David C. Schmittlein

The Conference Board, Inc. is a membership organization working for the public interests. It creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses in their performance and to better serve the society. The firm publishes information and analysis, makes economics-based forecasts and assesses trends, and facilitates learning by creating communities of interest that bring together senior executives from around the world. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Technology Review, Inc. operates as a digitally oriented global media company. It equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

CIGNEX, Inc. engages in the provision of software services. It offers open source solutions that can be customized, combined, or deployed and integrated with existing enterprise applications. The firm’s solutions include portals, content and collaboration, enterprise content management, big data analytics, and e-commerce. The company was founded by Harish Ramachandran and Amit Babaria in 2000 and is headquartered in Livonia, MI.