Chris Lyon

Information Resources, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise market information solutions and services. Its solutions include market performance and strategy, consumer and shopper intelligence, analytics and in-market execution, media, and technology. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Image Sensing Systems, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of video and radar image processing products used in traffic applications such as intersection control, highway, bridge and tunnel traffic management, and traffic data collection. It operates through the Intersection and Highway business segments. The Intersection segment comprises sale of machine-vision product line, video products, international products, and royalties. The Highway segment consists of radar product lines sold domestically and internationally. The company was founded by Panos G. Michalopoulos on December 20, 1984 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Velosel Corp. provides collaborative product information management solutions for the consumer goods and retail industries. The company's software offerings include CPIM, a tool for eliminating errors in product information and automating product data management and Velosel5, an application that organizes people. Its customers include Ace Hardware, Campbell Soup, Clorox, and Wyeth. Velosel is located at Santa Clara, CA

Vendavo, Inc. provides margin and profit optimization solutions. It offers Profit Analyzer to analyze transaction data for pinpointing leaking margins; Power and Risk that provides data-driven optimal prices for salespeople to negotiate and grow revenue; Price Manager to manage price lists and set policies for deal negotiations; Deal Manager that provides deal guidance and targets for profitable deal execution to sales teams; and Deal Guide to expedite deal cycle time and equip sales force to negotiate profitable deals. The company was founded by Jamie Rappperport and Joshua W. Sommer in November 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

DecisionView, Inc. develops Web-based clinical trial software solutions. It provides enrollment planning, tracking, diagnosis and optimization services. The company was founded by Sham Chotai, John A. Norris and Jack Porter in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Outreach Corp. designs and develops a sales engagement platform. It specializes in sales acceleration, sales efficiency, and sales management analytics. The company was founded by Gordon Leland Hempton, Andrew Kinzer, Manuel Medina and Wesley R. Hather in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Comergent Technologies, Inc. provides eBusiness software solutions. The company's software helps organization to manage direct and indirect sales channels and integrate sales partners. It also provides implementation and business consulting services, as well education and customer support services. The company was founded by William M. York in 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Part of Autodesk, Inc., VIA Development Corp develops software that automates the process of creating wiring and other logical diagrams of machinery systems built on AutoCAD-based software. The company is based in Marion, IN. VIA Development was acquired by Autodesk, Inc. on March 04, 2003.

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Plex Systems, Inc. provides enterprise resource protocol and cloud services. It offers software-as-a-service that uses cloud computing to deliver solutions to production, inventory, quality, human capital, and financial management. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

Part of Outreach Corp., Outreach Corp. UK Ltd. is a company that provides information technology consulting and business support services. The company is based in Bristol, UK and was founded in 2018.

Emergence Equity Management, Inc. (Emergence Equity Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Jason Green, Gordon Ritter and Brian Jacobs. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ER International Holding Corp. operates as an independent ad management and distribution platform. It provides digital technology services that enable the electronic delivery of advertisements, syndicated programs, and video news releases to traditional broadcasters, online publishers and other media outlets. The company was founded on April 3, 2000 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Foros is a financial services firm that provides M&A and corporate finance advisory and capital raising services. Its clients are leading corporations and entrepreneurs who place a premium on superior advice and who look to their financial advisor to be a true partner in growing and transforming their business. Foros fuses two of the financial world's powerful offerings: financial advice and long-term value investing. Foros commenced operations in June 2009 through its Foros Advisors LLC subsidiary. Its Foros Securities LLC subsidiary obtained SEC registration and was granted FINRA membership in August. The Company has already advised on one announced transaction: Virgin Mobile USA on its July 2009 announced sale to Sprint Nextel.

Foros Securities LLC (FSL) is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 2009. The firm is a subsidiary of Foros Advisors LLC, itself a subsidiary Foros Group LLC, and their ultimate parent is the Haile-Manas Family Trust. FSL provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Coalesce Automation, Inc. helps businesses with their data needs. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company offers a demo to connect with one of their data experts. The CEO of the company is Armon Petrossian.

Mezmo, Inc. is a log management company, which automates and personalizes email marketing for eCommerce. Its solution, PushMarket, analyzes consumer behavior on email, website and purchase history. The company was founded by Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SoundCommerce LLC provides an operations data platform for consumer brands and retailers. It connects data between systems and partners, monitors operations, enables business intelligence, and drives machine learning-enabled predictive decisioning. The firm’s platform is integrated with commerce systems including Amazon.com, Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, StitchLabs, NetSuite, Dynamics 365, ReCharge and Salsify. The company was founded by Eric T. Best and Jared Stiff and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Justifi Technologies, Inc. provides end-to-end embedded payments and finance solutions for vertical SaaS platforms. Justifi Technologies is based in St. Paul, MN, and the CEO of the company is Joe Keeley. The company accelerates the potential of these platforms through payments and embedded fintech, allowing them to participate in the economics of funds flow. Justifi's payments API was built specifically for platforms to maximize monetization opportunities while achieving the lowest costs. The company also offers embedded finance solutions such as lending, instant payouts, card issuing, and insurance offerings.

Part of General Electric Co., GE Digital LLC is an industrial software company that provides solutions for digital transformation activities. The company is based in San Ramon, CA, and Scott Reese has been the CEO of the company since 2022. The company offers industrial software that delivers breakthrough outcomes, including cloud-based predictive analytics, OT security services, and asset performance management software. GE Digital's software helps industries work better, and the company has a partner ecosystem with deep domain knowledge and industrial expertise to accelerate digital transformation.

The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering provides college scholarships for underrepresented minorities pursuing degrees at schools of engineering. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.