Marc Ackerman

Harbinger Capital Partners LLC (Harbinger) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Philip Falcone in 2001 and is a subsidiary of Harbinger Holdings LLC. Harbinger provides advisory services on a discretionary basis to private investment funds (Harbinger Funds).

Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology operates as a social enterprise that aims to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology. It offers awards for individuals, community voices, events for organizations, career toolbox, and scholarships for GHC. The company was founded by Anita Borg and Telle Whitney in 1997 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.

GlobalGiving Foundation operates as an online marketplace that connects individual and institutional donors to community-based projects. It addresses health, education, economic development and other themes around the world. The firm’s innovative platform offers tools that help people search for, support, and publicize projects online and get detailed feedback on progress. The company was founded by Mari Kuraishi and Dennis Whittle in 2000 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Search For Common Ground operates as a peacebuilding organization. The private company is based in Washington.

Global Business School Network is an organization that connects over 100 top business schools across six continents. The private company is based in Washington. The American company promotes networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within their network and with the wider business education and development communities.

Prepay Nation LLC operates a mobile platform that enables micro-payments across international borders. The firm enables the transfer of small values across international boundaries on a real time basis. The company was founded by Ajay Goyal and Anurag Jain in 2010 and is headquartered in Berwyn, PA.

Juntos, Inc. provides financial conversation platform. The company was founded by Ben Knelman, Dante Cassanego and Katie Macc and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Journey Mobile, Inc. engages in the development of mobile application and provides online platform for digital transformation of business processes. It serves oilfield services, industrial equipment and services, and exploration and production industries. The company was founded by Conrad Hofmeyr and Ralf Kistner in 2009 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Omney, Inc. provides online payment processing services. The private company is based in Mountain View, Canada.

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., Amdahl Corp. is a company that operates an electronic computer manufacturing company. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Raymond A. Williams. Amdahl was acquired by Fujitsu Ltd. on September 19, 1997 for $834.03 million.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Chordiant Software Inc. solutions automate and manage operational business processes for leading service-driven global organizations in retail finance, telecommunications and consumer direct industries. Chordiant orchestrates the unique processes of an organization from the point of customer interaction, through the front and back offices to multiple transactional systems, corporate applications and data stores

Obopay, Inc. provides mobile payment services. It offers money transfer, mobile and online commerce, minutes top up, bill payment, and cash loading and unloading solutions, agent networks to harness new distribution channels and solutions for other mobile payment needs. The company was founded by Carol Louise Realini and Joseph Tumminaro in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Plural Policy, Inc. develops computer software and applications. The firm offers legislative workflow tools. The company was founded by Damola Ogundipe, Yemi Adewunmi, Shawntera Hardy, and Ken Thompson in 2015 and is headquartered in Mounds View, MN.

Breakout Commerce, Inc. provides custom print fulfillment services. It offers an intuitive application program interface for white-labeled print sales and an application, shopify, which automates product fulfillment and direct sales of merchandise and promotional products. The company was founded by Austen Bernstein, Nick Anderson and Micah Smith in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Harbert Management Corp. engages in provision of real estate, private capital, and public securities investment services. It owns, develops, and manages office, industrial, retail, and self-storage properties throughout the south-eastern and south-western United States. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Birmingham, AL.

FF Venture Capital LLC (FF Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by John Frankel. The firm is headquartered in New York.