Ben Aufermann

Peppertree Capital Management Inc. (Peppertree Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

Beacon Orthopaedic Partners Parent LLC engages in the provision of orthopaedic and sport medicine care services. It provides patient care and support services. The company is headquartered in OH.

Seaport Capital LLC (Seaport Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Bill Luby and Jim Collis. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Hycroft Capital LLC is a merchant bank that provides various financial services.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Investment Division) (New York Fed-IM) is the investment management division of government-owned Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NASDAQ: GROW), a Federal Reserve Bank headquartered in New York City. New York Fed implements monetary policy, supervises and regulates financial institutions and helps maintain the nation's payment systems. New York Fed-IM manages the Federal Reserve Bank’s money market mutual funds.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

McDonald Group, Inc is a private investment company. The company is based in Birmingham, AL. The CEO of the company is John McDonald.

Servervault LLC provides IT infrastructure management and hosting services. The firm offers secure intranet & Internet, web applications & web sites for clients in the financial, healthcare, information technology and government sectors. It services include solution design & engineering, network, facility infrastructure, system management and application services. The company was founded by Patrick J. Sweeney in 1999 and is headquartered in Dulles, 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

CIVC Partners LP(CIVC Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1970. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

The Lek/Alcar Consulting Group, Inc. provides business strategy consulting services. It offers strategy, finance, marketing and sales, operations, and transaction services including business unit strategy, brand management, pricing, alliances and joint ventures, product development, corporate transformation, and operations design. It serves the defense, energy, health, building and construction, aerospace, media, retail, and telecommunications industries. The company was founded by Andrew Kutter in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Assurecare LLC provides integrated health management software for healthcare and human services organizations. It offers MedCompass, a health management platform that facilitates real-time care management through a fully integrated database of member and provider information. The company was founded by Thomas M. Mack and Gregory Silence in June 1979 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Comet Solutions, Inc. develops product performance simulation software solutions. It provides software-based engineering solutions for product development workgroups within manufacturing companies to make conceptual design decisions and complete multi-disciplinary design evaluations. The company was founded by Malcolm Panthaki in 2001 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH.

Fortis Security Products LLC designs and manufactures security products. The firm designs and manufactures innovative, physical security products such as vaults, safes, drive-up systems and interior furnishings. It is used primarily in banks, savings and loans, credit unions and financial centers. The company was founded by Kirk Williams, David Hostetter and Kieran Nickoson in 2004 and is headquartered in Greendale, IN.

A+E Networks LLC operates television networks. It broadcasts movies, dramatic series and justice shows such as Dog the Bounty Hunter, Intervention, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Flip This House, and Criss Angel Mindfreak. The company was founded in February 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Providence Journal Co. publishes newspapers and magazines. The company publishes The Providence Journal, a daily newspaper, which is circulated in the Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts markets. It is a subsidiary of A. H. Belo Corp. The Providence Journal was founded in 1820 and is located in Providence, RI.