Jaimin Patel

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

Part of BT Group Plc, Predictive Systems, Inc. is a company that provides network consulting services with a focus on design and security. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Robert L. Belau. Predictive Systems was acquired by International Network Services, Inc., part of BT Group Plc from February 01, 2007 on June 27, 2003 for $17.73 million.

Aternity LLC provides application testing services. It offers device health, business activity analytics, proactive problem identification, and mobile application performance management. The company was founded by Orit Kapon Kislev, Eden Shochat, Amir Eldad, and Amnon Yacoby in 2004 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA.

WebLayers, Inc. develops automated software testing solutions. It offers configurable solution to address software policy compliance issues from software validation and verification to fully integrated governance across the enterprise, from the cloud and the mainframe to the desktop and the handset. The firm also provides policy-based approach to automating software compliance, providing policy managers and architects with the ability to define and enforce software governance policies. The company was founded by Guy Loewy and Motti Vaknin in 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.