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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. is a learning company, which engages in instructional curriculum, assessment, technology, and professional learning. The company was founded in 1832 by William Ticknor and James Fields and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Renaissance Learning, Inc. engages in the provision of technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs for kinder to grade 12 schools. Its products include Star 360, myIGDIs, Accelerated Reader, Math and myON. The firm's software solutions offers assessments, early literacy, individualized and balanced instruction, and response to intervention. The company was founded by Judith Ames Paul and Terrance D. Paul in 1986 and is headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, WI.

Blackboard, Inc. provides software applications and related services to the education industry. The firm offers recruitment, student success, and consulting services. Its services are utilized by academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, and universities. The company was founded by Michael L. Chasen, Daniel E. Cane, Stephen Gilfus and Matthew L. Pittinsky in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Recorded Books, Inc. operates as an independent producer of audiobooks. It offers e-Books, magazines, comics, newspapers, digital educational resources, games and music, and streaming video services. The company was founded by Henry S. Trentman in 1979 and is headquartered in Prince Frederick, MD.

Isolation Network, Inc. provides marketing and rights management services for independent labels and artists. It also provides digital media distribution and publishing services. The company operates as a media marketplace which develops technology platforms and providing content creators and owners with distribution and marketing solutions. Isolation Network was founded by Charles Matthew Burns and Robb McDaniels in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Institute for Corporate Productivity, Inc. provides workforce and human capital productivity, and human resource solutions. It offers solutions for human resources, learning, talent, and other business functions including membership, executive search, Exitmetrix, organizational effectiveness assessment, and working groups. The company was founded by Kevin Oakes, Debbie McGrath, and Jay J. Jamrog in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Ingram Industries, Inc. engages in book distribution, print and distribution services, marine transportation and digital fulfillment services. It offers trade books, textbooks, specialty magazines, and audiotapes to booksellers, librarians and specialty retailers. The company was founded by Erskine Bronson Ingram II in 1978 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

A.T. Kearney, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. Its services include strategic, operational and technology consulting executive search services. The company was founded by Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Simon & Schuster, Inc. engages in the publication of fiction and non-fiction books. It offers a wide range of genres and formats for children and adults both audio and in print. The company was founded by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Victaulic Co. manufactures mechanical pipe joining systems. The firm’s services include customer training, applications engineering, virtual design and construction and custom castings. It also offers pipe joining, fittings, flow control, equipment modules and tools. The company was founded by Ernest Tribe and Henry Hele-Shaw in 1919 and is headquartered in Easton, PA.

Bigchalk was founded in 1999 with the combined assets of ProQuest's K-12 division and Infonautics Inc.'s K-12 business. The company supplies comprehensive reference databases, using pictures, magazines, newspapers, as well as audio and visuals, to make learning more interactive and enjoyable. The ProQuest Co. recently acquired bigchalk and is fully integrating it into ProQuest Information & Learning (www.il.proquest.com)

Part of Paramount Global, Camsaw, Inc. is a company that publishes books. The company is based in New Canaan, CT. Camsaw was acquired by Paramount Communications, Inc. from Maxwell Communication Corp. Plc on February 28, 1994 for $552.80 million.

LibreDigital, Inc. provides web-based warehouse and distribution platform services. The firm allows publishers to store and secure digital content in any form and to deliver content on-demand to any marketplace or device. The company was founded by Billy Taylor, Doug Dobbs and Tracy Jones in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

New York Bankers Association, Inc. provides financial services. The firm is comprised of commercial banks and thrift institutions. It offers keystate insurance captive management, office depot, excelsior growth fund’s smartloan, agility recovery, and nyba sponsored healthcare solutions from pomco group. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

HotChalk, Inc. provides web-based collaborative software solutions to educational institutions to put their degree programs online. It serves online audience of educators, parents, and students. The company was founded by Edward M. Fields in 2004 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

New York Business Development Corp. provides loans to small businesses. The company is headquartered in Albany, NY.

The New York Racing Association, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation that operates thoroughbred horse-racing tracks. Its racing tracks include Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Jamaica, NY.

The Association of American Publishers is an organization that advocates for strong copyright policies, protects free speech, and promotes the advancement of research and scholarship. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The company represents leading consumer, educational, professional, and scholarly publishers who connect people with books, trustworthy information, and learning materials. The organization presents the Professional and Scholarly Excellence Awards since 1976. The Association of American Publishers released its StatShot report for September 2023, reflecting reported revenue for trade, higher education course materials, and professional publishing. The CEO of the company is Maria A. Pallante.

