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Standard Meat Company Names New Director of Information Technology, High-Level Promotions in Business Development and Human Resources

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Packaging, Retail, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Food, Beverage, Ponder, KTC, Growth, Plant, SPHR, SMC, Business development, Kubota, HR, Human resources, CCP, Stockyard, Information technology, SHRM, Management

Founded in 1935 and headquartered at the iconic Stockyards in Fort Worth, Standard Meat Company (SMC) is a meat processing and packaging firm with plants in Dallas, Fort Worth, Saginaw, and Ponder, Texas.

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  • Founded in 1935 and headquartered at the iconic Stockyards in Fort Worth, Standard Meat Company (SMC) is a meat processing and packaging firm with plants in Dallas, Fort Worth, Saginaw, and Ponder, Texas.
  • As the new Director of Information Technology at SMC, Trever Schatschneider is responsible for all IT services and support, including application, infrastructure, and help desk services.
  • A 12-year veteran with the company, Taylor Stephenson has been elevated to the role of Senior Director, Business Development.
  • “Recognizing and cultivating talent from within is an important value here at Standard Meat Company,” concluded Rosenthal Blumenfeld.

Kaufman Hall Acquires Ponder & Co.

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Monday, May 1, 2023
University, Organization, PM, Hospital, TCM, Ponder, AUC, Hall, Pharmaceutical industry

For nearly 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided leading hospitals and health systems with world-class management consulting on treasury and capital markets (TCM); partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions (PM&A); strategic financial planning; performance improvement; real estate; and clinical documentation support.

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  • For nearly 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided leading hospitals and health systems with world-class management consulting on treasury and capital markets (TCM); partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions (PM&A); strategic financial planning; performance improvement; real estate; and clinical documentation support.
  • For more than 45 years, Ponder & Co. has provided capital markets and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to not-for-profit hospitals, healthcare systems, academic medical centers, and universities.
  • "I'm delighted to announce that our organizations are bringing together complementary, unparalleled advisory services and experience in treasury and capital markets and partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions," said R. Wesley Champion, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Kaufman Hall.
  • "We are excited about the opportunity to combine our team's skills and expertise with those of Kaufman Hall," said Terry Shirey, Managing Director and President of Ponder & Co. "The combination will create an even more robust and responsive platform for serving our clients' advisory needs."

Standard Meat Company Names New Chief Operating Officer

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Other Manufacturing, Supermarket, Manufacturing, Restaurant, Bar, Food, Beverage, Retail, Agriculture, Supply Chain Management, Natural Resources, Industry, Food safety, CEO, Meat, Plant, Ponder, Cattle, Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, Cargill, Rosenthal, Management, Science

Ben Rosenthal, co-president and CEO of Standard Meat Company, a Dallas-Fort Worth-based meat company, announced eight-year Standard Meat veteran Tom Allen is the companys new chief operating officer.

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  • Ben Rosenthal, co-president and CEO of Standard Meat Company, a Dallas-Fort Worth-based meat company, announced eight-year Standard Meat veteran Tom Allen is the companys new chief operating officer.
  • Standard Meat is a family-owned meat processing and packaging company with plants in Dallas, Fort Worth, Saginaw, and Ponder, Texas.
  • Tom had extraordinary experience in the meat industry before joining us at Standard Meat Company, said Ashli Rosenthal Blumenfeld, Standard Meat co-president.
  • Pioneers in steak cutting, Standard Meat Company is a recognized expert in meat science, food safety and quality assurance, culinary trends, purchasing, and packaging.

Standard Meat Names Zach Calkins as Executive Chef

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Supply Chain Management, Restaurant, Bar, Other Retail, Supermarket, Specialty, Agriculture, Food, Beverage, Natural Resources, Other Manufacturing, Retail, Packaging, Manufacturing, Plant, Research, Ponder, Food safety, New England, Food, Calkins, Love, Child, New England Culinary Institute, Restaurant, Management

Ashli Rosenthal Blumenfeld, co-president of Standard Meat, a Dallas-Fort Worth-based protein packaging and portioning company, announced the addition of a new Executive Chef Zach Calkins to the companys product development team.

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  • Ashli Rosenthal Blumenfeld, co-president of Standard Meat, a Dallas-Fort Worth-based protein packaging and portioning company, announced the addition of a new Executive Chef Zach Calkins to the companys product development team.
  • Having Zach on board as our full-time executive chef will give him an even greater ability to keep Standard Meat as an industry leader, continuing to keep us on the forefront of culinary innovation, said Blumenfeld.
  • As Executive Chef, Calkins will oversee Standard Meats entire culinary product development program and innovations.
  • He then became executive chef at the renowned Strings Restaurant in Denver, Colo. Calkins was a leader at Quiznos before becoming a chef consultant.

Ponder Raises $7M Seed to Revolutionize the Most Important Tool in Data Science

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Software, Technology, Other Technology, Data Management, GSK, Twitter, Lux, Tesla, Machine learning, Intel, Investment, Diving, Adoption, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ford Motor Company, Silicon, VMware, Data science, Technology, Databricks, CTO, Bristol Myers Squibb, Drug discovery, Anomaly, UC, Intel Capital, Organization, Love, University of California, Berkeley, CEO, Engineering, Speed of light, LinkedIn, Cryptocurrency, Cassette tape, Ponder, Modin

Today, organizations are pouring time and money into data science initiatives, only to realize that they are not seeing returns on their investments.

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  • Today, organizations are pouring time and money into data science initiatives, only to realize that they are not seeing returns on their investments.
  • Take pandas , a Python library widely regarded as the most popular tool in data science, used by millions of data scientists to prepare, transform, and analyze data in machine learning workflows.
  • Pandas is the de-facto swiss-army knife of data science, leveraged across industries for data exploration and machine learning.
  • Leading data science teamsincluding 10 Fortune 100 companiesleverage Ponders technology to seamlessly accelerate their data science workloads.

For the Second Year in a Row, Ponder is Recognized as the Top Healthcare Financial Advisory firm by Thomson Reuters

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Friday, January 17, 2020
Companies, S&P/TSX 60 Index, Thomson Reuters, Ponder, Economy of New York City, Financial markets

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Ponder & Co., a leading healthcare financial advisory firm, announced today that the company was ranked as the No.

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  • NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Ponder & Co., a leading healthcare financial advisory firm, announced today that the company was ranked as the No.
  • 1 financial advisor in new healthcare debt issuance, for the 2nd year in a row and the 20th time in the last 35 years (when Thomson Reuters' began ranking Municipal Advisors in 1985*).
  • Ponder was founded in 1975 and has advised on over 3,000 transactions valued at nearly $190 Billion during its 45-year history.
  • Ponder has also had the opportunity assist several Continuing Care Retirement Communities over the past 5 years, including in 2019.