Scott Farrand

Dell, Inc. engages in the manufacture of electronic devices. Its products include laptops, desktops, tablets, thin clients, printers, monitors, software, workstations and accessories. The company was founded by Michael Saul Dell on February 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Round Rock, TX.

NetIQ Corp. offers software solutions. It provides identity and access management, security management, IT operation management, disaster recovery, workload migration, and unified communications and VoIP. The company was founded on February 11, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Quest Software, Inc. engages in the design, development, and distribution of enterprise systems management software products. It offers consulting, educational, and support services including Microsoft Platform, data protection, unified endpoint management, performance monitoring, and database management services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

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.

RedHouse Associates LLC provides strategic guidance to technology start-ups. It builds business strategies, develop product roadmaps, coach management teams, and advise clients on raising capital, acquisitions and strategic exits. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Paymetric, Inc. provides integrated and secure electronic payment acceptance and tokenization solutions. It offers oracle, enterprise, eCommerce, call centers, mobile, payment acceptance, data security, billpay, tokenizations, and professional services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Target Hunger, Inc. engages in food co-operative business. It serves more than 12,000 food-insecure people per month and distributed in excess of 4.4 million pounds of food. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Everyones Internet, Inc. provides web hosting services. The company was founded in 1998 by Robert Marsh, Roy Marsh III, and Randy Williams and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

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.

SURGE Ventures LLC ( SURGE Ventures ) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by kirk Brand Coburn. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP provides information technology solutions. It focuses on the computers, peripherals and mobile phones. The firm provides large-format, commercial and industrial printing solutions. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

APH, Inc. provides cloud and hybrid hosting solutions. It’s platform that integrates information technology hosting solutions that are fully automated with all customer service. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Hostway Services, Inc. engages in the provision of managed compliant cloud services. It offers web hosting, web design, Office 365 management, Microsoft Exchange hosting, Open-Xchange hosting and Wordpress management services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Ntirety, Inc. offers storage management, proactive performance monitoring, backup and recovery, and data management services. It offers database assessment, remote DBA, data consulting and cloud services. The company was founded by Michael Corey in April 2001 and is headquartered in Dedham, MA.

Technology & Entrepreneurship Center of Houston operates as a non-profit organization created to accelerate the growth of Houston’s innovation ecosystem. It aligns ecosystem support around strategic initiatives that are connecting, attracting, and promoting startups, investors, corporations, government, and universities. The company was founded in October 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Nortel Networks, Inc. provides digital network solutions and services. It offers end-to-end broadband, voice over Internet Protocol, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband technology solutions. The company is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

LiquidFrameworks, Inc. provides cloud-based mobile field operations management solutions serving the oil and gas, industrial, and environmental service industries. Its services include requirements gathering, business process requirements identification and analysis, project planning and design, project management, business process and change, data loading and testing, documentation, and FieldFX and interface training. The company was founded by Travis M. Parigi in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. provides a comprehensive educational program. The non-profit company is based in Houston, TX.