Kris Bliesner

Ambassadors Group, Inc. is a socially conscious educational company primarily engaged in organizing and promoting differentiated worldwide travel programs for students and professionals. In addition, it operates BookRags, an education oriented research website, which provides study guides, lesson plans and other educational resources to students and teachers. The company operates under single reporting segments: Ambassador Programs and Other. The Ambassador Programs and Other segment provides educational travel services to students and professionals through multiple itineraries within five travel program types and corporate overhead. Ambassadors Group was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Spokane, WA

2nd Watch, Inc. provides public cloud workload management services. The firm offers cloud migration services, such as cloud readiness and optimization assessment, security assessment, migration strategy, and roadmap; total cost of ownership; proof of concept; consulting services; new build, virtualization, hybrid, and physical implementation; application re-platform implementation; and reference architecture catalog creation. It also provides a managed cloud platform service, such as day-to-day cloud operations for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment; conducts cloud training sessions and workshops; and offers lifecycle engagement services, including assessment, design, deployment, management, optimization, and destruction of cloud infrastructure. The company was founded by Jeff Aden, Kris Bliesner and Brett Turner in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Vega Cloud, Inc. provides public cloud automation services. The company was founded by Kris Bliesner and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, WA.