Christopher McGowan

Smurfit Kappa Group Ltd. manufactures paper based packaging products. Its products and services include containerboard, solid board, corrugated, and packaging services. It focuses on the fruit, vegetable and bag-in-box packaging. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Illinois Venture Capital Association engages in providing services such as education, networking, industry events, roundtable discussions and government lobbying. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Hyde Park Angels Inc. (HPA) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Jeffrey R. Carter. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

OPTO International, Inc. manufactures and markets display systems to the retailers. Its products include fixture inspiration, freestanding, feature and initiative, tables, counters and wall systems. The firm provides retail space evaluation and space planning, fixture and accessory recommendation, vendor fixture development, and store fixture program development services. The company is headquartered in Wood Dale, IL.

Eighth Light Holdings, Inc. is engaged in the provision of software development services. It delivers web, mobile, and embedded projects using variety of programming languages, including Java, Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android. The company was founded by Micah Martin and Paul Pagel in 2006, and is headquartered in Libertyville, IL.

CJM Ventures LLC (CJM Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Christopher J. McGowan. The firm headquartered in Five Points, Alabama.

OPTO Holdings LP is an investment holding American company.

Valley Growth Ventures LLC (Valley Growth Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio.

CompanyFirst LLC (Consumer Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 2017 by Jason Starr. The firm headquartered in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Metalsoft Cloud, Inc. provides software-defined bare metal infrastructure automation software platform for building and operating cloud-native infrastructure from the core to the edge. The company is based in Chicago, IL. The company's cloud datacenter management solution can modernize infrastructures with cloud-like features at a lower cost than the public cloud, while avoiding much of the cloud migration hassle. Metalsoft Cloud was founded in 2014 by Lucas Roh, who has been the CEO since 2014.