Ascend
Nishaad Ruparel is currently serving as President at Ascend, a role assumed in November 2023, focused on revitalizing public accounting with support from Alpine Investors. Concurrently, Nishaad holds the position of Investor in Residence at Alpine Investors since August 2023, tasked with launching a middle market services investment within the firm's $4.8 billion flagship fund. Prior experience includes a Senior Associate role at AEA Investors LP from August 2018 to July 2021, where the focus was on consumer, retail, and services sectors, as well as an Investment Banking Analyst position at J.P. Morgan from June 2016 to August 2018, primarily within the Financial Sponsor Group. Nishaad earned an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business.
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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.