Robert A. Ostermann

Founded in 1992, Wynnefield Capital, Inc. is a hedge fund manager and registered investment advisor located in New York City.

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. develops and markets secure communications solutions. It offers portables, mobiles, ATLAS systems solutions and ATLAS systems products. The firm serves the first responders in the public safety and public service, federal government, state and military sectors. The company was founded by Edgar F. Johnson in 1923 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. provides business security solutions. It offers advanced and basic security, network and wireless security products, and management and visibility services. It serves education, retail, and healthcare industries. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

TA Associates Management LP(TA Associates) is a venture capital firm headquartered in Boston. The firm is founded in 1968 by Peter Brooke a subsidiary of TA Associates Management Holding LP.

QUAESTUS & Co., Inc. (Quaestus) is a venture capital firm founded in 1989 by Charles Wright and Richard Weening. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Visa International Service Association provides electronic payments network and financial services. The company was founded on August 15, 1974 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Primavera Systems, Inc. provides project portfolio management solutions. It offers software solutions to serve the companies working on projects in industries such as aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, financial services, government, utilities, oil & gas, chemicals, high technology and professional service engagements. The customers of the company include AFLAC, Alcatel, AIG, Army Corps of Engineers, Bechtel Group, Bovis Lend Lease, ChevronTexaco, Citicorp, ConocoPhillips, EDS, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Federal Express, Fluor, Ford-Jaguar, General Motors, Guardian Life Insurance, Honeywell IAC, Hutchison 3G, Intel and Johnson & Johnson. Primavera Systems was co-founded by Joel M. Koppelman & Richard Faris in May, 1983 and is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA.

Universal Instruments Corp. designs and manufactures advanced automation and assembly equipment solutions for the electronics manufacturing industry. It offers surface mount, automation, hot bar bonding, though-hole, and software. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Conklin, NY.

Ericsson, Inc. develops and markets wireless infrastructure equipment. Its products include antennas, transmitters, switching systems and other gears used to build wireless networks. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Fisher Funds Management Ltd. (Fisher Funds) is an independent specialist investment management firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. The firm was founded by Carmel Fisher in 1998. Fisher Funds manages investment funds and savings accounts for a range of investors that includes community trusts, schools, charities, KiwiSaver schemes, corporate pension schemes and individuals.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

IDERA, Inc. operates as a B2B (business to business) software company. its products include DESIGN Models and Databases; MONITOR Database Performance; PROTECT Database Integrity; and MANAGE IT Performance. The company was founded by Richard Jan Pleczko, Michael J. Clark, and Roderick Endo in 2000 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Radiant Logic, Inc. provides software solutions. It offers federated identity service, cloud security, directory virtualization and context aware supplication solutions. The company was founded by Michel Prompt in 2000 and is headquartered in Novato, CA.

Francisco Partners Management LP (Francisco Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Benjamin Ball, Dipanjan Deb, Neil Garfinkel, Sanford Robertson and David Stanton. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco and London.

ITW EAE BV manufactures automated soldering systems. It specializes in the design and manufacturing of mass soldering equipment for the global circuit board assembly market. The firm’s products are grouped under reflow soldering equipment, wave soldering equipment and selective soldering equipment. It was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Oosterhout, the Netherlands.

Viewpoint, Inc. provides construction-specific software solutions to the global construction and capital project industries. The firm’s products include Vista, Spectrum, ProContractor, Viewpoint Team and Viewpoint Field View software cloud solutions. It offers software products that help contractors improve project profitability through better visibility, real-time collaboration and risk mitigation. The company was founded by Family Haladay in 1976 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Harvard Cooperative Society is a leading food retailer with a focus on the convenience sector. The private company is based in Cambridge, MA. The group offers a wide range of additional services including funerals, insurance, legal services, and health. It champions a better way of doing business for customers and their communities. It is owned by millions of UK consumers and operates 2,600 food stores, over 1,000 funeral homes, and provides products to over 5,100 other stores, including those run by independent co-operative societies and through its wholesale business, Nisa Retail Limited. It has more than 63,000 colleagues and an annual revenue of over £10 billion.

BeyondTrust Corp. provides secure enterprise remote management and support software solutions. It offers remote support, privilege access and password vault. The company was founded by Joel Bomgar, Nathan McNeill, and Patrick Norman in 2003 and is headquartered in Ridgeland, MS.

e-Emphasys Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of dealer management software for agriculture, construction, heavy truck, material handling, and other equipment dealers. The company is based in Cary, NC and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's e-emphasys ERP and IntelliDealer solutions provide digital transformation and data intelligence technology to better manage and grow businesses. The e-emphasys dealer management platform incorporates a full suite of technology including business intelligence and reporting, CRM, mobile field service applications, inspection applications, ecommerce customer portals, RFID, artificial intelligence, IoT, and telematics. The company was founded by Milind Bagade, Sayam R. Bagade, and Jeffrey W. Hart has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Leadsonline LLC is a digital platform that provides law enforcement investigators and analysts with the latest data on people and property across the United States, helping them to advance criminal cases and find elusive suspects, stolen items, and patterns of criminal activity. The company is based in Plano, TX and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform also helps businesses, including pawn shops, secondhand stores, scrap metal recyclers, and online marketplaces, to report transaction information to law enforcement. Leadsonline was founded in 2000, and the CEO is Alex Finley.

Backstage LLC provides online career building services to actors, singers, dancers and other artists. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Prometheus Group Enterprises LLC engages in the provision of enterprise asset management and plant maintenance operations and optimization software. It offers planning and scheduling, analytics, permitting and isolations, and turnaround and outage management. The company was founded by Eric Huang in 1998 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Power Line Systems, Inc. provides consulting services. It also develops engineering software for the structural and geometric design of electric power lines. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

GONGCHA KOREA Co., Ltd. engages in production and sale of beverages such as tea, ade, smoothie and desserts. Its products include milk tea drinks, tea lattes, fruit smoothies, cakes, cookies, and scones. The company was founded in November 2011 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Yarra Capital Management Holdings Pty Ltd. is an Australian company located in Melbourne with domestic subsidiaries. The firm provides portfolio management services. Dion Hershan is the current CEO, occupying that position since 2017.

OMNIA Partners provides sourcing and supply chain management services. The firm serves over 35 industries in both the private and public sector. It is composed of three subsidiaries: National IPA, Prime Advantage, and Corporate United. The company was founded by M. Todd Abner and Ward H. Brown in 2017 and is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

American Investment Council provides investment and business advocacy services. The private company is based in Washington.

Bathala Capital LLC is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Albany, New York. The firm was founded by Dwight B. Mamanteo in 2020. Bathala Capital provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

MAM Software, Inc. develops business management software for the automotive aftermarket. Its products include auto part, vast enterprise, vast retread, autocat +, openwebs, warehouse management software. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.