Samuel P. Gerace

The Be Free marketing platform allows online businesses to attract, convert and retain customers easily and cost effectively. The company provides a uniform system for tracking, managing, measuring and analyzing all of a business's online marketing programs. These services are hosted, allowing a business to deploy its marketing programs rapidly, without placing time intensive and expensive demands on its own technical resources

Conversant LLC provides online advertising campaigns and programs for advertisers and advertising agency customers. The company's customers include direct marketers, brand advertisers, the advertising agencies, and traffic distribution partners. It offers products and services that enable marketers to engage with their current and potential customers online and through mobile devices. It operates through three business segments: Affiliate Marketing, Media and Owned & Operated Websites. The Affiliate Marketing segment enables customers to develop their own fully commissioned online sales force comprised of third party affiliate publishers. The Media segment provides digital marketing services and tailored programs that help marketers create and increase awareness for their products and brands through the internet and on mobile devices. The Owned & Operated Websites segment services are offered through transaction focused branded websites. The company was founded in April 1998 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

JumpStart, Inc. is a non profit organization that supports entrepreneurial service organizations. The firm advises, invests in, assists and accelerates Northeast Ohio's early-stage ideas and companies. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Flash Seats Vertical Alliance LLC (dba Veritix) provided digital ticketing, event marketing and relationship management applications. The company was founded in January 2008 and was headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Launchvector Identity, Inc. offers patented technology to allow enterprises to fully capture and monetize the entire social graph of the enterprise in real-time. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.