Affiliate Companies

Quality businesses we know, trust and recommend.

The following is a list of affiliate companies that we know, trust and recommend. We invite you to contact them if you are in need of the services they provide.

In October 2001, Kraft Search Associates became an affiliate business of Kraft CPAs, one of Tennessee's top three professional accounting and consulting firms. The firm employs more than 125 individuals plus five affiliate businesses: Kraft Technology Group, Kraft Corporate Recovery Services, Kraft Healthcare Consulting, 2nd Generation Capital and Kraft Search Associates.

KraftCPAs Turnaround & Restructuring Group has a proven track record of success in several industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, technology and healthcare. Our forensic accounting capabilities have become a significant component of many advisory projects in recent years. Insolvency and reorganization services:

• Turn-around management
• Restructuring of debt and equity
• Bankruptcy, including debtor reorganizations & liquidations and creditor support for lenders & committees
• Interim & permanent management placement
• Off-shore sourcing strategies and implementation
• Forensic accounting and electronic discovery
• M&A due diligence & advisory
• Valuation
• Litigation & dispute resolution, including expert reports & testimony and negotiation support

KraftCPAs PLLC is a leading CPA firm headquartered in Nashville and helped launch Kraft Search Associates with Paul Frankenberg in 2001.

Since its inception in 1958, KraftCPAs PLLC has become one of the largest independent certified public accounting firms in middle Tennessee. Founded by the late Joe Kraft, the firm presently has 17 members and a total staff of over 140 men and women, including approximately 60 CPAs. With offices in Nashville, Columbia and Lebanon, Tennessee, the firm provides not only audit, tax, and accounting, but also a broad range of consulting services to meet our clients' growing needs.

These consulting services represent our commitment to go beyond the audit and provide "value added" services that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations.

We are a member of the RSM McGladrey Network of independent accounting firms, an association of large, local CPA firms located throughout the United States and in several international countries. Affiliation with the McGladrey Network provides KraftCPAs and our clients with the resources typical of an international firm while allowing us to maintain our autonomy and local identity.

Each of our members is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA).

Kraft Technology Group [KTG] is an information services and consulting firm providing customized solutions to help small and mid-sized companies manage their information resources. Our services include the following:

• Networking and Systems Integration – Providing design services, installation, administration, and support of our client's information technology infrastructure has been a mainstay for KTG for over 15 years. We install and support a variety of key IT components that comprise our clients' computing systems – desktops, laptops, servers, firewalls, switches, email, remote access systems, and more...
• Technology Consulting – KTG's experienced team of professionals help companies refine their business processes to enhance bottom line performance by providing technology planning, budgeting and IT systems reviews.
• Information Security Services – Information technology security and IT controls should support and enable business objectives – not hinder them. Because organizations have unique characteristics and varying degrees of risk tolerance, there is no "one size fits all" solution. KTG helps clients assess risks to their information systems and implement controls to mitigate risk based on their tolerance level.

Axis Accounting Systems, LLC is a full service consulting firm that provides business systems selection, implementation, and support services to growing companies.

In addition to offering packages from three of the top mid-market accounting software publishers, including Microsoft, Epicor and Sage, Axis also offers solutions for budgeting/forecasting, customer relationship management (CRM), document management and more. By offering several of the top products on the market, Axis is in a unique position to offer unbiased, objective recommendations based on the client’s needs, not the capabilities of a single product.

The firm is a Microsoft Gold Partner and staffs Microsoft certified consultants to provide unparalleled expertise in a variety of fields, from complex financial reporting to assistance with streamlining distribution facilities.

Kraft Asset Management, LLC ("KAM"), offers fee-only investment and wealth management services for high net worth individuals and provides objective, independent advice to assist clients in reaching their financial goals. The company was formed in 2002 as an affiliate of KraftCPAs PLLC.

Our wealth managers assist clients with all aspects of financial management, including:

• Portfolio management.
• Tax planning.
• Retirement planning.
• Insurance planning/risk management.
• Estate planning.
• College planning.

The purpose of Kraft Asset Management, LLC is simple -- to provide the most prudent investment planning and wealth management services for our clients and their families. Our goal is to establish close and trustworthy relationships with our clients, based on mutual respect and the highest ethical standards. We seek to help our clients determine and implement the best wealth management strategies based on their individual risk tolerance, financial objectives, investment time horizon, and need for income. Kraft Asset Management, LLC serves as a registered investment advisor to individuals, businesses, trusts, partnerships, estates, non-profit organizations, and retirement plans.

2nd Generation Capital, LLC is a classic merchant banking firm that invests and advises in private placement transactions for its own account and those of its clients.

Contact Us

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Thank you.

Paul Frankenberg
President, C.E.O. and Principal
Kraft Search Associates, LLC
The Quality Leader in Healthcare Executive Search
555 Great Circle Road, Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37228
Phone: (615) 782-4276