| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
David Colson |
Chief Financial Officer | Profile |
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.
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