Ascend
Matthew Siedle is currently engaged in business development at Ascend since January 2023. Prior to this role, Siedle held multiple positions at Alpine Investors from July 2021, progressing from Analyst to Senior Analyst and then to Associate. Siedle's experience also includes serving as a Sales Floor Associate and Key Holder at Salt Lake Running Company from August 2019 to June 2021 and a brief tenure as a Seasonal Sales Associate at Nike in January 2019. In June and July 2018, Siedle worked as an Assistant at PureNetworks (Pty) Ltd. Academically, Siedle earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Science (2020-2021) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Business, Financial Management, and Marketing Management from Stellenbosch University (2016-2019). Education was initiated at St John's College, completing studies there from 2012 to 2015.
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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.