Mark W. McClennan

CheckFree Corp. provides financial electronic commerce services and products. The company works with the financial institutions, web portals and organizations that issue regular bills and statements to give consumers the ability to receive and pay bills online. It offers services such as core processing, electronic billing, risk management, payments, and wealth management. CheckFree was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA

Connected Corp. provides storage software solutions. Its solutions help to protect and centrally manage data from PCs, windows servers, email systems, while eliminating costs burdens associated with capturing and recovering distributed data. The company was founded in October, 1995 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Schwartz Communications, Inc. provides public relations services. The company offers public relations strategy & branding, media relations, industry analyst relations, speakers beareau, search marketing, crisis communications, government relations and podcasting services. It was founded by Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz in 1990 and is located in Waltham, MA

Peppercoin, Inc. provides software payment services for merchants. It provides small payments suite for various payment models, including pre-paid, subscription and pay-as-you-go with Intelligent Aggregation. The company serves digital, mobile and physical point-of-sale merchants. Peppercoin was founded in 2001 by Silvio Micali and Ronald Rivest and is located in Waltham, MA.

AmberWave Systems Corporation was founded in 1998 to answer the market demand for a technology development organization that could commercialize Silicon Germanium-graded buffer technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning, AmberWave Systems has been focused on building bridges between advanced materials science developed at leading universities and industrial applications. AmberWave Systems continues to develop industry partnerships to explore applications of its innovations. These relationships have led, for instance, to the development of Strained Silicon, a technology that is now used at the heart of advanced microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption. AmberWave Systems has expanded the number of both its university partnerships and its industry partners. The company's current materials platforms encompass applications as diverse as next-generation semiconductor memory, solar energy and advanced battery technologies. From the success of the commercialization of Strained Silicon in the CMOS semiconductor industry, to current work on advanced materials for the 21st Century, AmberWave Systems is leading the way in materials science and applications. At AmberWave Systems, using an intellectual property business model of innovation, patenting, licensing and tech transfer was recognized early on as the best way to achieve efficiency in bringing new materials to users. This IP model has been successful at bringing the company's first technology platform SiGe for strained silicon to the consumer; it is dedicated to the continued effective use of this model.

Trellix Corp. develops and provides web publishing technology and managed hosting services. The firm offers site building tools and services that enable users to create compelling and professional websites. Its product Trellix Web Express, a server-based web site authoring system private labeled by web communities and hosting services. Trellix was founded by Daniel S. Bricklin in 1995 and is located in Concord, MA.

NECX, Inc. engaged in buying and selling of semiconductors, electronic components, computer products, and networking equipment. The company was headquartered in Peabody, MA.

Imaging Automation, Inc. develops identity verification and document authentication technology. It provides services to the customers in state, local, and federal government agencies in countries including the United States, Canada, Hungary, Australia, Sweden, Finland, and the U.K. The company was founded in February 1991 and is headquartered in Bedford, NH.