John W. Blend

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Part of Boasso Global, Inc., Chemical Leaman Corp. provides bulk transportation services. The company is based in Exton, PA. Chemical Leaman was acquired by MTL, Inc. on August 28, 1998 for $177.80 million.

NDS Group Ltd. manufactures and distributes video and content security software. It offers end-to-end and modular solutions as well as technology support services. The company was founded on 26th, September 1985 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.

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.

Innovid, Inc. designs and develops online video advertising solutions. The firm offers marketer, creative, ad serving, measurement, and publisher solutions. The company was founded by Zvika Netter, Tal Chalozin, and Zack Zigdon in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Apriori Beauty LLC sells beauty and cosmetics products through online. The private company is based in Laguna Hills, CA.

Founded in 1939, Pershing LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm is a subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK). The firm helps financial services firms and advisors succeed by providing the technology, operational, trading, investment and practice management solutions they need to serve investors. Pershing offers securities processing, trading and operations management, investment technology, asset-gathering solutions and practice management support. The firm serves a wide range of financial organizations including: banks, discount brokerages, full-service brokerages, registered investment advisors, independent contractors, institutional firms, global firms and small- to mid-sized firms. Pershing also offers financial products including annuities, mutual funds and money funds, as well as business tools, cash management services, investor and lending services, retirement products and wealth management. In addition, they offer trading and execution services in listed and OTC securities, fixed-income securities and mutual funds.

NASD Regulation, Inc. provides financial regulatory services and performs the regulatory functions of NASD. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

ConvergEx, Inc. provides mission-critical proprietary software products. It provides products and services through two business segments: Investment Technologies and Investment Services. The Investment Technologies segment develops, markets and sells the company's proprietary software products, including workflow automation solutions, and technology-enabled services. The Investment Services segment utilizes many of the same proprietary software products and technology-enabled services. The company was founded on March 17, 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. engages in the provision of securities regulation, complementary compliance, and technology-based services. Its services include writing and enforcing rules governing the activities of securities firms with brokers, examining firms for compliance with those rules, fostering market transparency, and educating investors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, Inc. (SIFMA) is an organization that represents the securities industry in the United States. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's main focus is advocating for effective and resilient capital markets. The CEO of the company is Kenneth E. Bentsen.

BNY Mellon, NA operates as a nationally chartered commercial bank. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) is an association that represents the common interests of the world's leading financial and capital market participants. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. GFMA advocates for policies that address risks with no borders, regional market developments that impact capital markets, and policies that promote efficient cross-border capital flows to end-users. The association efficiently connects savers and borrowers, benefiting broader economic growth. GFMA has affiliate members in Europe, Asia, and North America, namely AFME, ASIFMA, and SIFMA, respectively. The association is actively monitoring global and regional developments relating to COVID-19 and is engaged in the Basel Committee's capital and liquidity framework and the Financial Stability Board's priorities. GFMA's mission is to provide a platform for its members to collaborate and address common challenges. Adam Farkas has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Energage LLC provides on-demand employee surveys. It also provides employee survey to compare themselves against their peers. The firm offers business services and benchmarked employee surveys. WorkPlaceDynamics was founded by Douglas J. Claffey in 2006 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc. engages in the provision of musical experiences. It offers orchestra shows in New York City and around the world. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Message Systems, Inc. provides message management software solutions. Its primary product is the SparkPost Email Delivery Platform, which offers real-time analysis of email delivery and customer engagement, as well as personalized email templates. It serves the enterprise software-as-a-service, financial services, financial technology, and marketing technology industries. The company was founded by George Schlossnagle III and Theo Schlossnagle in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

University City Science Center provides physical space, resources and other support to the community. The company was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

NSV II Management Co. LLC provides investment management services. It is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investing in growth capital, growth and expansion stage, recapitalization, mid stage, late stage, mezzanine, control buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and management buyouts in middle market companies. The company was founded by Michael A. DiPiano and Marc R. Lederman in 1999 and is headquartered in Radnor, PA.

Internet Pipeline, Inc. engages in the development and provision of cloud-based software solutions for life insurance and financial services industries. It offers marketing and selling tools which enables agents to guide customers through the insurance sales process including health class estimation, needs analysis, underwriting, policy administration, point-of-sale and post-sale support, and data analysis. The company was founded by Bill Atlee, Cary W. Toner, and Shawn R. Carey in 1995 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.

FirstBest Systems LLC delivers underwriting management system solutions. The company was founded by Julian Pelenur, John Belizaire and Joseph Pilkerton in 2006 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Interactions LLC engages in the provision of conversational virtual assistant applications for customer care. Its products include customer engagement, voice biometrics, and social customer care. The company was founded by Michael Edward Cloran in 2004 and is headquartered in Franklin, MA.

LifeShield LLC provides wireless digital home security systems and monitoring services for homes, restaurants, businesses, renters, apartments, vacation homes, elder parent homes, mobile homes, and even young adults living dorms. Its products include home security kits, consoles, security and environmental sensors, grid extenders, smoke and fire safety sensors, wireless security cameras, keychain remotes, and other security accessories. The firm also offers security services for alarm monitoring, installation, interactive monitoring, and customer support for wireless home security systems. The company was founded by Louis A. Stilp on September 22, 2004 and is headquartered in Yardley, PA.

Mobiquity, Inc. provides enterprise-class mobile solutions and applications. It offers strategy, experience design, product engineering, analytics and cloud services. The company was founded by William A. Seibel, Scott A, Snyder, Joel Evans and Michael James Heffernan in April 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Dstillery, Inc. is an applied data science company. It provides cross-device audience targeting platform for brands. The company was founded by Alan Murray, Joe P. Doran, Rod Hook, David Honig, Joshua Abram and Kathy Leake in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

FemmePharma Holding Co., Inc. provides clinical and pharmaceutical development services. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Openroad Integrated Media, Inc. operates as an digital publisher and multimedia content company. It markets ebooks through an online promotion platform which uses video content and social media. The firm creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media. The company was founded by Jane Friedman and Jeffrey Sharp in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

The Bank of New York Mellon is a state chartered bank. It offers asset servicing, issuer services, treasury services, broker-dealer, and advisor services and bank-advised business of asset management. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

NewSpring Mezzanine Partners LLC (NewSpring Mezzanine) is a private equity subsidiary of NSV II Management Co. LLC founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Riverfront Recapture, Inc. operates a non-profit organization. Stroll miles of trails and walkways; fish, boat, or row. Experience teamwork on the challenge course and enjoy the annual River fest celebration, fireworks and free concerts and festivals all season long. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Aeromics, Inc. operates as a preclinical company that develops clinical candidate targeting a molecular water channel for the treatment of cerebral edema (brain swelling) in stroke. It offers AER-271, a drug candidate that blocks aquaporin-4 (AQP4), the molecular water channel found at the blood-brain barrier and controls of cerebral edema in models for ischemic stroke, cardiac arrest, and water toxicity and blocks edema in models of cardiac ischemia and transplant. The company was founded by Marc F. Pelletier and Walter F. Boron in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

PatientWisdom, Inc. develops and operates platform that collects, curates, segments and shares patient stories. The firm offers services to patients and families, healthcare providers, researchers and educators, and manufacturers and payers. The company was founded by Gregory Makoul and Eric Langshur in 2015 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.