Stanley Kerlin

NEON Communications Group, Inc. provides internet hosting, network services, and data processing services for enterprises. It offers single-source solution for every Internet need from management of web applications, servers, and databases, to security, streaming, network bandwidth, and collocation facilities. The company was founded in 1989 and is located in Westborough, MA.

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

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BGC Partners LP is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products including fixed-income, rates, foreign exchange, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, futures and structured product markets. Previously a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, BCG separated from that firm in 2004. In 2005, BGC merged with Maxcor Financial Group, integrating two leading brokerage firms. This was followed by the acquisitions of ETC Pollak and Aurel in Paris. On April 1, 2008, BGC merged with eSpeed to form a world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the global marketplace. The combined company is BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP). BGC offers a full range of brokerage services including price discovery, trade execution, straight through processing and clearing, settlement and access to electronic trading services through its eSpeed and BGC Trader brands.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1985, HEI Hospitality LLC is a private equity firm located in Norwalk, Connecticut with an additional office in Scottsdale, Arizona. The firm seeks to provide consistent, risk-adjusted returns to institutional investors, which include several prestigious university endowments. Their managed funds include: the HEI Hospitality Fund LP, the HEI Hospitality Fund II LP and the HEI Hospitality Fund III LP. HEI also owns 2 hotels in a joint venture with Prudential Real Estate Investors

RLJ Development LLC is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of RLJ Lodging Trust founded in 2000 by Robert L. Johnson and Tom J. Baltimore. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda.

The Benecon Group, Inc. provides municipal insurance, brokerage and actuarial services. Its services include private sector consortiums, public sector cooperatives, group ancillary benefits, and producer/ broker, actuarial, compliance and wellness services. The company was founded by Samuel N. Lombardo and Joel E. Callihan in 1992 and is headquartered in Lititz, PA.

Hospitality Asset Managers Association is an organization that aims to enhance hospitality asset managers through education, advancement of the profession, and serving as the collective industry voice of hospitality ownership. The non-profit company is based in North Scituate, MA. The organization has approximately 200 professionals representing an estimated 3,200 hotels with over 760,000 rooms. Members are involved in asset management, acquisition, financing, and disposition of hotels. The HAMA supporter program provides the opportunity to join an exclusive listing of aligned hotel business partners for their membership. The organization's membership roster of approximately 200 professionals represents, among others, third-party firms, REITs. The company was founded by Matthew Cox, Robert D. Kline.

Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) is a nonprofit association that serves as the spokes group for the finance and technology segments of the hospitality industry. The non-profit company is based in Austin, TX. Established in 1952, HFTP is headquartered in Texas, USA, with offices in other locations. HFTP offers expert networks, educational resources, career development programs, research, leadership opportunities, and conferences and events. It produces international events throughout the year, including the world's largest hospitality technology tradeshow and conference brand: HITEC. HFTP also oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI). The HFTP Foundation, the newly-established philanthropic arm of HFTP, assists in securing nonprofit funding for hospitality and travel industry-related research. HFTP has 61 local chapters throughout the world, enabling hospitality financial and technology professionals the chance to network and share solutions.

Founded in 2002, PLSG Capital Investment Programs is a venture capital/private equity firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Life Sciences Green House (PLSG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

United Way of Franklin County, Inc. engages in improving the quality of life in Franklin County by mobilizing people and resources to strengthen communities. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.