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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.
COVE Animal Health is a veterinarian-led network of veterinary hospitals providing integrated primary care, emergency, and specialty services across several states in the Northeastern United States, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Originally founded in 1937 as Pieper Veterinary in Middletown, CT, COVE has grown into a multi-state network with over 1,000 team members and four hospital systems. COVE offers a comprehensive range of veterinary services, including routine wellness care, 24/7 emergency services, and advanced specialty care in areas such as internal medicine, ophthalmology, and surgery. The company operates a hub-and-spoke model that ensures seamless coordination among its hospitals, enhancing collaboration and resource sharing. COVE is committed to maintaining local ownership and community connections while fostering a culture of mentorship and professional development for veterinary teams.
The Banks most important objectives are to maintain the external stability of the Netherlands Antillean guilder (NAf.) and to promote the efficient functioning of the financial system in the Countries Curacao and St. Maarten. To realize these objectives, the Bank, as the supervisory authority, has frequently recurred to credit control measures and/or to change the discount rate. The functions of the Bank, explicitly summed up in the Bank Charter, are; First, the Bank is the only institution entitled by law to issue paper money in the Countries Curacao and St. Maarten. The Bank also is charged with the circulation of coins. Second, the Bank supervises banking and credit institutions to guarantee depositors and other creditors funds at banking and credit institutions in particular and the soundness of the financial sector in general. Third, the Bank manages the foreign exchange reserves of the Netherlands Antilles, which includes regulating of the transfer of payments between residents and nonresidents of the Countries Curacao and St. Maarten. Finally, the Bank acts as the governments treasurer by receiving and making payments from and to the public through the tax collectors accounts at the Central Bank.
We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.