John D. Dill

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. publishes and distributes educational and professional products in both print and non-print media. It operates through three divisions: Higher Education division, School division and Professional division. The Higher Education Division serves the university, community college, and career college market. This Division publishes and markets books and digital products and services primarily in the following disciplines: Business and Economics, Science, Math and Computer Science, Social Sciences and Humanities. The School Division serves the elementary and secondary school markets, primarily Grades 7-12. This Division publishes and markets books and digital products in the following fields: Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, Literacy, English, Information Science and Special Education. The Professional Division markets and distributes books and digital products in the following categories: Business, Consumer, Education and Medical & Technical. These products are sold primarily to booksellers wholesalers and distributors, public, academic and research libraries, through special sales, and direct to professionals. The company was founded on August 22, 1944 and is headquartered in Whitby, Canada.

Part of Pearson Plc, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. is an educational publisher. The company is based in Reading, MA.

Strata Corp. manufactures software programs for three dimensional graphics applications. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Grand Folks, ND.

Recognia, Inc. develops proprietary technology for chart pattern recognition and forecasting based on the standards of technical analysis. Its products include technical insight, technical summary score, options ideas, intraday trader, strategy builder, value analyzer, alerwire, and market newsletter. It provides actionable investment research products for self-directed investors and traders. The firm helps on-line brokers increase account-holder activity and trader confidence by offering action-oriented research and education for all trader types. Its system scans all stocks in the exchanges in the US and Canada and generates news alerts for those stocks. The company was founded by by Rick Escher in June 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

BookNet Canada develops technology, standards and education to serve the Canadian book industry. Its services and research help companies promote and sell books, streamline workflows, and analyze and adapt to a rapidly changing market. The firm serves publishing companies, booksellers, wholesalers, distributors, sales agents, industry associations, literary agents, media and libraries. Its products include SalesData, CataList, EDI, Biblioshare, BiblioShare web services and BiblioShare webform. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.