a new geography — the founding acquisition, sourced by Sentinel.

2025

Ten million records, a written guarantee

The data engine crosses 10M+ records; owners reached since founding pass one million. The Sentinel Guarantee is formalized in writing.

Today

100+ transactions, one standard

100+ closings supported alongside partners, from $800K to $96M, 5,000+ qualified calls arranged, and a team across nine countries — still one target, one partner, every time.

Skeptical? Good. That's the job.

We'd rather be verified than believed.

We publish no partner names — that's contractual, and it's the same policy that will guard your mandate. So instead of logos, we make verification free.

VERIFY 1

Named references

Recent partner references — initials, sector, role — during your diligence of us, with fuller disclosure as mutual confidentiality allows.

VERIFY 2

Live pipeline walkthrough

On the first call: the actual stage-by-stage counts behind every number on this page — the cadence you read here is the cadence you'll see.

VERIFY 3

Guaranteed, in writing

20+ qualified calls in your first 90 days, written into the agreement — plus pilot and success-only structures. If it isn't real, you've risked nothing.

Sentinel Corporate Development is the buy-side origination practice of Wolfson Equity, a North American M&A and investment firm.

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