Russ Stanton

Transamerica Corp. provides financial planning and insurance services. It offers life insurance, long term care, dental insurance, medicare solutions, commercial lending, retirement planning, leasing, annuities, and real estate services. The company was founded by Amadeo P. Giannini in 1904 and is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Transamerica Finance Corp. engages in the provision of investment and financial services. It offers life insurance, pension, and leasing. The company is headquartered in Rosemont, IL.

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. provides digital television entertainment services. It operates as a digital broadcast satellite service company. The firm transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in several countries. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC (TCP) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors LLC, ultimately owned by Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), which acquired them in 2018. TCP manages assets for pooled investment vehicles, US-registered investment companies, business development companies and private investment funds.

oDesk Corp. develops and manages an online job marketplace. It offers recruitment and job placement services for website developers, software programmers, graphic designers, writers, customer service representatives, and virtual assistants. The firm offers enterprise solutions, payroll services, and health benefits. The company was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis in 2002 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Bridgevine, Inc. provides web marketing solutions. Its technology aids brands with two solution sets, new customer acquisition and up-sell/cross-sell optimization. The first solution is focused on digital customer acquisition through a closed-loop platform that optimizes SEO, SEM, mobile, social, and display marketing. The second solution enables brands to better monetize their customers through its up-sell and cross-sell web services solution. The company was founded by R. Vincent Olmstead, Alfred J. Koontz and Mark Weibel in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

DeepDyve, Inc. provides online rental services for scholarly and professional research articles. It offers articles on subject areas, such as business and finance, computer science, humanities, life sciences, medicine, patents and law and social sciences. The company was founded by Tom Tang and Qianjin Hu in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Branded Entertainment Network, Inc. provides photography and art images through the internet. The firm's services include digital image licensing, artist representation, and media management. It has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo. The company was founded by William Henry Gates III in 1989 and is headquartered in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Mammoth Mountain Ski Area LLC owns and operates ski resort. It operates Juniper Springs Resort, the Village at Mammoth, and Sierra Star Golf Course. The company was founded by David McCoy in 1953 and is headquartered in Mammoth Lakes, CA.

Kayak Software Corp. operates as an online travel agency. It offers fare information from airlines and hotels. The firm also develops and operates websites and mobile applications that provide destination information, travel tips, member discounts, and hotel descriptions. The company was founded by Daniel Stephen Hafner, Gregory E. Slyngstad, Douglas Feirstein, Terrell B. Jones, and Paul M. English in 2004 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Cable News Network, Inc. provides television and online news broadcasting services. It offers information on weather, business, sports, politics, law, technology, science and space, health, entertainment, travel and education. The firm also gives latest multimedia technologies based news like live video streaming, audio packages, searchable archives of news features and background information. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

TCMI, Inc.(TCV) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Jay Crandall Hoag and Richard Herrick Kimball. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

San Francisco Symphony provides symphony orchestra presentations. The firm enriches, serves, and shapes cultural life throughout the spectrum of bay area communities. It offers performer’s series, south bay, organ and chorus concerts, open rehearsals, chamber music, youth orchestra concerts, family-friendly concerts and special events. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Kenyon Review publishes literary magazines. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

USJ Co., Ltd. is a holding company that operates and manages theme parks. It offers theme rides and shows inspired by movies, animations, and comic series. Its theme parks include restaurants, shops, and street performances. It also provides studio guides for non-Japanese speakers, message services, currency exchange, postal service, transportation information, first aid, restrooms, smoking area, family services, diaper changing tables, missing children center, baby carriage rental, pet care facility, express mail and home delivery, wheelchair rental, coin lockers, ATM machines, picnic area, and lost and found area. The company was founded in December 1994 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

City National Bank engages in the provision of banking services. It offers commercial, private, preferred, wealth management, international banking, treasury management, and real estate services. The company was founded on January 4, 1954 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Sirius XM Radio, Inc. provides satellite radio services. It broadcasts music, sports, entertainment, comedy, news, and weather channels. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Morgan Walker International operates as a management consulting firm. It specializes in organizational change strategy and leadership development. The firm's services include executive coaching and training in negotiation skills, merger integration, team effectiveness, strategy development, persuasive presentations, and workforce inclusion. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Blood Centers of the Pacific operates as a non-profit organization that provides blood components to hospitals, physicians and patients throughout Northern California. It also houses the Blood Systems Research Institute which conducts medical research to improve blood safety and patient care. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Trinity Forge, Inc. manufactures closed-die forgings and machined parts. Its capabilities are solid value, forging, design, assembly, dies and molds and materials. The firm also provides provide value-added machining to forgings as well as job-shop machining services and die-and-mold machining. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Mansfield, TX.

The Online News Association is a nonprofit organization that aims to inspire and support innovation and excellence in digital journalism. The organization is based in Washington. The non-profit company was founded by Rich Jaroslovsky, and the CEOs are Irving Washington and LaSharah S. Bunting. The American company recognizes stand-out journalists under the age of 30 whose work represents the best of new media. The Dow Jones Foundation supports organizations involved with journalism, free press, literacy and education, and the arts.

ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company was founded by Stephania Nappi Mallet and Edward Bbriscoe Rodgers in August 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Vocap Investment Partners LLC (Vocap Investment Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Vinny Olmstead. The firm is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida.

Duetto Research, Inc. provides software services. It develops a cloud-based application that provides revenue strategy solutions to hotels and casinos. The firm offers Duetto Edge that delivers insights on pricing and demand; Duetto Insight for forecasting demand and optimizing pricing for focused-service properties; and Duetto GameChanger, a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution that determines the value of each guest by prospective gaming and non-gaming revenue potential. The company was founded by Patrick Bosworth, Craig Weissman and Marco Benvenuti in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tavistock Partners (UK) Ltd. provides financial advisory services. It specializes in tax and audit management, insurance, retirement and pension, wills and estate planning, cash flow, and mortgages and loans. The company was founded on November 12, 2003 and is headquartered in Hereford, the United Kingdom.

Spotnana Technology, Inc. is a travel platform that aims to modernize the infrastructure of the travel industry to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers worldwide. The company is based in Houston, TX. The company's travel-as-a-service platform makes travel simpler and more affordable for corporations, while enabling their ecosystem of agency, supplier, and technology provider partners to increase operational efficiency, unlock new revenue sources, and accelerate innovation. Spotnana powers unparalleled travel experiences for corporate travelers and is the future of business travel. The company was founded by Sarosh Waghmar and Shikhar Agarwal, and Sarosh Waghmar has been the CEO since incorporation.

ICONIQ Capital (ICONIQ) is a private equity and venture capital firm a subsidiary of ICONIQ Capital LLC founded in 2011 by Divesh Kanthylal Makan, Michael Thomas Anders and Chad Louis Boeding. The firm is headquartered in the San Francisco, California.

Mammoth Resorts LLC owns and operates resorts. It offers hospitality, snowboarding, golf courts and other recreational services. The company is headquartered in Mammoth Lakes, CA.