Carla Bourque

Five Elms Capital Management LLC (Five Elms Capital) is a private equity firm founded by Fred Coulson in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Kansas.

Apptegy, Inc. engages in the development of publishing platform for schools. It offers Thrillshare, a mobile application that creates and distributes content from mobile application. The company was founded by Jeston George and Dan Pariente in 2015 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

Siperian, Inc. provides master data management software platforms. It helps companies unify critical data about customers, products and organizations that is fragmented across systems to deliver reliable, complete views of this data within existing business processes. The firm specializes in master data management enterprise software provider. The company was founded by Ken Hoang in 2000 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

The Stephens Group LLC (Stephens Group) is an independent Private Equity firm founded in 2006 by W. R. Stephens and Elizabeth Stephens Campbell. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Ask Nicely Holdings, Inc. is a customer experience platform designed specifically for financial service businesses. The company is based in Portland, OR and was founded in 2014 by John Ballinger and Aaron Ward. The platform is easy to implement and provides real-time customer feedback to empower frontline teams to learn and improve. AskNicely offers customer experience guides, case studies, research, webinars, and more. The platform seamlessly integrates with multiple CRMs and API services, including Salesforce, Slack, Hubspot, Marketing Cloud, Dynamics, and more. Aaron Ward has been the CEO since 2014.

Part of Sprout Social, Inc., Tagger Media, Inc. is a company that develops a marketing, social, and intelligence platform. The company is based in Santa Monica, CA. The company was founded in 2015 by Peter Kennedy. The CEO is Dave Dickman. Tagger Media was acquired by Sprout Social, Inc. on August 03, 2023 for $140 million.

SingleOps LLC provides business-management software to green industry companies. Its cloud software products can use in job management, estimates, scheduling and routing, work orders, invoicing, hob costing, time tracking, automated communication (email and texts), inventory management, purchase orders, and QuickBook syncing. The firm serves tree care, landscaping, field services, sod farm and landscape supplies, and rentals industries. The company was founded by Sean McCormick and Matthew w. Lowe and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Field Agent, Inc. provides retail auditing and data collection services. It allows companies to perform retail auditing and market intelligence from a crowd sourced network of smartphone-enabled agents around the country. The firm gathers data and insights from consumers around the world. The company was founded by Henry Ho, Kelly Miller and Rick West in 2009 and is headquartered in Fayetteville, AR.

DiffusionData Ltd. provides enterprise messaging and Internet ommunications solutions. It is a global technology and solutions specialist that focuses on rojecting data beyond the edge. The firm’s robust and scalable ommunication platform-DiffusionTM enables large scale smart data distribution that unlocks the true potential of multi-channel, connected world to help organizations ealize meaningful, valuable and personalized exchanges. The company was founded by Sean Bowen and Darren Hudson in 2006 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Gideon Management LLC (Kansas), Silver Lake Bank is a state chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Topeka, KS. Patrick R. Gideon has been the CEO of the company since 1982.