Raymond Howard

Tabletop Media, Inc. provides tablet touchscreen solutions for casual dining restaurants, allowing customers to order and pay at the table. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jack Baum and has been led by CEO Austen Mulinder since 2011.

Daymon Worldwide, Inc. sells and markets private label consumer products. It provides customized retail brand-building and sourcing solutions to retailers and manufacturers. The firm offers private brand development, strategy and branding, sourcing, logistic, retail-driven merchandizing, execution, compliance, trading, and consumer experience marketing services. It serves retail customers in channels of trade, including automotive, supermarkets, convenience stores, discount stores, dollar stores, drug stores, home improvement stores, office supply, supercenters, warehouse clubs, wholesalers, and overstocks worldwide. The company was founded by Peter Damon Schwartz and Milt Sender on July 5, 1970 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

GS1 is a global organization that developed the machine-readable barcode, which is now the universal standard in trade and is scanned on products six billion times a day. The non-profit company is based in Lawrenceville, NJ. The company's standards are the language for efficient and secure business processes that span company boundaries and continents. GS1 works with its customers and partners to develop market-driven and future-oriented solutions that directly contribute to their business success. Today, two million companies across more than 20 industries around the world use GS1's language to uniquely identify products, locations, and assets to capture relevant data and share it with business partners within value-added networks.