Nineteen Who Made Us

Nineteen Who Made Us

Last Thursday, we celebrated our 19^th year in business. Since we’re a pretty low-key bunch, the anniversary itself passed—as it has done for the prior 18 years—with a ton of work getting done and little to no fanfare. There were no cruises down the Nile. No Michael Scott-inspired “Good-ees” at the local TGI Fridays. And, as far as we know, there wasn’t a bottle of cheap champagne popped in Natick, New York, Denver, Durham, Atlanta, Houston, or Chicago (well, maybe in Chicago since they were also celebrating the end of another Siberian-like winter).

Instead, we chose to mark the day by reflecting on our time in business and giving 19 shoutouts to some of the folks, events, and circumstances that have helped us get here. 

#19: Our Clients

We learn from each and every one of you as we do our best to help you achieve your goals—whether they are to set and execute a strategic plan, grow through acquisition, sell or recapitalize your firm, explore new markets, or facilitate crucial conversations for your team. We’ve done our best for the past 6,940 days to always go above and beyond for you. And we’d like to give a special shout out to some of those firms that helped us get our start back in 2006, including our friends at Kirkham Michael, Timmons Group, Crafton Tull, Tevebaugh Architecture, RJN Group, and Merrick & Company and to the over 150 active clients who we are serving now. Thank you all.

#18: Our Team

Mark G. puts it best when he says, “We’ve never had a stronger team.” Our 25 folks live our 13 (I know, we need to either add one or subtract one) shared values (we refer to them as our brand points) of being…Read more