Jorge Forgues

Northern Virginia Technology Council operates as a membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. It serves businesses from all sectors of the technology industry, service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and government agencies. The company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements.

ING Insurance Co. of America is a stock life insurance company. The Company principally offers annuity contracts in the education market to individuals on a qualified and non-qualified basis. It offers employer sponsored retirement plans under Internal Revenue Code Sections 401, 403 and 408. The Company has one operating segment, ING U.S. Financial Services ('USFS'). It was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Decision Lens Inc. provides desktop and web-based decision support software for enterprise resource allocation and planning. It offers IT portfolio prioritization, capital assets, strategic government, and research and development and innovation solutions. The company was founded by John M. Saaty and Daniel Saaty in 2002 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Vivisimo, Inc. developed and provided clustering and meta-search software solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and was headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of Intel Corp., Globalink, Inc. develops language learning software and provides professional translation services. The company is based in Fairfax, VA. Globalink was acquired by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, part of Intel Corp. from April 01, 1999 on September 30, 1998 for $47.33 million.