{"id":262494,"date":"2026-06-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-to-expand-technology-services\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:25:15","slug":"vertilocity-acquires-computol-to-expand-technology-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-to-expand-technology-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertilocity Acquires Computol to Expand Technology Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-technology-advisory\/\">Vertilocity Acquires Computol to Expand Technology Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-technology-advisory\/\">https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-technology-advisory\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 18:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"insidepublicaccounting.com\">insidepublicaccounting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gp-element-marker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canfield, Ohio-based IPA 100 firm <strong>HBK CPAs &#038; Consultants<\/strong> (FY24 net revenue of $175.6 million) has expanded its technology advisory platform, <strong>Vertilocity<\/strong>, through the acquisition of Toledo, Ohio-area technology firm <strong>Computol <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Computol brings a team of 13 professionals to Vertilocity, adding a new Ohio office and strengthening the firm\u2019s capabilities in technology strategy, cybersecurity, managed IT, digital transformation and advisory services for middle-market organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mid-market is being reshaped by technology, and the firms that are going to be most valuable to those companies are the ones whose advisors operate as one integrated team rather than a collection of separate vendors,\u201d said <strong>Tom Angelo<\/strong>, CEO of HBK. \u201cThe collective knowledge and expertise of Computol in the Ohio market complements and enhances our technology and advisory offerings throughout our footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose Computol specifically,\u201d <strong>Bruce Nelson<\/strong>, managing director of Vertilocity said. \u201cThe technical depth, the discipline of their delivery, and the strength of their client relationships are exactly what we look for, and combining our teams creates one of the more capable mid-market technology advisory practices in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the firms, clients will continue working with their existing teams while gaining access to expanded technology and business advisory resources through the broader HBK platform, which operates from 20 offices nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has spent years building a firm that mid-market companies trust with work that genuinely matters to their business,\u201d said <strong>Jeff Hamons<\/strong>, president of Computol. \u201cJoining Vertilocity is the right next step for that work and for the clients who depend on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-technology-advisory\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertilocity Acquires Computol to Expand Technology Services https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/2026\/06\/02\/vertilocity-acquires-computol-technology-advisory\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-02 18:54:00 Source Domain: insidepublicaccounting.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/insidepublicaccounting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AdobeStock_128517327.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262497,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262494\/revisions\/262497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}