Walter Barandiaran

AFS Technologies is the leading provider of Enterprise and On Demand software solutions to the Food & Beverage industries, and serving over 1,200 customers across North America.  AFS Solutions are designed to improve profitability, grow revenue, and assist in regulatory compliance. AFS Profile® offers the food industry’s largest single source for product information and data synchronization with GS1. All AFS solutions utilize service-oriented architecture (SOA) built with Microsoft .NET Framework technology. AFS was acquired by Goldman Sachs in August 2011.

Aventri (fka etouches) is a leading global provider of event management software with more than 1,000 customers in 35 countries. Its cloud-based event management technology platform offers a powerful set of 15 integrated modules that enables businesses of all sizes – from global enterprises to small companies – plan the entire lifecycle of events, increase attendance and measure success. Its solutions are offered in multi-lingual and multi-currency software. It is headquartered in Norwalk, CT with offices in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Australia and Dubai.

Conner Industries is a leading providers of industrial wood products and services to the materials handling industry. The company specializes in supplying cut lumber (softwoods, hardwoods, and panel woods), needed for pallets, shelving, and crate & skid parts, or fully assembled wooden pallets & skids, crates, and industrial containers. Conner services its customers nationwide from its own remanufacturing plants located in eight states: FL, GA, MI, OK, SC, TN, TX, and VA.

Continental Waste Industries Inc. went public in November 1994 and, prior to its acquisition by Republic Industries Inc. (a predecessor company of Republic Services Inc. – Nyse: RSG) in 1996, provided integrated waste management services to more than 175,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in concentrated, regional markets mainly in the midwestern and mid-southern United States.

CrossMedia Services is a leading provider of Web-based marketing solutions for national and local retailers. Through its award-winning SmartCircular and SmartCatalog services, CrossMedia transforms traditional print-based retail promotions (such as sales circulars, catalogs, run-of-press ads, direct mail, etc.) into compelling search-based interactive formats. CrossMedia’s clients include many leading national retailers. In May 2004, CrossMedia was acquired by a joint venture of Gannet, Knight Ridder, and Tribune, three preeminent national newspaper companies.

Cyclone Commerce is an enterprise software company which provides solutions that allow companies to connect, manage and collaborate with their business partners over the Internet. Cyclone Commerce solves a unique and urgent problem for global 2000 businesses: the need to extend their enterprises “outside the four walls” to dynamically exchange and manage business critical information and commerce transactions with suppliers, customers and other partners. Cyclone Commerce was acquired by Axway Software in January 2006.

Eastern Environmental was a regional solid waste management company, based in Florida. The company was acquired by Waste Management (NYSE:WMI) in January 2009.

EQM is a leading provider of environmental services to the public and industrial sectors, including  consulting & engineering, clean technology, and remediation & construction management. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, with satellite offices and operations in 11 states. EQM has longstanding relationships and multi-year contracts with numerous federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense (including the Air Force Center for Engineering & Environment, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Army Corps of Engineers), as well as private sector clients across numerous industries.

Hanweck Associates is a leading provider of high performance, low latency data and risk analytics to exchanges, banks, broker-dealers, market-makers, portfolio managers and central counterparties. Hanweck also delivers risk measurement solutions across a range of asset classes including fixed income products and derivatives. With its hardware-accelerated Volera™ analytic engine, Hanweck pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in the financial industry. International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. is a strategic investor in Hanweck Associates.

ImageCafe.com was a website superstore selling pre-created, semi-custom, professionally designed Websites for image-conscious small business owners seeking a professional looking Web presence without the high costs associated with hiring a Website design firm. It also offered content management tools enabling purchasers to easily customize and update the content (pictures and text) without the user having to know HTML or FTP. The company was acquired by Network Solutions (NASDAQ:NSOL) in 1999.

