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Ataccama Celebrates Exceptional Data Leaders with Data Visionary Awards

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Data leaders recognized for innovation using Ataccama solutions and achieving significant data-driven impact for their organizations.

BOSTON, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Ataccama, today announced the winners of its Data Visionary Awards, which celebrate the exceptional achievements of its customers and community members. The Data Visionary Awards honor the businesses and individuals who have demonstrated innovative use of our data trust platform to drive positive change resulting in outstanding growth and significant impact in their respective organizations.

Mike McKee, CEO of Ataccama, said, “Ataccama’s mission is to help organizations accelerate business outcomes with data they can trust. We are proud to recognize these outstanding data leaders who have demonstrated innovation and commitment to data excellence using the Ataccama ONE platform. The awards embody our company values, including aiming high and working as one team, to celebrate the great contribution of our customers and community to advancing innovation in the data field. Their achievements demonstrate the value of data-driven decision-making and the transformative impact of effective data management.”

The Ataccama Data Visionary award winners were evaluated against four key criteria: innovation in using Ataccama solutions; quantifiable business impact; customer experience; and excellence in data management practices.

Data Innovation Award
Winner: Sundar Sattanathan, Customer Experience Leader at Nissan
This award recognizes an organization which has demonstrated exceptional creativity and ingenuity by taking bold steps to tackle complex data challenges and implementing cutting-edge solutions that deliver real business value. Nissan took on the challenge of managing customer data to maintain consistency, accuracy, and a unified source of truth across all systems, aiming to enhance, contextualize, and personalize the customer experience. Using Ataccama, Nissan achieved a single view of customer data to deliver a customer 360 experience, improve dealer and partner relationships, and ensure regulatory compliance with the CCPA.

Data Excellence Award
Winner: Jason Wright, Manager, Technical Products & Solutions at T-Mobile US
This award honors the customer who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and remarkable results in data management by implementing a truly scalable, automated data quality solution. T-Mobile implemented an innovative and transformative ‘data quality at scale’ initiative to protect and optimize 18,000 databases, achieving savings in the tens of millions of dollars in operational costs, and enabling critical applications in AI, marketing, finance, supply chain and more, to drive revenue and meet business objectives.

Customer Advocate of the Year Award
Winner: Chantale Boulanger, Data Governance Director at iA Financial Group
This award recognizes the customer who consistently champions Ataccama and its solutions, demonstrating support and advocacy within their organization and the wider data management community with a spirit of advocacy, leadership and collaboration. Chantale generously shares her insights and success with the broader community, fostering a culture of data literacy within her organization and inspiring others with her story.

AI Visionary Award
Winner: Catherine Yoshida, Data Governance Architect at Teranet
This award recognizes the customer who has embraced AI to solve complex data management challenges and prepare their data to drive strategic decisions. Teranet used Ataccama’s solution to create AI-ready data that is consistent, accurate, and regulation-compliant. With a projected 25% increase in data governance efficiency, faster access to crucial information for data users, and significant reductions in compliance risks, this project excited the organization and allowed teams to focus on strategic initiatives instead of manual reviews.

Data Collaboration Champion Award
Winner: May Kwok, Data Management Architect at Hamilton
This award honors a data champion who demonstrates innovation and leadership and who has fostered exceptional collaboration and knowledge sharing within their organization and has been pivotal in successfully uniting teams, data and processes. Using Ataccama’s full suite of products for Reference Data Management, Data Quality, and Data Issue Remediation, May and the team were able to automate manual processes, reducing redundant workflows and ensuring consistent, high-quality data across the different divisions – including regulatory reporting, business intelligence and tax – in the organization.

Ataccama Community Advocate Award
Winner: Albert de Ruiter, Lead Data Management at Stater
This award recognizes an individual within the Ataccama community who has consistently gone above and beyond to support fellow users, share their expertise, and contribute to the community’s growth and success. Albert earned this award for his exceptional dedication to the Ataccama community and being one of the most active members. This year, he proactively produced a four part best practice guide for the community on data quality and governance covering term types, relationship types and multilingualism. His curiosity, contribution and commitment have inspired others to take leadership roles within the community.

Congratulations also go to all nominees for this year’s awards who have achieved notable accomplishments.

For more information about Ataccama and its award-winning unified data quality, observability, lineage, governance and master data management solutions, please visit: www.ataccama.com

About Ataccama
Ataccama enables organizations to accelerate business initiatives with high quality, data they trust using Ataccama ONE, a unified data trust platform. Combining data quality, observability, lineage, governance and master data management in a single solution, Ataccama supports hundreds of companies around the world to grow their business, reduce cost and mitigate risk. Ataccama was one of only three software companies to be recognized by Gartner as a Market Leader for Augmented Data Quality in 2024. Learn more at www.ataccama.com.

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XLCS Partners advises Concurrent Utility Services on sale to UniTek Global Services

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XLCS Partners, Inc., a leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent Utility Services LLC on its acquisition by UniTek Global Services, Inc., a portfolio company of New Mountain Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: NMFC) and its affiliates, and BTG Pactual Strategic Capital.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Concurrent is a licensed general and electrical contractor providing infrastructure development and maintenance services to electric utilities, telecom providers, and land developers throughout the Southeast United States. The company’s capabilities span overhead and underground utility construction, professional telecom services, emergency service restoration, in-building networks, environmental services, and data center development. Backed by a safety-first culture and an experienced workforce, Concurrent has built a strong regional platform and a reputation for quality across the markets it serves.

