John A. Bricker

Nashua Corp. manufactures and markets imaging products and services to industrial and commercial customers to meet various print application needs. The firm specializes in Label (Industrial, Barcode, RFID), Transaction Supplies (POS, Financial, Kiosk, Mobile), Coated Products, Prime Labels. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. provides treaty reinsurance and primary insurance on personal and commercial risks. It operates in five segments: Standard Property-Casualty Insurance, Life Insurance, Non-Standard Underwriting, Non-Standard Agency, and Corporate & Other. The Standard Property-Casualty Insurance segment consists of two principal lines of business: underwriting only residential property insurance in capacity constrained states; and underwriting residential property and automobile insurance. Vesta Insurance Group was founded on July 9, 1993 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Aydin Corp. manufactures and sells transmission equipment and systems. The company was founded by Ayhan Hakimoglu in 1967 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

Lamar Hunt Trust Estate engages in oil and gas exploration and production. The private company is based in Dallas, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Pizza Inn, Inc. owns and operates franchise restaurants. The firm offers alfredo cheese, bacon cheddar ham, bacon cheeseburger, BBQ chicken , BLT, buffalo chicken, chicken alfredo, chicken bacon ranch, chicken fajita, hawaiian, loaded baked potato, meaty max, pepperoni max, pizza inn special, spicy asian chicken, spinach alfredo, supreme max, veggie max and taco. The company was founded by Francis Joe Spillman and Robert L. Spillman in 1958 and is headquartered in The Colony, TX.

Pinnacle Frames & Accents, Inc. manufactures and wholesales frame and wall art decor products. The firm's products offer a line of wall, desk, portrait and collage frames and also decorative accents and mirrors for sale to customers, including mass merchandisers, specialty retailers, discount stores, and niche markets throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Newcastle Capital Management LP is a hedge fund that operates in the financial industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Mark E. Schwarz, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

NCM Services, Inc. provides software design and engineering services to the mobile and handheld device industry. It develops operating systems, related applications and wireless server technology. It provides full software lifecycle development and support, including design specification, software development, project management and quality assurance. The company has worked on a variety of operating systems and environments, including Symbian, WinCE, Palm, RIM, Linux, Unix and Java. In addition, it has an understanding of wireless data technologies, including GSM, GPRS, CDMA and 1XRTT. NCM Services changed its name from Geoworks Corp. in May 2010. The company was founded by Brian P. Dougherty in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

MedQuist, Inc. provides technology-enabled clinical documentation services. It offers health systems, hospitals, and group medical practices integrated solutions for voice capture, speech recognition, medical transcription, document management and clinical documentation improvement using natural language processing, as well as coding services. The firm's solutions are designed to facilitate electronic access to clinical information by healthcare providers and to improve overall performance and adoption of the Electronic Health Record. The company performs services utilizing the DocQment Enterprise Platform, its proprietary clinical documentation workflow management system. Its customers range from large hospitals and health systems with complex workflows and a large number of users to smaller hospitals and large group medical practices. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Mount Laurel, NJ.