Thomas Hurt

Topspin Management LLC (Topspin Management) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Leigh Randall. The firm is headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.

Plextronics, Inc. develops and delivers active layer technology for printed electronic devices. The company was founded on October 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Etcetera Edutainment, Inc. operates as a designer and developer of video games for game-based learning. The company was founded by Jessica Trybus and Donald Marinelli in 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Hillman Cos., Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of hardware related products. Its products include fasteners; threaded rod and metal shapes; keys, key duplication systems, and accessories; builder's hardware; and identification items, such as tags and letters, numbers, and signs. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

The Hillman Group, Inc. provides hardware-related products and merchandising services to retail markets. Its products include fasteners, key duplication systems, engraved tags, builder's hardware, roller chain, and magnets and magnet tools. The firm supports its product sales with value added services including design and installation of merchandising systems and maintenance of appropriate in-store inventory levels. The company was founded by Max W. Hillman Sr. in 1964 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Darigold, Inc. processes and markets butter, cheese, cultured products, fluid milk, and ice cream. It markets all these products under private labels and the Darigold brand name. The company is divided into two divisions focusing on the two major segments of its business - consumer products and ingredients. The consumer products division produces and markets a full line of dairy-based and other products, primarily through wholesale, retail grocery and foodservice channels. The Ingredients Division produces bulk butter and cheese, dry milk powder, whey powder and fractions, and markets to institutions, food brokers, and food processing companies. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA

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

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC provides legal services. The firm offers services in the areas of commercial litigation, taxation, government relations, family law, labor and employment law, European law and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

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.

The Pittsburgh Technology Council is an organization that helps tech companies succeed through business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. The council is based in Pittsburgh, PA, and was founded by William R. Newlin. Companies at all growth stages use the council to build new business, connect to capital, grow a workforce, and make headlines. The council sponsors various events, including the Summer Slam and TechFest, where software development professionals from southwestern and surrounding areas convene to explore and elevate through professional development.

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Green House (PLSG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Newlin Investment Co. LLC (Newlin Investment) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by William R. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

General Mills Canada Corp. produces packaged food products. It offers meals, snacks, vegetables, drinks, fruits, and organic food products. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Big Time Products LLC manufactures and distributes work gloves. The company was founded by Harry S. Pierce and Richard F. Chambers in 2003 and is headquartered in Rome, GA.

Carmell Regen Med Corp. develops biomaterials manufactured from blood plasma. It offers biologically-active plastics from blood plasma for treating injuries to bone and connective tissue. The firm focuses on products for the sports medicine market with devices for the repair of tendon and cartilage injuries. It provides REPAIR Bone Putty, a putty form of the plasma-based plastics to fill bone defects; and surgical scaffold for soft tissue repair that heals injured tendons and ligaments. The company was founded by James Edward Burgess, Phil Campbell, and Lee E. Weiss in 2007 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Gehl Foods LLC engages in the manufacture of dairy products. Its products include cheese sauces, chips, chili sauce, puddings, ready-to-drink beverages, and creamers. The company was founded by J. P. Gehl in 1896 and is headquartered in Germantown, WI.

Sharp Edge Labs, Inc. develops biosensors to the cellular biology research community. It operates as a assay development company that offers products and services for drug discovery. The firm offers fluorogenic activating protein, which provides accurate and detailed detection method for cellular changes that is amendable to high-throughput screening and detailed follow-up. The company was founded by Alan S. Waggoner and Marcel P. Bruchez in 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Liquid X Printed Metals, Inc. manufactures functional metallic inks. Its products include medical devices, energy, OFET, transparent conductors, OLED displays, printed circuit boards, and printed electrodes. The company was founded by Richard D. McCullough and John Belot in January 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Safaba Translation Solutions, Inc. provides enterprise machine translation solutions to enterprises. Its products include EMTGlobal, source language transformation module, language optimization engine, target language transformation module, language translation engine, and translation application programming interface. The company was founded by Alon Lavie and Robert Olszewski on June 26, 2009 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Bear Down Consulting manufactures home, health and personal care products. It includes air treatment aroma therapy, air purifiers and humidifiers, steamers and irons and home medical monitors for blood pressure. The company was founded by Joshua Goldberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

SpIntellx, Inc. operates as a computational pathology company. It applies its proprietary artificial intelligence technologies to analyze whole slide image pathology samples based on spatial analytics. The company was founded by D. Lansing Taylor, S. Chakra Chennubhotla, Jeffrey L. Fine and Michael J. Becich and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Webster Bank, NA provides banking services. It offers investment management, financial planning services, banking and lending solutions, fiduciary services and institutional services. The company is headquartered in Waterbury, CT.

Enactus Global provides free educational services. It organizes and motivates teams of university students. Its program includes market economics, entrepreneurship, personal and financial success skills and business ethics. The organization was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Springfield, MO.