The Waterfront Group (TWG) is a full-service business brokerage, with two offices serving Northern California business owners.  Our clients typically generate annual revenues of $1M to $20M, and are located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento/Foothills regions.

All TWG professionals hold MBA degrees, and are California DRE Licensed Brokers. We possess more than 30 years of combined marketing background and buy/sell experience in the following industry segments: Distribution, Information Technology, Manufacturing and Professional Business Services. 

Steve Smith is the Founder and Principal Intermediary of The Waterfront Group. Steve brings over 20 years of professional sales, marketing and general business management experience on behalf of The Waterfront Group’s privately held business owner clients. During his career, Steve has successfully negotiated buy-sell agreements for clients in a variety of industries, including firms in construction, distribution, manufacturing, business services, specialty retail and telecommunications. His many years of brokerage experience includes regional group leader for a national M&A firm. 

Prior to founding The Waterfront Group, Steve held a variety of executive positions in sales and marketing management at several Fortune 500 telecommunications companies.  Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Steve has earned the prestigious Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation from the International Business Brokers’ Association ( IBBA ).  He and his family have been residents of the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years.

Daryl R. Muzio is the Principal Intermediary responsible for The Waterfront Group’s Sacramento Area office.  Daryl’s career includes 15 years of professional sales, marketing and general business management experience with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Daryl brings to The Waterfront Group a passion to work with people, and a successful track record of negotiating transactions in the Food Service, Beverage, Manufacturing, Real Estate and Construction industries.

Daryl received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of California at Davis .  After earning his MBA from UC Davis, Daryl and his family established their home in the Sacramento Area where they have lived for over 10 years.