Michael Beckerman

Young & Rubicam Brands, Inc. provides advertising services. It primarily operates through its flagship creative ad agency Y&R Advertising. The firm offer consulting and marketing services through Wunderman, and public relations services through Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe. The company was founded by Raymond Rubicam and John Orr Young in 1923 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Perthera, Inc. provides personalized medicine in treatment of cancer patients. The firm offers multi-omic molecular profiling available, enabling oncologists to deliver precision, personalized medicine in the treatment of a patient’s unique cancer. The company was founded by Dendy M. Young and Emanuel F. Petricoin III and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

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

International Financial Group, Inc. provides property-casualty insurance services. It offers liability insurance and property insurance. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Burlington, NC.

FirstBest Systems LLC delivers underwriting management system solutions. The company was founded by Julian Pelenur, John Belizaire and Joseph Pilkerton in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

NextStage LLC is a venture capital firm founded by former executives of BEA Systems in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.

CB Information Services, Inc. operates technology insights platform. It offers custom content solutions including reports and white papers, webinars, blog posts, infographics, and podcasts. The company was founded by Anand Sanwal and Jonathan Sherry in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bizzabo, Inc. operates as a networking platform that integrates social media to build interactive event communities for event organizers and attendees. It offers registration, ticketing, agenda management, event marketing tools, networking, event app and contact management products. The company was founded by Ezra Hoch, Boaz Katz, Liran Mayost, Danny Albocher, Eran Ben-Shushan and Alon Alroy in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (Private Banking) is the private banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.), itself owned by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), a bank and financial holding company headquartered in New York City. GS&Co.'s Private Wealth Management (PWM) group primarily provides advisory services to high-net worth individuals and institutional clients.

Webgility, Inc. provides e-Commerce integration software services. It specializes in data automation, QuickBooks integration, online store integration, inventory management, accounting automation, shipping and fulfillment, marketplace integration, SMB operations, enterprise business management, ecommerce platform, ecommerce operations and xero. The company was founded in 2007 by Parag Mamnani and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Barack Obama Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world. The foundation is based in Chicago, IL, and is led by Valerie B. Jarrett, who has been the CEO of the non-profit company since 2020. The foundation's main project is the Obama Presidential Center, which is a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates the nation's first African American president and first lady on the south side of Chicago. Additionally, the foundation offers the Voyager Scholarship, which provides financial aid, travel opportunities, and connections to a network of leaders to students who want to go into public service.

BanQu, Inc. engages in the provision financial inclusion for the underbanked of the world using blockchain technology. It offers platform connection supply chain. The company was founded by Ashish Gadnis, Hamse Warfe, and Jeffrey Keiser in 2016 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

Velocidi LLC provides marketing intelligence SaaS platform. It offers data unification, visual analytics, and insight collaboration. The company was founded by David Dunne, Jon Rygh, and Dina Khoury and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Digital Cognition Technologies, Inc. develops detect presymptomatic cognitive impairment and aid in tracking cognitive devices. The company was founded by Randall S. Davis, Dana L. Penney and Phil A. Cooper in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

R4 Technologies, Inc. provides technology services. The company was founded by Paul Breitenbach and is headquartered in Ridgefield, CT.

Pine Island Capital Partners LLC (Pine Island Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Clyde C. Tuggle, Philip Cooper and John Thain. The firm is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

CAST AI Group, Inc. provides multi-cloud management platform. It allows organizations to deploy, operate, and cost optimize containerized K8s applications in any combination of cloud providers simultaneously. The company was founded by Laurent Gil and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

Part of Soluna Holdings, Inc., EcoChain, Inc. develops and operates ultra low-cost green data centers focused on crypto currency mining. The company is based in New York, NY. John Belizaire has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

The Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE) is a nonpartisan organization that conducts research, policy analysis, and advocacy to promote the creation, survival, and growth of new businesses. CAE works with policymakers at all levels of government to create policy environments that support entrepreneurship across the United States.

TBC Holdco LLC provides financial outsourcing services. The company was founded by Markin J. Zarrow in 2003 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Part of Soluna Holdings, Inc., Soluna Computing, Inc. sells all the renewable energy your power plant generates. The company is based in New York, NY. The company builds small-footprint data centers to buy and use all your excess energy. John Belizaire has been the CEO of the company since 2018. Soluna Computing was acquired by EcoChain, Inc. on October 29, 2021 for $35.89 million.

Marlinspike Partners LLC (Marlinspike Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Neil Keegan, Mislav Tolusic and Mark Turk. The firm is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.