Barb Richardson

The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) is a professional organization that aims to enhance the credibility and competency of the investor relations profession. CIRI has four chapters located in different regions. The organization also provides insights on ESG processes and reporting for issuers at various stages in their ESG journey. The non-profit company is based in Oakville, ON, Canada. CIRI provides resources, professional development, networking opportunities, and advocacy to support the IR community. The organization has over 500 members, with most responsible for IR at publicly-traded companies. Visible Alpha is a sponsor of CIRI that enhances the investment research process. CIRI publishes IR Directions, a magazine that explores current and emerging practices of board reporting and engagement. Nathalie Megann has been the CEO of the Canadian company since 2004.

US West International provides local telephone communications. The private company is based in Englewood, CO.

MTS Allstream, Inc. provides communication and information technology solutions. It provides wire-line voice, high-speed Internet and data, wireless, directory, digital television, security, and alarm monitoring services. The company serves residential and business customers in Manitoba. MTS Allstream was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada

Professional Engineers Ontario operates as the licensing and regulating body for professional engineering in the province. It serves and protects the public interest by setting and upholding high academic, experience and professional practice standards for the engineering profession. The company was founded in June 14, 1922 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

SUTUS, Inc. develops integrated data, telecommunication, and information technology solutions to small businesses. The company was founded October 2002 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada

Radian Communication Services Corp. provides communication infrastructure services. Its services include wireless network design, installation, management and optimization, tower engineering, manufacturing, and broadcast systems. The company was founded in February 2001 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Dyaptive Systems produces the industrys most advanced and scalable wireless subscriber simulation and test systems for CDMA, UMTS, HSPA and LTE technologies. Dyaptive's DMTS systems use patented software defined radio (SDR) techniques to generate realistic traffic patterns, subscriber call model behavior and emerging data applications in order to test the capacity, performance and reliability of 3G and 4G networks. Modern 3G and 4G Mobile networks are both dynamic and adaptive in nature with network intelligence moving out of the core and into the edge of the access networks. The test challenge now is to simulate subscriber behavior at both the RF and IP interfaces to ensure quality and performance objectives have been met. That challenge has been successfully met by Dyaptive Systems with systems deployed by virtually all leading Radio Access Network (RAN) manufactures and many of the worlds leading mobile network operators.

Double-Take Software, Inc. provides software solutions for accessible data protection with Microsoft Windows applications. Its Double-Take product offers data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout enterprise. The company was founded in 1991 is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

MegaPath Cloud Co. LLC provides cloud communications and connectivity services. It offers data, voice, security and hosted information technology services for small, medium, and enterprise businesses as well as wholesale solutions to the carrier and service-provider markets. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

DSL.net, Inc. provides data communications and Internet access services. The firm's services include private network solutions, web hosting, DNS management, enhanced e-mail, online data backup and recovery, firewalls, bundled voice, and data nationwide dial-up. The company was founded in March 1998 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

Fusion MPHC Holding Corp. engages in the provision of cloud services. It offers Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), cloud computing, security, SD-WAN, and cloud connectivity. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Part of SMS Alternatives, Inc., Seer Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and supports software products and provides related services. The company is based in Cary, NC. The company was founded by Peter John Harrison, James D. Hughes. Seer Technologies was acquired by Level 8 Systems, Inc. on April 16, 1999 for $1.70 million.

Plex Systems, Inc. provides enterprise resource protocol and cloud services. It offers software-as-a-service that uses cloud computing to deliver solutions to production, inventory, quality, human capital, and financial management. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

Orbis Education Services LLC provides online healthcare education solutions. The firm merges online education with onsite clinical application to create collaborative, customized solutions that help colleges, universities and healthcare systems expand their nursing programs. It offers marketing and student recruitment services; and services to migrate an academic institution's on-campus curriculum onto an online platform, and maintain and develop the technology infrastructure for online delivery of its programs. The company was founded by Daniel J. Briggs and Joe Wanninger in 2003 and is headquartered in Carmel, IN.

Part of HP, Inc., Bluestone Software, Inc. develops software. The company is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Alpha PetroVision (Canada) Inc. provides oil development and production services. It helps to revitalize old and depleted oil fields using proprietary techniques. The company operates in Calgary and Sheridan. It was founded by Mark See in 2005 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is responsible for ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System (AIES). The non-profit company is based in Calgary, Canada. The Canadian company focuses on keeping the grid secure and dependable. and has subsidiaries in Canada.