Amy Pugh

The Sharper Image Corp. retails appliances and consumer electronic devices. It engages in business-to-business wholesale operations, as well as owns and operates online auction Web site and an online outlet store to help manage refurbished and close-out inventory. The company was founded by Richard J. Thalheimer in 1977 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cowen Investment Management LLC (Cowen Investment Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

NetSpend Corp. provides prepaid and debit cards processing and marketing services. The firm provides commercial payroll card solutions and offers all employees a direct deposit option associated with paper checks for employees and employers. The company was founded by Bertrand Sosa and Rogelio Sosa in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Higher One, Inc. provides online banking and financial disbursement services. It offers CASHNet payment platform which provides college and university campuses implement PCI-compliant processes for simplifying electronic billing, accepting payments all over campus, offering flexible tuition payment plans and creating online storefronts. The firm is focused on helping college business offices manage operations and provide enhanced services to students. The company was founded by Miles Lasater in March 2000 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses innovative semiconductor, interconnect and imaging technologies. The company offers mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage and 3-D Integrated Circuit technologies. Tessera Technologies was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

NetSpend Holdings, Inc. provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit cards and payroll cards and related alternative financial service solutions to under-banked consumers. The company was founded on February 18, 2004 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

TxVia, Inc. provides prepaid card processing technology services. The company was founded by Aarron Tay and Carl M. Ansley on September 11, 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Prove Identity, Inc. provides secure mobile authentication services. It offers mobile commerce registry, mobile authentication, fraud monitoring, dynamic payment presentment and direct carrier billing services. The company was founded by Michael C. Brody and Roger Desai in March 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fast Pay Partners LLC provides liquidity and financial workflow solutions. The firm serves publishing networks, advertising networks, publishers, agencies, app developers, and advertising technologies. The company was founded by Jed Simon in 2009 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Starboard Principal Co. GP LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Brink's, Inc. provides secure transportation and logistics solutions. Its services include armored transport, ATM, cash counting and management, coin processing, document destruction, and vaulting services. The company was founded by Perry Brink and Fidelia Brink on May 5, 1859 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Prosper Marketplace, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in operating a peer-to-peer online credit platform. The firm through its subsidiary Proper Funding operates an online marketplace that permits the lender members to bid on loan listings and purchases. It handles the funding and servicing of the loan on behalf of the matched borrowers and investors. The company was founded by Christian A. Larsen and John B. Witchel on March 22, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

College Pro Painters Ltd. provides house painting and window cleaning services. It offers priming, inspection services, pressure washing, straining and wood refinishing, rush prevention, interior and exterior window cleaning, and storm and screen cleaning services. The company was founded by Greig Clark in 1971 and is headquartered in London, Canada.

Starboard Value LP is a SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Smith and Peter Feld in 2011 when Ramius LLC's activist value and opportunity business was spun-off as an independent firm. Ramius LLC maintains a significant minority interest in the firm. They are a subsidiary of Starboard Principal Co. LP. Starboard Value provides discretionary investment management services to private investment partnerships and offshore investment funds that are offered to investors on a private placement basis.

Top Floor LLC (Top Floor Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut.

Demos is a non-profit company based in New York, NY. The company pioneer bold progressive ideas, reinforce them with original research and analysis, and equip grassroots partner organizations to move them into practical reality.

Part of Green Dot Corp., Green Dot Bank is a state chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Provo, UT. The company was founded by Robert Simon. Gregory M. Quarles has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Money20/20 is the world’s largest event enabling payments and financial services innovation for connected commerce at the intersection of mobile, retail, marketing services, data and technology. With 7,500+ attendees, including more than 750 CEOs, from over 2,500 companies and 60 countries, Money20/20 is critical to realizing the vision of disruptive ways in which consumers and businesses manage, spend and borrow money. Money20/20 was created in 2011 by successful serial FinTech entrepreneurs and investors, Anil D. Aggarwal and Jonathan Weiner, as a catalyst for the growth and development of the payments and financial services ecosystem in which they''ve operated for over 15 years. In just three years, Money20/20 fundamentally disrupted the status quo and established an entirely new and groundbreaking scale and standard for industry events.

Feedzai, Inc. engages in the development of enterprise management software. It provides solutions for risk and fraud analysis, data stream organization, and sales analytics. The company was founded by Nuno Jorge da Cruz Sebasti?o, Paulo Jorge Pimenta Marques, and Pedro Gustavo Santos Rodrigues Bizarro in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

R3 LLC operates as a block chain software firm. The company is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Aigent, Inc. engages in the development of machine learning platform that provides speech recognition and ability to listen to and understand calls. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dama Technology, Inc. provides banking and payment solutions to the cannabis industry. The firm offers Premier, CashToTax, Paytender, Invoices, and Trading. The company was founded by Daniel R. Henry and Anh Hatzopoulos in 2016 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

HungerRush LLC supplies hardware, software and point of sale systems. It specializes in point of sale systems, business financing, payment processing, digital signage, digital menu boards and video surveillance. The company was founded by Patrick Terry in 1972 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

KittyHawk Ventures LLC (KittyHawk Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Will Weisman. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Clair, Inc. provides instant pay access, API and mobile apps, and digital banking services. The company was founded by Nico Simko, Alex Kostecki, and Erich Nussbaumer and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Spinwheel Solutions, Inc. provides APIs and drop-in modules to address the American debt crisis directly from users' native financial habitats. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company's industry-leading financial data APIs and loyalty and rewards programs allow companies to embed intelligent debt solutions into any app or service. The company's low-code debt API helps companies build and embed debt management, automation, and debt repayment solutions quickly, with strong connectivity and no data-scraping. Spinwheel Solutions was founded by Tushar Vaish, Rajiv Appana, and Tomás Campos, with Tomás Campos serving as the CEO since incorporation.

SPS, Inc. provides roof repair contracting services. The private company is based in Anaheim, CA. The company was founded by Timo Lehes.