About Us

ABOUT US

Welcome to Para Business Advisors.

Dedication, Trust and Results.

Our group of consultants have over 30 years of experience working with Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) specializing a range of financial services that is geared toward clients realizing their business goals and maximize their financial success.
The PBA team provides Commercial Debt Mediation and Financial Restructuring allowing SMBs to handle overwhelming and crippling debt along with a full suite of services enabling liquidity through financing at a time when banks aren’t lending.
In addition, we can provide comprehensive business plans for start-ups, helping new businesses get off the ground and achieve success.
One of our key strengths is our extensive network of over 300 funding and lending sources. This allows us to offer a diverse range of capital and
financing options to our clients, even during times when banks are tightening their lending practices.
Para Business Advisors takes pride in the personalized attention our clients receive. We understand it takes time to understand your unique business and financial situation. By collaborating directly with your creditors we aim to maintain a viable relationship with suppliers and vendors while developing a customized plan that allows your company to maintain it’s viability and return to profitability.
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Adam Pollock

Principal at Para Business Services

Adam is a husband and father of two teens. He is a native of Pittsburgh and the western Pennsylvania working class ethos remains a dominant part of his personality today. He is caring, industrious, and honest.
Adam graduated from George Washington University with a degree in Psychology and from the University of Pittsburgh School with a Law Degree, and he draws on both disciplines in his work.
His professional accomplishments are extraordinarily broad. Coming out of law school, he practiced bankruptcy law with the premier bankruptcy firm in Pittsburgh. Because of this experience, he was recruited by Westinghouse/CBS to handle the legal side of international real estate workouts and asset dispositions pertaining to a multi-billion real estate portfolio.
After the job was completed, he teamed up with two big-firm transactional attorneys and founded the law firm of Pollock Reidboard Krasnow, a revered real estate, banking, and entertainment law firm. During this phase of his career, Adam represented Mellon Bank, PNCBank, and DiCesare Engler Productions for whom he negotiated performance contracts for Madonna, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, and other top tier performing artists who performed in Western Pennsylvania.

Adam Pollock

Principal at Para Business Services

Adam is a husband and father of two teens. He is a native of Pittsburgh and the western Pennsylvania working class ethos remains a dominant part of his personality today. He is caring, industrious, and honest.
Adam graduated from George Washington University with a degree in Psychology and from the University of Pittsburgh School with a Law Degree, and he draws on both disciplines in his work.
His professional accomplishments are extraordinarily broad. Coming out of law
school, he practiced bankruptcy law with the premier bankruptcy firm in Pittsburgh. Because of this experience, he was recruited by Westinghouse/CBS to handle the legal side of international real estate workouts and asset dispositions pertaining to a multi-billion real estate portfolio.
After the job was completed, he teamed up with two big-firm transactional attorneys and founded the law firm of Pollock Reidboard Krasnow, a revered real estate, banking, and entertainment law firm. During this phase of his career, Adam represented Mellon Bank, PNCBank, and DiCesare Engler Productions for whom he negotiated performance contracts for Madonna, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, and other top tier performing artists who performed in Western Pennsylvania.
real estate, banking, and entertainment law firm. During this phase of his career, Adam represented Mellon Bank, PNCBank, and DiCesare Engler Productions for whom he negotiated performance contracts for Madonna, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, and other top tier performing artists who performed in Western Pennsylvania.
While growing the firm, Adam served on a half dozen corporate boards and became concerned about the growing trend of young people leaving Pittsburgh for more desirable locations. To halt and reverse this loss of talent, Adam conceived the idea to create an organization dedicated to learning what young people want and then providing it in order to reverse this outmigration. He rounded up some friends and founded the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP). PUMP became wildly successful and played a key role in not only reversing the exodus but in making Pittsburgh one of the most attractive and livable places in the country. Pittsburgh’s renaissance was in large part due to the efforts of PUMP which continues to this day to have a tremendous reach and impact.

