Jerry Paytas

GSP Consulting Corp. enables the growth of organizations, companies, communities, and economies through a suite of innovative government, business and economic development consulting services. Founded in February 2001, GSP relies on a revolutionary business model to provide world-class support and value at a responsible price. With this principle as its guiding mission, GSP Consulting today is a full-service consulting firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA with offices and partners across the country including Harrisburg, PA; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, D.C.; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; and Columbus, OH. While GSP provides superior performance in each of practice areas and service offerings, the ultimate value lies at the convergence of the firm's complimentary teams and services. Collectively, these practice areas within GSP provide a continuity of experience and resources from providing strategic planning, to securing funding and facilitating development. The firm's experts have authored revolutionary public policy, designed and launched groundbreaking economic development initiatives, secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, and built longstanding relationships and networks at all levels of government. GSP's diverse client list is a result of the firm's varied service offerings and in-house expertise. GSP has counseled technology, manufacturing and life sciences companies, as well as developers, municipalities, nonprofits and economic development agencies.

Ben Franklin Financial, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in owning the common stock of and having deposits in Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois. It focuses on attracting retail deposits from the general public in its market and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one-to four-family residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, multi-family real estate loans, home equity lines of credit and to a much lesser extent, commercial business loans and consumer loans. The company was founded in September 2014 and is headquartered in Arlington Heights, IL.

Part of Bachmann Trust Co. Ltd. AC SDG No 2 Esop Trust, Fourth Economy Consulting, Inc. provides business consulting services. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA. Fourth Economy Consulting was acquired by Steer Davies & Gleave Ltd. on May 19, 2021. The company was founded in 2010 by Rich Overmoyer, Jerry Paytas. Rich Overmoyer has been the CEO since 2010.