Chris Chrisafides

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC (dba GMO) is a privately-held, SEC-registered global investment management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. GMO was founded was founded in 1977 and provides investment advice to a wide variety of clients.

Part of Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc., Reliant Building Products, Inc. manufactures residential windows and other building materials. The company is based in Dallas, TX. Reliant Building Products was acquired by Alenco Windows, Inc. on April 17, 2001.

Color Spot Nurseries, Inc. engages in the distribution of plants, vegetables, and herbs. The company was founded by Michael F. Vukelich and Jerry L. Halamuda in 1983 and is headquartered in Vista, CA.

Republic Financial Corp. (Republic Financial) is a private equity firm founded in 1971. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Enterprise Bank & Trust Co. operates as state chartered commercial bank. It offers checking accounts, savings accounts, student accounts, personal and business loans, retirement plans, and mortgages. The firm also provides cash management, wealth management, insurance, and mobile and online banking services. It serves businesses, professionals, non-profits and individuals. The company was founded by George L. Duncan in 1988 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

SCVNGR, Inc. develops mobile gaming tools and software solutions. Its platform allows individual players, local stores, museums, historic monuments, universities, promotions, conferences, cities and restaurants to build a game layer. The company was founded by Seth Priebatsch in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Open Exchange, Inc. offers a software-as-a-service solution that creates, shares, and tracks online presentations. It provides an on-demand platform to create interactive multi-media web presentations incorporating video, PowerPoint decks, links, downloads, and email forms. The company was founded by Michael E. Kolowich and Alex Kieft in 2010 and is headquartered in Lincoln, MA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

MKP Capital Management LLC (MKP) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 by Patrick McMahon and Chip Perkins. MKP provides discretionary investment advice to pooled investment vehicles that invest in a wide range of financial instruments. They also serve as the discretionary trading adviser to certain separate accounts structured as investment vehicles.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

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

Centive, Inc. develops incentive management software solutions. It also provides sales performance management software that monitors sales commissions, performance pay, and commission systems. The company was founded by Elizabeth M. Cobb and David A. Love in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Summit Investment Management Ltd. (Summit) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Greenfield, Wisconsin. The Edward J. Gaffney & Elizabeth A. Gaffney Revocable Trust, the Chandler Herrera Family Trust, and Thomas A. Carroll are the principal owners of the firm. Founded in 1987, Summit offers a wide range of investment portfolios for individuals, institutions and businesses.

Awareness, Inc. provides on-demand social marketing management software solutions. It offers clients a unique blend of measurement, analysis and implementation technology that provides insight into consumer interaction and behavior online and streamlines content creation, dissemination and measurement across social media channels. The firm also helps social media channels to make buying decisions, find local services, research products and interact with brands. Awareness was founded by David Carter and Robin Hopper in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Powell Plant Farms, Inc. grows and supplies flowering plants for the retailers in the US. It offers annuals, perennials, poinsettias, holiday crops and plants, herbs/veggies, and ground covers. The company operates in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. The company was founded in 1957 by Billy J. Powell and is located in Troup, TX.

ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company, provides text-driven business intelligence solutions that supply the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. Their award-winning solutions offer manufacturers, publishers, federal, chemical & financial service organizations critical links to situational context buried in text for use in Business Intelligence [BI] systems. Adding this situational context to enterprise data systems empowers organizations to: uncover hidden relationships, evaluate events, discover unforeseen patterns and facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution. Applying this intelligence enables organizations to avoid loss of profit margins due to preventable write-offs, customer churn, legal settlements, warranty claims or inefficient product development cycles. In short, they enable Global 5000 companies to make better business decisions by turning large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

Madison Atlantic Partners LLC provides turnaround, crisis management, financial advisory and wind-down management services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mass Technology Leadership Council, Inc. is a technology association based in Massachusetts. The American company's mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and the development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in the region. The non-profit company connects people from across the technology landscape, provide access to industry-leading content and ideas, and offer their members visibility and a platform to advance their collective interests. The company was founded by David Solomont and the CEO is Sara Fraim.

Lowell General Hospital provides healthcare services. It offers cancer center, birthplace, critical care, emergency, rehabilitation, diagnostic and surgical services. The company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Quintus, Inc. specializes in integrating advanced carbon fiber composites for orthopedic applications. It also designs, prototypes and manufactures non-implantable components. The company was founded by Dick Cook in 1970 and is headquartered in Camp Verde, AZ.

Rochester Gauges LLC manufactures liquid level gauges and sensors. It offers fuel, water, anhydrous, LP gas, refrigeration, and industrial gas level. The company was founded on 1913 and is headquartered in Dallas,TX.

Qvidian Corp. provides cloud-based Request for Proposal (RFP) and proposal automation applications. Its services are used for sales proposals, security questionnaires, presentations, due diligence questionnaires, and sales playbooks. It offers advisory services, content services, managed services, technical services, and education and training. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Dialpad, Inc. develops pure-cloud communications solutions. It offers business phone system, contact center, video conferencing, and sales dialer. The company was founded by Craig Walker, John Rector, Brian Peterson, and Alex Cornell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tamr, Inc. engages in the development of a platform for data management and analytics. It offers data mastering, agile customer mastering, procurement analytics, CDISC conversion, Tamr for government, media analytics and solution catalog. The company was founded by Andrew Hunt Palmer, Michael R. Stonebraker, Ihab Ilyas, George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner, and Alex Pagan in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Global Radar Acquisition LLC provides pre-hire intelligence solutions. It offers GlobalHiRe, GHRR group connect, GlobalHiRe mobile, GHRR on-boarding and transportation, and vendor screening solutions. It serves the education, energy and utilities, government, financial services, healthcare, non-profit and volunteer, staffing, retail, sharing economy, and transportation industry. The company was founded by Brandon G. Phillips in 2005 and is headquartered in Fort Myers, FL.

Réseau Sans Fil Otodata, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Montréal, CA. and has subsidiaries in United States, Poland and Israel. The Canadian company provides precise and reliable tank level data through their RTLMTM communicator, which is being rapidly deployed all over. The company has designed and developed their communication infrastructure from the ground up with wireless data communication in mind, making them unique amongst their peers. The company is the largest internet of things network operator and offer proprietary products and technologies with ultra-low hardware costs to sectors ranging from automotive to agriculture. The company's network coverage reaches more than 95% of the population of Ontario and they have plans to offer nation-wide coverage in the near future. The company offers the possibility of "no monthly fees" or "micro monthly fees" payment plans.

Unicon, Inc. provides logistics services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Marshville, NC.

Summit Casing Equipment, Inc. manufactures solid body centralizers, bow spring centralizers, composite centralizers, and float equipment. Its products include stage tools and port collars, accessories, special threads, plugs, razer reamer shoe, float equipment, composite centralizer and bow spring centralizers. The company is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

Factorial Funds Management LLC (Factorial Funds) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.