BKD, LLP

BKD, LLP is a top-tier national CPA & advisory firm with 2,100 partners and employees serving a wide range of industries. BKD’s National Higher Education Group serves more than 100 colleges and universities nationwide and has a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing the industry, including pressures to grow net tuition revenue, control costs and manage endowments, while effectively competing for students and managing risks. BKD and its subsidiaries offer clients a variety of services in accounting, audit and assurance, tax, risk management, technology, corporate finance, forensic and valuation services and wealth management. We deliver the right resources to help clients demonstrate fiscal responsibility, transparency, accountability and compliance with laws and regulations.

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Contact: Rick Wittgren, CPA, Partner
Phone: 317.383.5470 (office); 317.490.7748 (cell)
Email: rwittgren@bkd.com
Website: www.bkd.com

Lightbound

Since 1994, LightBound has been delivering voice and data IP services. We are an Indiana-based provider of Internet, voice, co-location, network, and cloud services to local, national and global organizations. LightBound has been delivering 24×7 support from a staffed Network Operations Center (NOC) from the beginning and a CLEC since 2005. We’re fortunate to have some of the world’s best and most successful brands as our clientele.

For more information, contact:

Jake Zupancic
Vice President of Sales
LightBound
731 W. Henry St., #200
Indianapolis, IN 46225
jzupancic@lightbound.net
800-844-8649

Website: https://www.lightbound.com/

Performance Services

Today’s colleges are experiencing challenging times. Budgets need to work hard. Student retention is critical. Students expect an engaging learning environment that includes internships. Faculty members expect comfortable teaching spaces. Leadership teams are under pressure to do more with less and need effective solutions in a changing and complex environment. As a high-performing building specialist and provider of behavior-based energy conservation programs, we are uniquely qualified to address your mission-critical challenges.

Energy Leadership is a cash flow positive energy conservation program designed to fund facility needs from current energy expenditures with sustainability in mind. Our holistic approach examines your challenges through a tiered impact assessment, customized based on your specific needs. The program engages student leaders and staff in a meaningful and collaborative way. Get started today with a no-cost opportunity assessment.

For more information, contact:

Tim Thoman
President and CEO
Phone: 317-819-1329
Contact via email

Website: performanceservices.com/higher-education

Schmidt Associates

Schmidt Associates, an architectural and engineering firm, was born on the fourth of July. Perhaps that’s why we have always nurtured a spirit of independence, originality, and wonder at what design can achieve in our world.

July of 1976, Wayne Schmidt decided to go it alone and set up an architecture practice that would be different. It would be different because it put the needs and aspirations of its clients first and center stage. It would be different because it valued every member of its growing professional team as individuals and as creators. And it would be different because it truly cared about the impact of its work on people and the world they live in.

Four decades later, we are proud that we remain different in all the regards that matter to us, to our clients, and to our community. We describe the way we work as “servant leadership”. That means we place our skills, our experience and our talents at the disposal of our clients. We help them, as their guides, to find and follow their path to the outcomes they want. We do not force them down routes that suit our purposes.

We sum up our unique approach in three phrases, distilled from everything our clients have told us across 40 years of defining, developing, and delivering good design. They say that Schmidt Associates displays Better Foresight, Better Insight, and that we are Better On-site.

For more information, contact:

Sarah Hempstead, AIA, LEED AP
CEO/Principal
Phone: 317-263-6226
Email: shempstead@schmidt-arch.com

Jean Renk
Business Development
Phone: 317-263-6226
Email: jrenk@schmidt-arch.com

Website: https://www.schmidt-arch.com

TIAA

TIAA (TIAA.org) is a leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural and government fields. TIAA has $1.1 trillion in assets under management (as of 12/31/2019) and offers a wide range of strategies, including investing, banking, advice and education and retirement services.

For more information, contact:

Liz Morse
Managing Director, Client Engagement & National Advocacy
Phone: 704-988-3621
Email: emorse@tiaa.org
Website: www.tiaa.org

UPS

United Parcel Service, Inc.: Typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is an American global package delivery company. The company delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. UPS is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as package cars (hence the company nickname “Brown”). UPS also operates its own airline that is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Contact: Weylin L. Stewart – Manager, Business Services Marketing
Phone: 317-727-1467
Email: wstewart@ups.com
Website: www.ups.com