Phil J. Cagnassola

MEGTEC Systems, Inc. is a fully integrated global design, engineering, manufacturing and services company providing industrial equipment and services to various industries including lithium-ion and other advanced battery materials, solar films, membranes, automotive, engineered wood products, printing, chemical, electronics and other process industries. MEGTEC's performance and reliability is well proven with its equipment installations. With its patents, MEGTEC continues to set new trends and improve designs, providing customers with high productivity and maximum efficiency.

General Electric Capital Corp. provides financial products and services. Its services include commercial loans and leases, fleet management, financial programs, credit cards, personal loans, and other financial services. The firm’s solutions include energy finance and aviation finance. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Davis-Standard LLC manufactures and distributes extrusion equipment, feed screws, barrels, and process control machinery for plastic processing. It offers equipment for blown film, blow molding, cast film, compounding, pelletizing, elastomer, extrusion coating and laminating, fiber, laboratory, pipe, profile and tubing, reclaim, sheet, wire, cable, wood and fiber applications. The company was founded in 1848 and is headquartered in St. Pawcatuck, CT.

Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Inc. designs, manufactures and installs converting equipment for flexible web converting and the plastics processing industries worldwide. The company's products include liquid coating, lamination, extrusion pelletizing, blown films, blow molding, flat and embossed cast films. It is headquartered in Fulton, NY.

IDEX MPT, Inc. manufactures process technology equipment. It offers scalable lab system, product containment laboratory grinding mills, pharmaceutical hammer mills and industrial impact mills. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Elmhurst, IL.

Walker Digital, LLC is an independent R&D laboratory that has created a private portfolio of technology-centric intellectual property comprising approximately 800 issued and pending U.S. and international patents. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, the Walker Digital laboratory was founded in 1994 by Jay Walker, who serves as its chairman. Walker Digital's inventions cover marketing and system-based innovations across a wide range of industries, including retail, vending, travel, gaming, credit card, telecommunications and others. The lab is best known for creating the underlying innovations that led to priceline.com. Walker Digital, LLC's affiliates such as Walker Digital Management, LLC and Walker Digital Gaming, LLC develop, protect and commercialize intellectual property. Often, the intellectual property (which is assigned to Walker Digital, LLC) is licensed to unaffiliated operating companies. Executive management of Walker Digital Management, LLC negotiates the licensing of IP assigned to parent company Walker Digital, LLC. In other cases, the intellectual property is used as the basis for innovative startups to which Walker Digital, LLC and Walker Digital Management, LLC may contribute personnel, expertise and funding. Walker Digital, LLC and its affiliates are privately held and do not engage in consulting to outside companies.

Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners LLC (HRCP) is a private equity firm founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Stanford, Connecticut.