United Bank Card (UBC) CEO Jared Isaacman knows to give is to receive. UBC, a payment and transaction processing company, more than doubled its annual profits and set a new standard for the industry when the young, innovative Isaacman and his sales team began giving away (rather than selling or leasing) the terminals merchants use to process credit, debit, EBT government cards, and electronic gift and loyalty cards. Today, UBC handles accounts for more than 100,000 merchants nationwide and processes nearly $10 billion annually. Customers are primarily small to midsized business owners in the e-commerce, petroleum, lodging, mail order, supermarket, and restaurant industries.

Within each of these core service areas are a number of significant boutique practices whose reputations are national and even international in scope. Within our corporate area, for instance, the firm enjoys a world-class reputation in important areas of practice including asset-based finance; banking; executive compensation; investment services (mutual funds); and aircraft and equipment finance. Law firm Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz has organized its numerous practices into three primary areas: corporate; labor and employment; and litigation. Within those fields, the firm over the years has developed expertise in specialty practices such as accounting, aircraft finance, bankruptcy, construction, executive compensation, and investment services.

Noblis, Inc. operates as a science, technology, and strategy company that helps its clients in solving complex systems, process, and infrastructure problems. The company serves government and private sector clients in the areas of energy and environmental sustainability, enterprise services, healthcare, national security and intelligence, and transportation, as well as oceans, atmosphere, and space. Its services include technology assessment; requirements analysis and modeling; program planning and acquisition support; strategic planning and decision analysis; system engineering; network architecture, development, and implementation; and environmental, biological, and chemical engineering. Noblis, Inc. was formerly known as Mitretek Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Falls Church, Virginia. It also has locations in Chicago, Illinois; College Park, Greenbelt, and Silver Spring, Maryland; Lexington and West Springfield, Massachusetts; Norcross, Georgia; San Antonio, Texas; and Washington, District of Columbia.

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants provides management and strategy consulting services through more than 35 offices across 25 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The firm focuses on corporate development, information management, marketing and sales, operations strategy, and restructuring and corporate finance. It operates through competence centers with expertise in sectors including automotive, chemicals and oil, consumer goods, financial services, media, transportation, and telecommunications. Chairman Roland Berger founded the firm in 1967. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants is an independent partnership owned by its 180 partners.

Network Direct (NDI) provides consulting and management services for companies in the market to outsource their contact center (inbound, outbound, or interactive) operations. Services include strategic planning, call center evaluation and recommendation, contract negotiation, script creation, training assessment, and call center coordination. Clients have included Cigna, Consumers Union, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nations Bank. NDI was established in 1989.

Promoting sports stars and musicians is a capital idea pursued by Capital Sports & Entertainment. The Austin, Texas-based integrated management and marketing firm markets entertainers, including musicians (Blues Traveler, Ben Kweller, and Jack Ingram) and athletes (champion cyclist Lance Armstrong and Australian race car driver Veronica McCann). The company also produces and promotes concerts, such as The Austin City Limits Music Festival and Lollapalooza. It also develops, enhances, and manages brands, including the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, and the Tour of Hope cross-country cycling race.

Through its subsidiaries, The Elliot Group provides executive search and consulting services to companies in the hospitality, food service, retail, and manufacturing industries. Elliot Associates offers retained and contingent executive recruiting for hospitality, food service, and retail positions. Elliot Executive Source provides similar services for food manufacturers, distributors, and other food industry businesses. The Elliot Group also sells motivational products (through Elliot Productions) and offers consulting services (through Elliot Executive Insights). The company has offices in California, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Texas. The Elliot Group was founded by CEO Alice Elliot.

TAEUS International specializes in evaluating patents that involve integrated circuits and other electronic systems. Its provides advice on patent licensing strategy, expert witness services, and reverse engineering to determine whether a patent has been infringed. The company also offers IPortalware, patent marketing software program. Clients have included such blue-chip companies as Intel and IBM, as well as law firms and financial institutions. Established in 1992, TAEUS International has offices in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

People who need people call on USG People. The firm provides temporary workers to small and midsized companies as well as large clients in the construction, education, government, health care, hospitality, industrial, and transportation and logistics industries. It provides specialized temps in the finance, human resources, medical, multilingual, secretarial, and technical professions. Major brands include Proflex and Start People (general staffing); Ad Rem Young Professionals, Express Medical, Receptel, Secretary Plus, Technicum, Unique, and StarJob (specialist staffing); and Call-IT (other services). The company chiefly caters to the Netherlands and owns a network of about 1,650 branches throughout Europe.

ZeroChaos offers clients a way to remove some of the uncertainty when dealing with contract employees. Specializing in contract staffing services, ZeroChaos helps clients find and manage their contract labor workforce. Services include payroll and back office processes, risk management, private label sourcing (allowing clients to build their own pools of quality contract workers), as well as vendor management and invoicing. The company provides its services entirely through an automated and Web-enabled delivery platform. The company was a subsidiary of human resources administration and outsourcing company Co-Advantage until 2004, when CEO Harold Mills acquired ZeroChaos.

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