Alan Thomas

Allied Capital Corp, a business development company, invests in private middle market companies located in the US. The fund target companies across a broad range of sectors with an EBITDA of $5 - $150 million. It provides debt and equity financing for buyout transactions and also makes minority equity co-investments. It also invests in private equity and debt funds.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

French Transit Ltd. manufactures mineral salt deodorant products. It offers crystal body deodorant, essence, and rock. The company was founded by Jerry Rosenblatt in 1984 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

Foundation Consumer Healthcare LLC engages acquiring and developing a portfolio of over-the-counter health and wellness brands. Its OTC pharmaceutical platform that owns market brands including Plan B One-Step (emergency contraceptive), Theravent (snoring relief), Campho-Phenique (cold sore relief), St. Joseph (low-dose aspirin), Bronkaid (asthma relief), and Neo-Synephrine (nasal decongestant). The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Insight Pharmaceuticals LLC manufactures and markets non-prescription medications and personal care products. It offers cepastat, allerest, chooz, kondremul, auro, bonine, caldecort, tanac, ting, monistat, dermarest and uristat. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Trevose, PA.

ABS Capital Partners, Inc. (ABS Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Don Bruce Hebb and Tim Thaddeus Weglicki. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Trusted Health Plan, District of Columbia, Inc. provides healthcare services. It offers medicaid tools, alliance tools, and claims and billing services. The company was founded by Thomas Duncan and Dennis Lane in 2011 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

UH Ventures LLC (UH Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of University Hospitals Health System, Inc founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

3 Step Sports LLC provides media solutions for sports. It offers new about encompassing club team competition, national media, content platforms, team apparel, and nationally recognized tournaments. The company was founded by David Geaslen, Greg Kristof, and Steve Gibbs and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Madhava Honey Ltd. manufactures natural sweetener products. It provides natural and healthy alternatives to refined sugars and artificial sweeteners. The firm’s products include Agave Nectar, Ambrosia Honey and Mountain Gold Honey. The company was founded by Robert Utley and Craig Gerbore in 1973 and is headquartered in Longmont, CO.

Incline Management Corp.(Incline Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Jack Glover, Wali C. Bacdayan and Justin Bertram. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

JumpStart, Inc. is a non profit organization that supports entrepreneurial service organizations. The firm advises, invests in, assists and accelerates Northeast Ohio's early-stage ideas and companies. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

H. C. Wainwright & Co. LLC (H. C. Wainwright) is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1868 and is a subsidiary of HCWHC, Inc. H. C. Wainwright delivers industry insights and real-time execution to both public and private small and middle-sized global emerging market companies. With a focus on identifying buyers and sellers in illiquid and difficult to trade equities, the firm specializes in block trading and providing liquidity in these securities with as little market impact as possible.

Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC engages in the provision of sales and marketing services to consumer packaged goods industry. The company was founded by Sonny King in 1987 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Voss of Norway ASA manufactures and markets bottled water. It offers artesian water to exclusive hotels, restaurants, and night clubs. The firm operates under the brands VOSS Glass, VOSS Silver, and VOSS Red. The company was founded by Ole Christian Sandberg and Christopher Harlem in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Grand Brands, Inc. manufactures and distributes lemon-based beverages. Its products include lemon juices, crystallized lime, crystallized orange, lemonade and raspberry lemonade. The company sells its products through grocery stores, supermarkets, mass merchandisers, c-stores and convenience stores. True Citrus was founded by M. David Schleider in 2003 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Calvert Street Capital Partners Inc. (Calvert Street Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Joshua Hall and Brian Mahoney. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc. provides technology enhanced solutions that enable educators, clinicians, and parents to engage, communicate with, and educate individuals with autism and other communication disorders. It offers VizZle, a Web-based authoring tool that enables educators to create fun, interactive, and visually-supported curriculum customized to the needs of visual learners. Its VizZle enables teachers to use various pre-made lessons from the peer-reviewed shared library; and lessons created with flexible templates and various in-program or imported images, and audio and video clips to track improved outcomes by IEP goals or any state standard. The company was founded by Terence M. Murphy in 2005 and is headquartered in Beachwood, OH.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP provides forensic, dispute, and other consulting services. It helps clients tackle complex and challenging issues such as mergers and acquisitions, fraud, litigation and reorganizations. The firm advises clients on managing business controversy and disputes, executing deals and maintaining regulatory compliance and investigates activities such as fraud or money laundering, value real estate and other assets, assist with corporate restructurings, consult on litigations, help execute strategic investments for mergers and acquisitions. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cleveland Leadership Center engages in the provision of leadership training, civic education, and connections to leaders of all ages. Its programs include Leadership Cleveland, LC2 Fellows, Cleveland Bridge Builders, OnBoard Cleveland, (i)Cleveland, Look Up to Cleveland, and Civic Leadership Institute. The company is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Victor Capital Group LLC (Victor Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Douglas Korn. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Inkcups Now Corp. is a leading supplier and manufacturer of digital inkjet equipment, pad printing equipment, laser platemakers, and corresponding supplies. The company is based in Danvers, MA, and has direct sales, technical support, and warehouse locations in the USA and other locations. The company manufactures high-quality industrial machines for a wide range of industries, including apparel, drinkware, promotional, electronic, medical, sporting goods, and automotive markets. Inkcups offers direct-to-shape ("dts") digital printers, pad and tagless printing equipment, parts, service, and consumable supplies to a diverse customer base across the branded consumer products, e-commerce retail, and promotional products market segments. The company was founded in 2001 by Ben Adner, who has been the CEO since 2001.

eGenio Education Solutions LLC offers online education solutions. The company was founded by Don Greenberg and David Berman in 2009 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Davexlabs LLC distributes hair care products. It offers color-treated products, art elements, daily elements, hair repair products, healing moisture products, hair colors, healing hair care formulations, urban elements, and scalp treatment systems. The company was founded by David Berglass in 1985 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Stepstone Group Real Estate LP is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of StepStone Group, Inc. founded in 2007. Stepstone Group Real Estate LP is headquartered in New York.

DecisionDesk, Inc. provides a cloud-based platform for university application management. The firm specializes in enrollment management, application and review workflow management, and admission and enrollment software. The company was founded by Eric Neuman, Marc Plotkin, and John Knific in 2008 and is headquartered Lakewood, OH.

Audax Private Equity (Audax Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of 101 Huntington Holdings LLC founded in 1999 by Geoff S. Rehnert and Marc B. Wolpow. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and additional office in San Francisco, California.