Ellen E. Wood

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Versata Software, Inc. provides software for automotive and insurance and financial services companies. Its solutions for financial services companies comprise distribution channel management to manage producers from onboarding through compensation. The company was founded on June 12, 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

DLA Piper LLP provides legal services to clients. It offers services in the areas of corporate and securities, venture capital and emerging companies, litigation. The company was founded in 2005 and it is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

AVP Management Services, Inc. (AVP Management Services) is a private equity/venture capital firm firm founded in 1979 by Joseph Charles Aragona, Ken Paul DeAngelis and Jeff C. Garvey. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

UnboundID Corp. provides customer identity and access management software. It offers UnboundID Platform, an enterprise software for identity and preference management, deployed on premises or in the cloud. The firm also offers modernize legacy identity, transition to customer, and customer engagement management, and identity and preference brokering. The company was founded by Steve Shoaff, Don Bowen, David Ely, and Neil Wilson in December 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Primus Capital Partners, Inc. (Primus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Loyal Wilson. The firm is headquartered in Pepper Hike, Ohio.

High End Systems, Inc. manufactures lighting fixtures and control equipment for the entertainment industry. Its products include lighting consoles, led automated, digital lighting and automated luminaires. The company was founded by Richard Belliveau and Lowell Fowler in 1970 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

MyTech Corp provides sensor-based controls for lighting systems. The company is based in Bogota, NJ. The company was founded by Douglas D. Myron. MyTech was acquired by Hubbell, Inc. on October 31, 2001.

YMCA of the USA is a non-profit organization which provides health and social services. The firm offers adventure guides, aquatics, arts, camping, child care, health and fitness, adults, scuba, and sports programs to communities and families in the United States. The company was founded by George Williams in 1844 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC provides legal services. The firm offers services in the areas of commercial litigation, taxation, government relations, family law, labor and employment law, European law and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

TL Ventures Inc (TL Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. founded in 1988 by Robert Keith. The firm is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Elsewhere Partners LLC (Elsewhere Partners) is a Venture Capital firm founded in 2016 by Christopher A. Pacitti and John Douglas Thornton. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

SailPoint Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of on-premises service-based access management solutions. The firm offers access certification, access insights, access modeling, access requests, cloud governance, file access manager, pass management, provisioning, and separation-of-duties. The company was founded by Mark McClain and Kevin Cunningham in December 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Technology Entrepreneurs' eXchange (texchange) is an organization that fosters an entrepreneurial environment and develops the next generation of executives for technology, bitcoin, and life sciences companies. The private company is based in Austin, TX. The company brings together subject matter experts, industry thought leaders, and proven entrepreneurs for informative and educational discussions on current business topics. The company's monthly events feature nationally known business leaders, such as Steve McKay, the creator of the bitcoin trading robot called Bitcoin Code, and Tim Sanders, the former Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo, who share insights and lessons that can be applied to businesses today. Texchange currently has chapters in various locations.

FireFly Automatix, Inc. manufactures and distributes automated turf harvesters. It offers ProSlab 155 automated turf harvester. The company is headquartered in North Salt Lake, UT.

Litmus Health, Inc. provides research-ready infrastructure for real world data. The private company is based in Austin, TX and was founded by Sam Volchenboum, Josh Jones-Dilworth, Daphne Kis. The company helps its customers understand patient behavior and environment in multiple dimensions by using real life data collected at the point of experience from wearables, smart devices, and home sensors to guide management and inform both new and traditional endpoints. Litmus Health provides end-to-end solutions for clinical trial data capture, monitoring, and analysis.

PeopleFund provides small business loans. It offers small business loans as well as business assistance and education to people with otherwise limited access to such resources. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Bowdoin College is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational residential, undergraduate liberal arts institution founded in 1794. It is located in Brunswick, ME.

Aceable, Inc. is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating educational content. It offers traffic law and substance abuse education courses for students. The company was founded by Blake Garrett in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Bed Rock, Inc. provides transportation services. It specializes in transporting cargo that requires careful handling due to its explosive or contaminant nature. The firm offers two different freight segments, secured materials and heavy haul. The company was founded in 1929 by Cloyd B. Jeans and Denver Merrick and is headquartered in Joplin, MO.

Works, Inc. delivers secure web-based electronic payment solutions. It provides software solutions that help large companies to minimize the number of checks issues, reduce manual back-office reconciliation processes, and settle payment transactions electronically through the use of commercial credit cards. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

OneSource Virtual, Inc. provides business process outsourcing technology and support services. The firm's services include strategic consulting for workday, workday implementation, workforce administration, benefits administration, payroll services on workday, prescriptive solutions, finance and accounting services and application management services. The company was founded Brian David Williams, Wesley John Bryan and Britton Carl Wirt in 2008 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

The CleanTX Foundation, Inc. engages in the provision of supporting services to renewable resources sector. It promotes cleantech innovation and adoption. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.