Anthony Piazza

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

RSA Security LLC designs and develops support security products. The firm offers threat detection and response, identity and access management, fraud prevention, and cyber security framework. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Bank Trust Co., NA provides investment and financial services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Accenture LLP provides management consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. Its services encompass customer relationship, finance, human resources, service, supply chain, information management, business process, and infrastructure outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Westinghouse Electric Corp. engages in the distribution and marketing of home appliances. It offers air purification, bakeware and baking tools, blenders and juicers, ceiling fans, cookers and steamers, cooking utensils, cookware, electric cooktops, electric kettles, food preparation, and fryers. The company was founded by George Westinghouse in 1886 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

GE Commercial Finance, Inc. provides commercial lending, financing and leasing services. It offers healthcare, manufacturing, fleet management, communications, construction, energy, aviation, infrastructure and equipment services. The company is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

The MITRE Corp. provides systems engineering, research and development and information technology support services. It offers federally funded research and development centers for the department of defense, the federal aviation administration, the internal revenue service and department of veteran affairs and the department of homeland security. The company was founded by Robert Everett in 1958 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

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

Psytechnics Ltd. develops voice quality measurement software solutions. It offers a range of active and passive software solutions for both enterprises and service providers markets. The firm’s software solutions are used to improve the performance of real-time communications including unified communications applications and networks designs. The company was founded by Michael Hollier, Phil Gray, Antony W. Rix and Richard J. B. Reynolds in December 2000 and is headquartered in Ipswich, the United Kingdom.

Arbor Networks, Inc. provides prepackaged software services. It offers Pravail, a cloud-based solution that delivers the situational awareness and security intelligence for enterprise and government networks to detect and mitigate internal and external threats. The company was founded by Farnam Jahanian, Ted Julian, and Robert G. Malan in 2000 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

The National Association of Corporate Directors is a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to help directors strengthen board leadership. The American company was founded by Maryann Bruce and the CEO is Peter R. Gleason.

AFCEA International is engaged in the provision of information technology, communications, and electronics services to military and government industry. The firm offers leadership, engagement, and networking opportunities. It focuses on cyber, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence to address national and international security challenges. The company was founded in May 1946 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

Volition Capital LLC (Volition Capital) is a venture capital & private equity firm founded in 2010 by Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, Geraldine Alias, Sean Cantwell and Rob Ketterson. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. provides cloud computing consulting services for migrating, developing and managing cloud applications and infrastructures. Its solutions include cloud strategy and economics, cloud security and governance, application portfolio assessment, application migration, cloud native development, application modernization, big data and analytics, and tools and technologies. The company was founded by Christopher H. Greendale. Erik W. Sebesta, Jonathan L. Rounds, and James Lampert in 2010 and is headquartered Boston, MA.

Army Science Board provides the army with independent advice and recommendations on matters relating to the army's scientific, technological, manufacturing, logistics and business management. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Part of Vontier Corp., Veeder-Root Co. is a company that provides fueling equipment and services to ensure regulatory compliance and optimize flow and profits. The company is based in Simsbury, CT. The company's products include automatic tank gauges, submersible turbine pumps, meter registers, and insite360 fuel management software and services. The company also offers obsoleted product notifications. The Red Jacket® CoreDEF™ submersible turbine pump sets a higher standard in the optimization of diesel exhaust fluid pumping infrastructure, while the TLS-450plus automatic tank gauge provides the most comprehensive fuel site data for advanced fuel asset management. Veeder-Root is known as the world's most trusted name for fueling equipment and services.

Riverside Research Institute provides technical advisory and engineering support. It services include Analysis of Alternatives, Education and Training, Modeling and Simulation, Program Management, Security, Facility and Systems Engineering. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.