ACG Kentucky welcomes new president Matt Berrian

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LOUISVILLE (September 3, 2020)  - Matt Berrian, director at BKD CPAs & Advisors in Louisville, is the new president of ACG Kentucky, the local chapter of an association comprised of professionals focused on building and growing middle-market companies.

Berrian, who joined the chapter’s board of directors in 2018, succeeds outgoing president Brad Smith, the managing partner for MCM CPAs and Advisors. Smith continues to serve as ACG Kentucky’s treasurer, and will chair the 2021 Mid South Capital Connection event co-hosted by the Kentucky and Tennessee chapters of the Association for Corporate Growth.

“I’m honored to have the opportunity to lead ACG Kentucky and our focus on middle market corporate growth,” Berrian said. “In these challenging times, it’s important to build on our chapter’s strengths while seeking new voices and perspectives to help shape our future -- as well as our Kentucky and Southern Indiana economies.”

Matt is a member of BKD’s National Commercial Services Group, providing audit and consulting services for closely held and private equity-backed companies. He is also the Louisville commercial services team leader for assurance services. His experience includes audits, reviews, compilations and other assurance services, employee benefit plan audits and mergers and acquisitions. A graduate of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, Berrian joined BKD in 2007.

Fall speakers announced

ACG Kentucky’s lineup through December 2020 features the following programs providing insights from successful Kentucky companies and executives:

• September 17 - Appriss Inc. Executive Chairman Mike Davis and CFO Jeff Byal discuss the company’s 1994 founding and subsequent growth. Appriss is the nation’s most comprehensive source of incarceration, justice, and risk intelligence data, providing insights and analytic solutions that enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to save lives, fight crime, prevent fraud, and manage risk.

• October TBD - ACG Kentucky Deal of the Year, presented by Frost Brown Todd, honors a Louisville-area company for an exceptional transaction - a merger or acquisition during 2019 - that had the greatest impact on local middle-market corporate growth.

• November 12 - MiddleGround Capital Partner John Stewart discusses his firm, its evolution and its position as a private equity firm that invests in and operates B2B companies in the industrial and specialty distribution sectors in the lower middle market. Stewart is responsible for overall management of the firm and management of its investment team.

• December TBD - ACG Kentucky and the Louisville chapter of Financial Executives International present a joint program for ACG’s transaction and support professionals and FEI’s membership of CFOs, finance VPs and corporate finance leaders.

2020-21 Leadership

In addition to new president Matt Berrian, ACG Kentucky’s 2020-21 board leadership is comprised of:

• Brad Smith, Managing Partner, MCM CPAs and Advisors (Treasurer) 
• Bill Strench, Member, Frost Brown Todd (Secretary)
• Ken Berryman, Managing Partner, Weller Equity Partners
• Dan Fisher, Member, Dentons
• Vernon Foster, Executive Director, MBA Programs, Career Management & PR, University of Louisville College of Business
• Darrin McCauley, Senior Vice President, Old National Bank
• Matt Saltzman, Director of Strategic Advisory Services, Strothman and Co.
• John Sweeney, Managing Director, Baird Business Owner Solutions
• Jack White, Partner, Todd Asset Management
• Terry McWilliams, President, Mozaic Investor Relations, Inc. (Chapter Executive)

About ACG Kentucky

ACG Kentucky connects corporate leaders, dealmakers and support professionals in Louisville and Southern Indiana through programs that highlight private equity, finance and capital formation and corporate growth issues, as well as through networking events (our annual golf scramble and socials) and its partnership with ACG Tennessee to produce the annual Mid-South Capital Connection.

For additional information about ACG Kentucky, visit our website at www.acg.org/kentucky or contact Chapter Executive Terry McWilliams at acgkentucky@gmail.com, terrym@mozaicir.com or 502.410.2113. 

Media Contact 

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