Yassir Abousselham

Information Technology Senior Management Forum engages in the cultivation of talent among black technology professionals. It offers leadership academy, emerge, ITSF MAX, and Vision2020. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Arena Solutions, Inc. provides cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) applications. Its PLM suite of products including BOMControl and PartsList, as well as their supply chain exchange solution enable engineering and manufacturing teams and their extended supply chains to speed prototyping, reduce scrap, and streamline supply chain management. The firm’s cloud PLM applications simplify bill of materials and change management for companies of all sizes, and offer the right balance of flexibility and control at every point in the product lifecycle. The company was founded by Eric Larkin and Michael J. Topolovac in February 2000 and is headquartered in Foster, CA.

OpenPages, Inc. provides software solutions for enterprise governance and financial management. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

BladeLogic, Inc. provides data center automation software solutions. The company was founded by Ittycheria and Vijay Manwani in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Schwab Charles & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of investment products and services to retirement and other benefit participants. It offers trading, banking, small business solutions, investment tools and research. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. provides educational services. It promotes the cause of higher education in the State of Georgia, receives and manages financial donations received by the foundation for support and enhancement of the Georgia Institute of Technology and assists the Georgia Institute of Technology in its role as a leading educational and research institution. The company was in 1932 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Gilbane, Inc. provides real estate development and construction services. The firm?s services include preconstruction, building information modeling, construction, transition planning and management, multi-site project delivery systems, energy services, virtual design and construction and disaster recovery and reconstruction. The company was founded by William H. Gilbane and Thomas F. Gilbane in 1873 and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

Devo Technology, Inc. develops real-time big data platform that ingests and analyzes data for information technology, operations, fraud, and security. Its products include data analytics platform, security operations, and integration. The firm offers solutions such as security analytics, log management, and financial services. The company was founded by Pedro Muros Castillo and Pedro Palao in May 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Part of Oracle Corp., Agile Software Corp. is a company that develops and provides product lifecycle management software solutions. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded in 1995 by Tom P. Shanahan, Bryan D. Stolle. Agile Software was acquired by Oracle Corp. on July 16, 2007 for $463.64 million.

Classy, Inc. provides fundraising platform for social good organizations. The company was founded by Scot Chisholm, Pat Walsh, Joe Callahan and Peden Marshall in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

CAI Software LLC engages in the delivery of on-demand enterprise resource planning and management systems, software, network integration and business consulting services to market companies in the building materials, food processing, precious metals and discrete manufacturing distribution industries. The company was founded by James H. McCooey in 1978 and is headquartered in Smithfield, RI.

Acopia Networks, Inc. provides data file management. The company provides networking products, which include automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing and replication across multi vendor storage environments. Its products include intelligent file virtualization which integrates into existing Network Attached Storage (NAS), Windows, UNIX and Linux environments. The company was founded by Cheng Wu in December, 2002 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

MetricStream, Inc. provides enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and quality management solutions. It offers risk management programs, quality management process, regulatory and industry mandated compliance, and other corporate governance initiatives. Its solutions include enterprise GRC, financial control, vendor governance, supplier audit, and social compliance. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Silicon Valley Leadership Group operates as an advocacy organization to influence public policy relating to the valley. The non-profit company is based in San Jose, CA.

Nielsen Audio, Inc. provides international media and marketing research services. It specializes in media and consumer research, marketing mix modeling, cross-platform measurement. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in new York, NY.

MetricStream specializes in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Management Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream enterprise solutions are used by corporations in diverse industries such as pharmaceutical, medical device, high tech manufacturing, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, food and beverages and automotive to manage quality processes, manage corporate policies, manage regulatory and industry-mandated compliance and corporate governance initiatives