Karen Politte-Corn

Microdyne Corp. provides customer relationship management services. The company is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

Spectrum Control, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets control products and systems. It operates in four segments: signal, power integrity and microwave components, power management systems, and sensors and controls. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Fairview, PA.

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. provides business security solutions. It offers advanced and basic security, network and wireless security products, and management and visibility services. It serves education, retail, and healthcare industries. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Art Technology Group, Inc. provides an integrated suite of Internet customer relationship management and e-commerce software. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

TA Associates Management LP(TA Associates) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Boston. The firm is founded in 1968 by Peter Brooke a subsidiary of TA Associates Management Holding LP.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Egis Capital Partners LLC (Egis Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Robert M. Chefitz and Joe Falkenstein in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Summit, New Jersey.

Part of The Conference Board, Inc., Committee for Economic Development is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led organization that delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions in the nation's interest. The company is based in New York, NY. The company's trustees, who are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies, bring their unique experience to address pressing policy issues. The company collectively represents 30+ industries, over a trillion dollars in revenue, and over 4 million employees. Founded in 1942, the organization uses cookies to improve their website and offers products and services to enhance user experience. Committee for Economic Development was acquired by The Conference Board, Inc. on January 14, 2015.

Trout Unlimited, Inc. engages in conserves, protects and restores coldwater fisheries works. It develops tools such as the conservation success index a framework for assessing the health of coldwater fish species throughout their native range. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Mission Critical Partners, Inc. provides consulting services to the public safety communications industry. Its services includes executive consulting and master planning, emergency management communications, next generation 911 planning and implementation, land mobile radio, facility and technology integration, broadband deployment, consolidation services, forensics, and systems analysis. The company was founded by R. Kevin Murray, Brian Bark, and Len Kowalski in 2009 and is headquartered in Port Matilda, PA.

Francisco Partners Management LP (Francisco Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Benjamin Ball, Dipanjan Deb, Neil Garfinkel, Sanford Robertson and David Stanton. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco and London.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

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.

Universal Instruments Corp. designs and manufactures advanced automation and assembly equipment solutions for the electronics manufacturing industry. It offers surface mount, automation, hot bar bonding, though-hole, and software. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Conklin, NY.

ITW EAE BV manufactures automated soldering systems. It specializes in the design and manufacturing of mass soldering equipment for the global circuit board assembly market. The firm’s products are grouped under reflow soldering equipment, wave soldering equipment and selective soldering equipment. It was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Oosterhout, the Netherlands.

Viewpoint, Inc. provides construction-specific software solutions to the global construction and capital project industries. The firm’s products include Vista, Spectrum, ProContractor, Viewpoint Team and Viewpoint Field View software cloud solutions. It offers software products that help contractors improve project profitability through better visibility, real-time collaboration and risk mitigation. The company was founded by Family Haladay in 1976 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP operates a law firm. Its practices include mergers and acquisitions, securities, public and private financing, investment funds, private equity, real estate, intellectual property, communications and technology, new media and the Internet, entertainment, employee benefits and executive compensation, personal representation, antitrust, environmental regulation, tax and bankruptcy, and corporate reorganization law. The company was founded in April 1875 is headquartered in New York, NY.

Authentix, Inc. engages in the provision o authentication and information services. Its products include Axis Fuels, security inks, tamper evident seals, digital authentication, and analyzers and detectors. The company was founded by Lee Barberito, Olaf Leonard Halvorssen, and Craig W. Stamm in 1996 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Primavera Systems, Inc. provides project portfolio management solutions. It offers software solutions to serve the companies working on projects in industries such as aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, financial services, government, utilities, oil & gas, chemicals, high technology and professional service engagements. The customers of the company include AFLAC, Alcatel, AIG, Army Corps of Engineers, Bechtel Group, Bovis Lend Lease, ChevronTexaco, Citicorp, ConocoPhillips, EDS, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Federal Express, Fluor, Ford-Jaguar, General Motors, Guardian Life Insurance, Honeywell IAC, Hutchison 3G, Intel and Johnson & Johnson. Primavera Systems was co-founded by Joel M. Koppelman & Richard Faris in May, 1983 and is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA.

BeyondTrust Corp. provides secure enterprise remote management and support software solutions. It offers remote support, privilege access and password vault. The company was founded by Joel Bomgar, Nathan McNeill, and Patrick Norman in 2003 and is headquartered in Ridgeland, MS.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.