David A. Hart

NCH Corp. engages cleaning water, conserving energy, and delivering maintenance solutions. It offers biologicals, plumbing, lubrication, industrial institutional maintenance, specialty industrial supplies, and parts washing products. The company was founded by Milton P. Levy Sr. in 1919 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. develops and markets secure communications solutions. It offers portables, mobiles, ATLAS systems solutions and ATLAS systems products. The firm serves the first responders in the public safety and public service, federal government, state and military sectors. The company was founded by Edgar F. Johnson in 1923 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Inet Technologies, Inc. has provided communications software products that enable communications carriers to more strategically and profitably operate their businesses. Its products address next-generation networks, included mobile data and voice-over-packet technologies and traditional networks. Its Unified Assurance Solution and Diagnostics products which included the GeoProbe, Orion and Beamer products, communications carriers were able to simultaneously manage their voice and data services at the network, service and customer layers to detect network and service problems in real time, enabling proactive identification of specific customers impacted by network or service issues. These products captured actual signaling network traffic and then process, correlate and analyze the traffic data to create and display customer experience information, service quality metrics and a network-wide view. Inet Technologies was headquartered in Richardson, TX.

ASAlliances Biofuels, LLC produces and markets ethanol and distillers dry grain. The firm develops, constructs, operates and manages ethanol and DDG production. The company was founded by David Black and Steven H. Durhem in December 2004 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Platinum Research Organization, Inc. is a technology-based company, which focuses on research and commercialization of patented lubricants and coatings for the automotive, aviation, industrial and consumer aftermarkets. Its products are marketed under trade name TechroBondTM. The company was founded on May 13, 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.