Ascend
Dylan Glosser currently serves as the Regional Director of Partnerships M&A at Ascend, a role initiated in September 2025, focused on revitalizing public accounting with the support of Alpine Investors. Prior to this, Dylan held the position of VP of Strategy & Corporate Development at Shepherd Safety Systems, LLC from January 2024 to August 2025, with backing from Pelican Energy Partners. Dylan's experience in private equity includes a tenure as Senior Associate at Pelican Energy Partners LP from October 2020 to January 2024, where the firm raised over $1 billion for investments in the energy, industrial, and manufacturing sectors. Earlier career experience includes a role as Private Equity Associate and Equity Research Associate at Piper Sandler from July 2018 to September 2020. Dylan Glosser holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin, and graduated from Trinity Christian Academy.
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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.