Gretchen Frary Seay

Alternative Resources Corp. provides information technology services to large and mid-size customers throughout the United States and Canada. It offers desk and desktop support, deployment, field, and consulting services. It also provides technical staffing solutions to computer services, systems integrators, and telecommunications companies. The company was founded by Larry I. Kane in 1988 and is headquartered in Barrington, IL.

Elevon, Inc. provides enterprise software solutions. It serves the large and medium-sized organizations, higher education institutions, federal, state, and government agencies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Ironside Technologies, Inc. provides business-to-business e-commerce software solutions. The company's solutions automate key business processes such as order management, customer service, supplier relationship management enabling manufacturers and distributors to transact with customers and vendors through browsers, wireless devices, e-Marketplaces and e-Procurement systems. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada

PWC Logistics Ltd. provides storage and freight forwarding services. The firm provides services to customers in apparel & footwear, automotive, consumer & industrial electronics, consumer packaged goods, engineering & construction, events & entertainment, food, grocery, government, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1979 and is located in Safat, Kuwait.

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

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Updata Partners provides growth equity and growth experience to the next generation of technology market leaders. Led by an investment team averaging more than 25 years of experience in the technology industries, Updata works with growth stage companies where the combination of their financial backing and their partners’ operating expertise will dramatically accelerate success.

Updata Management LLC (Updata Partners) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 1998. The firm is headquartered in Washington, Columbia.

WWC Capital Group LLC (Private Equity) (WWC Capital) is a private equity/venture capital subsidiary of Outcome Capital LLC founded in 1998 by Jonathan Wallace and Michael Cromwell. The firm is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

MarkeTech Systems, Inc. develops software for the banking industry. It offers decision support solutions designed to help retail banks improve branch and branch network performance by analyzing which market to enter, the type of network to implement and the optimal network configuration, and by determining profitability and performance measures and actions. The firm’s product offerings consists of two software applications, WinSite and Perform, a data-driven performance benchmarking application, which establishes consistent and replicable cross-bank performance metrics for comparison against an individual bank''s results. The company was founded by Jeremy P. Anwyl in 1988 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

KippsDeSanto & Co. engages in the provision of investment banking services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, private financing, and strategic conducting services. The firm focuses on the aerospace, defense, government technology solutions, and next generation information and technology. The company was founded by Robert D. Kipps, Marc B. Marlin, and Kevin P. DeSanto in May 2007 and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA.

Operational Technologies Services, Inc. provides high-end engineering and professional services. The firm offers its services in telecommunications, information technology, operations and technical fields. The company was founded by Thomas A. Hopkins in 1987 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.