Kenneth S. Berryman

Part of Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc., Compression, Inc. designs and develops industrial, medical, and consumer products. The company is based in Lake Forest, CA. Compression was acquired by Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc. on January 11, 2001.

Genscape, Inc. provides power plant output and transmission status information through Internet. The firm offers supply chain monitoring and intelligence, fundamentals analysis, transportation and storage services, refinery utilization, interstate storage monitoring, natural gas notices and maintenance, ethanol supply chain services, and fractionator monitoring service. The company was founded by Sean O'Leary and Sterling Lapinski in 1999 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Capitala Investment Advisors LLC (Capitala Group) is a private equity firm founded by Joe B. Alala in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

American Security Bank was opened in September, 1990, as Sun Country Bank. In the fall of 2003, the Bank’s holdings expanded through the purchase of PriVest Bank, a single location in Santa Ana. In June of 2005 the Bank changed its name to American Security Bank. From June, 2005 to November, 2008, the Bank’s footprint expanded through the opening of new offices in Corona and Apple Valley; the relocation of its headquarters from Santa Ana to Newport Beach; the relocation of its commercial real estate lending division to the headquarters facility; and the construction of an updated office that replaced its flagship Apple Valley office. The bank currently operates five full-service banking offices. Two loan production offices and two convenient electronic banking vestibules. The four-county footprint served by American Security Bank includes the High Desert region of San Bernardino County, the Antelope Valley region of Los Angeles County, the Inland Empire, and Orange County.

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.

USA, Inc. provides investment services. The CEO of the American company is Charles Smith.

Weller Equity Management LLC (Weller Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Kenneth S. Berryman and Dale J. Boden. The firm is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Vogt Investment LLC provides investment services. The company is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Mirac Investment LLC operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in Louisville, KY.