Lisa M. Emde

Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. provides senior and assisted living services. It offers independent and assisted living, care for individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of memory loss, as well as nursing and rehabilitative care. The company was founded by Paul J. Klaassen and Terry Klaassen in December 1981 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

EDS Co. engages in drywall construction and installation. The private company is based in North Highlands, CA.

PlumTree Partners LLC (PlumTree Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Todd Furniss and Jeffrey Rich. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

GlendonTodd Capital LLC (GlendonTodd Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2011 by Todd Furniss. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

The Everest Group, Inc. is a private company based in Streamwood, IL. The company provides customer experience management research to service providers, supports technology leaders by delivering insights, and explores how GBS/shared services/GICs are evolving to build strategic capabilities to deliver business outcomes. Additionally, the company offers industry-leading research on application services, digital services, and cloud and infrastructure services to help enterprises optimize value from their business-critical applications and mature their IT operations in an era of relentless technology disruption. The CEO of the company is Fred Kaplan.

NeXtGen Biologics, Inc. manufactures ECM biomaterial products. The firm a Class II medical device for the repair of soft tissue. The company was founded by Jonelle Toothman and is headquartered in Gainesville, FL.

Part of The Garfield Weston Foundation, Howard Investments Ltd. provides investment services. The company is based in London, UK.

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

Phoenix Suns operates as a professional basketball team. The firm is a part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Metric Medical Devices, Inc. operates as a medical device company in the orthopedic extremity market. Its products include intramedullary bone fixation scaffold and super staple bone fixation staple. The company was founded by W. Casey Fox, Daniel C. Wadsworth, Jr. and Nancy R. Fox and is headquartered in Helotes, TX.

PersOwn, Inc. is a healthcare company based in Jacksonville, FL. The company aims to provide accurate, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic testing and secure patient data available instantly to everyone across the globe, including those in resource-limited or logistically remote areas. PersOwn has partnered with esteemed clinical, academic, research, and patient advocacy partners on the common mission of managing sepsis prevention, detection, treatment, and survivor support. PersOwn has also partnered with SAS, the leader in analytics, to unleash the power of health data through point-of-care diagnostics and health information technologies. The company was founded by William Douglas Meadow, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

LifeNet Health, Inc. operates as a full-service organ donation agency and tissue banking system. It offers cardiac, vascular, sports medicine, general orthopedics and trauma, craniomaxillofacial, spine, dental, plastic and reconstructive surgical services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA.

Futures Portfolio Fund LP engages in the speculative trading of futures contracts, forward currency contacts, and other financial instruments. It primarily trades within agricultural commodities, currencies, energy products, equity indices, interest rate instruments, metals, and single stock futures. The company was founded on May 11, 1989 and is headquartered in Excelsior, MN.

Peracon, Inc. provides business intelligence and data services for real estate businesses. The private company is based in McLean, VA.

Seneca Global Fund LP engages in the speculative trading of futures contracts, forward currency contracts and other financial instruments traded in the United States and internationally. The company was founded on March 23, 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

Steben & Co., Inc. (Steben) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Excelsior, Minnesota. The firm was founded by Ken Steben in 1989 and is a subsidiary of Octavus Group LLC. Steben provides discretionary investment management and advisory services, together with investment management products, to financial advisors and institutions. The firm serves as the general partner of Futures Portfolio Fund LP, a multi-advisor private managed futures fund.

Part of Axogen, Inc., AxoGen Corp. develops peripheral nerve grafting and regeneration technologies. The company is based in Alachua, FL. The company was founded in 2002 by John P. Engels, Jamie M. Grooms. AxoGen was acquired by LecTec Corp. on September 30, 2011 for $19.98 million.

Osteotech, Inc. develops biologic products for orthopedic, spinal, trauma, neurosurgical, and maxillofacial surgeons for use in surgical procedures. It operates in five segments: demineralized bone matrix, hybrid/synthetic, traditional tissue, spinal allograft, and client services. The company processes, markets, and distributes Xenograft bone tissue products, which are used as bone graft substitutes. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Eatontown, NJ.

ChaoLogix, Inc. develops semiconductor technology that provides optimal performance at the nexus of security and power. Its ChaoSecure technology deters side channel attacks at the source and contributes security to a semiconductor chip compared to existing add-on solutions. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Synogen Inc (Synogen) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Jamie M. Grooms and Richard R. Allen. The firm is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida.

Institute for Commercialization of Florida Technology delivers company building and company funding programs to create products and companies. Its programs include company building, funding, executive council, third party solutions and startup quest. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Apex Cos. LLC engages in the provision of environmental, health, and engineering services. It offers transaction and litigation support, and information management. The company was founded by Peter T. Young in 1988 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc. manufactures automobiles. It produces the Camry, Avalon, and Venza models, as well as 4-cylinder- and V6 engines. The firm was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Georgetown, KY.

Accenture LLC operates as a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The company is headquartered in Reston, VA.

V-Ten Capital Partners LLC (V-Ten Capital Partners) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

The CNA Corp. operates as a nonprofit research and analysis organization. It provides solutions to complex problems of national importance. The firm’s research portfolio includes criminal justice, homeland security, energy security, water resources, education, enterprise systems and data analysis. . The company was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The Defense Commissary Agency operates a worldwide chain of commissaries that provides groceries to military personnel, retirees, and their families. The company was founded May 5, 1990 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, VA.

Carl E. Woodward LLC offers general construction services. It offers pre-construction, design, engineering, construction management and steel services. The company was founded by Carl E. Woodward in 1924 and it is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

CAV Angels /Venture Capital/ (CAV Angels) is a venture capital subsidiary of CAV Angels Investments LLC founded in 2015 by Jim Cheng, Rich Diemer, and Dick Crawford. The firm is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.