Rockbridge Growth Equity, a partnership-oriented middle market private equity firm in Detroit, today announced it has made a majority investment in Access Global Group in Southlake, Texas, a Salesforce-focused solutions and services company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Access Global Group marks the first investment in Rockbridge’s FormativGroup platform, which expects to further invest in partner companies to offer modernized application development, data architecture, and consulting services focused on the middle market and growing enterprise market segments.
Rockbridge Industry Advisor Gene Chao is serving as CEO of FormativGroup. An IBM and Unisys veteran, Chao has led technology services business units for numerous enterprises.
“We are excited to formally launch the FormativGroup platform with our acquisition of Access Global Group,” says Chao. “While enterprises of all sizes need to orchestrate and harness the power of modern applications, dynamic workflow designs, and the right data structures, we believe technology consulting and platform solutions in the middle market are particularly fragmented — which is also amplified around the emergence of GenAI, AI Reasoning, and newly created Ux/Ui models.
“We see strong demand for these services in this sector of the market and look forward to announcing more acquisitions soon.”
Access Global Group has provided consulting services to mid-sized businesses for more than 15 years, assisting with the implementation and integration of Salesforce applications, focused on the sales cloud, service cloud, marketing cloud, and tableau.
In addition to helping customers optimize value from the Salesforce platform, the company also offers post-implementation support and ongoing maintenance services. With additional offices in Canada and India, Access Global Group primarily serves customers in the financial services and public sector end-markets. Access Global Group CEO Vamsi Bollineni will continue to lead the company with the existing management team.
“Access Global Group is well aligned with FormativGroup’s group mission of delivering holistic, tailored technology consulting services to help mid-sized companies on their technology transformation journeys,” says Bollineni. “We are confident that by partnering with Gene, Rockbridge and other companies with complementary offerings, Access Global Group will be better positioned for future growth.”
Honigman served as legal advisor to Rockbridge and Shumaker was the legal advisor to Access Global Group.
Founded in 2007, Rockbridge Growth Equity is committed to helping both founder-operated and established companies accelerate growth and build long-term, sustainable value. Rockbridge combines the flexibility of a financial sponsor with the benefits of a strategic partnership by leveraging the firm’s relationship with the Rock Family of Companies, which provides access to industry and functional expertise. As of year-end 2023, Rockbridge has regulatory assets under management of over $1.7 billion across its target sectors: e-Commerce and Marketing Services, Financial Services and Fintech, Tech-Enabled Products and Services, and Digital Media. For more information, please visit www.rbequity.com.
