Andrea Laporte

Blackboard, Inc. provides software applications and related services to the education industry. The firm offers recruitment, student success, and consulting services. Its services are utilized by academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, and universities. The company was founded by Michael L. Chasen, Daniel E. Cane, Stephen Gilfus and Matthew L. Pittinsky in 1997 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Part of Harbor Bankshares Corp., The Harbor Bank of Maryland is a minority-owned commercial bank headquartered in Baltimore, MD. The bank is a designated CDFI, MDI, SBA 7(a), and USDA lender, offering a range of financial services and loans to historically marginalized businesses, families, and communities. Founded in 1982 by Joseph Haskins, the bank has a 40-year track record of providing catalytic capital and technical assistance to low-income communities. The CEO is John Lewis.

Washington Gas Light Co. is a regulated public utility company, which engages in the natural gas distribution business. It offers regulated distribution of natural gas to retail customers under tariff rates designed to provide for a return on the investment used in providing that service. The company was founded in 1848 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The American Gas Association represents over 200 energy companies that provide natural gas service to 180 million Americans. The private company is based in Washington. The American company's natural gas utilities are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through new and modernized infrastructure and advanced technologies that maintain reliable, resilient, and affordable energy service choices for consumers. The company advocates on behalf of its member natural gas distribution utilities before Federal agencies in the area of energy market regulation.

Alliance to Save Energy provides power saving solutions. It operates as a coalition consisting largely of industrial, technological, and energy corporations. The company was founded by Charles H. Percy and Hubert Humphrey in 1977 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Capital Schools, Inc. provides educational services. It seeks to create national model schools and programs for students with autism spectrum disorder and other specialized learning needs. The company was founded by Erik E. Heyer in 2009 and is headquartered in Chantilly, VA.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. provides financial life insurance services. It offers annuities, disability income insurance, investments, long term care and wealth management, and retirement plans. The company was founded on May 15, 1851 and is headquartered in Springfield, MA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra operates as an American symphony orchestra. It also operates an online store which offers gift certificate, baltiimore symphony orchestra recordings and centeninial. The compay was founed in 1912 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

BSO Endowment Trust is a non-profit organization, which conducts music concerts. Its activities include educational workshops for children and aspiring young artists, and projects enhancing the lives of people affected by life-limiting conditions. The company is headquartered in Poole, the United Kingdom.

SS8 Networks, Inc. provides network intelligence services. It offers advanced threat detection, internet communications discovery, communication provider compliance, insider threat detection, security interface enrichment, and law enforcement investigations. The company was founded by Henry H. Wong and Sharon Chen in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

UNOW, Inc. provides competency-based learning platform. It operates online and self-paced universities that offer associate's, bachelor's, and master's degree programs. The company was founded by David Meyer and Eugene V. Wade Jr. in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Novak Biddle Venture Partners (Novak Biddle Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Biddle III A. G. W. and Novak Jr E Rogers. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Previstar, Inc. develops emergency planning software for emergency preparedness and response communities, armed services, and homeland security industries. It also offers plan manager, resource manager, and incident manager solutions. The company was founded by Howard Gordon in 2001 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

Innovation Capital Advisors LLC (Innovation Capital Advisors) is a venture capital firm founded in year 1995. The firm headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

StackSafe, Inc. develops a software platform for pre-production staging, testing and analysis. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

National Venture Capital Association provides business association services. It facilitates networking opportunities and provides research data to its members. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Digital Signal Corp. provides three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded by Richard L. Sebastian and Edward A. Hart in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, VA.

Parchment LLC is a company that offers a comprehensive platform for learners, academic institutions, and employers to request, verify, and receive transcripts, diplomas, and other credentials. The company is based in Scottsdale, AZ, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company believes that credentials matter in the lifelong journey of a learner and provides a simple and secure way to exchange transcripts, diplomas, certificates, comprehensive learner records, and other credentials. Parchment is the most widely adopted digital credential service, allowing students, learners, academic institutions, and employers to securely order, send, receive, and engage with official credentials such as transcripts, diplomas, or certificates. The company was founded in 2003 by John Reese, Jeffrey M. Harris, Mark N. Cohen, and Matthew L. Pittinsky has been the CEO of the company since 2011.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. is a learning company, which engages in instructional curriculum, assessment, technology, and professional learning. The company was founded in 1832 by William Ticknor and James Fields and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Fidelis Education, Inc. provides digital learning solutions. It offers training, mentoring, community engagement, assessing, course authoring, tutoring and recruiting services. The company was founded by Erik Gunnar Counselman and Anoop Jayadevan in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Baltimore Community Foundation manages charitable funds. It works in partnership with other foundations, public agencies and the business sector, bringing a consistent voice of leadership to critical civic issues. It has assets of $194 million, which comprises more than 500 different charitable funds. Baltimore Community Foundation was founded in 1972 and is located in Baltimore, MD