Tim Murphy

Knoa Software, Inc. provides user experience management and workforce optimization software. Its products include Knoa Experience and Performance Manager, Powerful Analytics Dashboards, Knoa End User Intelligence Platform Architecture and Differentiation. The firm delivers enterprise and cloud solutions that generate unique insights for the optimization of the end-user experience for SAP, Siebel and other platforms. Its solutions help global corporations and government organizations make impactful, real-time, fact based decisions that enrich and maximize the experience for over a million end-users. The company was founded by Philip Y. F. Lui and Yee-Ping Wu in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Research is a corporate research lab with over 3,000 researchers in 19 locations across six continents. The company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY and was founded by Thomas Boudalier. The company invests in breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain technology. IBM Research is dedicated to applying AI and science to industry challenges, from healthcare to environmentalism to retail.

Mobius Management Systems, Inc. developed content management software solutions. The company was founded in 1981 and was headquartered in New Rochelle, NY.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Markit North America, Inc. provides financial information services. It offers asset pricing, forecasting, and research services to the financial sectors. It owns and operates the CDX credit derivative indices and the synthetic structured finance and loan indices ABX HE, CMBX and LCDX. The company's clients include hedge funds, asset managers, central banks, regulators, rating agencies, and insurance companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is located in New York City, NY.