Gary McNeil

Vocus, Inc. provides cloud-based marketing and public relations software that enables companies to acquire and retain customers. It offers products and services to help customers attract and engage prospects, capture and keep customers and measure and improve marketing effectiveness. The company's cloud solutions address key areas of digital marketing and public relations, including social media marketing, search marketing and news distribution, email marketing and publicity. Its software is designed for marketers to attract customers through search engines, increase and engage their followers on social networks such as facebook, linkedin and twitter, communicate with prospects and customers via email and generate and track visibility in traditional and online media. The company's buyers primarily consist of marketing and public relations professionals that share a common goal of marketing. Vocus was founded by Richard E. Rudman and Robert William Lentz in 1988 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Parature, Inc. provides web-based social and customer service software. Its services include customer retention, reporting, and integration services. The firm focuses on enabling organizations to serve, support, engage and retain their customers using social media communication channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Lithium communities, as well as traditional modes of communication, such as the web, email, and chat. The company was founded by Casey V. Golden, Duke M. Chung and Ching-Ho Fung in 2000 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

JAG flocomponents LP designs, manufactures and supplies ball valves. Its products include flanged trunnions, floating ball valves, JAG spring returns, mud valves, pig valves, API 6D pipeline valves, gates, globes and checks and butterfly valves. JAG flocomponents was founded by John McCrae in 2001 and is headquartered in Edmonton, AB.

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.

Kronos, Inc. engages in the provision of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. It offers products for business needs such as time and attendance, employee scheduling, absence management, labor activities, analytics, benefits administration, talent acquisition, onboarding, human resources, talent management, and payroll. It serves health systems, manufacturing, retail, state and local government, distribution, higher education, contract services, banking, and police and corrections industries. The company was founded by Mark S. Ain and Anthony J. Parkinson on October 31, 1977 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.