John DeBoer

The Hertz Corp. engages in the provision of vehicle rental and leasing services. It operates under the Americas RAC and International RAC segments. The Americas RAC segment includes rental of vehicles and selling value-added services in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The International RAC segment is involved in locations other than those included in the Americas. The company was founded by Walter L. Jacobs in 1918 and is headquartered in Estero, FL.

PLATINUM Technology International, Inc. develops and sells system management and database tools for client server systems. The company was founded by Andrew J. Filipowski in April 1987 and is headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

NetIQ Corp. offers software solutions. It provides identity and access management, security management, IT operation management, disaster recovery, workload migration, and unified communications and VoIP. The company was founded on February 11, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

TippingPoint NAC Solution engages in the provision of network access control and management solutions. The company was founded by Kate Tallman, Chris Gray, Seth Goldhammer, and Kaj Gronhold and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Paradigm BV provides software solutions to the oil and gas industries. It also offers a portfolio of productivity tools and applications for geologists, geophysicists and engineers that construct subsurface models from oilfield and other measurements. The company was founded by Eldad Weiss in 1987 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Spark Acquisition Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

JMI Management, Inc. (JMI Equity) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Harry S. Gruner and Charlie E. Noell. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Attachmate Corp. provides software used to manage access to enterprise applications and databases, including information stored on main frames and other legacy systems. Its products include desktop management software, development tools, and connectivity hardware. The company also provides a variety of services, including consulting, maintenance, and custom software development

Fenwick & West LLP provides legal services to technology and life sciences clients. Its practice areas include antitrust and unfair competition, appellate, complex business litigation, copyright, corporate and securities, employment and labor, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, and IP litigation. The firm offers legal advisory services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, patent prosecution, privacy and information security. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

ABS Capital Partners, Inc. (ABS Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Don Bruce Hebb and Tim Thaddeus Weglicki. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Part of Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc., Thomson Higher Education provides higher education textbooks, software, and Internet materials for various subjects including humanities, behavioral social sciences, mathematics, sciences, business, and economics. The company is based in Belmont, CA.

Appriss, Inc. engages in the development of data analytics platforms the healthcare, retail, commercial, and government agencies. It offers Appris Health, Appriss Retail, and Appriss Insights. The company was founded by Michael D. Davis and Yung T. Nguyen in 1994 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

ServiceBench, Inc. provides web based service management solutions. It focuses on optimizing the delivery of post-sales service by integrating the service supply chain. Its solutions integrate post-sales service activities, including service calls, field service management, parts ordering, claims management, and extended service agreements. The company was founded by John Estrada, Robert Baily, and Louis Rose in 1995 and is headquartered in Sterling, VA.

Unison Software, Inc. provides consulting, software, engineering and program management services. The firm offers software solutions for federal, defense, and intelligence agencies, and contractor organizations with the visibility, control and transparency and government agencies and contractors. Its products include TopVue, PRISM and Spectrum Suites, CDRL, PM, RISK, CMvues, FedConnect, Acquisition Management Module, and Spectrum CLM. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dulles, VA.

CA Ltd. provides IT management software. Its software is used to address a variety of functions including storage, systems management, security, business intelligence, and network management. The company was founded on October 20, 1976 and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1980, Cengage Learning UK Holdings Ltd. is a company that functions as an investment holding company. Part of Cengage Learning Holdings BV, the company is based in Andover, UK.

Founded in 1967, Cengage Learning (EMEA) Ltd. is a subsidiary of Cengage Learning Holdings BV. The company is based in Andover, UK. The British company provides training resources such as instructional videos, user guides, and webinars for various platforms including MindTap and WebAssign.

The Business Software Alliance, Inc. operates as an association of global software industry players. The firm pioneer’s compliance programs that promote legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.T he company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Precisely Software, Inc. provides enterprise software solutions. Its products include DMX, DMX-h, ironcluster ETL, ironstream and ZPSaver suite. The firm provides solutions for Hadoop, cloud, splunk, linux, unix, windows and mainframe. The company was founded by Assadour Ohanes Tavitian and Harvey B. Tessler in 1968 and is headquartered in Pearl River, NY.