Shannon P. Pratt

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

Founded in 2003 by Shannon P. Pratt, Business Valuation Resources (BVR) is an investment research firm located in Portland, Oregon. The firm offers searchable empirical databases and content, as well as newsletters focusing on business valuation information. They provide market databases and analysis, cost of capital calculations and analyses and proprietary data on private and public company comparables. BVR also offers legal services in the areas of divorce, tax, bankruptcy, lost profits, shareholder disputes, intellectual property, employee stock options and general business disputes. In addition, the firm provides management consulting services including client newsletters, business valuation seminars and customized marketing tools. BVR offers their services through online search engines, conferences, teleconferences, Webinars, guides and books. Their clients include business appraisers, CPAs, M&A professionals, business brokers, lawyers/judges, private equity and venture capital investors, CFOs and others.

Paulson Capital (Delaware) Corp. operates as a holding company for Paulson Investment Co., which is a full service brokerage firm engaged in the purchase and sales of securities from and to the public, as well as its own account, and investment banking activities. The company was founded by Chester L. F. Paulson in 1970 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.