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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.
Blue Matter Consulting is a management consulting firm dedicated to the life sciences industry, particularly in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Founded in 2012, the company has grown from a single office to a global presence with locations in the United States, Europe, and India. The leadership team, including managing partners Ashwin Dandekar, Emily Hua, and George Schmidt, guides the firms strategic growth. The firm offers a wide range of services to help life sciences companies maximize value. These services include new product planning, launch strategy and management, commercial strategy for existing products, market access strategy, corporate strategy, transaction support, and organizational design. Blue Matter also focuses on specific therapeutic areas such as oncology and rare diseases, providing tailored strategies and solutions. With a diverse client base of over 250 companies, including many top global biopharmaceutical firms, Blue Matter Consulting is recognized for its strategic expertise and personalized service in the life sciences sector.
PetVet Dx is a therapeutic management company focusing on delivering affordable, accurate, and rapid diagnostics with cutting-edge molecular technology and pharmaceuticals for veterinarians, farmers, and pet owners.
Katzke & Morgenbesser LLP is a boutique law firm specializing in a broad array of executive compensation-related matters. We have extensive experience representing senior corporate executives and other management employees, companies, boards of directors and compensation committees with respect to complex and sensitive employment, severance, retirement, consulting, equity and other incentive compensation arrangements. Such representations are often in connection with public and private business combinations, acquisitions and divestitures for corporations and partnerships. Each of our named partners has more than twenty-five years of experience in executive compensation. As former partners at major New York and international law firms, we are uniquely situated to provide independent, high quality, focused and responsive service without the likelihood of potential conflicts of interest. Our Firm counsels clients primarily with respect to executive compensation-related matters. We routinely provide consulting, drafting and negotiation guidance to individuals, companies, boards of directors and compensation committees on a wide range of topics, including the following areas: - Employment, Severance, Retention and Consulting Agreements - Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and other Restrictive Covenants - Equity and Cash-based Incentive Compensation - Deferred Compensation Arrangements - Partnership Arrangements - Retirement Arrangements/SERPs - Rabbi Trusts and other Funding/Financing Vehicles - Change in Control Programs and Arrangements - Code Section Section 409A Reviews - Advisory Services to Boards of Directors and Compensation Committees