Thomas Patrick Schaeffer

Fortress UAV LLC is a subsidiary of Fortress Solutions that provides operational drone services, including logistics, tech-support, and drone technology RMA services to over 65 countries worldwide. The private company is based in Plano, TX. The company is the largest and most comprehensive facility for drone repair in the United States, with three facilities and over 245 employees in repair services. The company supports repairs from consumers/prosumers, OEMs, and big-box retailers. Fortress UAV is an authorized dealer for DJI drones and an authorized repair center for Yuneec. The company was founded in 2002, and the CEO is Brendon W. Mills.

RipCode delivers transcoding solutions to providers of mobile, desktop and IPTV content. Its transcoding platform uniquely supports both live and file-based transcoding applications with the broadest codec support, most extensive device coverage, and widest range of picture resolutions. The platform provides this transcoding flexibility while enabling customer-optimized tradeoffs between concurrency, real-time performance, and quality of experience - enabling video transcoding and delivery to be closely aligned with specific business model needs. Its platform is fully integrated with all popular forms of video delivery applications including RTSP streaming, Adaptive RTSP streaming, HTTP Progressive Download, Apple iPhone 3.0 Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe's upcoming HTTP Adaptive Download. The RipCode TransAct Platform™ sets them apart from traditional 'box' transcoding vendors. The TransAct portfolio extends industry-leading transcoding technology to a policy-driven video delivery platform elevating scalable, easy to deploy, revenue-generating video delivery to an on-the-fly, real-time network transaction tuned to the needs of each provider's business goals.

GENBAND, Inc. provides smart networking solutions for service providers and enterprises. Its products include application and client platforms, session border controllers, call controllers, media gateways, wireless access gateways, cloud services and management. The company also provide customer support, EDGE training, education, FLEX deployment services. GENBAND was founded by Anthony John Paul Carew, Brendon W. Mills, Ronald D. Lutz and Steven Raich in 1999 and is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

Part of Cisco Systems, Inc., NetSpeed, Inc. is a company that makes digital subscriber line products. The company is based in Austin, TX. The company was founded by Paul S. Zito, John F. McHale. NetSpeed was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on April 13, 1998 for $254.60 million.

Part of Humble Energy, Inc., Networth, Inc. is a company that provides both on-line and off-line financially oriented products such as life, health, long-term care insurance, and annuities. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by John F. McHale. Networth was acquired by Humble Energy, Inc. on December 11, 2000.

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.

Kosse Partners I LLC provides product lifecycle repair and logistics services for the telecommunication, mobile carrier, and CATV equipment. The firm?s services include repair and certification, logistic, and professional field services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Components Corp. of America, Inc. operates as a holding company. It manufactures electrical, electronic, and electro-mechanical devices or systems for commercial/industrial electrical, electronic, military/aerospace, and computer industries. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Part of Raiffeisen Bank International AG, RB International Finance (USA) LLC is a company that provides comprehensive lending services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Venturis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the developing protein drug candidates to address diseases such as diabetic wounds, severe coronary heart disease and peripheral artery disease. The company develops injectable and topical formulations of its active pharmacological ingredient to facilitate the growth of new blood vessels in the heart, tissues and organs. It focuses on developing protein drug candidates to be used in the treatment of cardiovascular disease. CardioVascular BioTherapeutics was founded by Daniel C. Montano, Thomas J. Stegmann and Grant Gordon in March 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

HomeVestors of America, Inc. provides dental benefit administration services. It offers loans, software for evaluating homes for repair and advertising mainly as billboards to its network of businesses. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

American Income Holding, Inc. is an investment company, which through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of life insurance products and services. The company was founded on December 5, 1988 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

H2Options, Inc. operates as a manufacturer and wholesaler of water filters, water softeners, and fitting kits. The firm offers rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, high performance irrigation, solar hot water and other water technologies. The company is headquartered in Argyle, TX.

Tatum LLC provides executive consulting services. It provides services to the healthcare, private equity, venture capital, public, not-for-profit, manufacturing, distribution, retail, financial and business services sectors. The company was founded by John Tatum and Doug Tatum in 1993 and is located in Atlanta, GA.