Bradford R. Higgins

Capital Growth Systems, Inc. engages in the delivery of telecom logistics solutions. It provides optimization and connectivity solutions. The company was founded on September 29, 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Social Bicycles, Inc. provides bike share technology services. It uses mobile technology and GPS to enable affordable, scalable, and intelligent bike-sharing networks. The company was founded by Ryan Rzepecki in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Global Capacity Group, Inc. operates as a telecommunications virtual network operator. Its products include business Internet, Ethernet services & access, wavelengths, wide area networking and interconnect. The firm's solutions include cloud connectivity, application delivery, branch office connectivity, carrier off-net access, retail and healthcare networking solutions. The company was founded by Patrick C. Shutt in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Neo Network Development, Inc. manages private and municipal real estate, poles and vertical infrastructure for lease to the wireless service providers. It also offers the full compliment of network services including professional consulting, project expediting, project and program management, RF, hardware and network engineering, planning, permitting, construction, turn up, test and optimization and are offered on a full turn-key or matrix based services model. The company was founded by Vince Aragona in 2013 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Verdex Technologies, Inc. specializes in new product development using cutting-edge technologies to realize new ground-breaking ideas. The company is based in North Chesterfield, VA and was founded by Larry Marshall and Gary Huvard. The company has the ability to spin polymers such as PCL, PLA, PP, PET, PBT, nylon 66, and others if melt viscosity is low. Verdex owns an extensive trade secret portfolio for its process, along with numerous patents and pending for products. The CEOs are Bradford R. Higgins and Damien Deehan. Verdex is developing relationships with companies, industries, and markets that can benefit from their unique technology skill set. The company's scalable technology platform for mass production of nanofiber media makes it possible to spin nanofiber materials from many different natural and synthetic polymers and create multi-layered or blended fiber materials easily and cost-effectively on a commercial scale. Verdex specializes in fast-tracking new technologies to market and is currently seeking strategic partners in a multitude of industries.