Ascend
Amy Samuel, SHRM-CP, is a Senior Recruiter at Ascend since April 2024, focusing on addressing the challenges faced by accounting and finance professionals. Previously, as a Talent Acquisition Manager and Human Resources Business Partner at MarketWise Solutions from June 2019 to December 2023, Amy played a key role in scaling the company's workforce from 350 to nearly 1000 employees, optimizing recruiting processes, and managing campus recruitment initiatives. Prior experience includes positions at Cision as a Senior Recruiter, and at Robert Half as a Recruiter, with an early role as Sales Support. Amy holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication, with a focus on Advertising, Public Relations, and Marketing from Towson University.
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Ascend
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 today’s 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.