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Sierra Lobo, Inc. is an engineering and technical services company dedicated to excellence in service and committed to maintaining a highly qualified staff. Our mission is to lead the development of advanced technologies in all modes of transportation: land, air, sea, and space. In the achievement of our goals, Sierra Lobo creates new technologies and develops new, innovative, and cost-effective approaches to satisfy the desire of the human race to explore. Sierra Lobo has an extensive history of designing and building complex R&D hardware, including demonstrated capabilities for building aerospace flight hardware for major aerospace corporations. We offer a state-of-the-art engineering, fabrication, and testing facility in Milan, Ohio and Pasadena, California. We are an Hispanic-American owned Small Disadvantaged Business, incorporated in the State of Ohio.

Our strong tradition and respect for our rich history infuses our work every day, but a desire for innovation and new ideas keep us reaching for new heights. We take pride in fulfilling our mission: “Serving society with superior quality.” Our customers depend on us to improve the way they live, move, work and play, and we believe our teammates' skill, dedication and compassion help us fulfill that calling.

Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston, Ltd., through our attorneys and staff, is dedicated to providing superior solutions for our clients. We accomplish this by consistently delivering quality legal services, in a timely manner, at a fair value, with the highest ethical standards.

Wickens Herzer Panza has been committed to providing sound legal guidance to businesses of Lorain & Cuyahoga Counties since 1932. Wickens Herzer Panza provides legal counsel to family- and privately-owned businesses in the areas of Business Organizations & Tax, Probate & Estate Planning, Elder Law and Business Litigation. We're more than legal counsel, too. We're a business partnership, an advocate for our clients and advisors who support, give advice and protect those we work with. We are our clients'​ trusted advisor and make it our mission to be responsive, accountable, proactive and client-centered. Our Firm has offices in Avon, Ohio, and Sandusky, Ohio. Wickens Herzer Panza is currently the largest law firm in Lorain and Erie counties. Our practice areas include: Business Restructuring & Creditors'​ Rights Corporate & Business Transactions Employment & Labor Estate Planning, Probate & Probate Litigation Real Estate & Construction Healthcare Litigation Additionally, our experience and focus includes: Business & Family Succession Planning Employee Benefits & ERISA Mergers & Acquisitions Workers'​ Compensation

ECHO® is an insurance technology company focused on removing complexity and costs from payment processing. We save our customers over $1 billion dollars per year through comprehensive management of the claim payment process and providing access to the ECHO Payment Network, the industry’s largest network of insurers and service providers. ECHO settles over 500 million claims and distributes over $110 billion in payments securely across the ECHO Payment Network annually; and proprietary ECHO technology keeps payers, payees, and service providers happy by ensuring payments are sent in the manner they prefer.

Cority gives every employee from the field to the boardroom the power to make a difference, reducing risks and creating a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world. For over 35 years, Cority’s people-first software solutions have been built by EHS and sustainability experts who know the pressures businesses face. Time-tested, scalable, and configurable, CorityOne is the responsible business platform that combines datasets from across the organization to enable improved efficiencies, actionable insights, data-driven decisions, and more accurate reporting on performance. Trusted by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide, Cority deeply cares about helping people work toward a better future for everyone. To learn more, visit www.cority.com.

Payne, Nickles & Company is full service accounting and business advisory firm. Payne, Nickles & Company CPAs and Business Advisors offer a full range of financial reporting services, tax & financial planning, estate and succession planning, litigation support, forensic accounting, business valuation, retirement plan consulting, payroll administration, and Quickbooks and Peachtree consulting services.

Corrigan Krause is a mid-size CPA firm located in Westlake, Ohio, specializing in servicing closely-held businesses since 1989. Corrigan Krause provides various accounting, tax, compliance, and consulting solutions to the challenges that small companies face in the ever-changing business environment. We take pride in working as business advocates, providing value-added personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for the future. Corrigan Krause is also an independent member of MSI Global Alliance, a worldwide organization of professional accounting firms and business advisors in more than 100 countries. This affiliation provides us with access to industry-focused experts in major cities around the world.

We know you play a crucial role in the fabric of modern society, and we provide multi-discipline engineering, architecture, and surveying services to ensure your continued operation and success. With decades of experience developing facilities and infrastructure that are home to the essential products and services of the modern world, our professionals are ready to work alongside your team to achieve your objectives. Our values - experience, trust, value, quality, respect and responsiveness – are at the core of our success and ultimately your success. Whether you’re in the manufacturing, chemical, commercial, government, metal production or power sector, your enterprise is critical, and REW is ready to collaborate. Let’s get started!

SuretyHR is part of the Spooner Risk Control family of companies. Spooner Inc (our TPA) and Spooner Medical Administrators (our MCO) both have long and storied histories of helping employers navigate the claimant-favoring, monopolistic Ohio workers’ compensation system. We’ve saved thousands of companies hundreds of thousands of dollars, with some even into the millions with our claims and program management. As Ohio BWC continued making changes to programs, eligibility and inflating administrative costs, we found that offering solutions for only our state-fund and self-insured clients wasn’t enough. Enter SuretyHR, our professional employer organization (PEO). We began building the departments that would make up SuretyHR in 2015, with the addition of payroll services. By 2017, we had added in-house legal counsel, HR experts and additional support to our existing teams handling workers’ comp, safety, unemployment, and absence management. In September 2019, we were granted self-insured status by Ohio BWC, which greatly increased the amount of savings we could bring to our clients. Our controlled, organic growth initially focused on our existing clients that needed solutions outside of Ohio BWC, then branched out all over Ohio. Imagine you could regain all of the time spent on processing payroll, managing benefit plans, employee relations and workers’ comp. Those employment-related diversions can drain profits, and SuretyHR was created to remove those obstacles from your bottom line.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Premier Transportation is an Irregular Route Common and Contract Carrier which specializes in providing integrated transportation and logistics solutions to the retail and consumer products industries nationwide. Premier is able to provide numerous resources to meet customer needs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including door-to-store deliveries, dedicated fleets, truckload transportation and yard management. The company's leading performance record, competitive pricing, and unparalleled customer service to the retail and consumer products communities have propelled Premier to the forefront of the transportation industry. Premier is committed to providing top quality transportation services to our retail customers. Our experienced driver and management teams can tailor programs to meet your individual requirements, while our customer service department constantly monitors our performance to ensure that we maintain our service commitments. At Premier Transportation we are committed to excellence in transportation making it easy for our customers to do business with us; we are committed to 100% on time, damage free deliveries and the timely delivery of information regarding our shipments. .