18 Years in Staffing M&A. One Mission.
Akash Taneja began his career in staffing M&A in October 2008—during one of the most turbulent periods in financial history. As an intern at a leading staffing-focused M&A firm, he had a front-row seat to both the chaos and the opportunity that comes with economic crisis. He learned quickly. Within a few years, he had risen from analyst to managing the firm’s most important transactions.
Over 12 years, Akash built deep relationships across the staffing ecosystem—with founders, strategic acquirers, and private equity firms. He developed an intimate understanding of how staffing companies are valued, what drives buyer interest in different segments, and what separates a strong process from a missed opportunity. The firm’s founder recognized his trajectory, mentoring him closely and positioning him to represent the practice at major industry conferences like SIA, ASA, and TechServe Alliance.
In the summer of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, Akash launched Momentum Advisory Partners. The timing might seem unusual, but it was deliberate. Both the Great Recession and COVID taught the same lesson: the advisors who survive downturns are the ones who put clients first, not fees.
Akash started Momentum to do things the way he believed they should be done. No taking on engagements just to collect a retainer when the outcome wasn’t realistic. No handing clients off to junior staff. No telling founders what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. Every client would get Akash’s direct involvement from first conversation through closing and beyond.
Since launching, Momentum has built one of the deepest transaction track records in the staffing M&A space, advising founders across IT, healthcare, life sciences, professional, engineering, and light industrial staffing. The firm’s reputation has been built on referrals from former clients and industry partners—the strongest endorsement in any relationship-driven business.
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.
