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A new kind of M&A firm

The technology is new.
The experience isn't.

Sentinel launched in 2026 — AI-native from day one, not retrofitted onto a traditional brokerage. That's by design. But Sentinel didn't come from nowhere: the people and network behind it bring decades across M&A, healthcare, business ownership and the buyer side of consolidation — some of it going back generations.

New company. Old-world judgment. New-world technology.

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Tamir Wolfson, Managing Partner, Sentinel TransitionsManaging Partner

On every mandate — first call to close.

At a glance

Founded
Wolfson Equity, 2019

Background
Buy-side sourcing for organized dental and healthcare buyers

Role
The principal on every Sentinel mandate

Tamir Wolfson · Managing Partner
Working with U.S. owners coast to coast · San Francisco & Toronto

The principal on your mandate.

Tamir Wolfson has spent his career inside practice consolidation — first sourcing acquisitions for organized dental buyers, then founding Wolfson Equity in 2019 to run the other side: representing the owners those buyers want to acquire.

The family history goes back to the first wave of Canadian dental consolidation, when a family member's practice was among the earliest sold to what became the country's largest dental group. He has watched this market form from the inside, on both sides, for a long time.

Today the Wolfson Equity family sources deals for some of the most acquisitive buyer groups in North American healthcare — which is precisely why Sentinel's sell-side clients don't wait for buyers to be found. The relationships already exist. The competition starts on day one.

Every inquiry that comes through this site is read personally by a senior principal — not routed to a call center, never scored by software alone. When your deal matters enough to do once and do properly, that's who you're talking to.

"I spent years helping the most acquisitive buyers in North American healthcare find businesses exactly like yours. I know what they look for, what they discount, and how they negotiate — because I built those playbooks. Now that intelligence works the other side of the table. For you."

— Tamir Wolfson, Managing Partner

$94M
Largest sell-side closing advised
$300M+
In transactions supported across the family
2019
Wolfson Equity founded
12
People on the deal team

How a Sentinel mandate runs

AI does the work. The team answers. You sign off.

01

AI does the work

Valuation, buyer research, outreach and offer analysis run around the clock — the engine never sleeps on your sale.

02

The team answers

A named principal and senior deal team lead every conversation that matters — and answer for the outcome.

03

You sign off on everything

Every NDA, every buyer, every offer — nothing moves without your decision. The AI works for you, not around you.

The deal team

The people who answer for your sale.

The AI works your sale around the clock. A senior deal team leads the conversations that matter — and answers for the outcome.

Leadership

Tamir Wolfson

Tamir Wolfson

Managing PartnerView bio

Founder of Wolfson Equity. The principal on every mandate, from first call to close.

Saransh Bhatt, Senior Director

Saransh Bhatt

Senior DirectorView bio

Works directly with owners and buyers on live transactions — from the first conversation through diligence to the close — with a focus on dental and healthcare groups across North America.

Louise Crivelenti

Louise Crivelenti

Head of Sentinel Corporate DevelopmentView bio

Leads Sentinel Corporate Development — Wolfson’s buy-side practice — turning acquisition criteria into qualified, ready-to-transact conversations.

Deal team

Tharaka Paulis

Tharaka Paulis

VP QualificationsView bio

Oversees sourcing, analysis and due diligence — leading the team of analysts who determine whether an opportunity fits.

Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI

Corey Young, DDS, MBA, CVA, ABI

Director of Sell-Side EngagementsView bio

Twenty years as a practice-owning dentist; one of very few U.S. healthcare practitioners certified in valuation and exit planning — and the only dentist.

Adam Taha

Adam Taha

Director, M&A & Private EquityView bio

Capital-markets experience across wealth management and institutional investing — origination, due diligence and execution on every deal.

Liz Hardy

Liz Hardy

VP Relationship ManagementView bio

Pairs analytical rigor with a collaborative style — relationship management built on trust and transparency.

Analysts

Kevin Rollins

Kevin Rollins

Senior AssociateView bio

Sources and evaluates opportunities — detailed research paired with a strategic read on markets.

Lisa David

Lisa David

Senior AssociateView bio

Supports deal execution and client relationships across active mandates.

Mike Perez

Mike Perez

Senior AssociateView bio

Runs first conversations and early diligence — keeping momentum between owners and the deal team.

Grace Ndungu

Grace Ndungu

Senior Analyst, HealthcareView bio

Covers the firm’s healthcare mandates — gathering data, modeling targets, and ranking candidates.

