Warady & Davis LLP is a top 25 Chicago certified public accounting & consulting firm headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. W&D provides a full range of audit, accounting, tax and consulting services and solutions to privately-held businesses, owners, high net-worth individuals and their families. W&D serves clients in a wide variety of industries located in the state of Illinois, throughout the United States and their interests abroad. Client revenues may range from start-up enterprises to $500,000,000+ in annual revenue. For the third time running, Warady & Davis LLP is proud to be named a “100 Best Accounting Firms to Work for 2016” nationally by Accounting Today, a “Best Place to Work for Millennials” in America by Best Companies and The Center for Generational Kinetics, and a “Best Place to Work in Illinois” by The Daily Herald. Together we create an exceptional, cohesive team of people who are passionate about what they do and are committed to our clients and each other.

Meridian Compensation Partners provides the most effective solutions and independent advice in executive compensation and corporate governance consulting. With over eighty associates in ten offices in the US and Canada, Meridian provides executive compensation consulting and corporate governance services to approximately 700 major publicly traded and privately held corporations. Our core services include board level advisory services, compensation program design, research and competitive market intelligence on executive pay and corporate governance matters. Meridian Compensation Partners develops long-tenured, board-level consulting relationships that support sound governance, engage leadership talent, and align pay with performance. We guide clients through challenging issues. We bring each relationship an independent perspective, expertise, knowledge and deep resources. We operate with the highest level of business ethics and professionalism.

For over thirty years, Fortune 500 companies in financial services, retail and hospitality, software, and wireless communications industries have relied on Vail Systems’ highly-scalable, fault-tolerant telephony software services to deliver innovative customer care solutions to their customers. These services include but are not limited to: Advanced Network Routing and Call Control, Caller Authentication and Risk Scoring, Conversational IVR/IVA Solutions, and Customer Experience Analytics. To take advantage of these services, Vail customers have the option to work with Vail Professional Services or to build on our voice and messaging API, FreeClimb. Vail’s unique combination of enterprise-grade security, platform reliability, and wide range of services is unprecedented.

Kleinschmidt provides true any-to-any EDI and API integration solutions that enable companies of all sizes to build seamless supply chains through integration with any trading partner imaginable. Our mission is simple: We're here to make EDI easy by solving the tough integration problems that no one else can. We’ve been enabling electronic commerce through innovative technology for more than a century, and our EDI and API integration expertise is unrivaled. As EDI integration and supply chain connectivity solution pioneers, our robust and reliable EDI and API connectivity solutions have powered the supply chains of leading international brands for over 40 years by enabling growth, disrupting industries and opening doors to new opportunities.

Porte Brown LLC is a full service accounting and consulting firm headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. For more than 75 years, Porte Brown has focused on the highest level of service to individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the region. In addition to the traditional accounting services, such as tax planning and preparation, audit, business valuations, and retirement plan administration, Porte Brown also provides strategic consulting and leading-edge technology implementation for clients in cloud and non-cloud environments.

Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) is a 100% employee-owned civil engineering firm with more than 75 years of service to local communities and organizations. Our engineers, environmental specialists, agricultural experts, and technology consultants work together to provide our clients with unparalleled planning, design, and construction management services. Our Mission: To empower clients and employee owners to thrive by solving infrastructure challenges.

GHA's VISION - NOW AND INTO THE FUTURE GHA will be the premiere consultant partner in the Midwest, providing high-quality services and designs for our clients and community. GHA will be forward-looking, working toward a common vision that includes diversity and inclusion, a feeling of belonging, and built upon strong internal and external relationships. GHA will be a world-class place to build a career, focused on staff development and training at all levels, creating challenging and rewarding opportunities for all staff. GHA will build and maintain a strong culture, one built upon trust and growth and our common values of Integrity, Dedication, and Passion. Many of our staff have served with us for decades, so our range of expertise is nearly unmatched. It truly is our people that make the difference and provide our clients with the results they want and need. By the same token, many of our clients have been with us for years, providing us with the most authentic assurance that our work consistently meets expectations – their loyalty. Both public and private agencies have come to rely on the professional, personal and timely service we provide. At Gewalt Hamilton, we treat every project as just one shared experience in what we hope will be a long-term relationship. We work with our clients, not for them, bringing a team approach to every assignment. Our clients trust us to hear their needs, provide honest and thoughtful feedback, and deliver exceptional results. Our clients are served by registered professional engineers, land surveyors and experienced technical and administrative support staff. GHA is also prequalified by key government agencies to provide professional services. This collective dedication to leveraging our experience to yield actionable insights drives an overarching firm-wide quest to find efficiencies that protect project budgets, and maximize asset efficacy and useful lifecycle.

