Stephen Michael Richards

Awareness, Inc. provides on-demand social marketing management software solutions. It offers clients a unique blend of measurement, analysis and implementation technology that provides insight into consumer interaction and behavior online and streamlines content creation, dissemination and measurement across social media channels. The firm also helps social media channels to make buying decisions, find local services, research products and interact with brands. Awareness was founded by David Carter and Robin Hopper in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

PeopleFluent, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service talent management solutions. It offers PeopleFluent Mirror Suite that integrates video and social technologies into various talent applications; PeopleFluent Colossus, a data integration cloud service that connects talent data and applications; Recruitment Software, a talent acquisition solution that allows clients to make informed hiring decisions; and Performance Management that allows clients to improve business results, develop employees, and retain key staff. The company was founded by Todd Hayes Loofbourrow in 1997 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Authoria, Inc. develops human capital management software solutions. Its products specific targets are recruiting, performance, incentives, salary, succession and communications. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company, provides text-driven business intelligence solutions that supply the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. Their award-winning solutions offer manufacturers, publishers, federal, chemical & financial service organizations critical links to situational context buried in text for use in Business Intelligence [BI] systems. Adding this situational context to enterprise data systems empowers organizations to: uncover hidden relationships, evaluate events, discover unforeseen patterns and facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution. Applying this intelligence enables organizations to avoid loss of profit margins due to preventable write-offs, customer churn, legal settlements, warranty claims or inefficient product development cycles. In short, they enable Global 5000 companies to make better business decisions by turning large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

Netnumina Solutions, Inc. develops management application software solutions. It also provides domain knowledge and unparalleled technology expertise to help clients such as Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Aventis, GSK, Fleet, and Fidelity. The company was founded by Imran Sayeed in 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Tessera Enterprise Systems (TES), a marketing systems integrator and provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Tessera Enterprise Systems is a marketing systems integrator dedicated to building and enhancing large-scale customer relationship management systems.

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Podium Data, Inc. provides enterprise data management landscape services. It offers a platform for source parsing, conversion, validation; data profiling; metadata; data shopping; data integration; encryption and masking; data transformation, scaling data volume and processing. The firm’s solutions include enterprise data lake, agile analytics and ETL offload. The company was founded by Paul S. Barth, Robert Vecchione, Michael Howard, Atif Majid and Stephen Michael Richards in 2014 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.