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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.
With a legacy of achievement and innovation, R.H. Sheppard Cp., Inc. is a global leader in power steering and diesel engine pump technologies for the commercial vehicle industry, with the introduction of the D-Series family of power steering gears and the continued development of the M-Series. Today Sheppard continues to develop and introduce new steering system products, including miter and T-boxes, miter columns, steering columns, and other linkages. Sheppards headquarters campus is in Hanover, Pa., where it conducts engineering, testing, manufacturing, remanufacturing, and distribution. It also operates a machining facility in Wytheville, Va., along with an R&D Center in Shelby Township, Mich.
MS Transverse Insurance Group is a property and casualty program carrier based in Princeton, New Jersey. As a subsidiary of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group and part of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, it operates as a hybrid fronting carrier. Founded in 2018, the company specializes in program administration, reinsurance partnerships, and alternative capital solutions, serving as a link between reinsurers, program administrators, and Managing General Agents (MGAs). The company offers a range of services, including program administration for niche risks, reinsurance solutions with over 100 reinsurer relationships, flexible risk retention structures, and fronting services that ensure regulatory compliance and claims management. MS Transverse is recognized for its strong financial standing, holding an A (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best, and has been named Fronting Carrier of the Year in 2022 and 2024. With offices in New York, New Jersey, and Texas, it ranks among the top 10 U.S. fronting carriers by direct premiums written.
Intact Public Entities is a leader in providing specialized insurance programs, including risk management and claims services to municipal, public administration and community service organizations across Canada. Proven industry knowledge, gained through over nine decades of partnering with insurance companies and independent brokers, gives Intact Public Entities the ability to effectively manage the necessary risk, advisory and claims services for both standard and complex issues. Our history dates back to 1927 with our first municipal client - the Village of Ayr, Ontario. From then, other municipalities came calling and the company established the strong foundation and sterling reputation that continues today. Interestingly, our product offering was expanded beyond municipal business based on reputation. Other municipal-related organizations started to be asked to be placed with us because of our knowledge in the specialty insurance space. The trend continued and it became common for the municipality, hospital, Childrens Aid Society and conservation authority to all be placed wtih Intact Public Entities. Intact Public Entities is a Managing General Agent (MGA) with the authority to write and service business on behalf of strategic partners who share our commitment and dedication to protecting specialized organizations. Because our partners are long-term participants on our program, they understand the nature of fluctuating market conditions and complex claims and are prepared to stay the course. Intact Public Entities is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intact Financial Corporation.