WESLEY MIDDLETON is managing partner of Middleton Raines + Zapata LLP (MRZ), a ForbesBooks author of ͞"Violent Leadership͟" and is on the executive leadership team for MRZ Financial and SKY Valuation. With over twenty-five years of tax compliance and consulting experience, he has demonstrated both a passion and knack for helping business owners transform their companies into growth and strategy-oriented organizations that excel not only from a tax and accounting perspective, but also in areas that business owners influence and shape, from operations and new business lines to marketing and technology. Wesley earned his degree in accounting from the University of New York, is a certified public accountant, and member of the AICPA, Texas Society of CPAs, and the Association of Accounting Marketing. He regularly speaks to large conferences with a mission to breathe creativity and life into a traditional industry. In his free time, he is active as a musician at church and enjoys traveling a