John Reed

Kiverdi, Inc. recycles carbon dioxide and manufactures chemicals for consumer and industrial applications. Its products include oils, nutrients, and bio-based products. The company was founded by Lisa Dyson and John Reed and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Founded in 1976, Apax Partners, Inc. is a venture capital/private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of London-based Apax Partners LLP

Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. provides debit cards for kids, teens, and college students. Through its mobile application, its platform allows users to automate allowances, send money, and receive real-time notifications. The company was founded by Timothy P. Sheenan, Johnson Cook, and John Hagelgans in 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy operates as an only international forum of business leaders. It specializes in social strategies, stakeholders involvements, business strategies, and disaster relief services. The company was founded by Paul L. Newman and Peter L. Malkin in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mill Road Capital Management LLC (Mill Road Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by Thomas Lynch. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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

Affirm, Inc. provides online payment services. It offers reimagining financial services, from credit cards to deposit banking. The firm helps to improve sales conversions and boost basket sizes. It allows online shoppers to pay for purchases in multiple monthly installments with financing costs lower than credit card interest rates. The company was founded by Max R. Levchin, Jeffrey Kaditz, Alastair Rampell, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Schnuck Markets, Inc. engages in the operation of supermarket, pharmacy, and grocery stores. It offers bakery, deli, floral, meat, produce, seafood, specialty cheese, and wine and beer products. The company was founded by Anna Donovan Schnuck in 1939 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Part of Agnaten SE, JAB Holding Co. LLC is an investment holding American company. The company is based in Washington. Olivier Goudet has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

Directors Academy, Inc. provides development services for board members. It offers NextGen Directors Program and Board Leaders Program. The company was founded by James D. White and Keith Meyer and is headquartered in the United States.

Fair Trade USA provides farmers and workers producing fair trade certified goods services. It educates consumers, brings new manufacturers and retailers into the fair trade system, and provides farmers with tools, training and resources to thrive as international businesspeople. The company was founded in 1940 and headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. engages in the production of novel and specialty chemicals from plant oils. It offers cleaning and personal care ingredients, coating materials, oil field chemicals, surfactant intermediates, and polymer building blocks products. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

TPC Group, Inc. engages in production of value-added products derived from niche petrochemical raw materials such as C4 hydrocarbons. It sells products into a specialty and intermediate markets, including synthetic rubber, fuels, lubricant additives, plastics and surfactants. Its products include butadiene, butane-1, fuel products, polyisobutylene, isobutylene derivative, propylene tetramer and pentamer. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Morton Arboretum, Inc. operates as a garden and outdoor museum. It offers library, herbarium, and program in tree research. The company was founded by Joy Morton in 1922 and is headquartered in Lisle, IL.

Joyful Ventures Management Co. LLC (Joyful Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2023. The firm is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

J. M. Huber Corp. operates as a portfolio management company. Its portfolio of companies includes chemicals and minerals, hydrocolloids and engineered woods, and timber management. The firm’s products are used in consumer and industrial application, including personal care, food and beverage, agricultural nutrients and adjuvants, building materials, flame retardants, and smoke suppressants. The company was founded by Joseph Maria Huber in 1883 and is headquartered in Edison, NJ.

Trinseo LLC manufactures and markets plastics, rubber, and latex. The firm develops blends polycarbonate, compounds, paper, carpet latex, synthetic rubber, and styrenics. The company was founded in June 2010 and is headquartered in Berwyn, PA.

Keane, Inc. provides information technology services. The private company is based in Boston.

Sylvatex, Inc. operates as a green nano-chemistry company. It utilizes renewable non-toxic inputs to create a nanoparticle that can be used in multiple applications. The company was founded by Virginia Klausmeier in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Women in Bio, Inc. is an organization that supports women in the life sciences industry. The non-profit company is based in Bethesda, MD and has subsidiaries in the United States. The organization has 13 chapters in the United States and is funded by sponsors and partners who are dedicated to supporting diversity and inclusion for women of all ages. Founded in 2002, it offers professional educational programs, peer-to-peer learning, mentoring, and networking opportunities for women at all career levels. Women in Bio was founded by Faith L. Charles and Cynthia Wong Hu.

Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, also known as ibio, is a state trade association representing the life sciences industry in Illinois. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization's mission is to promote, connect, and engage the life sciences community to drive discovery, transform lives through groundbreaking research, and grow the economy. The company's membership ranges from corporations to startup companies in the biopharma, medical device, and nutrition industries. The Illinois life sciences industry is recognized as a national leader, and ibio's members are committed to expanding the boundaries of science by discovering, developing, and delivering innovative and needed therapeutics and products to transform patients' lives.

Bradshaw International, Inc. distributes kitchenware products. It manufactures and distributes of kitchen tools, bakeware and cookware under numerous brand names including good cook, bialetti, oneida, betty crocker, cheerios as well as private label brands. The firm supplies a broad range of housewares categories, from kitchen tools and gadgets to cookware to barware to cleaning supplies. The company was founded by Douglas J. Bradshaw in 1969 and is headquartered in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.

Juma Ventures operates businesses with the purpose of employing young people. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA.

Cramster, Inc. develops an online study community that provides homework help for college and high school students. The company was founded by Aaron Hawkey, Robert Angarita and Kaveh Golabi in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Mimik Technology, Inc. is a mobile technology company that provides digital services to businesses. The company was founded by Fay Arjomandi and S. Sharif in 2009 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Airlinq, Inc. engages in the provision of a cloud-based global ecosystem for machine to machine and internet of things devices. It offers a platform for IoT deployment, management, and monetization. Its products include GConnect, GControl, GFusion, and GStack. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Mobileum, Inc. engages in the design and development of telco big data analytics solutions to mobile network operators. Its products include data management, signaling firewall, and test factory. It also offers analytics and data science, managed services, and business consuling. The company was founded by Bobby Srinivasan, Mohan Uttarwar, John Jiang, and Vaibhav Domkundwar and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Jitterbit, Inc. provides integration solutions. It offers CRM, ERP, date, application and cloud integration. The company was founded by Sharam I. Sasson, Ilan Sehayek and Nordberg Henrik and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Primera Capital LLC (Primera Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Mohanbir Singh Gyani, Ori Sasson and Oren Zeev. The firm is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute operates as a biomedical research institute of Children's Hospital and Research Center. The private company is based in Oakland, CA.

Genesys Cloud Services, Inc. provides customer service and contact center solutions. It also offers business consulting, professional services, Genesys support and care, Genesys Guru managed services and Genesys customer advocacy program. The firm?s solutions include contact center modernization, self service, enterprise workload management, proactive customer communications, cloud, continuous workforce optimization and different solutions by industry. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Daly City, CA.