About Paul Vento

Managing Director and Senior Advisor

Fifteen years of business brokerage experience — backed by firsthand experience as a business owner.

Paul Vento is an experienced business broker and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience advising business owners and successfully selling privately held companies. His transaction experience spans a broad range of industries, including manufacturing and fabrication, service businesses, wineries, and food-related companies.

Paul guides clients through the entire sale process—from valuation, market positioning and confidential marketing to buyer qualification, negotiation, due diligence and closing. He works closely with owners to protect confidentiality, anticipate potential obstacles and keep transactions moving toward a successful conclusion.

Before becoming a business broker, Paul acquired and sold several businesses. Having experienced transactions as both a business owner and an advisor, he understands the financial, operational, and personal considerations that influence a sale. This firsthand perspective allows him to provide practical, candid advice while helping sellers and buyers make informed decisions with confidence.

As Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Paul leads Transworld Ascend’s Iselin office and serves business owners and buyers throughout north-central New Jersey. His approach combines extensive transaction experience, local market knowledge, and steady, hands-on guidance from the initial conversation through closing.

Transworld Business Advisors

Transworld Ascend operates as part of Transworld Business Advisors, one of the world’s largest business brokerage and M&A advisory networks.

That affiliation provides access to a proprietary buyer database, transaction support resources, and national buyer reach — while each Transworld office remains independently owned and operated.

What that means in practice: sellers get the buyer network and transaction infrastructure of a national organization, and the personal accountability and local market knowledge of an owner-operated practice. You work with an advisor, not a call center — from the first conversation through the closing table.

The team behind the practice

Paul anchors Transworld Ascend’s Iselin office, continuing a legacy of excellence while serving business communities across the north-central New Jersey market.

The New Jersey market

Our practice is focused on north-central New Jersey, with offices in Jersey City, Montclair, and Iselin, because local market knowledge changes outcomes in ways that national platforms can’t replicate.

We know which industries are active in which corridors, which buyers cover which geographies, and what transaction-specific factors — ISRA, bulk sales notification, professional licensing — apply to the deals we run.

That knowledge is in the industry pages and location pages on this site. It’s also in every deal we work.