Equiteq is pleased to announce it has advised Kelley Austin, an award-winning Salesforce Summit consulting partner, on its sale to Perficient, the global consultancy transforming the world’s most innovative companies through AI-first solutions.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations across North America, Kelley Austin expands Perficient’s Salesforce partner ecosystem expertise through this strategic transaction, further strengthening the combined firm’s capabilities in developing transformative, AI-first client solutions.
“Our clients are telling us they need practical approaches to help them transform into agentic enterprises, and to achieve sustained business results. With Salesforce, we have developed a unique partnership to invest together so we can help our clients move faster to drive growth and deliver compelling customer experiences,” said Yusuf Tayob, CEO, Perficient. “In acquiring Kelley Austin, we’re further strengthening our capabilities and capacity to drive agentic enterprise transformation and deliver real business outcomes with Salesforce’s Data Cloud and Agentforce offerings. Kelley Austin has deep technical expertise, coupled with creative, client-centric delivery methods, and is making the promise of AI a reality. We are excited to welcome them to Perficient and look forward to being together at Dreamforce next week.”
Kelley Austin Managing Partners Hunter Austin and Waylon Kelley will join Perficient in key leadership roles.
“Perficient is well known for its world class AI consulting capabilities, unmatched ecosystem partnerships with global technology giants like Salesforce, and an award-winning culture,” said Austin. “Kelley Austin’s experienced teams have been dedicated to delivering the full suite of Salesforce solutions for our clients since our inception in 2020, becoming a trusted partner as clients become truly agentic AI enterprises. We’re excited to join forces with Perficient to broaden the scope of Salesforce services and expertise we're able to bring clients, and accelerate growth.”
Graham Bell, Managing Director, Equiteq, said, "Our warmest congratulations to Kelley Austin on this exciting milestone! With Perficient’s unique 360-degree partnership with Salesforce, Kelley Austin is set to unlock new AI-driven opportunities and deliver even greater value to its clients. We’re excited to see what they achieve next."
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