David Schapker

North American Nutrition Cos., Inc. provides blending, manufacturing, distribution and nutritional services. It operates four research facilities and provides diet formulation, feeding program recommendation and product development services to livestock and poultry industries. The firm also operates a manufacturing plant where produces feed-grade drugs, vitamin, mineral products and specialty feed mixes. The company is headquartered in Lewisburg, OH.

Sintef Holding AS operates as independent research organization. It generates and develops technological solutions for the private and public sectors. The firm also acts as an incubator for technology transfer and new companies. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway.

Umpqua Bank provides personal and business banking solutions. The firm's service include savings, money markets, online banking and billpay, mobile banking, debit card, and overdraft services. It also offers home loans, express deposits, fraud prevention, merchant and overdraft services. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Spokane, WA.

Citizens Network For Foreign Affairs, Inc. is a non profit organization that engages in the development and provision of agribusiness services. It promotes agricultural development in developing countries from training farmers and members of farmers organizations at the grass-roots level to facilitating joint ventures between American and foreign agribusinesses. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

FarSounder, Inc. develops and manufactures 3D sonar systems for marine navigation, obstacle avoidance and security applications. It has a global customer base of commercial, government and private sector users. The firm's systems are extremely versatile and can provide solutions for other underwater operations including real time surveys, search and recovery, homeland and port security, science and research, marine mammal mitigation, fisheries by-catch reduction and other unique applications in underwater environments. The company was founded by James H. Miller, Cheryl M. Zimmerman and Matthew J. Zimmerman in 2001 and is headquartered in Warwick, RI.

The Habersham Plantation Corp. manufactures household furniture. The company offers handcrafted furniture. Habersham Plantation was founded by Joyce C. Eddy in 1972 and is located in Toccoa, GA.

CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning operates as a climate research centre. The private company is based in Oslo, Norway.

Abelia AS is a business association based in Norway that organizes approximately 2,800 member companies and organizations with over 63,000 full-time employees. Abelia is based in Oslo, NO. The company is the association for Norwegian knowledge and technology-based enterprises within NHO. Abelia's members and partners have developed a growth plan for the technology industry, which contains 27 concrete proposals for measures to further strengthen the tech sector. The private company provides current insight and analysis about knowledge and technology companies, as well as results from the restructuring barometer and member surveys.

Part of Deere & Co., John Deere Financial Services, Inc. is a bank holding company. The company is based in Johnston, IA. The CEO of the company is Samuel R. Allen.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

John Deere Capital Corp. provides and administers financing for retail purchases of new equipment manufactured. It operates through the following segments: Production and Precision Agriculture, Small Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, Products and Services, and Financial Services. The Production and Precision Agriculture segment defines, develops, and delivers global equipment and technology solutions to unlock customer value for production-scale growers of large grains, small grains, cotton, and sugarcane. The Small Agriculture and Turf segment focuses on the dairy and livestock producers, high-value crop producers, and turf and utility customers. It includes certain mid-size and small tractors, as well as hay and forage equipment, riding and commercial lawn equipment, golf course equipment, and utility vehicles. The Construction and Forestry segment refers to earthmoving, forestry, and roadbuilding production systems. Its products include crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, excavators, skid-steer loaders, milling machines, and log harvesters. The Products and Services segment produced by the segments above are marketed primarily through independent retail dealer networks and major retail outlets and, as it relates to roadbuilding products in certain markets outside the U.S. and Canada, primarily through John Deere-owned sales and service subsidiaries. The Financial Services segment consists of operations of the company and additional operations in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Thailand. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Néolait manufactures and markets livestock nutrition products for cattle, goats, sheep, pigs and poultry. Its products include minerals, milk, nutritional supplements, nutrition boluses, hygiene, drinking water, hoof care and forage in the feed ration. The company was founded on February 01, 1944 and is headquartered in Trégueux, France.

The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) is a non-profit company that has been working on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) since 1984. The company is based in Wakefield, MA. The company's tools are designed with UDL in mind from the start, and they aim to break down barriers to learning until learning has no limits. CAST has been able to grow the field of UDL thanks to their funders and partners.

Cool Planet Energy Systems, Inc. develops negative carbon fuels. Its process, known as the carbon negative fuel cycle creates drop-in gasoline and can be used in any vehicle on the road today. The firm’s product that is CoolTerra biocarbon sequesters carbon and creates value for industries as diverse as agriculture, water, and livestock. The company was founded by Michael C. Cheiky in 2009 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO.

Electronics Recycling Solutions LLC provides counselling services. It specializes in hiring employees with autism and disabilities. The company was founded by Rebeckah Dopp and is headquartered in Gallatin, TN.

Part of Cargill, Inc., Carl S. Akey, Inc. provides blending, distribution, transportation, feed manufacturing, and nutrition services to the feed industry. The company is based in Lewisburg, OH. Carl S. Akey was acquired by Provimi SAS on July 03, 2000.

Provimi Holding manufactures and markets animal healthcare products. The company offers animal feed for swine, poultry, and cattle in the form of premixes, concentrates, and complete feed. The firm Vision is to play a major role in feeding a growing and increasingly affluent global population with high quality, safe nutrition products, using its international resources of research and development that have been built up over decades of industry experience.

Furst-McNess provides customized vitamin and mineral premix, commodity blends, and feed ingredients to the beef, dairy, poultry and swine products. It also service the food, beverage and bio-fuels industries. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Freeport, IL.

Dow AgroSciences LLC engages in the provision of agrochemical and biotechnology solutions. It offers pest management and biotechnology products to improve the quality of the food supply and contribute to health. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

CropLife America is an organization that helps ensure growers and consumers have the technologies they need to protect crops, communities, and ecosystems from the threat of pests, weeds, and diseases in an environmentally sound, safe, and sustainable way. The private company is based in Arlington, Virginia and has subsidiaries in other locations. The American company focuses on innovative conversations, regulatory integrity, and sustainability. The CEO of the company is Jay Vroom.

Rise, Inc. provides employement services. It supports people have disabilities and other barriers to employment in attaining their personal measure of safe and affordable housing, vocational achievement, self-sufficiency, and belonging in their communities. The company was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Spring Lake Park, MN.

Part of Shell Plc, Shell Chemicals LP is a company that develops, manufactures, and supplies bulk chemicals. The company is based in Deer Park, TX.

Vestaron Corp. develops and markets bioinsecticides derived from naturally occurring peptides. It offers the following brands: Spear-T for the treatment of thrips, Spear-P controls Colorado Potato beetle, and Spear-C protects crops from lepidopteran pests. The company was founded by Glenn F. King in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.