Brady Ware's Growth Over the Years
After being founded in Richmond, Indiana in the early fifties, Brady Ware grew and expanded into Ohio to better serve the firm’s Ohio clients and to create an avenue for further growth. The firm opened its Dayton, Ohio office in early 1989 with only three full-time team members.
In 1993, Brady, Ware and Company merged with a local firm lead by William I. Schoenfeld and became Brady, Ware & Schoenfeld, Inc. This increased the firm’s team to approximately forty team members.
In 1997, the firm continued to expand its expertise and size by merging with Gans Riddle & Associates and a group formerly with a national firm also joined Brady Ware at this time. In 1997, the firm formed Brady Ware Capital to assist clients with their merger and acquisition needs. At this point the firm employed approximately sixty team members.
In 2000, the firm continued its growth with the addition of the well-known Dayton employee benefits firm, Schneider, Meixner & Company.
On December 14, 2004, Miami Valley Pension, one of southwest Ohio’s largest third-party retirement plan administrators, merged with Brady Ware Employee Benefits to form Miami Valley Pension, LLC. This new division combined the experience and reputation of the former Miami Valley Pension with Brady Ware’s breadth of benefits knowledge and leading technology.
On January 1, 2006, Shaw & Shaw, a Columbus CPA and financial consulting firm, merged with Brady Ware. The merger brings together the broad range of financial services and experience provided by Brady Ware and the Columbus presence and industry expertise of Shaw & Shaw.
From growth by merger, plus additional internal growth, Brady Ware has maintained a steady upward spiral to where it is today, a 120+ person professional services firm.