William R. Fowler

Blackboard, Inc. provides software applications and related services to the education industry. The firm offers recruitment, student success, and consulting services. Its services are utilized by academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, and universities. The company was founded by Michael L. Chasen, Daniel E. Cane, Stephen Gilfus and Matthew L. Pittinsky in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Aarohi Communications, Inc. develops intelligent data center networking components and data management solutions. It offers FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. The company was founded by Shanti Subbaraman, Ashwini Choudhary, Amar Kapadia, Mukund Chavan, and Sriram Rupanagunta in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

ProNvest, Inc. provides investment advisory services. It helps retirement plan participants with advice and money management services. It also provides educational tools, professional account management, investment allocation advice and managed IRA rollovers. The company was founded by Jay Jumper in 2000 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, TN.

Pearson Education, Inc. publishes educational and professional books. Its brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Cengage Learning, Inc. provides educational technology solutions. It offers personalized services and course driven digital solutions for the higher education and K-12, professional, and library markets. The firm's brands include Brooks, Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Gale, Heinle, South Western, and Wadsworth. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CoreTech Consulting Group LLC provides software solutions. It offers services in the areas of internetworking, security, platforms, business intelligence, program & project management, project staff augmentation, support services in life sciences and financial services industries. The company's clients include GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, SunTrusT Banks, Synovous Financial etc. CoreTech Consulting was founded in 1992 and is located in King of Prussia, PA.

Cadient Group, Inc. develops interactive marketing strategies for health-care organizations. It provides metrics analysis, creativity, rich user experience, architecture and development and relationship marketing. The company is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Consul Risk Management Int. BV develops and markets security management software solutions. It develops products which help security managers to monitor access, review reports, manage passwords, manage audit data and perform audit analysis from a single central platform. The firm was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands.

Recommind, Inc. develops and sells software for electronic discovery, information governance, enterprise search, and content categorization. Its products include axcelerate, decisiv, and perceptiv. The firm solutions include eDiscovery for law firms and enterprise, information governance and access. The company was founded by Robert Tennant, Derek Schueren, and Jan Puzicha in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of LKN Communications, Inc., ACN Excel Canada, Inc provides telecommunications services. The company is based in Montréal, Canada.

eInstruction Corp. provides online education and training services. It offers educators and administrators a family of software, student response systems, interactive whiteboards, wireless interactive tablets, and enterprise-based administrator tools. The company was founded by Darrell L. Ward in 1980 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Signix, Inc. provides a hosted, identity authentication, digital signature and work flow solution that helps companies transform paper intensive approvals to digital processes. The firm serves in the area of credit unions and banks, financial services, insurance and annuities, healthcare, life sciences, real estate, corporations, education and government. The company was founded by Jay Jumper in 2002 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, TN.

Women in Technology (WIT) is a non-profit organization with over 18,000 members worldwide, including more than 1,000 members in the local area. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The organization provides leadership development, technology education, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers and for girls interested in STEM. WIT aims to make the state with the highest percentage of women in the STEM workforce by partnering with the community to provide opportunities that champion women throughout their education and career. The company was founded by Gavriella Schuster, Deborah Gore Cassidy.

Kennet Partners LLC operates as a private equity and venture capital company. It specializes in growth capital, expansion capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, shareholder liquidity, spinouts, management buy-ins, acquisition financing, and roll ups. The company was founded on September 22, 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Ellucian Support, Inc. provides supporting services to education industry. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

AcademyOne, Inc. provides curriculum course and advising management systems for postsecondary institutions. It specializes in student guidance systems, cloud computing, workflow, collaboration and content management, web services and APIs, student information systems, integration and interfaces, large scale data collection, mobile applications, portal design and hosting. The company was founded by David K. Moldoff in 2005 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

KEMP Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of load balancing solutions. and application delivery controllers. It offers load balancers, and network detection and performance products. The company was founded by Peter Melerud and Jon Braunhut in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Impartner, Inc. provides partner relationship management solutions. It helps companies worldwide manage their partner relationships and accelerate revenue and profitability through indirect sales channels. The firm?s products include sales enhancement modules, partner marketing modules, PRM services and other products. The company was founded by Erich Flynn and Craig Flynn in 1997 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Conversica, Inc. provides sales conversion management software for marketing and sales organizations. Its online persona, the application automatically contacts, engages, nurtures, qualifies and follows up with leads via natural, two-way email conversations until the lead converts into an opportunity or opts out. The firm serves the automotive, education, finance and mortgage, insurance, real estate and technology industries. The company was founded by Benjamin P. Brigham in 2007 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Relevance Capital Management LLC (Relevance Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Cameron Newton. The firm is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Mineral, Inc. provides online compliance and employee training solutions. It offers insurance brokers, payroll providers, associations, employers, platform suites, and PEO platform solutions. The company was founded by Peter Yozzo in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Quantbiome, Inc. retails pharmaceutical products through online platform. The company was funded by Richard Lin, Jun Kim and Sang Han and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

BuyersRoad, Inc. develops social survey software services. It provides drive employee behavior, improve customer experience, and online reputation and revenues. It also offers solutions such as frontline engagement, online reputation, pricing and return on investment, socialworkforce, and socialmonitor. The company was founded by Scott Harris and Scott J. Davido and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Classcraft Studios, Inc. develops and operates online games for education. It specializes in games, education, web and motivation. The company was founded by Lauren Young, Devin Young and Shawn Young and is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

qler Solutions LLC operates as a healthcare consulting firm. The firm provides psychiatric care to patients including emergency departments, med-surg floors, behavioral in-patient, clinics, and nursing home services. The company was founded by Richard David and Kathy Seward and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Claya, Inc. engages in the manufacture of vitamin packs based on users DNA, blood levels and lifestyle. It offers plant-based cellulose microbeads. The company was founded by Rachel Soper Sanders and Daniel Wallerstorfer and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Savant Growth LLC (Savant Growth) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Francesco Mantica, Eric Filipek and Javier Eduardo Rojas. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Codelathe Technologies, Inc., the private company behind filecloud, is a leader in content governance and collaboration for unstructured data. The company is based in Austin, TX and has subsidiaries in Canada. Trusted and used worldwide by over 1000 enterprises, educational institutions, government organizations, and service providers, filecloud is a unified and secure enterprise file service platform. It organizes enterprise data, enhances collaboration and productivity, and provides ironclad data protection and governance. Developed by Codelathe Inc., filecloud offers powerful file sharing, sync, and mobile access capabilities on public, private, and hybrid clouds. The company was founded in 2016, and Ray Downes has been the CEO since 2010.