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Continental Generals mission is to assist our customers with managing the financial risks and challenges that come as they age. Our skills, resources, and infrastructure allow us to help them with insulating and enhancing retirement income and maneuvering caregiving options. Thus allowing us to responsibly be a part of the solution rather than the problem. Our team of long-term care industry experts, with headquarters in Austin, Texas, strives to build value through superior operating results. As we manage our current portfolio of business, we continue to pursue growth opportunities for expansion and economies of scale through strategic acquisitions, mergers, and reinsurance opportunities. Our family of insurance companies and strategic partners provide administrative services to approximately 125,000 Long-Term Care, Life, Annuity and Supplemental Health customers. We are dedicated to upholding the commitments we have made to provide excellent service to all our customers and serve the needs of our claimants and their families during difficult times.
DUAL North America is a prominent independent underwriting organization based in the United States, part of the global DUAL Group. Established in 2013, it has become a leading program administrator in the insurance sector. The company operates under the Howden-owned DUAL Group, which is recognized as one of the largest managing general agents worldwide, with a presence in 21 countries and over $3.5 billion in gross written premium. The company specializes in expert underwriting solutions across various insurance lines, including commercial property, casualty, financial lines, and surety. DUAL North America offers more than 40 unique products tailored to meet diverse client needs. It also features a robust online platform that enables appointed producers to quote, bind policies, and manage documents digitally. With a network of over 11,000 brokers globally, DUAL North America serves a wide range of clients, from small businesses to large fleets, particularly in regions like California and Texas.
With Stephen Drotter, author of The Leadership Pipeline and The Performance Pipeline, as Chairman, Leadership Pipeline Institute is the official research institute and leading global provider of solutions based on the two pipeline books, which have sold more than 300,000 copies around the world. The Leadership Pipeline institute is: • The leading global provider of Leadership Pipeline and Specialist Pipeline solutions to private and public organizations • The leading organization for research within the Leadership Pipeline and Specialist Pipeline arena • The global "magnet" for everyone with an interest in the Leadership Pipeline and Specialist concept and how it is applied Today, the Leadership Pipeline is perceived as one of the most influential leadership models through the last two decades. A significant number of the FORTUNE 500 companies have successfully implemented the Leadership Pipeline as their main leadership infrastructure for selecting and growing leaders at all levels and it has seamlessly been applied to corporate, non-profit and public organizations around the world. Leadership Pipeline Institute is specialized in supporting organizations building an internal pipeline of qualified leaders and specialists and in creating empowered, performance- and execution-focused organizations. Working with Leadership Pipeline Institute, you will receive acknowledged hands-on solutions that can be easily customized to your organization and are based on the latest applied global research and experience from some of the worlds most successful companies.
Club Champion is a premier golf club fitting company founded in 2010 and based in Willowbrook, Illinois. With over 140 locations across the United States, Canada, the UK, and Australia, the company specializes in custom golf club fitting and building services. Their goal is to enhance golfers performance by providing tailored solutions that deliver longer and more accurate shots based on individual swing characteristics. The company offers unbiased, tour-quality fittings with access to a vast selection of over 50,000 to 65,000 clubhead, shaft, and grip combinations from more than 65 brands. Each fitting session typically lasts around three and a half hours and utilizes advanced technology, including TrackMan launch monitors and SAM PuttLab systems, to ensure precise measurements. Club Champion assembles custom golf clubs in a centralized facility near Chicago, catering to a diverse clientele that includes both amateur and professional golfers. With a commitment to quality and performance, Club Champion conducts over 100,000 fittings annually, making high-quality custom fitting accessible to a wide range of players.
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.