Darrin F. Whitney

GENBAND, Inc. provides smart networking solutions for service providers and enterprises. Its products include application and client platforms, session border controllers, call controllers, media gateways, wireless access gateways, cloud services and management. The company also provide customer support, EDGE training, education, FLEX deployment services. GENBAND was founded by Anthony John Paul Carew, Brendon W. Mills, Ronald D. Lutz and Steven Raich in 1999 and is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

Drobo, Inc. provides data storage products for small and medium businesses and individual professionals. Its products include Drobo Mini, Drobo 5C, Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, and Drobo B810n. The firm can improve disk-based backup, file sharing, virtualization, and application strategies. The company was founded by Geoff Barrall and Julian Terry in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Sanrise Group, Inc., Sanrise, Inc. is a private company that provides data management services. The company is based in Dublin, CA. The company was founded by Srinivas Pothapragada, Lakshman Narayanaswamy.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges provides its clients with legal services. The firm offers services to areas including consumer, financial, government and non-profit, health care, industrial, and technology. The company was founded by Claude Serra in 1931 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Baker Botts LLP provides legal services. Its services include antitrust and compensation law, corporate, enforcement and investigations, environmental law, intellectual property, litigation, projects, real estate and construction, regulatory, and tax. The firm renders its services to banking and finance industry, energy and natural resources, manufacturing, and technological industries. The company was founded by Peter Gray in 1840 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Cherry GmbH manufactures computer keyboards. The firm's products include keyboards, mice, mouse and desktop sets, ehealth, security and MX technology, card reader, accessories and key switches. The company was founded by Walter Loraine Cherry in 1953 and is headquartered in Auerbach, Germany.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Imagine Communications, Inc. provides digital video solutions for content providers and system operators. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is a third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women. The non-profit company is based in Washington. WBENC is a leader in supporting consumer-oriented female entrepreneurs and those who do business with them by raising awareness for why, where, and how to buy women-owned. Founded in 1997, WBENC has over 18,000 certified women's business enterprises, 14 national regional partner organizations, and more than 500 corporate members, most of which are Fortune 500 companies. Pamela Prince-Eason has been the CEO of the American company since 2011.

Exploratorium engages as a museum of science, art and human perception activities . It creates tools and experiences that help people to become an active explorer. The firm includes film creenings workshops for life long learners as well as culture of learning through innovative environments, programs and tools that help people nurture their curiosity about the world around them. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Exaware Ltd. engages in the provision of carrier-grade network operating systems for mobile and fixed telecom service providers. Its products include Peering/Edge/ Core and Access / CellSite Gateway. The company was founded by Itzik Zion, David Zelig, Michael Laor, and Michael Mesh in 2005 and is headquartered in Netanya, Israel.

Cardinal Research LLC is a research firm located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They focus on medium, small and micro-cap companies in the telecommunications and capital goods sectors. They also target special situations stocks.

DZS GmbH manufactures telecommunication systems for broadband access. It offers portfolio of access systems for all FTTx network architectures. The firm’s products include IP-MSAN, Optical MSAN, PON OLT, G.fast/VDSL2 Micro DSLAM and Network Management System. Its services include consulting, designing, implementing, operating, KEYMILE Akademy and EMC testing services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Hannover, Germany.

MediaKind, Inc. engages in the provision of media technology and services. Its products include media platforms; video decoding; video processing and storage; processing management and control; stream processing and modulation; and advertising. The company is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

Virtu Americas LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 2012. The firm is a direct subsidiary of Virtu Strategic Holdings LLC and their ultimate parent is Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT). Virtu provides brokerage services to their clients.

EdenLedger, Inc. engages in the provision of FanVestor investment platform. It enables investor to directly invest in the careers and businesses of their favorite talent, musicians or athletes. The company was founded by Mikhail Golomb and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Accenture GmbH provides business consultancy, strategy, organization, technology, operations, as well as systems services and solutions. It also specializes in information, communication, data, as well as information technology and electronic data processing. The company is headquartered in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany.

Executive Interim Partners GmbH provides interim management solutions. The private company is based in Munich, Germany.