Robert E. Steele

AeA is a private equity firm that manages funds of approximately $19 billion, including leveraged buyouts, growth capital, and debt investments. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA, and has offices in several locations across the United States. The firm's subsidiary, AEA SBPE, manages over $3 billion of invested and committed capital and focuses on sponsoring growing companies with strong management teams and superior business models. AeA has a vast network of leading industrial families, business executives, and leaders who invest with the firm as active individual investors or join its portfolio company boards or act in other advisory roles. The firm invests across three sectors: value-added industrials, consumer, and services. AeA was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co.

Platinum Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of systems integration and software development services. The company was founded by Adam C. Rossi and Laila N. Ross in 1999 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.