When Staffing Founders Are Ready to Exit, They Call Us

Akash Taneja began his career in staffing M&A in 2008, during one of the most turbulent periods in financial history. Twelve years and dozens of transactions later, he launched Momentum Advisory Partners in the summer of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic. Both moments taught the same lesson: the advisors who survive downturns are the ones who put clients first, not fees.

Akash spent over a decade at a leading staffing-focused M&A firm, rising from intern to managing the firm’s most important transactions and representing the practice at major industry conferences. He built deep relationships across the staffing ecosystem — with founders, strategic acquirers, and private equity firms — and developed an intimate understanding of what drives value in this industry.

He started Momentum to do things differently. No handing clients off to junior staff. No overpromising to win an engagement. When you hire Momentum, you work directly with Akash — from first conversation through closing and beyond. That’s not a pitch; it’s a promise that comes with every engagement. Since launching, Momentum has built one of the deepest transaction track records in the staffing M&A space.

Clients often say they chose Momentum because they saw something familiar in Akash — the same hunger, work ethic, and refusal to quit that built their own companies. That’s not a coincidence. Every engagement is treated as the most important deal the firm will ever work on, because for the founder on the other side of the table, it is. The sale of your company is the financial culmination of everything you’ve built. Momentum doesn’t take that trust lightly.