HowardSimon proudly serves companies nationwide in every size and business class as the premium source for comprehensive retirement planning, payroll solutions and HR technology. A leader in creative retirement plan design since 1981, we created our payroll services with the same forward thinking, industry-leading technology and unparalleled performance. Maintaining compliance at every level, we minimize your tax burden with proven strategies to protect your employees and your bottom line.

CTLGroup is an internationally recognized engineering, architecture, and materials science consulting firm, providing expert technical services to clients across an array of industries. Our technical breadth allows us to see problems through multiple lenses, while our technical depth permits us to find unique solutions to complex challenges. The expertise of our technical staff is complemented by one of the largest and most comprehensive private materials and structural testing laboratories in the world. The combined strength of our consulting and laboratory capabilities under one roof allows us to deliver integrated technical solutions to our clients. CTLGroup’s corporate history spans over 100 years, originating as a research and development laboratory specializing in concrete and cement-based materials and structures. Our service offerings have grown over the years to include structural engineering and evaluation, architecture and building science, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, forensic engineering, and emerging technology development. Throughout our history, CTLGroup experts have been involved in the development of advanced materials, contributed to the construction and preservation of global landmarks, investigated the cause of catastrophic failures, and helped with the recovery from impacts of natural disasters. CTLGroup serves clients in an array of industry sectors, including buildings, civil infrastructure, industrial infrastructure, oil and gas/chemical, power, litigation and insurance, materials and products, and transportation. No matter the industry sector, CTLGroup strives to provide our clients with high value, expert technical advice. We help our clients define problems, mitigate risk, understand “why”, and make informed decisions. Services for clients in New York, Michigan, and North Carolina are provided through CTL Engineers & Construction Technology Consultants, P.C.

Civiltech is a consulting engineering firm that provides a full range of transportation and civil engineering services which include transportation, civil, construction, environmental, water resources and structural engineering as well as right of way services. Our staff is made up of Professional Engineers, Professional Structural Engineers, Certified Floodplain Managers and LEED Green Associates who develop innovative planning, design and construction solutions. Civiltech realizes that success lies in the individual service and attention provided to clients, and we contribute to this success by completing projects in a timely manner and within budget.

The Consulting Engineers Group, Inc. was established in 1966 by Norman L. Scott to provide structural engineering and management services to the construction industry. Initially, Norm offered a variety of marketing and management services, augmented by experts in various fields. However, the firm's continued work in the precast, prestressed concrete industry soon led to specialization in that field. Over the next few years, Jerry Goettsche, Les Martin and Armand Gustaferro joined the firm, adding more design capability. CEG experienced steady growth for the next several years. In 1982, an office was opened in San Antonio, Texas headed by Tom D'Arcy. Tom had considerable experience in the precast concrete industry, and was soon assembling a competent staff in precast concrete design, shop drawings and other structural engineering services. The ensuing years saw the scope of services greatly expand to include parking and transportation consulting services and concrete restoration engineering. CEG has been successfully involved in projects in virtually every state in the U. S., and in several foreign countries. There are currently about 70 employees in the three main design offices located in Mt. Prospect, IL (a Chicago suburb), San Antonio, TX and Albuquerque, NM. Other office locations include: Arlington, TX, Lake Mary, FL, and Murrieto, CA. CEG is a qualified Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) company with all employees participating in that ownership. This will assure a smooth transition of ownership in the years ahead.

At Weiss & Company LLP, our mission is to provide the highest quality financial services in a pro active and responsive fashion. To take an entrepreneurial approach, develop innovative solutions, maintain strong personal relationships and provide a creative, challenging and personally fulfilling work environment. For almost 50 years we have been providing a broad spectrum of professional services to clients of all sizes in many different industries. Beginning with the basic services - Imposed (tax returns, audits) and Desired (projections, forecasts, profitability improvements) - we have always kept an eye open to serving the changing needs of our clients, expanding the scope of our practice as we grew with them. The people of Weiss & Company LLP are what set us apart. We have assembled a hard-working staff of professionals who combine sound business knowledge with astute financial judgement. Weiss & Company LLP is a member of the BDO Alliance USA, a nationwide network of independently owned local and regional accounting and consulting firms that are part of the BDO extended family. As a member of the Alliance, Weiss & Company LLP has access to the resources of an international firm in addition to our own. Weiss & Company LLP has received recognition for meeting the requirements of the quality control standards established by the AICPA for accounting and auditing practices and conforming with professional standards. All of the partners of Weiss & Company LLP are members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois CPA Society.