Adam represented US Filter/Vivendi, the largest water company in the world, which hired him to manage the privatization procurements of city and county water systems throughout the United States, including the largest ever in Atlanta, GA. While in California, he met a young computer programmer and together they co-founded, raised VC capital, and built an Internet software company, (Bridgepath) which they later sold to a larger software provider.


Next, Adam decided to take a year off from work to focus on finding his wife. He traveled all over the world until he met Perla in Mexico City. The couple decided to settle in South Florida, where Perla had previously lived.
Shortly after moving to Florida, Adam was recruited by the Related Group, the largest condominium builder in the world, to serve as Senior Project Manager and Senior Legal Counsel and manage the conversion of three water-front towers with over one thousand units from apartments to condominiums. His efforts resulted in over $500 million in revenues.
Upon the completion of his tenure with Related, Adam teamed up with a colleague and launched Biscayne Atlantic, a real estate acquisition, development, and management company that acquired a portfolio of assets including fractured condominium towers, hotels, and shopping centers.
Upon liquidation of this portfolio, Adam launched Para Services, a private equity firm focused on acquiring and turning around small and medium sized businesses. It was during this phase of his career that Adam decided to take what he had learned from his 35+ years of legal and business experience and pivot to making himself available as an advisor to owners of small and medium sized businesses. He told me, “I just formalized what I had already been doing for many years for people who came to me for advice and counsel. And when you said you were interested in teaming up, I knew immediately it was an ideal match.”
Adam is someone who is willing to help anyone in need at the drop of a hat. People call on him often for his wise business, legal and personal advice which he provides with a full heart. He is a conservative investor and a strong advocate who offers measured and pragmatic counsel to others.

CLIFF ALSBERG

Marketing Consultant at Para Business Advisors

We have learned through experience that advising businesses in the restructuring space requires a unique talent set.  Turnaround specialists must be familiar with psychology, have a keen sense of interpersonal relations, and know how to craft elegant communications.  The abundance of mine fields in the world of commerce today makes it imperative that people feel particularly comfortable and secure doing business with entities that are in the midst of or have gone through a restructuring.  If messaging is not attended to or is mishandled, a business can be forced to close solely due to false perceptions.  Skilled communicators can calm the market, maintain existing relationships, and even expand business opportunities during this period. One of the competitive advantages of Para Business Advisors is the investment we have made in the world-class communication skills of Cliff Alsberg which are made available to every client.

Cliff’s career began with a significant number of years spent in the entertainment industry before transitioning into corporate marketing for several top-tier national accounting firms, including Cohen-Reznick and, most recently, KPMG.

After graduating from the Wharton School with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, majoring in Marketing, and his subsequent MBA from Loyola University majoring in International Finance, Cliff served in his first professional role as Director of Marketing at Gumbiner-Savett in Santa Monica, California, where business communications became his one true passion and most productive, firm-wide contributing asset. In November 2006, he and his lifetime friend Scott Farb joined Reznick-Group as the founding members of their brand-new Los Angeles office. 

Since then, Cliff has concentrated on multi-industry communications, focusing on improving thought leadership content, media interview questions and responses, conference panel & Lunch & Learn presentations, programing content, branding materials and presentation decks, top tier RFP’s and a host of strategic blueprints for expanding his team’s in all manners, along with solidifying and broadening their client bases. He has performed a staggering amount of “ghostwriting” for partners that often appeared as cover stories on national magazines, crafted extensive brochures, client profiles and industry-specific content pieces.

Given the ever-expanding world of digital marketing we currently find ourselves in, rock-solid, strategically promotional corporate content means everything, from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to social media platforms, YouTube videos & podcasts and spectacularly crafted websites. You name it, Cliff wrote it— and the results have, and always will, speak for themselves. 

Joining Adam’s team at Para Business Advisors has given Cliff the perfect platform and opportunity to serve as an always-available Marketing Consultant, quickly researching, writing and delivering the exact messaging needed to meet all professional expectations on all fronts. His efforts consistently result in highly effective content with conciseness, total clarity and industry expertise. No frills, no fuss, all business— period!

Please feel free to contact our PARA team and see for yourself!

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