Joseph Pappalardo

Awareness, Inc. provides on-demand social marketing management software solutions. It offers clients a unique blend of measurement, analysis and implementation technology that provides insight into consumer interaction and behavior online and streamlines content creation, dissemination and measurement across social media channels. The firm also helps social media channels to make buying decisions, find local services, research products and interact with brands. Awareness was founded by David Carter and Robin Hopper in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Qvidian Corp. provides cloud-based Request for Proposal (RFP) and proposal automation applications. Its services are used for sales proposals, security questionnaires, presentations, due diligence questionnaires, and sales playbooks. It offers advisory services, content services, managed services, technical services, and education and training. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company, provides text-driven business intelligence solutions that supply the analytical bridge between two previously disconnected worlds of information--unstructured text and enterprise data. Their award-winning solutions offer manufacturers, publishers, federal, chemical & financial service organizations critical links to situational context buried in text for use in Business Intelligence [BI] systems. Adding this situational context to enterprise data systems empowers organizations to: uncover hidden relationships, evaluate events, discover unforeseen patterns and facilitate problem identification for rapid resolution. Applying this intelligence enables organizations to avoid loss of profit margins due to preventable write-offs, customer churn, legal settlements, warranty claims or inefficient product development cycles. In short, they enable Global 5000 companies to make better business decisions by turning large volumes of contextually-based information into proactive business intelligence.

OpenPages, Inc. provides software solutions for enterprise governance and financial management. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Centive, Inc. develops incentive management software solutions. It also provides sales performance management software that monitors sales commissions, performance pay, and commission systems. The company was founded by Elizabeth M. Cobb and David A. Love in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Quintus, Inc. specializes in integrating advanced carbon fiber composites for orthopedic applications. It also designs, prototypes and manufactures non-implantable components. The company was founded by Dick Cook in 1970 and is headquartered in Camp Verde, AZ.

Malden Mills Industries, Inc. manufactures and markets synthetic fabrics. The company makes all-season synthetic fabrics used primarily in apparel and footwear under the brand name Polartec found in products sold by apparel retailers like Lands End, Timberland and in its own store. Its fabrics are used in branches of USA military including Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and special operations forces. The company was founded by Henry Feuerstein in 1906 and is headquartered in Lawrence, MA.

Codebroker LLC delivers exceptional customer experiences with their mobile engagement platform. The private company is based in Belmont, MA. The company's platform allows for the redemption of single-use coupons and offer codes through point-of-sale systems, helping retailers avoid the risk of coupons being used more than once or going viral. The company offers text message marketing software, mobile loyalty platforms, and digital coupon marketing software to help brands and retailers drive mobile consumer engagement, loyalty, and purchases. The Codebroker offer marketing platform enables marketers to create, deliver, orchestrate, and measure personalized omnichannel offers and campaigns across the customer lifecycle.

Open Exchange, Inc. offers a software-as-a-service solution that creates, shares, and tracks online presentations. It provides an on-demand platform to create interactive multi-media web presentations incorporating video, PowerPoint decks, links, downloads, and email forms. The company was founded by Michael E. Kolowich and Alex Kieft in 2010 and is headquartered in Lincoln, MA.