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San Diego FC is a Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion team set to begin play in 2025. Owned by Sir Mohamed Mansour through his family office, Man Capital, the club focuses on social impact, environmental sustainability, and youth development. It operates under the Right to Dream model, a globally recognized soccer academy system that emphasizes holistic athlete development and community engagement. The team will compete in MLS, with home games at Snapdragon Stadium. San Diego FC also features the Right to Dream Academy, which provides free education, housing, and soccer training to young athletes. This academy aims to foster athletic development, academic excellence, and personal growth, mirroring existing facilities in Ghana, Egypt, and Denmark. Additionally, the club engages in community programs that promote diversity and inclusion, targeting local residents and youth athletes from underserved communities. The ownership structure reflects a partnership between Mansour’s Man Capital and the Sycuan Tribe, blending global sports investment with local heritage.
Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount todays industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation.
Landscape Forms is the industrys premier global brand of outdoor furniture, LED lighting and accessories. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. The Landscape Forms U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan with sales representatives throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Southern Europe, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place. The company has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Disney, Sprint, American Airlines, Herman Miller and Nike. Landscape Forms was recently named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 15 Small Workplaces in the US.