Kevin Dritschler

6connect, Inc. develops network automation solutions for enterprises, content providers, and service providers. It offers Internet protocol address manager that supports internet protocol v4 addresses and network data on a comprehensive visual dashboard serving for service providers such as DNS/DHCP and Peering. The company was founded by Aaron Hughes, Richard Donaldson, Jamien C. McCullum and Pete Sclafani in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

American Registry for Internet Numbers Ltd. is a non-profit organization, which engages in the technical coordination and management of Internet number resources. It offers services relating to registration, organization, policy development, and technical. The company was founded in December 1997 and is headquartered in Centreville, VA.

Open-IX is an association that aims to improve the landscape of internet peering and interconnection. The non-profit company is located in the US. The American company encourages the development of neutral and distributed internet exchanges and promote uniform standards of performance for interconnections. In 2018, they became an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited association. The company's mission is to promote common and uniform specifications for data transfer and physical connectivity, and improve overall internet performance by developing criteria and methods of measurement to reduce the complexity that restricts interconnection in fragmented markets.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses