Doug has spent over 40 years in taxes, accounting, financial planning, and business operations — and he's still at it every day. He started at Edward Jones Investments knocking on doors and earning trustface-to-face, long before anyone was building funnels or running ads. Before that, he spent years at International Paper Company in manufacturing, where he learned how to read operations, spot inefficiencies, and understand what makes a business actually run from the inside out.                                                                                                                                                                                       

In 2000, he founded Tax Force in Memphis, Tennessee, and has been the go-to tax professional for families and business owners in the Mid-South ever since. He's done tax returns, built financial plans, and managed books for hundreds of clients across every situation you can imagine. Over the years, he's expanded Tax Force into a full-service firm offering tax planning, bookkeeping, retirement strategy, and advanced life insurance and annuity design — all under one roof.

On the brokerage side, Doug brings over a decade of experience buying and selling businesses through MASS BB. But he didn't pick up a broker license and start listing businesses — he came from the numbers side first. Decades of tax returns, financial plans, and operational experience mean that when Doug walks into a valuation, he's not guessing. He's reading the financials the way a buyer would, spotting what's real, what's inflated, and what actually drives the value of a business. That background is exactly why his valuations hold up under scrutiny and his deals close clean.

Whether it's a family trying to reduce taxes and build a retirement plan, or a business owner looking to sell and walk away with the most money possible — Doug has seen it from every angle. Forty years of real-world experience, not theory. That's what separates Tax Force and MASS BB from everyone else.