About E78 Partners
Your Element of Success.
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We are a one-stop-shop for middle-market finance and technology leaders, and their financial sponsors. We offer a distinctive set of services to help our clients operate high performance organizations to accelerate value creation.
Who We Are
Founded in 2016, E78 Partners provides solutions to help middle-market finance, technology, and private equity leaders accelerate value creation. With the deep operational and industry experience from over 450 associates, we form a unique partnership with every client to become the element of their success.
Why E78 Partners
We chose our name because we wanted to build a different kind of professional services firm – one that’s built on what we believe to be the four most important foundational elements of success. The right portfolio of services, designed to meet the most demanding client expectations, delivered by the absolute best talent, with a “sleeves up, by your side” client operating partnership experience.
Our Mission: To unify the elements of success
experienced People, proven Processes, and scalable Technology
to support change and drive value for our clients.
The Evolution of Our Story
With firsthand knowledge of how private equity sponsor and portfolio company CFOs must collaborate and co-exist, we launched Element78 Partners in 2016. E78—platinum is the 78th element on the periodic table—is based on the platinum financial playbook we’ve created for PE CFOs.
2023
June
E78 acquired Outliers LLC, a Michigan-based firm providing finance and accounting services to private equity portfolio companies.
February
Moving closer towards E78’s objective to become the go-to-single-source partner for its clients, E78 acquired Stern Cassello & Associates, a well-established tax and accounting firm offering accounting support, including tax services to its clients.
2022
April
E78 Partners expands its interim staffing resources for private equity firms, portfolio companies, and corporate clients by acquiring The CFO Suite.
March
E78 Partners expands its FP&A offerings and geographic footprint by acquiring Cadilus Inc. with the addition of its powerful DataPAx technology platform.
2021
December
Further Global invests in E78, providing it with the capital and resources needed to accelerate growth and expand the company’s service offering and geographic footprint.
August
E78 acquires Executive Services firm NextLevel. E78 acquires Agile Fund Solutions, achieving $30 billion in combined assets under management.
2020
December
E78 acquires Stride Accounting Solutions, specializing in Finance as a Service, and 9Gauge Partners, an accounting, finance, technology and M&A consulting firm.
January
E78 acquires Trillium Solutions Group and adds fund administration and finance and accounting outsourcing to its suite of services.
2018
E78 acquires Tillman Private Equity Services and adds advisory and consulting services to its list of offerings.
2017
E78 signs its first PE sponsor client, which leads to further business and specialization in dental service organizations (DSOs).
2016
Two former private equity operations professionals launch a specialty consulting firm dedicated to serving the unique needs of private equity CFOs.
Hear From Our Founder
John Signa
“We have a vision to build a different kind of professional services firm; one that’s built on what we believe to be the four most important foundational elements of success. The right portfolio of services built around specific client needs, designed to meet the most demanding client expectations, delivered by the absolute best talent, with a ‘sleeves up, by your side’ client operating partnership experience.”

Your Element Of Success
With the deep operational and industry experience from over 450 associates, we form a unique partnership with every client to become their element of success.
Ready to learn more about how our solutions can help your business?
E78’s ability to provide talented resources with a breadth of experience has been crucial for our organization as we’ve grown.
— Severin Price, VP of Financial Planning Analysis, GI Alliance
Meet Our Team
E78 has a diverse team of experts with years of experience solving industry-related problems with some incredible backgrounds. Discover the people behind our company.