Impact Analytics is a fast-growing, AI-powered software solutions company that provides planning, merchandising and forecasting tools for the retail, CPG and grocery sectors. Its suite of products for Assortment planning, Allocation optimization, Markdown optimization and Promotion planning is empowering retailers to make smart data-based decisions and transform their businesses and achieve substantial business benefits. Impact Analytics’ solutions are deployed at leading retailers, including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Puma, JoAnn and Belk

LifeStar, through its two divisions, provides logistical nationwide services, including specialized transportation, language translation, and coordination services, to the healthcare industry. LifeStar Response provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance and wheelchair-van transportation services to public and private sector healthcare programs, healthcare facilities, and HMOs. AccessOnTime provides logistical and transportation services to private and public sector workers’ compensation insurance companies, larger self-insuring organizations, case management companies, third party administrators and large service providers. LifeStar was acquired by Falck A/S, a global provider of assistance, emergency, healthcare, and training services, in March 2011.

M Cubed Technologies is a leading provider of innovative products developed and manufactured from the Company’s proprietary, technologically-advanced ceramic and metal-matrix composite (“MMC”) materials for mission critical applications in defense, precision, and industrial markets. Within the Defense market, MCubed is one of the leading providers of ceramic body armor tiles for the U.S. military as well as monolithic helicopter seat tiles and aircraft armor panels. Within its Precision technologies business, MCubed targets applications requiring extremely tight atomic-level tolerances, lightweight, complex geometries, specific thermal properties, and high degrees of stiffness. Within its technologies for Industrial applications, MCubed provides high temperature, wear-resistant components for refractory and coal-fired power plant applications. M Cubed was acquired by II-VI Incorporated (NASDAQ: IIVI) in November 2012.

Mediant is a provider of regulated shareholder communications services to banks, brokerage firms, corporate issuers and investment companies. With services ranging from customized proxy services to distribution of prospectuses, regulatory reports and Notice-and-Access communications, Mediant’s pioneering use of technology has helped its clients save money, improve their relationships with shareholders and safeguard regulatory compliance. All of Mediant’s services are custom designed and offer interactive tools to enhance communications between issuers, brokers and investors. Mediant is headquartered in New York City with facilities in New Jersey and North Carolina and field offices in Chicago and St. Louis.

Medsite is a leading online marketing company, providing educational and value-based interactions with over 50% of US physicians. The company offers its clients innovative solutions and services through its two sales divisions: Physician Access Solutions (PAS) which focuses on providing solutions directly to pharmaceutical and biotech companies and Medsite Partnership Services (MPS) which focuses on providing services to pharmaceutical marketing and communications companies. Medsite was acquired by WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD) in September 2006.

MessageGears is the leading provider of customer marketing solutions for the world’s largest brands. Its platform enables large enterprise brands to leverage all of their customer data in real time to send highly personalized messaging across various marketing channels, at scale. MessageGears removes common data access challenges for enterprise brands such as Expedia, Rakuten Rewards, Chick-fil-A, T-Mobile and OpenTable, and has helped them gain a reputation for being at the forefront of innovation in a relatively stale, mature industry

Metalico, Inc. (AMEX: MEA) is a holding company with operations in two business segments: ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal recycling, and fabrication of lead-based products. The Company operates five recycling facilities and six lead fabrication plants in six states.

NuORDER is a cloud & mobile B2B eCommerce solution that empowers brands and retailers to streamline their business operations. Through this cloud-based technology platform, NuORDER provides brands and retailers with a central hub to browse products and catalogs, access real time inventory data and place orders from a computer or mobile app 24/7/365. The Company is based in West Hollywood, CA with additional offices in New York City and London. NuORDER was acquired by Lightspeed for $425M.

Omnipoint Corporation was a leader in commercializing PCS and a leading developer and supplier of wireless communication technologies. As a pioneer in the industry, Omnipoint was at the forefront of developing advanced wireless technologies including GSM, GPRS packet data, EDGE, positioning, and Internet access. Omnipoint was the fourth-largest PCS licensee in the United States based on pops, having had licenses to serve areas covering nearly 100 million people in the eastern half of the United States. Omnipoint was acquired by VoiceStream Wireless Corporation in 2000. VoiceStream was subsequently acquired by Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), now T-Mobile.

