David Lord

Anheuser-Busch Cos. LLC engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, soft drinks, and other non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products. It offers Budweiser family, bud light family, Michelob UKTRA family, stella artois, hoegaarden, and leffe. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

FreedomPay, Inc. operates a commerce platform that helps merchants in solving complex payment environments. It offers various transaction solutions, including mobile payments, cashless solutions, virtual and remote terminals, payment processing, intelligent analysis, routing of promotions, incentives, and customer relationship management services. The firm also offers incentive management, product mapping, POS integration, analytic tools, and customer segmentation tools, payment Switch solution that streamlines processes and transactions, connects to POS systems and captures detailed data; integrating solutions, security solutions for electronic payments, mobile applications for payments, and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution that includes EMV and NFC compliance. The company was founded by Thomas Durovsik in 2000 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

popchips, Inc. engaged in the manufacture of snack food products. Its products include crazy hot, sea salt, barbeque, sea salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion, cheddar and sour cream, nutter puffs, and yes peas. The company was founded by Keith C. Belling and Patrick Turpin in 2007 and is headquartered in Playa Vista, CA.

Luvo, Inc. provides frozen food services nationwide. The firm offers products through stores and retailers, as well as at work, schools, and airports in Georgia and California. The company was founded by Stephen Sidwell in 2011 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

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.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Schurz Communications, Inc. publishes newspapers and provides media services. The firm engages in broadcasting radio and television, cable television, newspaper publishing, commercial printing, and digital media businesses. The firm has operations in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota. The company was founded by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett in 1872 and is headquartered in Mishawaka, IN.

Times Publishing Co., Inc. publishes newspaper and magazines. Its magazines include Florida Trend, Congressional Quarterly, and Governing. The firm also runs city-info web site and TampaBay.com. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

The Associated Press provides news media services. It offers global news network, delivering news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. The firm supplies a stream of news around the clock to its domestic members, international subscribers and commercial customers. The company was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of PepsiCo, Inc., Hostess Frito Lay Co. is a snack food concern. The company is located in Canada. Hostess Frito Lay was acquired by PepsiCo Food International from Altria Group, Inc. on June 26, 1992 for $150 million.

Frito-Lay North America, Inc. produces and markets snack foods. Its products are sold under the brand names of Cheetos, Doritos, Fritos, Lays, Baked, Stax and FritoLay. The company was founded in September, 1961 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Heineken USA, Inc. distributes beer and wine products. It imports various brands of beer, includes heineken lager, heineken special dark, amstel light, and buckler. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

New Belgium Brewing manufactures and distributes alcoholic beverages. The firm’s brands include Fat Tire, Sunshine, Blue Paddle, 1554, Abbey and Trippel. The company was founded by Jeff Lebesch and Kimberley Jordan in 1991 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.

Kettle Foods, Inc. manufactures potato chips and other snack foods. Its products include potato chips, Krinkle Cut Chips, bakes chips, organic chips, tortilla chips and nut butters. The company was founded by Cameron Healy on May 1, 1981 and is headquartered in Salem, OR.

Kona Brewery LLC engages in the operation of pubs. It sells craft brews including Big Wave Golden Ales, Longboard Island Lager, Kona Light Blonde Ale, Gold Cliff IPA, Hanalei Island IPA, Tropical Punch, Starfruit Lime, and Strawberry Guava. The firm also offers apparel, headwear, drinkware, barware, outdoor products, and accessories. The company was founded by Cameron Healy and Spoon Khalsa in 1994 and is headquartered in Kailua-Kona, HI.

Sabra Dipping Co. LLC provides dips and spreads. Its products include classic hummus with pretzels, jalapeno hummus, olive tapenade hummus, Sabra guacamole garden vegetable singles, Sabra guacamole spicy singles and spicy guacamole. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Astoria, NY.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA provides commercial banking services. It offers investment banking, merchant services, and institutional asset management services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of PepsiCo, Inc., Frito-Lay Canada is a producer of chips and snacks. The company is based in Cambridge, Canada.

Marketcetera, Inc. provides open source platform for trading solutions services. It offers dare order routing engine, strategy studio, and market data nexus. The company was founded by Toli Kuznets and Graham Miller in July 15, 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada

Molson Coors Beverage Co. USA LLC manufactures and distributes imported beer products. Its brand offerings include Coors Light, Redd’s franchise, Redd’s Wicked and Smith & Forge Hard Cider, Miller Lite, Miller High Life, and Coors Banquet. The company was founded by Frederick Miller in 1855 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Skyline Commercial Interiors, Inc. provides general contracting and commercial construction services. It offers tenant improvement services for interior projects in tech companies, law firms, banks, venture capital firms, schools, restaurants and supports various mission critical facilities, such as data centers, disaster recovery centers, medical facilities, call centers, command centers, telecommunication co-location, POP facilities, server rooms and more. The company was founded by David Hayes in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Barilla America, Inc. produces and distributes pasta and sauces. It offers filled and whole grain pastas. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Bannockburn, IL

FareStart is a social enterprise that provides job training programs, online learning programs, and consulting services to help transform lives. The private company is based in Seattle, WA, and the CEO of the company is Craig Russell. The company offers training and support services to prepare individuals for lasting employment in food service and the culinary arts. Additionally, they provide nutritious meals to vulnerable citizens in daycare centers, schools, shelters, and healthcare facilities.

The Beer Institute, Inc. is a non-profit organization which develops and designs public policies for brewing industry, representing both large and small brewers, as well as importers and industry suppliers. It offers commodities oversight, dietary guidelines, voluntary disclosure initiative, and legislative policies. The organization was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Valar Ventures Management LLC (Valar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by James Fitzgerlad and Andrew McCormack Peter Thiel. The firm is headquartered in New York.