David Friend

Part of The Concord Consortium, Inc., Highwired.com is a company that provides a website for high school graduates. The company is based in Watertown, MA. Highwired.com was acquired by EdTech Exchange, Inc. on May 23, 2002.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ObserveIT, Inc. provides insider threat detection and stopping data loss services. The firm’s products include insider threat detection, data loss prevention, user behavior analytics, live session response, and visual session recording. The company was founded by Gabriel Friedlander, Avi Weiss, and Avi Amos in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Dotmatics Ltd. engages in the provision of informatics solutions and services. It offers antibody discovery, biologics discovery, CAR-T cell therapy, chemicals and materials innovation, data intelligence, collaborative research, decision support, laboratory informatics, and small molecule discovery solutions. The firm also provides bioregister, browser, cascade, chemselector, cloud, D4O, elemental, gateway, inventory, nucleus, and pinpoint. The company was founded by Stephen Christian Gallagher and Alastair William Hill on November 7, 2005 and is headquartered in Bishops Stortford, the United Kingdom.

Dotmatics, Inc. is a private company that provides a scientific R & D platform. Dotmatics is based in Boston, MA. The company offers advanced molecular biology tools in Geneious Biologics to accelerate research and discover groundbreaking insights. The company unifies science and data insights with the Dotmatics platform and best-of-breed applications. The company was founded by Stephen Christian Gallagher and the CEO is Thomas Swalla.

Ataccama Corp. engages in the provision of data management and governance solutions. Its platform helps in data discovery and profiling, metadata management and data catalog, quality management, master and reference data management, and big data processing and integration. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.