Laila S. Kassis

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP (Kayne Anderson) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative investment management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Formerly known as Kaim Non Traditional LP, the firm was founded in 1984 by Richard Kayne and John Anderson. They are owned by Richard Kayne through his majority ownership of Kayne Anderson Investment Management, Inc. Kayne Anderson provides investment supervisory services through privately offered pooled investment vehicles, and to a lesser extent, through separate accounts and mutual funds.

Vertical Communications, Inc. engages in the provision of communication platforms and applications. It offers Vertical, Mitel, and 8X8 products. It serves retail, automotive, healthcare, and hospitality indsutry. The company was founded by William Y. Tauscher and Peter H. Bailey in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Trident Capital, Inc. (Trident Capital) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1993 by Donald Dixon and John Moragne. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Goldman Sachs Bank AG engages in the provision of banking and financial services. Its business activities also include securities trading, asset management, and investment consulting. The company was founded on May 27, 1992 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Owl Creek Asset Management LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 2001 by Jeff Altman. The firm provides investment management services to private pooled investment vehicles (funds). Their flagship funds are Owl Creek I, Owl Creek II, Owl Creek Overseas, Owl Creek Overseas Master Fund, Owl Creek SRI and Owl Creek SRI Master Fund.

Poplar Forest Capital LLC (Poplar Forest) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded in 2007 by J. Dale Harvey II. Poplar Forest provides active investment management to select individual and institutional investors.

PresenceLearning, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of live online speech and occupational therapy services. It offers school districts with web-based access to a nationwide network of qualified speech language pathologists, counselors and occupational therapists via live video conferencing combined with practices and progress reporting. The company was founded by Jack Lynch and Clay Whitehead in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Teacher Synergy LLC provides educational services. It is the an open marketplace for educators to buy, sell, and share original resources. The company was founded by Paul Edelman in March 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Founded in 1971, the firm is a subsidiary of Allianz Asset Management of America LP and their ultimate parent is Allianz SE (ETR: ALV), a German global insurance company. PIMCO provides discretionary investment management services to a global client base.

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.

Ensono Ltd. provides managed service solutions for operating internet and enterprise applications. It specializes in running business critical applications. Its business critical information technology approach combines business outcome focus with a structured client engagement methodology, and supporting services and infrastructure. The company was founded by Mark John Fowle, David Mark Godwin, Simon John Hansford and Neal Narendra Gandhi in 1997 and is headquartered in Staines, the United Kingdom.

ARROWHEAD General Insurance Agency, Inc. provides insurance services. It offers its products to commercial auto, commercial marine, workers' compensation, dwelling fire, high performance boats, homeowners, residential earthquake, manufactured housing, railroad, architects and engineers liability. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

TAC Partners Inc (TAC Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by James F. Wade and David D. Croll. The firm is headquartered in Boston, California.

OpSource, Inc. provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. Its application operations service goes beyond traditional hosting by providing application management, change management, performance management and application optimization. The company was founded by Michael Piacente, Dan Rasmussen, John Rowell and Treb Ryan in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc. provides exam management software solutions. It offers assessment management services for educations, including actionable data, test design, accreditation compliance, and student self-direct learning. The firm also provides Examsoft E.I, an assessment-management solution that supports the entire testing process, including exam creation, administration, delivery, scoring, and analysis. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Providence Equity Partners LLC (Providence Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1989 by Glenn Creamer and Jonathan M. Nelson. The firm is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.

CVC Advisers Ltd (CVC Advisers) is a private equity firm founded in 1981 by Bruce Hardy McLain, Rolly van Rappard and Steven Koltes. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Cyxtera Communications Canada, Inc. provides information technology and infrastructure services. The company was founded by Dickson Au in 1999 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

QTC Management, Inc. delivers health and disability-related examination services. The firm offers disability and occupational health and secure web-based software services. It serves to the department of agriculture, commerce, defense, energy, national guard bureau, center for disease control and federal air marshal. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Diamond Bar, CA.

Centerbridge Partners LP(Centerbridge Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Harold Aronson and Timothy Gallogly. The firm is headquartered in New York.

HealthMEDX LLC provides home care, long-term care and rehab software solutions. It offers clinical features, financial, referral management, interoperability, physician solutions and analytics. The company was founded by Charlie Daniels, Dan Cobb and Jim Atteberry in 1999 and is headquartered in Ozark, MO.

GoodRx, Inc. develops software for mobile applications. It offers up-to-date information on drug prices, coupons and alternative medicines through online. The firm provides prices of various drugs in the areas of alcohol dependence, allergies, cold, angina and antibiotics, anticoagulant, antifungal and antiviral and other panic disorders. The company was founded by Scott Marlette, Trevor Bezdek and Douglas Joseph Hirsch in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Finalsite Holdings, Inc. provides web-based software and services for schools and educational organizations. It offers finalsiteCMS, an educational content management, web authoring system comprising PagePops, crisis Mode modules, finalsiteMobile a solution that enables schools to display a simplified version of their website on mobile devices, finalsite app for iPhones, iPads, which allows a student, faculty and parent constituents to take the advantage of the mobile phenomenon by delivering selected features of the school’s website directly to their handheld devices. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

MedHOK, Inc. provides an integrated, cloud-based platform that delivers compliance solutions. It also offers comprehensive and compliance solutions for health plans, accountable care organizations, patient centered medical homes, pharmacy benefits management and specialty pharmacies. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Maybrook Capital Partners LLC (Maybrook Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by David Yadegar. The firm is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

Kajabi LLC develops software applications. It enables people to give instruction and sell content online, including authors, motivational speakers, celebrity fitness trainers and diet experts, professional sports players, and ordinary people with special skills to share. The company was founded by Travis Rosser and Kenny Rueter in 2010 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

OTA Insight provides tools for optimizing hotel ranking on online travel agency websites. It offers hotel market forecast through the use of a data system and a forecasting algorithm that tracks all in-market online inventory giving visibility of future market. The company was founded by Matthias Geeroms, Adriaan Coppens and Gino Engels in 2012 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

DataCamp, Inc. provides an online leaning platform focused on data processing. It offers online programming and data science skills through entertaining videos, and interactive coding challenges. The company was founded by Jonathan Cornelissen, Martijn Theuwissen, and Dieter De Mesmaeker in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Innovative Medical Risk Management, Inc. provides medical management services. The company was founded on May 7, 2012 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Wideeye Surveillance provides live video monitoring services. The private company is based in Jacksonville.