Gilbert Davis

Gilbert Davis

Senior AnalystView bio

Supports research, data gathering, and target ranking across active searches.

Every name on this page is real — and checkable

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The Sentinel network

Not one person. Not a traditional firm. A structure built for this.

Sentinel is deliberately organized differently from a brokerage — a small accountable core, amplified by an engine, a bench and a network.

01 · Sentinel

A new AI-native M&A platform

Built from the ground up around the engine — buyer intelligence, Buyer Simulation, offer analysis, deal monitoring. New by design, because we believe selling a business should work fundamentally differently.

02 · Principal-led, team-backed

Directly accountable for every engagement

A named principal on every mandate — the person who runs your negotiation, signs the engagement letter, and answers for the outcome.

03 · Industry advisor network

Owners and operators who've lived it

Clinicians, former owners and consolidation insiders who advise our deal teams when their experience is relevant to your deal — introduced by name under engagement, never published.

04 · Global team

Research, buyer intelligence, technology, operations

Specialists across time zones working alongside the engine — part of why work on your sale keeps moving around the clock.

Experience behind Sentinel

We didn't discover M&A when AI arrived. We built the AI because we knew where M&A was broken.

Generations back

A family built in healthcare

Healthcare and small business run through the family across generations — owners, clinicians, operators. This work started long before it was a company.

The first wave

Inside consolidation from the beginning

A family member's practice was among the earliest sold to what became Canada's largest dental group. We didn't read about consolidation — we lived it, from the seller's chair.

Since 2019

The buyers' side of the table

Sourcing acquisitions for some of the most acquisitive buyer groups in North American healthcare — over one million owners reached, more than ten thousand owner conversations held.

2019

Wolfson Equity founded

The family firm turns to representing owners. Since then: $300M+ in transactions supported, sell-side closings from $500K to $94M.

2019–2026

The engine, built deal by deal

Software built in-house because nothing on the market could do the job — buyer matching, NDA-first confidentiality, market-data pricing — shaped by years of real deals.

Now

Sentinel Transitions

The sell-side practice rebuilt around that engine: AI does the work, you make every decision, and this team answers for the outcome. Five closings in 2026 — two in September.

The team behind the principal

A deal team that spans the globe — which is why the desk never sleeps.

The AI works around the clock because the team behind it does too: specialists across time zones, so your sale is being moved while your market sleeps.

Origination

Acquisitions leads

The people who've held ten thousand owner conversations — and know what buyers say when sellers aren't in the room.

Execution

Deal managers

Running preparation, diligence and closings deal after deal — the discipline that keeps the price you accept the price you close at.

Partners

Partner development

The standing relationships with consolidators, platforms and funds that mean your process starts warm, not cold.

The engine

AI engineers

The builders of the engine itself — working inside the deals, not in a lab somewhere, so the software learns from every transaction.

The industry advisor network

Owners who've sold. Clinicians who've lived it. On call for your deal.

Around the deal team sits a bench of practicing clinicians and former owners — including owners who have sold to consolidators and sat exactly where you're sitting. They advise our deal teams on the questions only experience can answer.

Bench · 01

Sellers who've been through it

Former owners who exited to consolidators and platforms — what the process really feels like, where deals actually strain, and what they'd do differently.

Bench · 02

Practicing clinicians

Dentists and healthcare operators still in the chair — grounding every valuation and transition plan in how a practice actually runs.

Bench · 03

Consolidation insiders

People who've worked inside the buyer groups — how acquirers think, what their committees ask, and what makes them pay up.

Advisors are introduced by name under engagement. Confidentiality runs both ways — we never publish a roster, and no one ever learns you're a client.

The technology is new. The judgment behind it isn't.

No one has sold businesses this way before. Everyone involved has sold businesses before.

That's the trade you're making when you work with Sentinel: the edge of what's possible, carried by people who've done the possible for generations. Cutting edge — without the cutting-edge risk.

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How a principal-led sale works

Accountability is the product.

i

One name on the mandate

Your engagement letter names the principal responsible. Not a team, not a desk — a person you can call.

ii

The Desk keeps the record

Every document, NDA and offer lives in Sentinel Desk, visible to you at any hour. Nothing happens off the books.

iii

Paid only at the close

No retainer means the principal's time is invested, not billed. The only way we win is if you do.

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