Mark E. Ties

Veramark Technologies, Inc. provides cost management solutions, which helps enterprises reduce operational expenses associated with their mobile and fixed communication. The company's solutions for Telecom Expense Management include: wireless call accounting, help organization drive down costs by addressing unused services, identifying bills errors, and optimizing programs for mobile, voice and data communications. Its solutions are available as on-promise software deployment, hosted software-as-a-services and business processing outsourcing, allowing customer to optimally utilize both in-house and company's resources to manage the expenses associated with their telecom services and infrastructure. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Transport Corporation of America, Inc. provides a wide range of truckload carriage and logistics services. It provides satellite-based communications with the fleet. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Eagan, MS.

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Purple Communications, Inc. provides communications solutions and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals and businesses. Its products and services include video and text relay, captioning, and video remote interpreting and on-site interpreting. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Rocklin, CA.

Answers.com Corp. operates as a free, ad-supported Internet search services that supply users with editorial content covering different topics. The firm's platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. The company was founded by Christopher J. Sims, David Karandish, Mark A. Tebbe, and Robert S. Rosenschein in 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Venus Capital Management, Inc. (Venus Capital) is an independent hedge fund management firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Vikas Mehrotra in 1994. Venus Capital advises private funds invested in a variety of asset classes focused on India. It also serves as an investment adviser to pension funds, endowments, institutions and family offices, as well as high-net-worth individuals.

Minnesota Life Insurance Co. engages in provision of health and life insurance services. It offers financial security for individuals and businesses in the form of insurance, pensions and investments. It also offers financial, retirement, group insurance and asset management services. The company is founded in 1880 and is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Gelco Information Network, Inc. provides e-business solutions. Its Gelco Travel Manager that provides corporations, colleges and universities, and government agencies with a Web-based pre-trip approval and per diem based travel expense management solutions; payment processing and reimbursement services for business expenses using travel and entertainment expense management software. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Foster Farms LLC operates as a poultry processor. It owns and operates hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants. It offers fresh chicken, cooked frozen chicken and turkey, fully cooked refrigerated chicken and turkey, individually frozen chicken, saut? ready, gluten free, fresh turkey, lunchmeats and franks, pancake wraps, and corn dogs. The company was founded by Max Foster and Verda Foster in 1939 and is headquartered in Livingston, CA.

The Pillsbury Co. manufactures and distributes food products. Its products include baked goods, biscuits, breads, cookies, crescents, pie crusts, pizza crusts and snacks. The company was founded in 1869 is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Faribault Foods, Inc. produces meat, vegetable and other canned products. The firm offers canned vegetables, refried & baked beans, soup, chicken, and organic and Mexican specialties. It has offices in Cokato and Faribault. The firm's brands include Butter Kernel, Chilliman, Chili, Kuner's Southwestern, Mrs. Grimes, Pasta Select, Pride, and S&W Beans. The company was founded by Mahendra Nath in 1895 and is located in Minnepolis, MN.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Lytx, Inc. engages in the provision of the video-based driver safety and predictive analytics solutions. Its solutions include fleet dash cams; fleet safety; fleet tracking; and DOT compliance. The company was founded by Gary Rayner and Tom Lafleur in February 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Ascentis Corp. engages in provision of human resources software, online payroll services, and human capital management solutions. It automates critical human resource and payroll processes such as full-scale benefits management, compliance, online open enrollment, time and attendance, real-time payroll processing, tax filing, applicant tracking, employee and manager self-service and reporting. The company was founded by David Snodgrass, Jody Snodgrass, and Dwight R. Matheny in 1994 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Precisely Software, Inc. provides enterprise software solutions. Its products include DMX, DMX-h, ironcluster ETL, ironstream and ZPSaver suite. The firm provides solutions for Hadoop, cloud, splunk, linux, unix, windows and mainframe. The company was founded by Assadour Ohanes Tavitian and Harvey B. Tessler in 1968 and is headquartered in Pearl River, NY.

