David Faoro

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

v2 Ventures Group LLC provides on-line advertising services. It offers ad formats, data analysis, targeting algorithms and creative approaches, providing advertisers with leads from hard-to-reach places on the web across multiple channels, including social networks, display, games, mobile, apps and email. The company was founded by David E. Zinman, Thi Thumasathit and Scott W. Lynn in 1999 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

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.

Gryphon Investors,LLC (Gryphon Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by R.David Andrews. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Potter Electric Signal Co. LLC develops and manufactures reliable sprinkler monitoring, security, fire and industrial control products. Its products include fire sprinkler systems, addressable fire alarm systems, conventional fire, alarm systems, power supplies, nitrogen/corrosion solutions, notification appliances, special hazard/releasing systems, Canadian specific products, explosion proof devices, voice systems, security notification, security contacts, security switches, mercantile protection and industrial controls. The company was founded by Charles E. Potter in 1898 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Pharmaco-Kinesis Corp. provides research and development services. Its products include smart drug delivery systems and associated advanced devices to measure biological responses; and Magnetic Breather Pump, a device in the field of local drug delivery that delivers a remotely programmable metronomic combination of tumor fighting medications in single implantable system, as well as is used for the treatment of malignant gliomas and other aggressive brain tumors. The company was founded by John Shachar, Frank Adell, Eli Gang and Thomas C. Chen in 2006 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Sandel Avionics, Inc. manufactures and markets display systems and other products for commercial aviation market. The company was founded by Gerald Block in 1998 and is headquartered in Vista, CA.

Roche Diagnostics Corp. develops and manufactures diagnostic products. It offers anticoagulation management, blood gas and electrolytes, cholesterol and urinalysis products. The firm provides a broad portfolio of tools that help healthcare providers in the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases like HPV, HIV, heart failure and diabetes, as well as other medical conditions, such as fertility and blood coagulation. Its products and services uses by researchers, physicians, patients, hospitals and laboratories worldwide. The company was founded in 1964 by Willard Eason and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

USBX Advisory Services LLC provides investment advisory services. It is an investment banking firm that provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services including sales and divestiture, management buyouts, and recapitalization's. The company also offers private placement's in equity, subordinate debt, and growth capital. USBX Advisory Services was founded by John E. Mack III in April 2000 and is located in Santa Monica, CA.

The Symbio Group provides innovation, co-creation, and augmentation services to software, devices, financial, travel, automotive/industrial, media, retail, and gaming markets worldwide. It offers insight and strategy, design and research, productization, software development, quality assurance, globalization, research and development, systems management, and support services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

The New Jersey Division of Investment (NJDI) is a State-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey. NJDI was founded in 1950 and is responsible for the investment management of the seven public pension systems that comprise the New Jersey Pension Fund and the State of New Jersey Cash Management Fund. The Pension Fund supports the retirement plans of active and retired employees in seven public pension systems: Consolidated Police and Firemen’s Pension Fund, the Judicial Retirement System, the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System, the Prison Officers’ Pension Fund, the Public Employees’ Retirement System, the State Police Retirement System and the Teachers’ Pension & Annuity Fund.