Michael Sperling

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Highfields Capital Management LP (Highfields Capital) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Highfields Capital was founded in 1998 by Jonathon S. Jacobson to manage investment funds for public and private charitable foundations, school endowments and other institutional and private investors.

DSL.net, Inc. provides data communications and Internet access services. The firm's services include private network solutions, web hosting, DNS management, enhanced e-mail, online data backup and recovery, firewalls, bundled voice, and data nationwide dial-up. The company was founded in March 1998 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

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.

New Profit, Inc. provides support and services to innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations. It offers services to visionary entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and other partners. The company was founded by Vanessa Kirsch in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Year Up, Inc. provides educational and professional development programs. Their programs encompass job and hands-on skills development, college credits and corporate internships. The company was founded by Gerald Chertavian in 2000 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

SilverStream Capital LLC (SilverStream Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Wheeler David. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Round Hill Investments LLC (Round Hill Investments) is a private equity firm founded in 1993 by C. Dean Metropoulos. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The Blackstone Group, Inc. provides marketing research services. It provides custom market research services for clients in industries as consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare and technology. The firm's clients include eBay, Harris Bank and Pfizer. The company was founded by Ashref A. Hashim in 1987 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

irth Solutions LLC provides 811 ticket management and field service management software. Its software helps companies in the energy, utilities, and telecom sectors protect critical underground assets and enhance worker safety. The firm’s products include irth UtiliSphere and DigTrack.com. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Blackstone Corporate Private Equity (Blackstone Corporate) is a private equity division of The Blackstone Group Inc founded in 1985 by Stephen Allen Schwarzman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of PJT Partners, Inc., PJT Partners LP is a brokerage services provider. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2014 by Paul Jeffrey Taubman. Paul Jeffrey Taubman has been the CEO since 2014.

Stepstone Group Real Estate LP is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of StepStone Group, Inc. founded in 2007. Stepstone Group Real Estate LP is headquartered in New York.

Pebb Capital (Pebb Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Sixth Street Advisers LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 2009 and formerly known as TPG Opportunities Advisers LLC. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sixth Street Opportunities Advisers Holdings LLC, ultimately held by TSSP Founders Management LP. Sixth Street Advisers provides investment advisory services to private investment vehicles as well as certain SMAs.

Signal Capital Partners Ltd. (Signal Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2015. The firm Headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Beacon Capital Partners LLC is a private real estate investment firm founded in 1998 located in Boston. The firm was formed to continue the real estate investment activities of Alan Leventhal (chairman of Boston University) and Lionel Fortin, former executives of Beacon Properties, which was acquired by Equity Office Properties Trust in 1997. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Fenway Sports Group operates as a sports, media and entertainment company. It offers property representation, sponsorship sales and brand management consulting services. The company was founded by John William Henry in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

For more than 30 years, Facing History and itself has believed that education is the key to combating bigotry and nurturing democracy. The firm works with educators throughout their careers to improve their effectiveness in the classroom, as well as their students' academic performance and civic learning. Through a rigorous investigation of the events that led to the Holocaust, as well as other recent examples of genocide and mass violence, students in a Facing History class learn to combat prejudice with compassion, indifference with participation, and myth and misinformation with knowledge. Facing History's impact in supporting teachers' effectiveness and promoting students' academic development and civic learning has been demonstrated in more than one hundred studies by independent researchers and Facing History evaluators. Since it was founded in 1976 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Facing History and itself has grown from an innovative course taught in a single school district to an international organization with more than 150 staff members in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Memphis, New England, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Toronto, and partnerships in Northern Ireland, Israel, Rwanda, China and South Africa. These offices and partnerships, as well as projects throughout North America and around the world, support a network of more than 29,000 trained educators who reach nearly two million young people annually.

The Broad Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of research and development in biomedicals to cure infectious disease. Its scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics, genome regulation, cellular circuity and epigenomics, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. The company was founded by Eric S. Lander, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

J. H. Whitney Capital Partners LLC (JH Whitney) is a private equity subsidiary of J. H. Whitney & Co. LLC founded in 1946 by John Hay Whitney. The firm is headquartered in New Canaan, Connecticut.

J. H. Whitney & Co. LLC operates as an alternative investment manager. The firm provides private equity capital to small and middle market companies. The company was founded by John Hay Whitney in 1946 and is headquartered in New Canaan, CT.

Bakkavor Holdings Ltd. manufactures and produces fresh food. Its products are ready meals, pizzas, desserts, convenience salads, and leafy salads. The company was founded by Lydur Guomundsson and Agust Gudmundsson in 1986 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Great Hill Partners LP (Great Hill Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Christopher S. Gaffney, Steve F. Gormley and John G. Hayes. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Parthenon Capital LLC (Parthenon Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by John C. Rutherford. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LongPoint Minerals II LLC engages in the provision of oil and gas services. The company is headquartered in Denver, CO.

New England Conservatory of Music functions as a college and university. It educates and trains musicians of all ages. It offers orchestral instruments and guitar, orchestral and wind ensemble conducting, jazz and contemporary improvisation, voice and opera, music-in-education, historical performance and world music, preparatory school programs, and distance learning options. The school was founded by Eben Tourjée and Robert Goldbeck on February 18, 1867 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.