Paul Miller

Tech Squared, Inc. provides direct advertising and direct distribution services. The private company is based in Edina, MN.

S2 Technologies, Inc. provides embedded software solutions. The firm's solutions help to integrate with the embedded software to create a single virtual platform that accelerates continuous integration, testing, and verification. Its products include Testspace and Stride. The company was founded by Mark Underseth in July 2000 and is headquartered in Encinitas, CA.

MacUSA, Inc. specializes in computer storage devices. The American company was founded by Joel A. Ronning.

Corporate Events Online, Inc. provides web casting services. The firm specializes in managed service webcasts, self-service webinars, and video email. It offers Proclaim Enterprise which provides managed service web casting to large audiences and is designed for town hall meetings, CEO meetings, and multi-day conferences; Proclaim Collaborator which provides real-time collaboration in a self-service webinar tool; and Proclaim Messenger which allows individuals to create and share video email messages with PowerPoints. It also caters to high profile events. The company was founded by Gary W. Anderson in 1998 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Open Systems Technologies, Inc. provides information technology consulting services. Its solutions include advisory services, data center solutions, application development, managed services, recruiting solutions, and data analytics. The company was founded by Daniel W. Behm and James VanderMey in January 1997 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI.

AeA is a private equity firm that manages funds of approximately $19 billion, including leveraged buyouts, growth capital, and debt investments. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA, and has offices in several locations across the United States. The firm's subsidiary, AEA SBPE, manages over $3 billion of invested and committed capital and focuses on sponsoring growing companies with strong management teams and superior business models. AeA has a vast network of leading industrial families, business executives, and leaders who invest with the firm as active individual investors or join its portfolio company boards or act in other advisory roles. The firm invests across three sectors: value-added industrials, consumer, and services. AeA was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co.

The Growing Co., Inc. provides commercial landscape maintenance services. It offers landscape management such as turf, grounds cover, integrated pest, and tree, shrub, and vine management. The company was founded by Bruno Sandoval and Anne D. Sandoval in 1987 and is headquartered in Sacramento, CA.