Mike Jerman is the Managing Partner at Hollywell Partners, a private equity and strategic advisory firm focused on small business transactions and value creation. Mike has spent his career working alongside entrepreneurs navigating business transitions — from acquisition due diligence to post-close integration and growth planning.

At SMBash 2026, Mike hosts "The Fraud or Not Game Show" — one of the most interactive sessions at the conference. In this quality of earnings deep-dive, Mike walks the audience through real deal scenarios and challenges them to determine what's legitimate accounting, what's aggressive, and what's outright fraud. Drawing on his experience advising on small business transactions, Mike equips buyers with the pattern recognition skills to catch the financial red flags that could turn a good-looking deal into a nightmare.