Michael W. Hinton

Advent International LP (Advent) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1984 by Henry H. Haight. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Tudor Investment Corp. (TIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1980 by Paul T. Jones, II. TIC provides discretionary investment advisory services to various hedge funds, private equity funds and managed accounts. Investors in these funds generally include high-net worth individuals and related entities, sovereign entities, pension funds, non-financial corporates, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, fund-of-fund vehicles and proprietary capital from current and former personnel.

Finastra Group Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of financial software solutions. The company was founded on March 29, 1978 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

RAE Systems, Inc. provides intelligent gas and radiation detection systems. It offers wireless enabled solutions including personal, hand-held, transportable, and fixed instruments. The firm's products include MultiRAE, QRAE 3 and AutoRAE 2. The company was founded by Robert I. Chen and Peter C. Hsi in 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Vector Capital Management LP (Vector Capital Management) is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1997 by Alexander R. Slusky. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

SensorLogic, Inc. provides cloud-computing and machine-to-machine-based solutions and technologies. It caters to a variety of industries such as wireless, device software, RFID, M2M, converged networking, and location-aware mobile services. The company was founded by Jeffrey O. Smith in 2002 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

SAP America, Inc. provides enterprise application software solutions. Its products include SAP HANA platform, SAP Cloud platform, SAP Commerce Cloud, and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. Its offers innovation services and solutions; advisory services; implementation services; sloud services; and support services. The company was founded by Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector on April 1, 1972 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.

CollabNet, Inc. provides software development solutions for software-driven organizations. The firm’s products include ALM connect, cloudforge, continuum, giteye, scrumworks pro, subversionedge, teamforge, teamforge SCM, versionone editions and versionone. It also offers product consulting and implementation, agile consulting and transformation services. The company was founded by William J. Portelli and Brian Behlendorf in 1999 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

ABB Financial Energy AB is involved in energy trading. The company is located in Sweden. ABB Financial Energy was acquired by Statkraft SF from ABB Ltd. on March 07, 2003.

RegEd, Inc. Provides technical solutions for compliance software and systems. Its solutions include broker-dealer enterprise compliance platform, SCORE risk control center, compliance and audit management, conflicts of interest management, contracting, licensing and registration, compliance education and product training and insurance compliance management solutions. The firm serves to to broker-dealers, investment advisors, insurance and holding companies. The company was founded by John M. Schobel in 1994 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Dynamic Network Services, Inc. operates as a cloud-based Internet performance company. It offers Internet intelligence, traffic management, domain services, and message management services. The company was founded by Jeremy Hitchcock and Thomas J. Daly in 2001 and is headquartered in Manchester, NH.

Sirius Solutions LLLP provides business consulting services. The company specializes in compliance, financial reporting, technology solutions, energy consulting areas. The firm serves the agriculture, banking, biotechnology, capital markets, chemicals, commodity trading, construction, consumer services, and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Guidepost Growth Management Co. LLC (Guidepost Growth Mgmt) is a private equity subsidiary of North Bridge Venture Partners founded in 2007 by Doug A. Kingsley and Jim M. Moran. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. provides supply chain management for humanitarian relief. The private company is based in Dallas, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States.

OutSystems - Software em Rede SA provides software to support the integration of business applications. The firm operates as a software company that offers an application delivery platform designed to make building and maintaining enterprise web and mobile applications easy, enabling information technology to deliver business solutions. It offers All-in-One Agile Suite, which is used to develop, integrate, deploy and manage agile web business applications based on agile methods in information technology environments worldwide. The company was founded by Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira in 2001 and is headquartered in Linda-a-Velha, Portugal.

Accenture LLC operates as a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Part of The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc., NPower Texas provides technological assistance for non-profit organizations. The company is based in Dallas, TX. NPower Texas was acquired by The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. from npower on May 17, 2010.

Part of Green Plains, Inc., Green Plains Holdings LLC is an investment holding company. The company is based in Omaha, NE. Todd A. Becker has been the CEO of the company since 2009.

Aptean, Inc. engages in the provision of industry-specific software solutions. The firm offers enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, manufacturing execution systems, asset management, and compliance solutions. It serves the finance, healthcare, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in August 2012 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Dyn, Inc. provides web based application services. It offers products for various categories in the areas of Internet intelligence, traffic management, domain service, and message management aspects. It provides solutions for business executives, infrastructures and operations, and home users. The company offers support, training, and professional services. It serves retail and Ecommerce, software and Software-as-a-Service, advertising technology, media and entertainment, consumer Internet, and travel and hospitality customers. The company was founded by Jeremy Hitchcock in 2001 and is headquartered in Manchester, NH.

CloudSense Ltd. operates as a salesforce native omni channel commerce platform. It offers services to the ecommerce, mobile workforce, service agents, retail, reseller and telephone operators. The company was founded by Fawzi Fares, Richard Wilson Britton, Davor Dubokovic and Alexander Raphael Fuller in 2009 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.