Sean A. Goodrich

Council for Entrepreneurial Development provides an interactive forum for entrepreneurs, investors, service professionals, academicians, researchers and public policy makers. Its services and programs include connections to capital, venture mentoring, and signature conferences empower member companies to go further. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Jeffrey Slocum & Associates, Inc. operates as a investment research and advisory firm. It focuses on global fixed income, global equities, alternative investments, and direct hedge fund strategies. The firm offers strategic integration of investments with an institution’s overall mission, objectives, and operations, investment policy development, asset allocation modeling, incorporating liabilities, spending, and liquidity considerations, risk budgeting, liability driven investment, investment manager selection, performance measurement and attribution analysis, investment policy compliance monitoring, transition management, fee negotiations and benchmarking, other service provider searches, education of clients staffs, committees, and other constituencies. The company was founded by Jeffrey Charles Slocum in 1986 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

SSgA Funds Management, Inc. (SSgA FM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1978 and is a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors, Inc., ultimately held by State Street Corp. (NYSE: STT). SSgA FM provides investment advisory services to US investment companies and certain pooled investment vehicles.

Moody's Investors Service, Inc. is a credit rating and investment research firm headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO). The firm performs international financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities and provides a variety of analytic tools for assessing credit risk. Their clients include creditors, investment banks and commercial banks.

Bose Corp. designs and manufactures music systems and loudspeakers. Its products include headphones, audio sunglasses, and speakers. The company was founded by Amar Gopal Bose in 1964 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC (Morgan Creek) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The firm was founded by Mark W. Yusko in 2004 and is a subsidiary of MCCM Group LLC. Morgan Creek provides discretionary investment advisory services to various private investment funds of funds and Regulated Investment Company (RIC). They also provide non-discretionary advisory services to a number of family offices, foundations, endowments and other investment adviser.

New Republic Partners, Inc. provides financial services. The private company is based in Charlotte, NC. The CEO of the company is Thomas Karl Hoops.

Mad*Pow Media Solutions LLC designs and creates intuitive websites, applications, internal systems, and interactive media. The firm offers experience strategy and service design, interaction design and visual design, behavior change strategy, conversion and lead generation, data visualization, content strategy and creation, research and validation, digital marketing strategy, brand development, usability testing and accessibility evaluation, application development, front-end development, project management, and design training and workshops. The company was founded by Will Powley and Amy Heymans in 2000 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH.

Timberland LLC manufactures, designs, and distributes apparel, footwear, and accessories for men and women. It offers shirts, shorts, pants, travel gear, bags, watches, belts, sunglasses, shoes, leather goods, and other related products. The company was founded by Nathan Swartz in 1952 and is headquartered in Stratham, NH.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

PixelDance Communications, Inc. provides Web development services. The company is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Keystone Capital Management LP (Keystone Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1994 by Kent P. Dauten and Scott L. Gwilliam. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

April Building Services, Inc. operates as a building service provider. The firm's services include window cleaning, waterproofing, metal refinishing, tie-back and davit installation, and additional remedial services. The company was founded by Bill Ferguson in 1988 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Tamarac, Inc. provides portfolio management technology. The firm provides web-based rebalancing and trade order management solutions for financial advisors. It offers advisor, investment strategy management platform that automates portfolio rebalancing, cash management, and directed trading. It also provides supporting and consulting services. The company was founded by Clive Matthew Springer in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Trilon Group LLC is an infrastructure services firm with a focus on transportation, water, utilities, environment, and community infrastructure. The company is based in Denver, CO and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was formed with the goal of becoming one of the top 20 infrastructure services firms in the United States by bringing together some of the best infrastructure consulting firms in the country. Trilon currently has 650 staff members and 34 offices across the United States. The CEO of the company is Michael J. Renshaw.

Congress Asset Management Co. LLP (Congress Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Alfred Lagan in 1985 and is majority owned by the Lagan Holding Company Trust. Congress Asset provides discretionary and model portfolio investment management services to individual and institutional clients who include charitable organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, including plans subject to the Taft-Hartley Act and the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA), state and municipal government entities, corporations, taxable and tax-exempt institutions, high net worth individuals and commingled investment vehicles such as mutual funds.

Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, Inc. is a trade association for the commercial real estate finance industry. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. Its members include balance sheet and securitized lenders, loan and bond investors, private equity firms, servicers, and rating agencies. The council has been promoting liquidity, transparency, and efficiency in the commercial real estate finance markets for 30 years. It also acts as a legislative and regulatory advocate for the industry, setting market standards and best practices, and providing education for market participants.

FrontStreet Management Group LLC provides commercial infrastructure management services. It offers a comprehensive suite of facility management and specialty business services for multi-site, infrastructure-intensive enterprises in the retail, banking, restaurant, transportation and commercial property sectors. The company is headquartered in Tinton Falls, NJ.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.

SSR LLC is a differentiated investment research platform headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2009 as Sector & Sovereign Research LLC. They are a subsidiary of Sector & Sovereign LLC. SSR provides their clients with actionable investment ideas derived from anomalies identified while researching and analyzing a broad range of interrelated industries.

Fortiter Life Sciences LLC provides consultancy and product development services. The company was founded by Neil MacAllister on June 19, 2003 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Charter Waste Management, Inc. provides waste management services. It offers waste stream analysis, recycling and diversion, rightsizing, spend optimization, stream optimization, equipment, and service partner management services. The firm offers its services to the banking, retail, restaurants, healthcare, and logistics sectors. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, NJ.

FrontStreet Facility Solutions, Inc. engages in the provision of facility management services. It offer its services to companies in the retail, financial, and commercial industries. It specializes in maintenance and repair, capital projects, nationwide rollouts and retrofits, and energy control solutions. The company was in 2003 and is headquartered in Bohemia, NY.

Horizon National Contract Services LLC provides maintenance facilities services. The company was founded by Kristen Sullivan Bunnell and Michael Sullivan on July 22, 2003 and is headquartered in Wall, NJ.

Horizon Management Group is a private company that offers management services. The company is based in Red Bank, NJ. The company's website, horizonmanagement.com, provides general information about their services. The company was founded by Kristen Sullivan Bunnell.

GeneCentric Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes molecular diagnostic assays. Its product enables oncologists and patients to make more informed, individualized treatment decisions. The firm's product CSP identifies cancer subtypes that enable drug developers to meet the growing demand for precision medicines, and provide clinicians the information they need to make individualized treatment decisions. The company was founded by David Neil Hayes, Charles M. Perou, and Myla P. Lai-Goldman in 2011 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.