This week's signals for Breanna
Bespoke research for Medius US Mid-Market team. Companies HQ'd in US and Canada, 10K+ monthly invoices, revenue $50M–$1.5B.
414 signals scanned. 5 surfaced: 4 priority, 1 notable.
Priority: strong buying signal, act this week. Notable: worth tracking, thesis fit but softer operational trigger.
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The Verano JD lists a specific vendor reference set: SAP Ariba, Stampli, Tipalti, Coupa, Basware. Medius is absent. The same JD confirms SAP (S/4HANA) as core ERP. Verano refinanced $195M of debt with Needham Bank in March 2026, so capital for tooling is in place.
Porcelli is eight months into the mandate. He has evaluated AP automation vendors before, he knows what good looks like, and his new-hire executive sign-off window is open. Once the Sr. Manager lands and shortlisting begins from the JD's reference set, insertion cost triples.
Contact Anthony Porcelli directly. Reference his TransUnion playbook and the vendor shortlist in the JD. Medius is SAP-certified. Esheim is SOX-focused and signs on controls-impacting tooling, route through Porcelli first.
Perma-Pipe's FY26 10-K reports record net sales of $210.9M, up 33% year on year, alongside an adverse ICFR opinion and an active remediation plan. A current IT Manager - USA posting explicitly references "ERP systems (Infor CSI Syteline preferred)" in scope.
Adverse ICFR opinion forces board-level remediation. Fresh JPMorgan lender covenants add external pressure. Multi-entity MENA operations with auditor-flagged controls is a textbook AP automation use case. Medius has a pre-packaged Infor integration via Columbus and entity-aware workflow controls. Remediation decisions happen in weeks, not quarters.
Contact Ashlee Scoggins. She explicitly owns AP, fixed assets, GST filings, and foreign trial balance consolidation. Lead with Infor CSI integration and SOX-grade controls across multi-entity operations. Lewicki is dual CFO and CAO, the adverse opinion sits on his personal desk.
The open SSL role (Portsmouth NH) names "Evaluate different technologies and processes with IT resource to further streamline AP/AR" as an explicit deliverable. AP across 3 segments, 35K invoices annually, T&E, SOX controls, multi-entity US operations. Production AP runs on SAP (confirmed by an open AP Clerk JD). The SSL hire inherits the tooling evaluation.
Station has driven 10+ finance hires in six months: Valashinas (Controller), Lisa Graham (FP&A Director, ex-Amazon) in October, Stephen Lavrack (AEC CFO boomeranged back) in February 2026. SSL is the next hire. That person's first 90-day deliverable is evaluating AP tooling. Valashinas's Standex background means he has seen the RFP before.
Contact Sean Valashinas. He is the SSL hiring manager and sets evaluation scope. Lead with Medius's SAP-certified integration and what it looks like at comparable publicly traded multi-entity manufacturers. Station is the executive sponsor and budget approver, awareness only for now.
58 locations across 17 states, 2,167 field technicians, 14,000 customers. 39+ acquisitions under Partners Group ownership have produced fragmented finance operations. The Finance Integrations function is being built from scratch under Winokur, and the Transformation Director role is being recruited in parallel.
Serial acquirer + newly hired integration function + open transformation role + fragmented finance. Classic post-M&A AP consolidation pain. Tooling decisions happen inside Winokur's first six months.
Confirm Acumatica integration path with Brea first. If feasible, contact Kristen Winokur. 17 years at Accenture in SAP and finance transformation. Lead with post-acquisition AP fragmentation and what Medius does for PE-backed roll-ups with multi-ERP environments.
L Squared Capital Partners formed BTX in 2024 to consolidate 10+ acquired precision manufacturers into 6 business units. L Squared closed a single-asset continuation fund on BTX in April 2026, explicitly to fund additional acquisitions. Group CFO Michael Fennerty joined January 2024 from KSM's transaction advisory practice. BTX adopted Paperless Parts (CPQ platform) in 2024.
Continuation fund = additional M&A capital deployed and ready. Fennerty's background is transaction advisory, not operational finance, which typically skews toward buying tooling rather than building teams. Post-acquisition AP fragmentation is the thesis, but no sharp operational urgency.
Thesis outreach to Michael Fennerty. Lead with the post-M&A integration problem and what Medius has done for PE-backed consolidators at BTX's stage. No operational urgency, but the profile fits. Worth 15 minutes on a low-pressure first call.
