Brian Monahan

Borders Group, Inc. owns and operates bookstores and music stores. It operates through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. and Walden Book Company, Inc., which operates stores selling books, music and movie superstores and mall-based bookstores. The company operates a proprietary e-commerce Web site www.borders.com. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Pacific Rim Mining Corp. is a mineral exploration company, which focuses on high grade, environmentally cleans gold deposits in the Americas. It holds interest in the El Dorado gold project in El Salvador, the Hog Ranch project in Nevada, and the Santa Rita and Zamora-Cerro Colorado gold projects in El Salvador. Pacific Rim Mining was founded on April 11, 2002 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

RelayHealth Corp. provides online healthcare communication services. Its network is designed to streamline clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and financial institutions. The firm works to accelerate the delivery of care and improve financial performance through solutions such as online consultation of physicians by patients, electronic prescribing, point-of-service pharmacy claims resolution by payers, pre-visit patient financial clearance by providers, and post-visit provider bill settlement by payers and patients. The company was founded by Assaf Morag, Niall Murphy, Ofir Baharav, Giovanni M. Colella, and Gary Gannot and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

KeepItSafe, Inc. provides mobile cloud services. It allows customer to back up, access, sync and share all of the documents, photos, music, and movies across all computers and mobile devices. The company was founded by Ben Strong and Gibu Thomas in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Attributor Corp. provides web-wide content tracking and monetization solutions. The company was founded by James L. Brock Jr. and James E. Pitkow on November 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Mint Software, Inc. provides online money management services. It offers debt management, expense tracking, investment and budget management, mutual fund, IRA, and financial planning services. The company was founded by Thomas Aaron Patzer in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Zetta, Inc. provides enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving technology services. Its products include Zetta data protection and Zetta disaster recovery. The firm offers archiving, offsite, online, cloud server and remote backup services. The company was founded by Jeffrey Whitehead, Louis J. Montulli, Jeffrey Treuhaft and Jason Harrison in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 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.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Deloitte Consulting LLP provides business consulting services. It offers services related to public finance, public sector management, health and social protection, information technology, financial sector, and trade and investment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cynergy Data LLC provides merchant payment processing services and related software products. Its payment services include credit cards, debit cards, electronic benefit cards, check services, gift cards, e-commerce, and recurring billing. The company was founded by John R. Martillo in 1998 and is headquartered in Hicksville, NY.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. provides membership network for learning and expertise. The firm promotes knowledge exchange through conversations, small group convenings, mentorships, surveys, and other interactions with its network of experts. The company was founded by Alexander Saint-Amand, Thomas D. Lehrman, and Mark Gerson in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Inflection.com, Inc. owns and operates a family history website and a people search engine. Its website aggregates records, including birth records, obituaries, census records, and immigration and passenger lists, as well as makes them available to users through brands. The firm’s search engine aggregates contact information, public records, and social networking profiles in a way that respects privacy. The company was founded by Matthew Monahan and Brian Monahan in 2006 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Stitch Labs, Inc. engages in the provision of software products and services. It provides trainings, 3PL integration service, accelerator consulting service, and migration services. The company was founded by Obrien Willo, Brandon Levey, Jake Gasaway, and Michelle Laham in January 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Directly, Inc. provides customer support services. It integrates with helpdesk & community software including desk, Jive, Lithium, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk. The firm makes on-demand business apps. Directly was founded by Antony Brydon, Jeff Patterson and Jean Tessier in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GreyCastle Security LLC engages in the provision of cybersecurity solutions. The firm offers risk assessment, incident response, awareness, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. The company was founded by Michael Stamas and Reg Harnish in 2011 and is headquartered in Troy, NY.

Kepler Communications, Inc. operates as a satellite communications company. It establishes an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. The firm offers global data services such as augment existing systems, backwards compatible, and pole-to-pole coverage. The company was founded by Mina Mitry, Mark Michael, Wen Cheng Chong, Samer Bishay and Jeffrey R. Osborne in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, CA.

Focal Systems, Inc. builds computer vision applications for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Francois Chaubard, Adriano Quiroga and Michael Cantalino and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

StackHawk, Inc. engages in the development of security software for DevOps teams. It focuses on enabling engineers to find and remediate security problems in development and production through scanning, documentation, and remediation. The company was founded by Scott Gerlach, Ryan Severns, and Joni Klippert in July 2019 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Aquabyte, Inc.develops computer vision and machine learning software for fish farming. The company was founded by Bryton Shang in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Aserto, Inc. provides cloud-native authorization as a service for developers. The company is based in Redmond, WA and was founded by Gert Drapers and Omri Gazitt, with Omri Gazitt serving as CEO since incorporation. The company's service allows for the addition of fine-grained RBAC, ABAC, or ACL to applications in under a day. Aserto enables centralized management of access control logic across microservices and APIs, allowing for control of access to applications based on dynamic user attributes, resource attributes, and environmental attributes.

Highnote Platform, Inc. is a financial technology company that provides a modern card issuer processor and program management platform. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2020 by John MacIlwaine and Kin Kee. The platform streamlines the entire card issuance process, from building integration to operating at scale, and offers a white-label solution to build a unique brand experience. Highnote's GraphQL API and capabilities such as notifications and SDKs enable teams to bring a card product to market quickly. John MacIlwaine has been the CEO since 2020.

SGNL.ai, Inc. is a company that works to modernize enterprise authorization in collaboration with Okta and Salesforce. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company's continuous access management platform provides zero standing access, protecting access to sensitive data and guarding against potential security compromises. The company's solution overview grants engineering and development teams the right access to cloud infrastructure, including AWS and Azure, in real-time. SGNL.ai was founded in 2021 with venture backing from Costanoa Ventures, Fika Ventures, Moonshots Capital, and Resolute Ventures. The company was founded in 2021 by Scott Kriz, Gustavson Erik. Scott Kriz has been the CEO since 2021.

Mohawk Valley Economic Development Growth Enterprise specializes in social services. The company is headquartered in Rome, NY.