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.

Enercon is a trusted resource for engineering and contract manufacturer of customized power solutions. For over four decades, we’ve helped to overcome the most challenging critical electrical power obstacles for military, industrial, commercial, and municipal customers, to ensure operational security and energy optimization. We provide both subcontracted and direct-to-client, customized power engineering, manufacturing, and field service offerings.

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.

Legacy Professionals LLP is a regional CPA firm headquartered in Westchester, IL with offices in Schererville, IN and Edina, MN. Our professionals serve clients around the country from our three offices and remotely. The Firm's 31 partners and principals and over 180 professionals provide audit and tax services to employee benefit plans, labor organizations, nonprofit entities, and others. The firm also provides payroll compliance audit services to benefit plans and client service accounting to nonprofits and other entities. Contact Julie Tucek for more information about Legacy. Julie can be reached at [email protected] or at 312-384-4292.

Gamma Technologies develops and licenses GT-SUITE, the leading multi-physics CAE system simulation software. GT-SUITE includes a complete library of physics based modeling templates covering fluid flow, thermal, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemistry, and controls. In addition, higher level modeling templates are available that have been designed for certain specialized applications. GT-SUITE applications include powertrain, engine, vehicles of any type, driveline, transmission, hybrids, exhaust aftertreatment chemistry, acoustics, cooling and thermal management and HVAC, hydraulics, fuel systems, lubrication, chain, gear and belt drives, etc. We at GT are dedicated to building the most advanced system simulation tools, complemented with carefully designed software solutions that provide major productivity improvements for our customers.

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.

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.

At Wight & Company, we inspire the human experience through innovative design. For over 80 years, our unique Design Led-Design Build approach has offered clients the most complete option of integrated architecture, engineering, construction, and transportation services. We believe that good design is good business, and we’ve created a workplace where design thinking is cultivated and celebrated. Our dedicated team cultivates a dynamic, high-performance work environment that fosters innovation, collaboration and fun, and a culture that supports teamwork and thoughtful risk-taking. Wight was the first company to receive a Green Firm Certification from the Sustainable Performance Institute (SPI). We designed the first building in the country to receive LEED certification, as well as 30% of all Net-Zero buildings in the state of Illinois. Our work spans the globe, but our hometown roots are deep. Local notable achievements include construction of the award-winning Chicago Public Library Chinatown branch, design of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s Gleacher Center, design of the $89 million New Trier High School renovation, and design and construction of The Hatchery, a food business incubator in Chicago’s East Garfield Park community. For more information about us, visit wightco.com.

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.