UniTek is a leading digital infrastructure services provider supporting the expansion of fiber and data center connectivity across the U.S. and Canada. With over 600 employees and 60 locations, UniTek delivers a full suite of infrastructure services. The acquisition of Concurrent accelerates UniTek’s Power Services Division, which launched in July 2025 to broaden the company’s maintenance, repair, upgrade, and new infrastructure development services for the power sector. Concurrent’s established Southeast footprint and power capabilities directly complement UniTek’s existing broadband and data center infrastructure platform, positioning the combined company to capitalize on growing demand for resilient, modernized power infrastructure. Concurrent will continue to operate under its established brand, maintaining uninterrupted service for its customers.

“Selling Concurrent was one of the biggest decisions of my career, and Anthony, Jay, and the XLCS team guided us through every step with professionalism and genuine care for our people,” said Steve Sarno, CEO of Concurrent. “They stayed fully engaged throughout, gave us honest and thoughtful advice, kept our best interests front and center, and delivered an outcome that exceeded our expectations. I would recommend them without hesitation to any owner considering a transaction.”

XLCS acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent, and the transaction was led by Anthony Contaldo, Partner, and Jay Cremer, Vice President. The transaction was completed on July 1, 2026.

About XLCS Partners, Inc.

XLCS Partners is a leading global investment banking firm providing M&A advisory services. Visit www.xlcspartners.com for more information.

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Kendra Span 
kspan@xlcspartners.com
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XLCS Partners advises Concurrent Utility Services on sale to UniTek Global Services

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XLCS Partners, Inc., a leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent Utility Services LLC on its acquisition by UniTek Global Services, Inc., a portfolio company of New Mountain Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: NMFC) and its affiliates, and BTG Pactual Strategic Capital.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Concurrent is a licensed general and electrical contractor providing infrastructure development and maintenance services to electric utilities, telecom providers, and land developers throughout the Southeast United States. The company’s capabilities span overhead and underground utility construction, professional telecom services, emergency service restoration, in-building networks, environmental services, and data center development. Backed by a safety-first culture and an experienced workforce, Concurrent has built a strong regional platform and a reputation for quality across the markets it serves.

UniTek is a leading digital infrastructure services provider supporting the expansion of fiber and data center connectivity across the U.S. and Canada. With over 600 employees and 60 locations, UniTek delivers a full suite of infrastructure services. The acquisition of Concurrent accelerates UniTek’s Power Services Division, which launched in July 2025 to broaden the company’s maintenance, repair, upgrade, and new infrastructure development services for the power sector. Concurrent’s established Southeast footprint and power capabilities directly complement UniTek’s existing broadband and data center infrastructure platform, positioning the combined company to capitalize on growing demand for resilient, modernized power infrastructure. Concurrent will continue to operate under its established brand, maintaining uninterrupted service for its customers.

“Selling Concurrent was one of the biggest decisions of my career, and Anthony, Jay, and the XLCS team guided us through every step with professionalism and genuine care for our people,” said Steve Sarno, CEO of Concurrent. “They stayed fully engaged throughout, gave us honest and thoughtful advice, kept our best interests front and center, and delivered an outcome that exceeded our expectations. I would recommend them without hesitation to any owner considering a transaction.”

XLCS acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent, and the transaction was led by Anthony Contaldo, Partner, and Jay Cremer, Vice President. The transaction was completed on July 1, 2026.

About XLCS Partners, Inc.

XLCS Partners is a leading global investment banking firm providing M&A advisory services. Visit www.xlcspartners.com for more information.

Media Contact: 
Kendra Span 
kspan@xlcspartners.com
615-379-7783

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Fathom Applauds Introduction of the FRONTIER Act, the First Federal Blueprint for Independent AI Verification

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Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23) introduce a bill to build a competitive marketplace of independent verifiers for frontier AI models.

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fathom welcomes the introduction of the FRONTIER Act, the most complete federal framework yet for independent, third-party verification of frontier AI. The legislation is built to earn public trust as AI technology continues to accelerate. As frontier systems begin to take autonomous action in the world, the gap between what these models can do and our ability to keep them in check is widening. FRONTIER is the starting point to close that gap.

“AI governance keeps running into the same wall. The technology is hard to measure and it moves faster than any law can keep up with,” said Andrew Freedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Fathom. “Trying to write the perfect rules and freezing them in place won’t work. What will work is a competitive market of independent verifiers who are accountable for real-world outcomes and who the government can actually count on. The FRONTIER Act shows we can move fast and still get this right.”

The bill gets the fundamentals correct. It sets one public standard – the adequate mitigation of catastrophic risk – and holds both the AI companies and their independent verifiers accountable to it. FRONTIER does not freeze a single testing method into statute. Instead, it licenses competing verification organizations, allows them to sharpen their methods, and gives the government the power to revoke a license when a verifier’s work does not hold up in the field. That is how you build a system that keeps pace with the science instead of falling behind it.

Fathom thanks Reps. Trahan and Obernolte for their leadership, and for their courage in releasing a discussion draft, inviting scrutiny, and incorporating substantive improvements from across the field. One priority improvement as the bill advances: giving the government a fuller range of tools to act upstream – for pushing companies to close identified gaps in risk mitigation early, rather than only once a catastrophe is imminent. We are committed to working with these sponsors, committees of jurisdiction, and Congressional leadership to continue refining the bill in the weeks and months ahead.

About Fathom
Fathom is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to build a governance architecture that helps society navigate the transition to a world with AI by fostering trust, safety, and innovation. Fathom has developed and championed the independent verification model for AI and works with policymakers across the country to put it into practice. Learn more at http://fathom.org.

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