Joy E. Binford

Princeton Optronics, Inc. develops and manufactures optical devices and subsystems. It produces custom products including low noise tunable lasers, pump laser packages, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers in the visible and near IR region. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Mercerville, NJ.

WealthEngine, Inc. provides wealth intelligence solutions. It offers analytics and modeling, consulting, marketing, and training services. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Blackberry RF, Inc. designs and manufactures radio frequency front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. The company was founded by Louise C. Sengupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH.

AnswerLogic, Inc. develops communication software. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Telogy Networks, Inc. provides embedded communications software solutions. It provides solutions for voice, fax, and data over IP. The company was founded by Jack Hangen, Thomas H. Scholl, and William E. Witowsky in 1990 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD

Centrifuge Systems, Inc. provides server-based and desktop information visualization software to the financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals, and government sectors. It offers data unification, BI visualizations, link analysis, and collaboration. The company was founded by Casey Henderson and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Shoeboxed, Inc. organizes receipts, business cards, bills, and other documents. It provides streamline accounting, bookkeeping, and tax preparation services. The company was founded by Taylor Mingos and Tobias Walter in 2007 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Netcordia, Inc. provides network configuration and change management solutions. The firm’s NetMRI software solutions enable users to automate network change, manage network configurations, and meet compliance, as well as audit multi-vendor infrastructures and identify anomalies. The company was founded by Terry Slattery in 2000 and is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland.

UNOW, Inc. provides competency-based learning platform. It operates online and self-paced universities that offer associate's, bachelor's, and master's degree programs. The company was founded by David Meyer and Eugene V. Wade Jr. in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Fidelis Education, Inc. provides digital learning solutions. It offers training, mentoring, community engagement, assessing, course authoring, tutoring and recruiting services. The company was founded by Erik Gunnar Counselman and Anoop Jayadevan in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

ObjectVideo, Inc. provides video software for security, public safety, business intelligence, process improvement and other applications. Its services include licensing, integration, and training and support. The firm's software watches video streams to determine activities, events or behaviors that can be considered suspicious or may pose a security threat to an organization. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Tysons, VA.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc. develops software solutions for higher education. It offers success platform, early alert, connect, and starfish degree planner. The company was founded by David A. Yaskin in 2007 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Part of Forrester Research, Inc., Giga Information Group, Inc. provides information technology consulting services. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. Giga Information Group was acquired by Forrester Research, Inc. on March 03, 2003 for $51.25 million.

NMGF Management LLC (New Markets Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002 by Mark Anthony Grovic and Robb Tyler Doub. The firm is headquartered in Fulton, Maryland.

Clear Standards, Inc. develops and provides Web-based enterprise carbon management and sustainability software solutions. The company was founded by Anirban Chakrabarti, Richard Mendis, and Rakesh Rao and is headquartered in Sterling, VA.

CorasCloud, Inc. develops and delivers applications and business software on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Its solutions and applications span a wide variety of vertical market segments including federal governments, the military, manufacturing, business services, communications, energy, associations, religious institutions, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded by William A. Rogers IV in 2003 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Salient Federal-Command, Inc. provides information technology and network services. It is a net-centric IT solutions company providing customers with technology, objective consulting and engineering to leverage next generation Internet applications and services. The company was founded by Thomas Walter Patterson in 2005 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

AddThis, Inc. provides social sharing and analytics solutions. It focuses on providing easy-to-use consumer engagement tools and services for advertisers, publishers and brands looking to inform paid, owned and earned media strategies with web-wide search, site, social, and sales data. The firm's platform enables users to see how the content is shared to social networks. The company was founded by Hooman Radfar, Dominique Vonarburg, J. Sanford Miller, and John Austin Fath in 2004 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Part of M&A West, Inc., Digital Bridge, Inc. provides turnkey development of vertical Web businesses for clients and for its own account. The company is based in Burlingame, CA. Digital Bridge was acquired by M&A West, Inc. on May 24, 1999.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

LifeShield LLC provides wireless digital home security systems and monitoring services for homes, restaurants, businesses, renters, apartments, vacation homes, elder parent homes, mobile homes, and even young adults living dorms. Its products include home security kits, consoles, security and environmental sensors, grid extenders, smoke and fire safety sensors, wireless security cameras, keychain remotes, and other security accessories. The firm also offers security services for alarm monitoring, installation, interactive monitoring, and customer support for wireless home security systems. The company was founded by Louis A. Stilp on September 22, 2004 and is headquartered in Yardley, PA.

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. provides educational and scientific computing services. It offers journals & magazines, conferences, workshops, electronic forums, and online books & courses. The company has office in China. Association for Computing Machinery was founded on September 15, 1947 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hughes Network Systems LLC provides broadband satellite networking services. The company offers small business, enterprise, government, defense, hospitality, utilities, cellular backhaul and manufacturing services. Hughes Network Systems was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

eSat Global, Inc. provides direct-to-satellite connectivity to low-cost IoT devices. The company is based in Solana Beach, CA. The company's patented architecture uses existing and reliable geo MSS satellite platforms, requiring no terrestrial infrastructure or back-haul while providing coverage. IoT devices equipped with eSat communications modules communicate directly with geo MSS satellites, enabling years of operation on a single battery. The company was founded by Michael Parr and Michelle Hays, and the CEO is Rick Somerton.

Webs, Inc. operates an online marketing platform. The firm offers templates and website builders allow users to build their own professional websites for small businesses, personal blogs, and hubs. The company was founded by Haroon Mokhtarzada and Zeki Mokhtarzada in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

The Minerva Institute for Research & Scholarship engages in facilitating the administration of grant-funded research, and advocating for broad reform in higher education. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.