John Ouren

Acxiom Digital, Inc. provides integrated digital marketing solutions. The firm's solutions include creative services, analytics and strategy services, campaign operations, technical solutions and deliverability services. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry's standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

Personica provides online marketing solutions for restaurants. It offers analytics solutions that include guest, total menu management, and media mix and promotions analytics. The company was founded by Shaw Scott in 2000 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.

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.

STG Partners LLC (STG Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Romesh Wadhwani, Robert L. Evans and William F. Chisholm. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with an additional offices in Milan and Bangalore.

Simmons Research LLC provides market research services on consumer behavior. It offers a suite of survey based consumer studies, segmentation systems, custom research solutions and lifestyles of customers integrated data systems. The firm’s products include National Consumer Study, Simmons DataStream, Simmons DataStream, Multi-Media Engagement Study, SimmonsLOCAL and Television BehaviorGraphics. The company was founded in 1952 by Willard Simmons and is headquartered in New York, NY.

MarketTools, Inc. provides internet based marketing research services. It specializes in creating online surveys. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Escalent, Inc. engages in the provision of marketing and consulting services. It offers brand research, customer experience research, segmentation research, communications research, product development research and user experience research. The company was founded by Leona J. Foster in 1989 and is headquartered in Livonia, MI.

The Advertising Research Foundation is a non-profit organization, which engages in creating, curating, and sharing research on media, advertising, and marketing. The firm has 400 members from brand advertisers, agencies, research firms, and media-tech companies. The company was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in New York, NY.