Joe Chang

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

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.

Natural Gas Partners LLC (NGP) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management, LLC founded in 1988 by David Russell Albin and Kenneth Alfredo Hersh. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal services. It maintains civil practice, covering areas such as litigation, public policy, transaction, and energy law. The firm serves the clients including companies from the aviation, energy, financial services, health care, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

PreIPO Capital Partners Ltd. is a venture capital subsidiary of Shanghai Zhonglu (Group) Co. Ltd. founded in 2002 by Kevin Wu. The firm is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

AUTOPAY Direct, Inc. develops technology enabled service platform that systematically matches consumers with existing lenders. It specializes in auto refinance and new purchase finance. The company was founded by Jeffrey Thomas Hutcheson in 2016 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Shanghai Zhonglu (Group) Co., Ltd. operates as an investment company. It focuses on investment business and includes merging section, investment section, movie & TV section, and catering and hospitality section. The company was founded by Chen Rong in 1998 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Car Capital Technologies LLC provides financing and regulatory support to car dealers. The company is headquartered in Carrollton, TX.

Simplir, Inc. operates as an integration platform as a service for the automotive industries. The company was founded by Alan Michael Kane in 2014 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Aurora Labs develops self healing platform for connected cars. Its services include onguard, remote inspection and delta compression installer. The company was founded by Ori Lederman and Zohar Fox and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

eSupply Systems LLC operates an e-procurement and spend management platform for the multi-family industry. It is a cloud-based procurement and spend management platform for the property management industry enhanced with Purchasing Intelligence tools. The company was founded by Mortimer Singer and Keu Zafar in 2008 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Phunware OpCo, Inc. operates Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) platform. It develops applications that allow clients to engage, manage, and monetize users on mobile devices. The firm offers TapIt, a mobile advertising platform. The company was founded by Alan S. Knitowski, Luan D. Dang and Alan Michael Kane in February 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Fraser McCombs Capital Management LLC (FM Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Chase Fraser. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Daily Inches, Inc. engages in the provision of marketing consulting services for business-to-business marketers. It develops a content marketing platform to enable brands to succeed as publishers. The company was founded by Nader Akhnoukh, Thomas Murdock, and Michael Lewis in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Part of SCI Ltd., MarketQuiz, Inc. provides marketing solutions. The company is based in San Antonio, TX. The company was founded by Chase Fraser. MarketQuiz was acquired by SCI Ltd. on August 07, 2008.

SCI Ltd. provides communications connectivity platform that orchestrates the timing, packaging and pricing of communications and marketing programs, measures their effectiveness and then executes the program elements. The firm serves the automotive, telecommunications/cable, health-care, insurance and government markets. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered Markham, Canada.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citibank NA (Jakarta Branch) is a company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The CEO of the Indonesian company is Khondoker Rashed Maqsood.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services provides marketing and business development services. It offers members professional development, leadership opportunities and marketing resources for their careers and is a network of marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction and specialty consulting firms. The organization was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

Family Endeavors, Inc. provides social services. It offers fairweather programs, veteran services, community based, and emergency services, endeavors unlimited, and children and youth services. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

DeLaune & Associates, Inc. provides advertising and public relation services. It also provides services to the financial, health care, retail, and technology industries. The firm offers marketing services. The company was founded by Renee DeLaune and Sara Rider in 1980 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.