Michael C. Boyd

Lillian Vernon Corp. operates as a catalog and online retailer that markets gift, household, children's and fashion accessory products. The company also sells drawers, electronics, home and office products, and furniture. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA.

MURT, Inc. provides direct marketing and customer care services. The company manages acquisition, activation, and retention of customers through inbound and outbound teleservices and TARP customer satisfaction measurement research. It is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

QVC, Inc. markets and sells consumer products through live televised shopping programs. It is retailer of consumer products, which are marketed and sold primarily by merchandise, televised shopping programs, the Internet and mobile applications. The firm offer many QVC-exclusive products, as well as popular brand name and lesser known products available from other retailers and many of its products are endorsed by celebrities, designers and other well-known personalities who often join presenters to personally promote their products and provide lead-in publicity on their own television shows. The company was founded by Joseph M. Segel on June 13, 1986 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

BIAP Systems, Inc. provides interactive television applications. The company develops and manages advertising supported interactive programming software which includes eBay on TV, sports, and trackers. It was founded by M. Ellen Dudar and Chuck Shotton in 1998 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Altura International, Inc. builds, develops and manages e-commerce sites for catalog and mail order retailers. It is a developer of multi-merchant, virtual inventory shopping solutions and has deployed shopping sites including: house brand malls such as SHOP.COM, CatalogCity.com and AllTheMalls.com; public malls for companies such as gifts.com and GoodCatalog.com for Readers’ Digest; and private malls for closed shopping communities such as MasterCard, Quixtar, Big Planet Mall and MarketAmerica. It was founded in 1997 and it is located in Monterey, CA.

HSN, Inc. is an interactive multi-channel retailer, which offers innovative and differentiated experiences through various platforms. It operates through HSN, and Cornerstone business segment. The HSN segment includes television home shipping programming broadcast; HSN.com and joymangano.com; mobile applications; outlet stores; direct-response television marketing; and wholesale distribution of certain proprietary products to other retailers. The Cornerstone segment is comprised of catalogs; websites; retail and outlet stores; and mobile applications. The company was founded in May 2008 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.