Paul L. Schaut

Networked Insights, Inc. develops a marketing decision platform that helps companies use real time data to optimize marketing. It transfers the way companies make marketing investments by informing decisions with real time consumer data. The firm's enterprise classes analytics solutions uncover audience interests that brands use to segment audiences, determine content strategies and optimize media investments, all of which allows its clients to stay in sync with their customers. The company was founded by Daniel J. Neely, Michael Z. Mitchell and Glenn Jenkins in May 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Vivox, Inc. provides voice communications software for online games and virtual worlds. It provides communication applications for social experiences where consumers interact on the web, on their mobile devices, or within gaming or social networking environments. The company was founded in 2005 by James Toga, Monty Sharma, Jeffery Pulver and Robert A. Seaver and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Fluid Inc. provides online shopping services. It specialzes in visual design, omni-channel strategy, customer research, user experience design, mobile design, usability testing, product customization software, match software and dynamic imaging. The company was founded by Tamir Scheinok, Andrew Sirotnik and Mark Belanger in 1999 and is headquarterd in Oakland, CA.

OptTown, Inc. provides a mobile app that connects a client to client’s favorite places to shop, eat, drink and play. It provides self-service direct marketing sent directly to the customers’ smartphone, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and actionable marketing analytics. The company was founded by Tom Arthur, Bill Hunt and Amanda Arthur and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

OmniLync, Inc. provides digital marketing and intelligence tools for retailers to develop connections with consumers. The firm offers OmniLync, a platform that enables users to delivers and augments loyalty, targeted shopper marketing, and business intelligence and analytics for the retail ecosystem. The company was founded by David Arzumanyan and Andre Arzumanyan in November 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

ShareThis, Inc. provides access for social web communities which make online sharing easy. It offers campaign delivery and optimization, audience segmentation and targeting, analytics, and real-time social reactions. The company was founded by Timothy Schigel and David E. Goldberg in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Pontiflex, Inc. operates a mobile advertising platform. It helps advertisers build engaged e-mail audiences and social communities through transparent cost-per-lead advertising. The firm's product AdLeads provides cost-per-lead mobile advertising solution for advertisers to connect with and engage new customers. It offers an online platform that offers different publishers, advertisers, and agencies a point of connection for cost per lead media buying, management, and optimization. The company serves customers across verticals, such as retail, travel, food and restaurant, media, and professional services. Pontiflex was founded by Zephrin Lasker, Geoffrey B. Grauer and Roshan Bangera in March 2006 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Mercer Road Corp. provides voice communications software for online games and virtual worlds. The company was founded by James Toga, Jeffrey Pulver, David A. Verratti and Robert A. Seaver and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Label Insight, Inc. develops a cloud-based product data engine that helps brands and retailers to understand and manage their product data in the market. It operates SmartLabel which gives consumer easy access to detailed product information. The company was founded by Anton Xavier, Dheeraj Patri and Dagan Xavier in February 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Aginity, Inc. provides solutions for analytic management. It transforms the way companies compete on analytics. The firm offers Aginity Amp software that enables companies to create, catalog, and manage analytics as assets which can be reused everywhere in the enterprise. The company was founded by Dan Kuhn in 2005 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Engage, Inc. provides advertising, marketing and promotion management software solutions for retailers, newspapers, agencies and other corporations. The firm conducts marketing programs, including public relations, direct marketing campaigns, online advertisements, seminars, trade shows, webinars and ongoing customer communication programs. The company was founded on July 18, 1995 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

The National Association of Corporate Directors is a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to help directors strengthen board leadership. The American company was founded by Maryann Bruce and the CEO is Peter R. Gleason.

TextNow, Inc. provides social software solutions. Its product includes TextNow and PingChat. The company was founded by Jon Lerner and Derek Ting on February 15, 2009 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.