Joanne Cordeiro

Shire Plc is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sale of medicines. Its products include adderall, advate, adynovate, agrylin, antithrombin 3, aralast, bebulin, buccolam, feiba, firazyr, and foznol. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Covansys Corp. provides industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing, and integration services. The firm offers application maintenance and development outsourcing in the healthcare, financial services, retail and distribution, manufacturing, telecommunications, and high-tech industries. The company was founded in 1985 by Rajendra B. Vattikuti and is headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI.

Availant, Inc. develops management software. The firm’s software solutions include Delegation Software, which provides an environment for recognizing abnormal system behavior and Availant Manager, a multi-agent system that increases system wide availability. The company is headquartered in Waltham, MA.