Mr. Tatum earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University in the early nineteen-seventies. Immediately upon graduation he along with his brother bought a restaurant employing eleven people. Over the next twenty-years this business grew to operating six restaurants employing two hundred seventy-five people serving a million customers a year. After leaving the restaurant business Mr. Tatum pursued main-street business opportunity brokerage and earned the designation Certified Business Intermediary from the International Business Brokers Association. In 1999 he earned the designation Certified Business Appraiser from the Institute of Business Appraisers. In this capacity he authored the book Pricing A Small Business for Sale: A Practical Guide for Business Owners, Business Brokers, Buyers and Their Advisors. This book was awarded Best Publication of the Year by the Institute of Business Appraisers in 2010. (Available at Valusource.com). For many years, Mr. Tatum served as an instructor for the Key Real Estate School in Las Vegas teaching their pre-licensing course for the State’s required Business Broker Permit. Mr. Tatum has published many peer-reviewed journal articles in various Business Appraisal journals. He has been a guest speaker as several business appraiser conferences and has presented several webinars sponsored by various business appraiser associations. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Institute of Business Appraisers quarterly journal Business Appraisal Practice. Mr. Tatum is also a member of the National Association of Certified Value Analysts. As a member of this organization, in 2016 he was cited as one of fifty-nine members as an Industry Titan described as the most influential professional financial consultants in the world.