Craig S. Connell

Security First Corp. provides data security software solutions. It develops and licenses software-defined data protection solutions that protect enterprise data from theft, damage, and loss in any storage environment. The firm’s products include SPxSHARC security, which includes secure, advanced and multi-site suites. SPxConnect and ParsedCloud secure file transfer. The company was founded by Mark O’Hare in 2002 and is headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

EDGAR Online, Inc. provides business, financial, and competitive information over the Internet. It offers distribution of company data and public filings for equities, mutual funds and other publicly traded assets. The company was founded in November 1995 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

PersonalizedMedia, Inc. provides content discovery and user engagement solutions for online media companies. Its platform enables publishers to engage users with their content and increase the views on their flagship sites. The company was founded by Albert Mons, Marc Weeber, Erik M. van Mulligen and Barend Mons in October 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Citelighter, Inc. provides academic research platform that finds, captures, organizes and cites information on the web. It allows students and researchers to save, organize and automatically cite online or offline information throughout the duration of the writing process and store content privately or aggregate it by topic to be shared with the community via knowledge cards. The company was founded by Mohammed Saad Alam and Robert Lee Jokl in June 2011 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

emocha Mobile Health, Inc. provides mobile health technology services. It offers mobile health platforms for patient engagement and medication adherence. The firm's miDOT, an application that improves medication adherence and links patients to care, and outbreak monitoring systems for public health officials that enable them to conduct active and direct-active monitoring of people. The company was founded by Morad Elmi, Sebastian Seiguer, Gorkem Sevinc and Jeffrey Daley in 2008 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

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

Smith & Williamson Investment Management (Ireland) Ltd. (Smith & Williamson Ireland) is an asset management firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Smith & Williamson Holdings Ltd. in Great Britain. Smith & Williamson Ireland provides investment management, accountancy, tax, corporate and financial advisory services to private clients, corporates, professional practices, and non-profit organizations.

Humanim, Inc. provides human services and workforce development resources. Its services include mental health, vocational, neuro-rehabilitation, developmental disabilities and deaf services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Columbia, MD.

Link Labs, Inc. develops wireless communicating devices with low power consumption. Its products include Internet of Things (IoT) modules, Lora-enabled M2M gateway, symphony link network tester, symphony link development kit, conductor IoT data platform, Lora system software, and ensemble. The company was founded by Brian Ray in 2014 and is headquartered in Annapolis, MD.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Station, Inc. is a non-profit organization that operates as a residential therapeutics and outpatient center. The private company is based in Baltimore, MD and was founded in 1984.

Easco Hand Tools, Inc. manufactures and supplies hand and edge tools. The company was founded on October 29, 2009 and is headquartered in Simsbury, CT.

America's Health Insurance Plans, Inc. is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. AHIP's members provide health and supplemental benefits to more than 200 million Americans through employer-sponsored coverage, the individual insurance market, and public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. AHIP advocates for public policies that expand access to affordable health care coverage to all Americans through a competitive marketplace that fosters choice, quality and innovation. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Baltimore Community Foundation manages charitable funds. It works in partnership with other foundations, public agencies and the business sector, bringing a consistent voice of leadership to critical civic issues. It has assets of $194 million, which comprises more than 500 different charitable funds. Baltimore Community Foundation was founded in 1972 and is located in Baltimore, MD

Trelys LLC (Trelys venture partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Adrian N. Wilson. The firm is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC is a not-for-profit center for engineering, research, and development. It offers services in air and missile defense, civilian space, cyber operations, homeland protection and national security analysis. The organization was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Laurel, MD.

Red Rabbit Software, Inc. providers of IT solutions. Its products include technology, architecture, enterprise suite and domain modeler. The firm services include PSG and service oriented architecture blueprint. The company was founded by Rajan Ahmad in 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

XBRL US, Inc. is a non-profit consortium that supports the implementation of business reporting standards through the development of taxonomies for use by public and private sectors in the United States. XBRL US has built standards for government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Department of Energy, as well as industry-sponsored standards for surety insurance, municipal government reporting, and corporate actions. The private company is based in Washington, and the CEO of the company is Campbell Pryde. The American company promotes XBRL adoption through marketplace collaboration and aims to achieve interoperability between sectors.