Michael Harmelink

Applebee's International, Inc. develops franchises and operates restaurants. The firm provides food and beverage products which include traditional favorites and signature dishes. It also offers beer, wine, liquor, and specialty drinks. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.

Payless ShoeSource, Inc. (Delaware) owns and operates footwear specialty retailer stores in the Western Hemisphere with 4,605 retail stores. The stores offer fashionable, private and branded label footwear and accessories for women, men and children in a self-selection shopping format. Their stores sell a broad assortment of footwear, including athletic, casual and dress shoes, sandals, work and fashion boots, slippers and accessories, such as handbags and hosiery. The company's retail stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, South America and Japan sold over 182 million pairs of footwear. The company is headquartered in Topeka, KS

Hallmark Cards, Inc. sells greeting card products, art supplies and stationery to retail outlets. It offers greeting cards, holiday cards, gift wrap, story books, ornaments and stationary products. The firm offers art tools, crafting activities, and creative toys for kids. The company was founded by Joyce Clyde Hall in 1910 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

AKM Enterprise, Inc. designs and delivers monitoring and control software solutions. It offers solution which enable oil and gas operators reduce dependence on many separate vendors and aggregate data from sources beyond typical downhole and surface systems to dramatically reduce drilling costs, leverage well-site, and field data to achieve a step-change improvement in drilling optimization and have assurance that service providers deliver to clients the most accurate data possible to make better decisions. The firm’s end-to-end product solution, Kanak, monitors, controls and optimizes the operations of compressors, gas and oil wells. The company was founded by Amit Mehta in 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PeakVision, Inc. provides sports accessories. It also offers product development, marketing and sales to enhance the performance for specific sports and activities which include aviation, baseball for youth and adults, bicycling and running, water sports, with full or variable polarization, outdoors hunting, hiking, camping, shooting, and driving. The company was founded by Paul J. Moore and Scott D. Berg in March 2002 and is located in Palm City, FL.