Mohamed Ousseimi

State Street Research & Management Company (SSR), with a history dating back to 1924, is one of the nation's first investment management organizations. The Boston-based firm is a subsidiary of MetLife (NYSE:MET), one of the world's largest financial services companies. The firm, together with its affiliate SSR Realty, actively manages stock, bond, balanced and real estate portfolios for both institutional and individual investors. SSR manages pension money for many of the largest U.S. corporate pension plans. SSR also manages money for public and union pension plans, foundations, endowments, and mutual funds.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

SciAps, Inc. manufactures and services portable material analysis instruments. It operates as an instrumentation company which specializes in portable, durable, field- tested instruments. The company was founded by Gary A. Lortie and Donald W. Sackett in 2012 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Gefinor SA engages in investment holding activities. It focuses on private equity and real estate investments. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Gefinor Ventures Management LLC (Gefinor Ventures Mgmt) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

GridApp Systems, Inc. provides database automation and management services. It offers GridApp Clarity, which provides a solution that manages the database infrastructure through various stages of the life cycle, and manages various task automation and arbitrary scripts on hosts and databases in the database environment within a view console. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ADC Dolls, Inc. manufactures and distributes play dolls. It offers collectible dolls, baby dolls, and play dolls. The firm sells products through specialty retailers, as well as on-line through its company website. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Knoa Software, Inc. provides user experience management and workforce optimization software. Its products include Knoa Experience and Performance Manager, Powerful Analytics Dashboards, Knoa End User Intelligence Platform Architecture and Differentiation. The firm delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of the end-user experience for SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Its solutions help global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end-users. The company was founded by Philip Y. F. Lui and Yee-Ping Wu in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Genesant Technologies, Inc. provides online and mobile publishing of diet and workout plans. It also provides Web development, custom software development, database design, and mobile applications development services. The company was founded by Tom Chris and Jim Mrowka in 1999 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.