Steven Sarracino

American Capital Ltd. engages in the management of investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, and structured products. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

RetailNext, Inc. provides in-store analytics solutions. Its products include people counting and conversion, staffing optimization, shopper activity maps, display and window effectiveness, mobile in-store analytics, video management, guest WI-FI and personalization. The firm’s technology delivers comprehensive, real-time analytics that empowers worldwide retailers, shopping centers and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. The company was founded in 2007 by Alexei Agratchev, Marlie Liu and Arun Nair and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

WellAware Holdings, Inc. operates as an industrial internet of things (IOT) data company that engages in the provision of end-to-end solutions for oilfield data collection, storage, visualization, and decision analysis. It offers remote production and genset remote monitoring, chemical injection automation, preventive maintenance, internal corrosion treatment, operator chemical insights, methanol injection automation, and underground injection control solutions. It serves the communications, oil and gas, and industrial markets. The company was founded by Matt Harrison and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

NewStore, Inc. provides software services. The firm provides mobile retail platform that boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. Its solutions include conversion, omni channel, fulfillment, and loyalty. The company was founded by Stephan Schambach in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

iCongo, Inc. was developed e-business systems and collaborative supply chain solutions. The company was founded by Irwin Kramer in 1999 and was headquartered in Montreal, Canada.