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BKD CPAs & Advisors is a top-tier CPA and advisory firm dedicated to helping people and businesses realize their goals. Our approximately 2,900 dedicated professionals offer solutions to clients in all 50 states and internationally. Our expertise goes well beyond the standard accounting services to include risk management, technology, wealth management and forensic and valuation services. Our clients represent a wide range of industries, and were even part of an alliance of firms that gives us a global reach.
Ethos is a life insurance company founded in 2016 by Peter Colis and Lingke Wang. The company focuses on making life insurance more affordable and accessible by using technology to simplify the application process. Ethos operates as a licensed insurance agency, partnering with third-party carriers like Legal & General America, TruStage, and Ameritas. Ethos offers an online application process that provides instant quotes, allowing customers to apply for life insurance quickly. The company utilizes a proprietary underwriting engine to assess health and eligibility, ensuring suitable coverage options. Ethos also supports a network of independent insurance agents, facilitating both direct-to-consumer and agent-assisted sales. The primary product offered is term life insurance, tailored to meet individual needs. With significant funding from investors such as Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Softbank, Ethos has established itself as a major player in the U.S. life insurance market, aiming to protect millions of families.
Landscape Forms is the industrys premier global brand of outdoor furniture, LED lighting and accessories. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. The Landscape Forms U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan with sales representatives throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Southern Europe, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place. The company has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Disney, Sprint, American Airlines, Herman Miller and Nike. Landscape Forms was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 15 Small Workplaces in the US.
NFW is a circularity platform for plastic-free performance materials. NFW follows three Ground Rules in everything we develop: start well, stay clean, end well. While nearly everything in the built world relies on some type of plastic that began as crude oil and that will become plastic pollution, we are establishing a new material reality. We believe all materials should begin and end as nutrients, ready for the next growth cycle—true circularity. Our multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries—from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery. NFW technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling the worlds most iconic brands to design and scale products with high-performance, plastic-free materials. NFW makes global brands more sustainable, empowering them to create without plastics. Alongside the boldest brands and visionary designers, we are pioneering a naturally circular, post-oil economy.