Clients and Industries
Ascend serves clients in many industries, with a particular focus on technology, business services, software, and media. Typical clients are mid-market or private equity-backed firms or companies with an important direct sales or business development component to their business.
Ascend's principals have worked with firms such as:
- A Fortune 100 media company
- A Fortune 500 energy company
- A venture-backed electronic component maker
- A large European carrier
- A private equity-backed healthcare IT firm
- A leading communications software firm
- One of the largest African industrial firms
- One of the largest IT outsourcing and development firms
- Two of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers
- A top 20 asset management firm
- A venture-backed web media company
- A publicly traded national media firm
- An enterprise software startup
- A major diversified utility
- A $5B regional commercial and retail bank
- A major international manufacturer
- A regional business services company
- A national venture-backed software company
- One of the largest health web sites in the country
Examples
The following case studies are illustrative of Ascend's work:
- Owernship: International, private equity-backed
- Scope: Sales improvement, Marketing, Strategy
Case 2: Business Services Firm
- Ownership: Privately held
- Scope: Sales improvement
- Ownership: Backed with $100m from tier one private equity firms
- Scope: Best practices in compensation, systems, talent acquisition and metrics