Cheri Jennings

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

The Everest Group, Inc. is a private company based in Streamwood, IL. The company provides customer experience management research to service providers, supports technology leaders by delivering insights, and explores how GBS/shared services/GICs are evolving to build strategic capabilities to deliver business outcomes. Additionally, the company offers industry-leading research on application services, digital services, and cloud and infrastructure services to help enterprises optimize value from their business-critical applications and mature their IT operations in an era of relentless technology disruption. The CEO of the company is Fred Kaplan.

PersOwn, Inc. is a healthcare company based in Jacksonville, FL. The company aims to provide accurate, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic testing and secure patient data available instantly to everyone across the globe, including those in resource-limited or logistically remote areas. PersOwn has partnered with esteemed clinical, academic, research, and patient advocacy partners on the common mission of managing sepsis prevention, detection, treatment, and survivor support. PersOwn has also partnered with SAS, the leader in analytics, to unleash the power of health data through point-of-care diagnostics and health information technologies. The company was founded by William Douglas Meadow, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

NeXtGen Biologics, Inc. manufactures ECM biomaterial products. The firm a Class II medical device for the repair of soft tissue. The company was founded by Jonelle Toothman and is headquartered in Gainesville, FL.

Phoenix Suns operates as a professional basketball team. The firm is a part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

PlumTree Partners LLC (PlumTree Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Todd Furniss and Jeffrey Rich. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

GlendonTodd Capital LLC (GlendonTodd Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Todd Furniss. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

EDS Co. engages in drywall construction and installation. The private company is based in North Highlands, CA.

Metric Medical Devices, Inc. operates as a medical device company in the orthopedic extremity market. Its products include intramedullary bone fixation scaffold and super staple bone fixation staple. The company was founded by W. Casey Fox, Daniel C. Wadsworth, Jr. and Nancy R. Fox and is headquartered in Helotes, TX.

Part of The Garfield Weston Foundation, Howard Investments Ltd. provides investment services. The company is based in London, UK.

Seneca Global Fund LP engages in the speculative trading of futures contracts, forward currency contracts and other financial instruments traded in the United States and internationally. The company was founded on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Lockheed Martin Information & Technology Services, Inc. provides information technology integration and management services. It offers application development, enterprise solutions, and aircraft maintenance and modification services for government and military systems. The company is headquartered in Cherry Hill, NJ.

The Newberry Group, Inc. provides information technology consulting and staffing services. It offers cyber Security services, digital forensic, and incident response solutions. The company was founded by Maurice D. Newberry and Brenda D. Newberry in 1996 and is headquartered in St. Peters, MO.

QinetiQ US Holdings, Inc. provides technology development and other technical services. Its systems engineering services include global and theater defense architecture, defense systems interoperability, weapon systems engineering integration and testing, programmatic systems as well as homeland security technologies. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Futures Portfolio Fund LP engages in the speculative trading of futures contracts, forward currency contacts, and other financial instruments. It primarily trades within agricultural commodities, currencies, energy products, equity indices, interest rate instruments, metals, and single stock futures. The company was founded on May 11, 1989 and is headquartered in Excelsior, MN.

Peracon, Inc. provides business intelligence and data services for real estate businesses. The private company is based in McLean, VA.

Steben & Co., Inc. (Steben) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Excelsior, Minnesota. The firm was founded by Ken Steben in 1989 and is a subsidiary of Octavus Group LLC. Steben provides discretionary investment management and advisory services, together with investment management products, to financial advisors and institutions. The firm serves as the general partner of Futures Portfolio Fund LP, a multi-advisor private managed futures fund.

Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology delivers company building and company funding programs to create products and companies. Its programs include company building, funding, executive council, third party solutions and startup quest. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Part of Axogen, Inc., AxoGen Corp. develops peripheral nerve grafting and regeneration technologies. The company is based in Alachua, FL. The company was founded in 2002 by John P. Engels, Jamie M. Grooms. AxoGen was acquired by LecTec Corp. on September 30, 2011 for $19.98 million.

LifeNet Health, Inc. operates as a full-service organ donation agency and tissue banking system. It offers cardiac, vascular, sports medicine, general orthopedics and trauma, craniomaxillofacial, spine, dental, plastic and reconstructive surgical services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA.

Osteotech, Inc. develops biologic products for orthopedic, spinal, trauma, neurosurgical, and maxillofacial surgeons for use in surgical procedures. It operates in five segments: demineralized bone matrix, hybrid/synthetic, traditional tissue, spinal allograft, and client services. The company processes, markets, and distributes Xenograft bone tissue products, which are used as bone graft substitutes. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Eatontown, NJ.

ChaoLogix, Inc. develops semiconductor technology that provides optimal performance at the nexus of security and power. Its ChaoSecure technology deters side channel attacks at the source and contributes security to a semiconductor chip compared to existing add-on solutions. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Synogen Inc (Synogen) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Jamie M. Grooms and Richard R. Allen. The firm is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida.

Apex Cos. LLC engages in the provision of environmental, health, and engineering services. It offers transaction and litigation support, and information management. The company was founded by Peter T. Young in 1988 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc. manufactures automobiles. The company builds the full-size Tundra pickup and the Sequoia SUV. Its products include Tundra, Sequoia, and Sienna. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Princeton, IN.

Frederick Memorial Hospital, Inc. provides health care services. The firm provides emergency, immediate care and home health services. The firm’s services also include behavioral health, pharmacy, cardiac rehabilitation, emergency services, home health, orthopedic, pain and palliative care, occupational health, wellness center, women and children, wound care and hyperbaric medicine, and smoking cessation program. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Fredrick, MD.

The CNA Corp. operates as a nonprofit research and analysis organization. It provides solutions to complex problems of national importance. The firm’s research portfolio includes criminal justice, homeland security, energy security, water resources, education, enterprise systems and data analysis. . The company was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.