Wayne Unze, Director of Business Brokerage, specializes in the evaluation, marketing and sale of existing businesses and franchises. Unze consults with business owners throughout New Mexico, and is a 706 Expert Witness for court-ordered evaluations. Prior to brokering businesses, Unze served eight years as executive vice president of Mickelson Media Inc., negotiating more than $40 million in Cable TV acquisitions, while managing fourteen systems.

Prior to joining Maestas & Ward, Unze spent twenty-three years as manager/broker for Vaughan Company Business Opportunities. During his extensive business brokerage career, Unze has assisted in more than 850 business sale transactions and performed nearly 6,000 business evaluations.

Unze began his business career managing chambers of commerce in Minnesota. He has maintained this involvement, serving as past chairman of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Small Business Roundtable and was founder and facilitator of the Chamber’s highly-acclaimed Executive Roundtable program...a program he created to assist small business owners.

Unze has given hundreds of seminars and has published dozens of articles dealing with buying, selling and operating a business (go to the“Newsroom” link to access many of these articles). He recently was a panelist on a nationwide presentation to the American Bar Association on the topic, “Representing The Seller Of A Family Business”.

Wayne Unze and his wife, Maggie (an Albuquerque residential Realtor), reside in Albuquerque’s beautiful North Valley.