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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.
Robert Reynolds, a high-stakes corporate lawyer with law firms such as Alston & Bird and Seyfarth Shaw, and award-winning innovator in the legal space, founded Tangible Global in 2014 with the mission to bring the practice of law into modern times delivering "Law at the speed of business." Joining Robert as Partner, Denise Barnes brings over 20 years of experience as a seasoned entrepreneur in B2B service delivery. Her marketing firm was the first to offer marketing automation, managed services, and digital applications to clients such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Google. With its recent acquisition of AUTTO, a leading no-code technology and applications provider, Tangible further strengthened its technology and software development leadership by adding Ian Gosling as CPO and Krisztian Kerek as CTO. Nike, one of Tangibles early adopters, embraced and understood that Tangible represented a better alternative to the traditional law firm providing great value especially for portfolios of recurring transactions. Nike has continued to partner with Tangible over the last 10 years. AUTTO has been embraced by the global law firms of Eversheds Sutherland and Dentons as well as Petronas. By combining no-code workflow automation capabilities with extensive legal expertise across many industries, Tangible continues to evolve its broad portfolio of digital applications that support various aspects of commercial transactions and legal operations. AUTTOs technology has enabled Tangible to develop digital services to replace "time with tech." By combining AUTTOs workflow automation capabilities with extensive legal expertise across many industries, the firm has developed a broad portfolio of digital services to support various aspects of commercial transactions and legal operations, including an AI risk management service. Headquartered in Portland, OR, Tangibles team members are distributed across the US, with a notable presence in New York, London, Boston, and Chicago.
Strategic Gears is the biggest local management consultancy firm in Saudi Arabia; It has offices in Egypt, Qatar and UK. Providing multidisciplinary services for both the private and public sectors. The company offers consulting solutions in the areas of Strategy, Marketing, Organizational Excellence and Digital, to a range of clients in both the public and private sectors. The company is heavily involved in the transformation era of Saudi Arabia, driven by the Vision 2030 initiatives. Strategic Gears prides itself on its ability to be a knowledge hub for the Saudi market, publishing reports on a monthly basis on the current state of the Kingdoms economy as well as hot topics in both the public and private sectors, including an annual coverage of the Saudi budget, and other reports on the Kingdoms macroeconomic performance, labour market, digital transformation and AI, among others. The company, which was founded in late 2015, has quickly evolved from a small team to more than 230 employees in all its branches.
Over 30 years ago, artist and designer Christopher Farr set out to unite heritage textile craftsmanship with contemporary design vision. Since then, he and his business partner Matthew Bourne have maintained a dedication to quality and an uncompromising pursuit of beauty that has helped revolutionise rug design and restore rug-making to the status of fine art. Each one made to order, Christopher Farr rugs are now a frequent sight at global art and design exhibitions, and in the homes of connoisseurs and collectors worldwide. Christopher Farr continues to protect and preserve the worlds weaving traditions, while pushing at the creative possibilities of design. Alongside Christophers own work, the company collaborates with a considered roster of international artists, architects, fashion designers and other visionaries to produce a selection of designs that remains unrivalled in its creative scope. Distribution is through showrooms located in London and Los Angeles as well as representation throughout the world. Collections include bespoke collaborations with designers such as Andrée Putman and John Pawson and artists including Gary Hume and Makoto Kagoshima. CF Editions collaborates with some of the worlds leading artists and designers, both past and present, including Josef and Anni Albers, Gunta Stölzl, Terry Frost and Sandra Blow. All designs are produced with the relevant institution, art gallery, estate or artist closely involved in the whole process and every rug is delivered with a signed certificate of authenticity. Unlike the made to order rugs, Editions are in stock and ready for delivery.