Orion is a secure and encrypted global platform for instant voice communication for people and machines, on any device, over any network, over any distance, without boundaries. Orion’s platform provides a heads-up and eyes-free interface which enables people to communicate and do things with the power of their voice. Orion’s technology targets enterprise and government customers with mobile workforces (‘mobile group communications’) where it competes with legacy technologies ranging from cellular push-to-talk to public safety walkie-talkies. Orion’s technology also targets a broader and rapidly growing market opportunity, enabling people-to-machine voice communications, including dedicated devices and internet-of-things (IOT), smartphones, web clients and applications, and third-party voice integrations. Orion’s investors include Motorola Solutions, In-Q-Tel and Allen & Company.

Resonate is a SaaS-based provider of real-time consumer insights, data and media activation and offers the largest single source of in-depth proprietary profiles on 200M+ US adult consumers. The company simplifies how marketers understand and engage the right people with the right message based on the underlying values and motivations that drive their audiences’ decisions to buy or support certain brands, products or causes.

Hundreds of companies have used Resonate’s SaaS platform and activation services to accelerate the ability to identify the right customers, prospects, understand what they care about, know what to say to them, and find more of them across all marketing channels with precision and at scale. Resonate is helping marketers reduce marketing complexity, drive strategy and win more business, while reducing data costs and improving media accuracy.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Resonate is privately held and backed by Argentum, Revolution Growth, Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital.

SmartCommerce is an AI-based data platform that centralizes and optimizes massive amounts of real-time CPG product data to accelerate eCommerce

Trustwave is a leading provider of on-demand data security compliance solutions that enable businesses and other organizations of all sizes to efficiently achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. Trustwave’s compliance management solutions (including TrustKeeper) and a broad suite of compliance enablement solutions, assist their customers to comprehensively secure their network infrastructure, data communications and sensitive information assets, protecting them against the increasing threats of unauthorized access, fraudulent activity and other intrusions or breaches.

Waste Services, Inc. (previously Capital Environmental Resource, Inc.) is a multi-regional, integrated solid waste services company. The company provides collection, transfer, landfill disposal and recycling services for commercial, industrial and residential customers in the U.S. and Canada. Waste Services services over 80,000 commercial and industrial customers, and about 7.5 million residential homes. It operates seven landfills, 22 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and 33 collection operations. Its U.S. operations are located in Texas and Florida, and its Canadian operations are located in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Waste Services was acquired in 2010 by IESI-BFC Ltd (Browning Ferris Canada).

Waste Services, Inc. (previously Capital Environmental Resource, Inc.) is a multi-regional, integrated solid waste services company. The company provides collection, transfer, landfill disposal and recycling services for commercial, industrial and residential customers in the U.S. and Canada. Waste Services services over 80,000 commercial and industrial customers, and about 7.5 million residential homes. It operates seven landfills, 22 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and 33 collection operations. Its U.S. operations are located in Texas and Florida, and its Canadian operations are located in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Waste Services was acquired in 2010 by IESI-BFC Ltd (Browning Ferris Canada).

Wimba (fka HorizonWimba) is a leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Its collaborative software applications for the online and blended education market enable institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person learning environments. Wimba’s intuitive solutions enable educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba solutions to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible web pages and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) in August 2010.

Yello, Inc. provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that allows businesses and their campus recruiters/HR departments to manage and grow their existing and new-candidate pipeline, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the campus hiring process. Their proprietary platform streamlines key choke points in the recruiting process, including collection of candidate info and resumes, marketing job openings to prospective hires, scheduling and conducting interviews on site and remotely, and aggregating/analyzing feedback/evaluations.