Mike Fred Balm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

QC Data International, Inc. provides knowledge based business process outsourcing and project delivery services. It serves the telecommunication companies, utilities, and other infrastructure based organizations worldwide. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Hughes Canada, Inc. wholesale distributor of plumbing and HVAC supplies to residential, commercial, light industrial, institutional and government markets. The company is headquartered in Sarnia, Canada.

BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and sells integrated circuit boards. The company focus on high volume growth segments in the computing, consumer and communications markets, such as personal computers, flat panel televisions and monitors, mobile phone chargers and a wide variety of consumer and portable electronic devices. It also offers a diversified and expanding portfolio of over 300 products, including power management ICs within the following subcategories: linear, AC/DC and DC/DC. BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing was founded by Chieh Chang, Kuo Wei Chang, Yen-Liang Liu, Ming Hao Wong and Jiwei Sun and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

The Institute of Directors provides informative events and professional development courses. The non-profit company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Parmesvari Natesan has been the CEO of the South African company since 2010.