Allen E. Snyder

Aepona provides software products and service delivery solutions to Telcos globally, empowering them to embrace fully the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full potential of their network assets. Over the past 2 years, Aepona has been at the forefront of the mobile industry's evolution towards a new type of business model Network as a Service and its award-winning Universal Service Platform has become the solution of choice for mobile operators implementing NaaS strategies globally. More recently, the emergence of Cloud Computing, and its extension into the mobile domain, has brought a new dimension to NaaS: the vision of a global, interconnected ÒMobile CloudÓ where application providers and enterprises will be able to access valuable network and billing capabilities across multiple Telco networks, making it easy for them to enrich their services Ð whether these applications run on a mobile device, in the web, in a SaaS Cloud, on the desktop, or on an enterprise server. Aepona is now poised to become a leading player in the Mobile Cloud Computing marketplace. Its Universal Service Platform is a comprehensive, carrier-grade solution that contains all of the essential business and technical functions for Mobile Cloud Computing. Moreover, through its work with both individual operator NaaS implementations and the GSMA Commercial Pilot, Aepona has gained unparalleled operational experience as well as commercial insights to the business models that will underpin this new era for the mobile telecoms industry.

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.

Bubbly, Inc. develops voice messaging and social communication solutions for mobile phones. Its product include Bubbly, which is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers and is like Twitter with a voice and brings social networking to mobile phones. The company was founded in 2003 by Sunil Coushik and Venu Sriperumal and is headquartered in Panchkula, India.

Carrier Access Corp. engages in the development of broadband equipment solutions for communications service providers. Its products enable customers to consolidate and upgrade access capacity for the implementation of converged voice, video, and data services at lower costs. The company was founded By Roger L. Koenig and Nancy G. Pierce in 1992 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Forest Investments, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the investment and acquisition of businesses, securities and assets that has significant long-term value creation. It operates through the following segments: Durable Medical Equipment, Investment Management, Real Estate, and General Corporate. The company was founded on December 16, 1994 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Aepona Ltd. provides cloud-computing services. It offers products and services to Telcos globally, enabling them to adopt the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full power of network assets. The company was founded by Gilbert Little on September 9, 1999 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.