Pier Francesco Barattolo

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Steelwedge Software, Inc. provides integrated business planning solutions. Its cloud-based sales and operations planning software connects people, process and technology to power a single view of a company’s business, powering reliable scenario modeling that pinpoints the financial impact of supply-demand trade-off decisions. The company also provides executive decision support, and demand and supply management solutions. The company was founded by Glen Margolis in 2000 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Right90 is a market leader in sales forecasting solutions. Right90 delivers a powerful suite of SaaS-based applications that enable companies to quickly and accurately generate a trusted sales forecast. By integrating with leading CRM and ERP systems, Right90 applications help companies optimize overall revenue performance. Right90 applications capture and consolidate enterprise-wide sales forecasts and provide robust analytics that expose trends and suggest targeted actions that enable business leaders to have confidence and trust in the forecast. Customers use Right90 applications to achieve higher revenue, greater margins and increased sales performance. Customers of Right90 range from innovators such as Mellanox to industry leaders such as Sharp Microelectronics. Sales forecasting is a mission critical business process that is key in the overall revenue generation process. Organizations relying on subjective and untrustworthy sales forecasts suffer from excess inventory, unshipped backlog, poor revenue execution, and financial performance.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., Adaytum, Inc. provides planning and performance management solutions for business and public sector organizations. The company is based in Bloomington, MN. The company was founded by John David Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton. Adaytum was acquired by Cognos ULC, part of International Business Machines Corp. from January 31, 2008 on January 13, 2003 for $160 million.

Cognos LLC provides pre packaged software solutions. It offers ERP, packaged applications and database investment services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Business Objects, Inc. develops business intelligence software. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MediaSift Ltd. provides information technology solutions and services. It specializes in real-time data platform and tools for third-party developers and corporations, enabling companies to aggregate, filter, and extract insights from public social conversations on social networks and other sources. The company was founded by Nicholas John Halstead in 2007 and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.