The Center for Economic Growth is a professional economic and business development organization located in Albany, NY. The non-profit company's team of professionals can connect businesses to the right resources to relocate or expand in the capital region. The company focuses on providing business growth solutions to small to medium-sized companies in the manufacturing and technology sectors across several industries. The CEOs of the company are Michael J. Hickey, Andrew Kennedy.

ZERO TO THREE provides support and services for infants and toddlers. It informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in its efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. The company was founded by T. Berry Brazelton, Selma Fraiberg, Stanley I. Greenspan, J. Ronald Lally, Bernard Levy, Reginald S. Lourie, Peter B. Neubauer, Robert A. Nover, Sally Provence, Julius B. Richmond, Albert J. Solnit, and Leon J. Yarrow in 1977 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is an outdoor amphitheater located in Saratoga Springs, NY. The center is situated in a 2,400-acre park preserve surrounded by hiking trails, geysers, and natural mineral springs. SPAC hosts performances by resident companies such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, and concerts by Live Nation. The center also offers imaginative programming such as Caffè Lena @ SPAC and initiatives in culinary, literary, healing, and visual arts. SPAC is a 501c3 charitable organization, and donations and proceeds from fundraising events benefit the center's thriving education program, community outreach efforts, and the vibrancy of its programming.

L.E.K. Consulting LLC operates as a management consulting firm. It offers disruption management, post-merger integration, and marketing and sales services. The company was founded by James Lawrence, Iain Evans and Richard Koch in 1983 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Burning Glass International, Inc. designs and develops an analytics software that delivers labor market data products and analysis. The firm offers labor insight, program insight, career insight, NOVA, lens suite, burning glass APIs, and applied research. The company was founded by Ted Crooks, Krishna Gopinathan, and Anu Kumar Pathria in 1999 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ascend Learning, Inc. provides educational services. It offers middle, lower and high school program. The company was founded by Steven F. Wilson in 2007 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

PointState Capital LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment manager and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 by Joshua Samuelson and Zachary Schreiber. PointState Capital provides discretionary investment advisory services, which include but not limited to, managing and directing the investment and reinvestment of assets for private investment funds and has provided these services to a discretionary separately managed account. Investors in the PointState Funds primarily consist of charitable foundations, institutions, endowments, funds of funds, private or family-owned investment entities, trusts and high net-worth individuals.

Synergis Education, Inc. provides educational services designed for college and university leaders. Its services include 3 modality, marketing and enrollment, academic services, student retention, and system integration. The company was founded by Norman F. Allgood in 2011 and is headquartered in Mesa AZ,

myON LLC provides digital literacy services for the K-12 education market. It allows the students to access a personalized literacy ecosystem that offers unlimited reading of digital books with multimedia supports, real-time assessments, and a growing literacy. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Edina, MN.

ThinkBox Software, Inc. provides creative tools and pipeline technology for both small and large scale projects. The firm’s products include deadline, draft, krakatoa, frost, genome, sequoia, stoke and xmesh. The company was founded by Chris Bond in 2010 and is headquartered in Manitoba, Canada.

Concord Health Partners LLC (Concord Health Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Joseph Swedish and James Olsen. The firm headquartered in Summit, New Jersey.

Meazure Learning, Inc. engages in the provision of testing solutions for academic, professional and lifelong learners. It offers Psychometrics, test development and delivery, reporting, and secure proctoring. The company was founded on January 8, 2020 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

Proton Therapy Partners, Inc. operates as an innovative healthcare services company that offers a proven equity joint venture model to provide health systems with access to proton therapy at a lower cost and with a smaller footprint. The company is headquartered in Pennsylvania.

Part of VitalTech Holdings, Inc., VitalTech Affiliates LLC is an industry-leading, fully-integrated virtual care platform based in Plano, TX. The company's mission is to enable better care with greater efficiency through their cloud-based virtual care solution, vitalcare, which connects caregivers, patients, and their families to improve patient health, engagement, and compliance. Recently, VitalTech Affiliates was included in Avia Connect's top 50 companies in remote monitoring report, which further supports their mission to transform virtual care. The CEO of the company is James Hamilton.