Craig Cheifetz

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

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.

ENSCO, Inc. provides engineering, science, and technology solutions to the defense, transportation, aerospace, and intelligence sectors. It offers signal processing algorithms, systems engineering, railroad track monitoring equipment, and weather decision support services. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Falls Church, VA.

Learning Undefeated, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides STEM education opportunities for underserved communities. The non-profit company is based in Gaithersburg. The American company's flagship education program features mobile STEM labs that have provided hands-on learning opportunities to more than 200,000 K-12 students in 18 states since 2003. The company also operates several other celebrated STEM education programs including the Young Science Explorers program, a summer camp for middle school students, and the Advancing Tomorrow's Leaders in STEM (ATLAS) college and career exploration program. Learning Undefeated is driving race and gender equity in STEM through experiential and deep-impact learning experiences for students from under-resourced communities.

Micronic Technologies, Inc. is engaged in concentration of industrial wastewater. Its products include Tornadic One-Pass. The company was founded by Karen Sorber and Kelly P. Rock and is headquartered in Bristol, VA.

John Staurulakis LLC operates as a consulting firm. It provides operational, financial, management, regulatory, marketing and strategic assistance to independent community-based communications providers. The company is headquartered in Greenbelt, MD.

Data Networks Corp. provides information technology solutions. It offers portfolio, program, and project management, enterprise and solutions architecture, enterprise data integration and management, information technology planning, studies, and assessments and systems and software development. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

MORI Associates, Inc. provides information technology and engineering services. Its services include strategic consulting to the development of information systems and providing engineering solutions. The firm provides support to every phase of the engineering lifecycle from design and development to testing, simulation, and implementation. The company was founded by Shana Deldjoubar in 1997 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Software Performance Systems, Inc. provides information technology services for government and commercial clients. The firm's solutions include financial management, case management, e-government, enterprise architecture, environmental controls and network engineering. The company was founded by Gregory Dorsett in June 1995 and is headquartered in La Plata, MD.

Global Virus Network conducts research on essential and critical defense against viral diseases. The non-profit company is based in Baltimore, MD. The company was founded by William Walmsley Hall and Robert C. Gallo.

The John E Fogarty International Center is a government organization that advances science for health. The center is based in Bethesda, MD. The private company offers funding, grants, and training programs for health research and research capacity strengthening. The center also provides health resources, career opportunities, and hosts events, conferences, and workshops.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

National Institutes Of Health conducts & supports peer-reviewed medical research and science. The firm's scientists & researchers investigate on different ways to prevent diseases as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences provides biomedical research services. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Mid-Atlantic Venture Association represents private equity and venture capital companies. The private company is based in Timonium, MD. The company was founded by Charles W. Newhall.

The Maryland Angels Council LLC invests in companies based in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The fund focuses on companies operating in the fields of media, e-commerce, telecom, software, internet, bioscience or health. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements. It also makes co-investments along with established venture capital firms or other investment vehicles.

Milestone Merchant Partners LLC is an investment banking firm. The company provides mergers & acquisitions, merchant banking, financial solutions, capital formation and corporate restructuring services. Milestone Merchant Partners was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Blackstreet Capital Management LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2002 by Murry Neal Gunty. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda.

EagleBank engages in the provision of customer service and custom financial solutions for the local business community. It also offers a personal banking products and services. The company was founded on January 22, 1998 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The University of Maryland Foundation, Inc. advocates and supports the advancement of public higher education in Maryland. It offers financial management, investment management and advancement services. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Adelphi, MD.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP provides legal services. It offers services in education, aviation, communications, consumer and retails, corporate and securities, hospital and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

International Bar Association operates as a non profit organization of legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. It operates various divisions that include Legal Practice and Public and Professional Interest. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Part of Lincoln Educational Services Corp., New England Institute of Technology at Palm Beach, Inc. offers 18-24 month Associates Degree programs, continuing education certification, and 9-12 month diploma programs. The company is based in West Palm Beach, FL. New England Institute of Technology at Palm Beach was acquired by Lincoln Educational Services Corp. on May 22, 2006 for $34.50 million.