Shawn S. Hoyt

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. designs, engineers, markets and supports network test systems. Its broadband products and solutions enable communication service providers to manage their networks efficiently in an age of continually evolving technology, and ongoing pressure to reduce costs. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Cranberry Township, PA.

Part of International Game Technology PLC, Powerhouse Technologies, Inc. is a company that designs and develops lottery systems for the online lottery, video lottery, and casino gaming industry. The company is based in Bozeman, MT. Powerhouse Technologies was acquired by Anchor Gaming on June 29, 1999 for $210.97 million.

Fusion MPHC Group, Inc. provides integrated voice and data communication services. It offers broadband Internet access service for small and mid-sized businesses; business phone and Internet services; VPN and security services; email and web hosting services; and enterprise solutions. The firm also provides voice over IP, wireless and voice services on a managed national broadband network, wholesale and carrier services. The company is headquartered in DE.

RightNow Technologies, Inc. provides customer relationship management software and services. The company offers RightNow CX, a customer experience suite for consumer-centric organizations to enable interactions across Web, social, and contact center touch points. Its RightNow CX suite includes RightNow Web Experience, which integrates into an existing Web infrastructure to provide an online customer experience providing customer access to Web self-service; RightNow Social Experience that enables organizations to listen and respond to conversations with their consumers on the social Web and to build branded communities to cultivate their own conversations; RightNow Contact Center Experience, which enables organizations to deliver consistent customer experiences across multi-channel interactions; RightNow Engage, which provides horizontal service, sales, and marketing business processes that support, span, and inter-connect the Web, social, and contact center experiences; RightNow CX Cloud Platform that provides a platform for scalability, performance, flexibility, and security; RightNow Mission Critical Operations, a cloud delivery platform; and RightNow CX Commitment, which describes the way to deliver a customer experience. The company also provides professional services, including project management and consulting services. It serves various industries, such as technology, public sector, retail/consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, telecommunication, and travel and hospitality industries. The company was founded in September 1997 by Greg R. Gianforte and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Inc. (MSIM) is an investment management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1975 and is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). MSIM provides discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services and products to institutional clients and individual investors. The firm also advises clients as to the appropriate allocation of assets among multiple separate accounts and/or investment companies or other pooled vehicles that the firm advises.

Visage Mobile, Inc. provides technology services for mobile virtual network platform. Its products include MobilityCentral, VisagePulse, International Travel Roaming Alerts (ITRA) and Concur Travel Integration. The company was founded by David Fraze and Matthew Johnson in 2001 and is headquartered in Larkspur, CA.

Acronis AG engages in the acquisition, holding, management, and disposal of participating interests in firms, particularly in the data protection and cybersecurity sectors. It also provides management and financing services to its subsidiaries. The company was founded by Serguei Beloussov, Max Tsypliaev, Yakov Zubarev and Stanislav Protassov and is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

BuscaPé.com, Inc. owns and operates an online price comparison and e-commerce portal. It allows clients to compare prices from local retailers and provides the option of buying items from the preferred store. It offers a selection of products which includes household appliances, home decor, computers, DVDs, mobile devices, sports gear, books, wines, and apparel. For merchants and service providers, it offers solutions for electronic payment, lead generation, fraud detection, and market research. The company was founded by Romero Rodrigues, Rodrigo Borges, Ronaldo Takahashi, and Mario Letelier in June 1998, and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Workfront, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. The firm’s solutions include marketing, IT, agencies, professional service and product development. It offers workfront, workfront fusion, workfront DAM and integrations products. The company was founded by Scott C. Johnson, Nate Bowler, Abraham Knell and Jason Fletcher in 2001 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Kantata, Inc. develops an online project management, collaboration and professional services automation software. It provides software and services to organizations. The company was founded by Raymond Grainger, Roger Neel and Sean R. Crafts in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Venminder, Inc. provides compliance documentation solutions. Its services include vetting package, document collection, SOC analysis, infosec review and vendor monitoring. The company was founded by C. Michael Bowers, Kelli R. Schultz and Dana A. Bowers in 2003 and is headquartered in Elizabethtown, KY.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

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.

Bain Capital Ventures LP (Bain Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York and California. The firm is wholly owned by Bain Capital LP.

Part of AT&T, Inc., AT&T International, Inc. provides telecommunication services. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. The CEO of the company is Lori M. Lee.

Quiq, Inc. provides customer self-service software solutions and services. Its software is designed to help harness the knowledge of user communities to augment technical support. The firm's clients include Compaq, Sun, and National Instruments. The company was founded by Michael A. Myer and William O'neill in 2015 and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

D. A. Davidson Cos. provides investment banking services. Its services include integrated brokerage, capital markets and money, and trust and wealth management services. The company operates through D.A. Davidson and Co., Investment Advisors, Trust Co., Fixed Income Management, and Davidson Travel. D. A. Davidson was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Great Falls, MT.

Appriss, Inc. engages in the development of data analytics platforms the healthcare, retail, commercial, and government agencies. It offers Appris Health, Appriss Retail, and Appriss Insights. The company was founded by Michael D. Davis and Yung T. Nguyen in 1994 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Great Hill Partners LP (Great Hill Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Christopher S. Gaffney, Steve F. Gormley and John G. Hayes. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting services. The company was founded on April 6, 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Goldman Sachs Bank AG (Geneva) operates national commercial banks. The company is based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Socrata, Inc. provides cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. Its products include capital projects explorer, citizen connect, insights dashboard, open finance, performance, perspectives and publica open data. The firm also offers financial insights, open data and citizen management, performance improvement and accountability solutions, blueprint and socrata support site services. The company was founded by Kevin Merritt in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Thunderhead Ltd. develops communications software solutions. It offers a single program to manage communications in any medium, such as print, email and messages sent to smart phones. The company was founded by Glen Manchester in 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Curriki is a nonprofit organization that focuses on open education and open-source software. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The American company aims to empower educators and engage learners by reinventing how educational content is created, shared, and delivered. Curriki's innovative technology solutions break down traditional barriers to ensure that all students can reach their full potential. The company was founded by Kim Jones, and Pamela Schaffer has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Romulus Capital Management LLC (Romulus Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Anantshree Chaturvedi, Cankut Durgun, Neil Chheda, and Krishna Gupta. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sociometric Solutions, Inc. develops people analytics technology platform. The firm offers teamwork and engagement, process optimization and space planning services. The company was founded by Ben Waber, Taemie Kim, Daniel Olguin Olguin and Tuomas Jaanu in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Persado, Inc. provides digital marketing software services. It provides marketing software through a managed SaaS platform to enterprise and Internet consumer marketers in the telecom, financial services, retail, and gaming sectors. The firm develops and sells marketing persuasion technology, which uses data and software to determine the most effective marketing messages for multi-channel digital marketing strategies. The company was founded by Alex Vratskides, Assaf Baciu and Guy Krief in December 2012 and is headquartered in New York.

ServerLIFT Corp. provides information technology equipment handling solutions. It focuses on the integration of design and manufacturing across the value chain. The firm offer computer networking, data integration and programming services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Scenera, Inc. is a private company that is creating a new standard data platform for the AIoT industry. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company is achieving this by combining an open and flexible architecture with an intelligent scene-based data pipeline. The result is a paradigm shift from simple streaming data to rich scene data information that enables new and powerful analytical capabilities. Scenera's goal is to align key industry players with the same vision to create an interoperable ecosystem that will bring a new generation of smart edge devices.