Brian Lichtenberger

Michaels Stores, Inc. owns and operates a chain of specialty retail stores. It provides arts, crafts, framing, floral, home décor and seasonal merchandise for the hobbyist and do-it-yourself home decorator. The firm's crafting classes, in-store events, project sheets and displays, mobile applications and on-line videos; they offer a shopping experience that can inspire creativity and confidence in their customers' artistic abilities. The company was founded by Michael J. Dupey in 1983 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Guitar Center, Inc. distributes musical instruments. It offers musical lessons, repairs, and rentals. The company was founded by Wayne Mitchell in 1959 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

AutoTrader.com, Inc. operates an Internet marketplace for the buying and selling of new and used cars. The firm also offers new car, certified car, and used car research, and compare certified programs. The company was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

Bombardier Recreational Products, Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and markets motorized recreational vehicles and powersports engines. It offers ski doo snowmobiles, lynx snowmobiles, sea doo watercraft, Can Am roadsters, evinrude outboard engine, rotax engines, rotax aircraft engines, and rotax kart engines. The company was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Valcourt, Canada.

Nalco Co. engages in the provision of chemistry programs and services. It serves upstream and midstream oil and gas industry, and refineries and petrochemical operations. Its services includes energy exploration and production; oil and as midstream; and refining, fuel additives, and petrochemical. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX.

Lux Research, Inc. provides strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies. Its products include subscription intelligence, market data products and consulting projects. The firm's solutions include understanding emerging technology markets, technology scouting and open innovation, formulating market entry strategies, evaluating technology companies, performing due diligence, market sizing and forecasting, establishing technology adoption roadmaps, driving economic development from emerging tech and understanding China innovation. The company was founded by Eric Greenberg, DeSoto S. Jordan, Ken Allard, Francis Mark Modzelewski and Matthew M. Nordan in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Payment Alliance International, Inc. provides automated teller machine processing and maintenance services. It offers ATM management, merchant solutions, revenue generation, mobile product offerings, and check automation. The company was founded by Gregory W. Sahrmann, Bill B. Blakey, and John J. Leehy III in 2005 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Bain Capital Ventures LP (Bain Capital Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York and California. The firm is wholly owned by Bain Capital LP.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1985, Green Street Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and broker/dealer located in Newport Beach, California. The firm is affiliated with Green Street Investors and is a subsidiary of Green Street Holdings, Inc. Green Street Advisors' research concentrates on publicly-traded real estate securities including REITs and other publicly-traded real estate companies. The firm provides insight, advice and service to a variety of clients worldwide who seek thorough, timely analysis on private and public commercial real estate markets. Green Street Advisors' clients use their research at the macro, sector, market and company levels to improve their decision-making in many aspects of the real estate capital allocation process.

Bain Capital Private Equity LP (Bain Capital Private Equity) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Bain Capital LP founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Part of Fundación Mapfre, Citation Insurance Co. is a company that provides property and casualty insurance services. The company is based in San Jose, CA.

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Capital Management LLC, ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. provides trading and executions services to their clients.

Part of D.R. Horton, Inc., Vidler Water Co., Inc. develops and sells water. The company is based in Carson City, NV. Dorothy Timian-Palmer has been the CEO of the company since 2008.

Nevada Land & Resource Co. LLC exploits oil, mineral and water resources. The company is headquartered in Carson, NV.

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

Smith College opened in 1875 with 14 students. Today, Smith is among the largest women’s colleges in Northampton, MA, with students from 48 states and 72 countries. The college remains strongly committed to the education of women at the undergraduate level, but Smith admits both men and women as graduate students.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Parafi Capital LP (Parafi Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Benjamin S. Forman. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Founded in 1997 by David Berman, Berman Capital Management LP (BCM) is a hedge fund company located in New York City.

Kurt Salmon US LLC provides management consulting services. The firm’s services include CIO advisory, global financial services, health care, and retail and consumer products. It offers logistics, marketing and merchandising, and information technology services. The company was founded by Kurt Salmon in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. provides membership network for learning and expertise. The firm promotes knowledge exchange through conversations, small group convenings, mentorships, surveys, and other interactions with its network of experts. The company was founded by Alexander Saint-Amand, Thomas D. Lehrman, and Mark Gerson in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aventri, Inc. provides software for cloud-based analytics for end to end event management and venue sourcing. It offers event management software, meetings management, mobile events app, venue sourcing, survey solutions, and email marketing. The firm serves education, financial services, technology, media, automotive, and airlines sectors. The company was founded by Leonora Valvo in 1998 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco is a community-based organization that offers high-quality programs to youth aged six to 18 in first-class facilities. Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco inspires and enables young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The organization has a 129-year track record of meeting the needs of children and families, primarily from at-risk circumstances. The company welcome 1,850 youth each day to their 14 locations, including eight clubhouses, four school-based clubs, a city park, and Camp Mendocino, a 2,000-acre residential summer camp. The organization focuses on academic success, healthy lifestyles, good character & community engagement, and job readiness with earning potential to prepare their club members to be “ready for life” by age 18.

Sonder USA, Inc. provides hospitality services. The firm also offers hotel-esque service. The company was founded by Francis Davidson-Tanguay and Lucas Pellan in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Double J Capital LLC provides investment services.

Lilliput Kidswear Ltd. manufactures and markets children’s apparel, footwear and accessories. Its products include garments for infants, toddlers and juniors. The firm also offers a wide range of kid's footwear, toys, baby care products, nursery furniture and hard goods, such as strollers, walkers and cycles. The company was founded by Sanjeev Narula in 2003 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.