The University of St. Thomas is an institution that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The private company is based in St. Paul, MN. It offers over 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as graduate programs in various fields such as business, engineering, law, education, social work, and arts and humanities. The University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 by John Ireland.

ConvergeOne LLC provides information technology services. It offers data center and virtualization, enterprise applications and software development, and enterprise networking. The company was founded in January 1993 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Fortra LLC provides systems management, security, and business intelligence solutions. Its solutions include automation, monitoring, compliance, business intelligence, cybersecurity, and document management. The company was founded by Richard Jacobson in 1982 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN.

Trintech, Inc. provides transaction reconciliation and payment infrastructure software solutions. Its portfolio of financial solutions include Cadency, Trintech Disclosure Management, ReconNET and T-Recs. The firm offers its solutions under the categories of account reconciliation, intercompany reconciliation, journal entry, close, compliance, disclosure & financial reporting and unclaimed property compliance. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Syndigo LLC engages in the development of a platform that provides product content, nutrition information, and digital media for brands, distributors, and retailers. It offers management, syndication, category management, guided selling experiences, shelf merchandising, and store design solutions. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Clearlake Capital Group LP (Clearlake Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Steven Chang, Behdad Eghbali and Jose Feliciano. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Minnesota Teen Challenge, Inc. operates as social advocacy organization. The firm assists teens and adults in gaining freedom from chemical addictions and other life controlling problems by addressing their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

SyndiGo, Inc. powers modern commerce by enabling the continual flow of data and content throughout the entire commerce ecosystem. The private company is based in Getzville, NY. The company offers industry-leading product information management (PIM), master data management (MDM), syndication, and analytics, combined with the largest two-sided network for content distribution. Syndigo serves more than 12,000 manufacturers, and 1,750 retailers and distributors across key industries including grocery, foodservice, hardlines, home improvement/DIY, pet, health and beauty, automotive, apparel, oil & gas, and healthcare. The CEO of the company is Kent Keating.

Chamilia, Inc. provides information technology network infrastructure and application software support services. The company was founded by Killian Rieder and Jeff Julkowski in 2002 and is headquartered in Cranston, RI.

Agile Frameworks, LLC is a provider of management and IT consulting services, SaaS solutions and managed services for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market; all of which enable dramatic improvements in profitability, cash flow and service delivery with a very fast return on investment. The company has multiple, referenceable AEC clients and Agile Frameworks clients are on record stating that the firm has helped them save millions of dollars while improving service delivery. While the company provides qualitative benefits to their clients, it is their track record of providing quantitative benefits -- including dramatic improvements in profitability, cash flow, service delivery and competitive position -- with a fast ROI, that keeps their clients coming back for more. The Agile Frameworks business model is comprised of three main segments: Management & IT Consulting, Software Sales and Managed Services.

symplr Software LLC provides a full-service healthcare staffing software solution that supports per diem and travel contract assignment staffing services. The company is based in Houston, TX and has subsidiaries in Netherlands and United States. The company is committed to improving healthcare operations and providing better outcomes for patients, providers, payers, and staff. symplr Software was founded in 2000 by Troy Allen Kyle, Garry W. Kyle. BJ Schaknowski has been the CEO of the company since 2020. The company was acquired by The CapStreet Group LLC on May 07, 2012.

Healthline Media, Inc. engages in provision of online health information services. It provides topics about cancer, cold and flu, heart disease, menopause, pregnancy, and rheumatoid. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Perforce Holdings, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Better For You Holdings, LLC provides services related to food, health and wellness. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Wolverine Topco, Inc. provides investing services. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Syncro MSP is a software platform that provides managed service providers (MSPs) with a full-featured professional services automation platform (PSA), embedded remote monitoring and management solution (RMM), and built-in remote session tool. Syncro MSP is based in Seattle, WA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The platform helps MSPs save time and money by avoiding the need for multiple software solutions. Emily Glass has been the CEO of the company since 2021.