Richard J. Shields

SouthWest Water Co. is a company that owns and operates regulated water and wastewater systems in seven states in the United States, serving over half a million residential and business customers. The company provides a broad range of operations, maintenance, and management services, including water production, treatment, and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, customer service, and utility infrastructure construction management. The company has subsidiaries in the United States, including Hornsby Bend Utility Company, Midway Water Utilities, Inc., and more. The company takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable service to its customers. The company was founded in 1891 as Land & Water Company and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX, with around 500 employees. The CEO is Robert MacLean.

Oakley, Inc. designs and manufactures sunglasses and accessories. Its optics brand portfolio includes Eye Safety Systems, Fox Racing, Mosley Tribes, Oakley, Oliver Peoples and Paul Smith Spectacles. The company was founded by James H. Jannard in 1975 and is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA.

Part of National Vision Holdings, Inc., Frame-n-Lens Optical, Inc. is a company that retails optical products. The company is based in Glendale, CA. Frame-n-Lens Optical was acquired by National Vision, Inc. on July 29, 1998 for $37 million.

Taco Bell Corp. operates a chain of restaurants. Its products include texas-mexican cuisine foods such as tacos, burritos, gorditas, quesadillas, nachos, chalupas, salads and food items. The company was founded by Glen William Bell, Jr. in 1962 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Boardriders, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture and distribution of branded apparel, footwear, accessories and other related products. It operates through the following segments: Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia/Pacific and Corporate Operations. The firm distributes under the following brand names: Quiksilver, Roxy and DC. The company was founded by Alan Green and John Law in 1969 and is headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA.

Day Software, Inc. was provided software solutions. The company was headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Day Software Holding AG is a company that provides enterprise software and services. It provides unique virtualization services to consolidate legacy repositories and unique cloud computing services. The firm is also a provider of Web 2.0 content management and content infrastructure software. It was founded in 1993 and has its head office in Basel, Switzerland.