Howard Ting

Securent, Inc. provides management solutions. The company's solutions include portals and content management, Microsoft SharePoint, collaboration and messaging, databases, service-oriented architecture and identity & access management. Securent was founded in 2004 by Rajiv Gupta and Sekhar Sarukkai and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

RSA Security LLC designs and develops support security products. The firm offers threat detection and response, identity and access management, fraud prevention, and cyber security framework. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Identity Engines, Inc. develops scalable, identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. The company's solutions provide comprehensive identity services such as authentication, authorization, and auditing to distributed network devices while enabling centralized administration and policy management for improved access control and compliance. The company solves the principle mobility challenge plaguing most organizations today—how to authenticate individuals on porous networks and provision them with the minimum-necessary authorization privileges consistent with their role in or relationship to the organization. Operating at the convergence point of networking, security, and identity management, Identity Engines renders consistent and correct admission and authorization decisions through rich policies that not only interrogate identity and role-based privileges, but also location, time of day or day of the week, and method of access. Identity Engines was founded by Richard Bush in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.