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Automation AMA offers advisory and consulting services to manufacturers, capital equipment OEMs, and investment firms seeking industrial holding targets. For manufacturers, Automation AMA assists in determining optimal processes for automation, facilitates the creation of RFQs (requests for quotes), manages relationships with automation providers, evaluates proposals, and oversees the automation build process. Clients benefit from the expertise of a seasoned automation veteran with almost 3 decades of experience, ensuring a smooth and successful automation project. Automation OEMs and machine builders can access advisory services, board of director roles, fractional CEO, CTO, COO, and CRO services, business development assistance, strategy planning, standardization of manufacturing and engineering processes, and sales leadership and training. Investment firms receive support with target identification, ownership introductions, due diligence, and business process analysis. Automation AMA also provides temporary or full-time CxO leadership or board of director advisory services to complement existing leadership teams. With over 28 years of experience in founding and growing an automation business, Automation AMA is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges faced by business leaders and entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Founded and led by an industry leader in assembly, robotics, and packaging, Automation AMA offers a comprehensive range of services to support clients throughout their automation journey, as well as to refine engineering, sales, operations, and business development functions.
Started with nothing more than a vision and an entrepreneurial spirit, AmeriLux International was formed in May 2004. AmeriLux is a value-adding distributor of multiwall and corrugated polycarbonate sheet products, PVC sheet and liner panels, and steel coil. Headquartered in De Pere, Wisconsin, AmeriLux sources and distributes materials from and to companies around the world. It is by building and maintaining strategic, win-win partnerships with vendors, customers, and employees that AmeriLux is able to profitably – and sustainably – grow its business. With an emphasis on customer service and support, AmeriLux International seeks to provide its customers with creative, cost-effective solutions to their unique challenges. This solutions-focused mentality has driven facility expansions and key equipment investments, enabling AmeriLux to provide a variety of fabrication services, component assembly, and turn-key manufacturing solutions. Strongly committed to educating the architectural, building, and construction communities on the benefits of using its products, AmeriLux International provides distance learning courses, webinars, and in-person presentations whereby continuing education units can be earned. These online educational programs are free, one-hour-long programs that focus on topics such as energy efficiency, polycarbonate glazing solutions, and sustainable design. This has led to a greater grass roots demand for their products. To reduce lead times and improve on-time delivery with key customers, AmeriLux International started AmeriLux Transportation — a trucking company with its own drivers and equipment — in June 2012. AmeriLux Transportation is a direct delivery carrier and regularly operates in the US. With the recent formation of AmeriLux Logistics, AmeriLux now has access to a network of qualified carriers and a wide range of freight shipping services - yet another offering to better serve the marketplace!
Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount todays industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation.