Infrastructure Networks offers a transparent, partnership approach to customers and stakeholders, one that bridges the needs of critical infrastructure and public safety into a secure, robust and dedicated broadband network. Their vision is to link critical infrastructure market segments and create a single network that will drive a standards-based ecosystem of advanced wireless devices for machine-to-machine applications. Dedicated to the needs of critical infrastructure industries, the network will enable increased productivity and efficiency, allow real-time remote command, control, and monitoring, and expand communication capabilities and capacities.
www.infrastructurenetworks.com

The In Situ Oil Sands Alliance (IOSA) is the voice of emerging in situ oil sands developers. IOSA is a vibrant, sustainable and forward-thinking group of oil sands companies. With more than 80 percent of the province’s bitumen resources accessible only through the use of in situ techniques, IOSA members are dedicated to investing in new technologies and innovations to reduce operating and capital costs and also protect the environment. Based in Alberta, Canada, IOSA attracts the best and brightest talent the oil sands industry has to offer in developing these new techniques.
www.iosa.ca

Manatee County
Manatee County stretches across 150 miles of coastline along the southern edge of Florida’s Tampa Bay. With the Gulf Coast Islands of Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key, and an international airport, the County welcomes more than two million visitors annually. Manatee County encompasses 741 square miles of land and five cities, including Brandenton, the county seat. As of 2004, the County is home to 300,000 residents.
www.co.manatee.fl.us

Revere’s solutions provide customers with the speed, confidence, and peace of mind to uncover the next great investment and/or the assurance in knowing more about how the companies they hold are faring on Main Street. For 9 years, investors have turned to Revere’s financial information services to better understand the cornerstone of all great companies: the products and services they sell. The San Francisco-based company received a patent in 2001 for the Revere Hierarchy™ that classifies companies in up to nine times as many sectors as are commonly used on Wall Street. By combining intelligent design, patented technology and painstakingly precise product-by-product research--one company at a time over a period of years-- Revere has created an invaluable set of tools for investors, funds sponsors, and other capital market professionals to refine interesting investment ideas and strategies; more fully understand where value is created and transferred; and to better measure risk exposure throughout the global equities and derivatives markets.
www.reveredata.com

Sanofi-pasteur, the world’s largest influenza vaccine manufacturer, annually produces over one billion vaccines against more than 20 different diseases. The company has an international workforce of 10,000 employees which serves its headquarters in Lyon, France and its manufacturing facilities in France and the United States. The U.S. facility, located in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, has produced vaccines for more than 100 years and has, for over 30 years, been the only U.S. source of the injectable influenza vaccine. Swiftwater provides 95 percent of its production to American consumers and 5 percent to Mexico and the Carribean.
www.sanofipasteur.com

Taxpayers Against Fraud
Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) is a nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to combating fraud against the Federal Government. TAF works directly with qui tam plaintiffs and their attorneys to develop and successfully litigate their cases. Qui tam is a unique mechanism in the law that allows those with evidence of fraud against federal programs or contracts, to sue the wrongdoer on behalf of the Government. The qui tam provisions include strong incentives to report fraud against the Government and to participate in the resulting litigation.
www.taf.org

The Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) is a specialized venture capital fund, focused on seed, early stage, and select later stage communications investments. Its investment team brings over 60 years of operational and investing experience from previous assignments at AT&T Ventures, JPMorgan Capital, NEA, Spectrum Equity, Crosspoint Ventures, AT&T, Bell Labs, Nextel, and McCaw. TDF manages $50 million in two funds for preferred equity investments between $500,000 and $2.5 million. TDF was established pursuant to Congressman Ed Towns’ amendment to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
www.tdfund.com

Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable.
www.timewarnercable.com

The Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) is the professional organization of the $162 billion third-party logistics industry. Transportation intermediaries, or third party logistics companies (3PL), act as the facilitators to arrange the efficient and economical movement of goods between cargo ships, airplanes, trucks, warehouses, and store shelves. TIA member companies serve tens of thousands of shippers and play a key role in domestic and international commerce.

TIA represents 1,200 member companies. Over 90 percent of these member companies are small, family-owned businesses. TIA is the only organization representing transportation intermediaries to shippers, carriers, government officials and international organizations and is the U.S. member of the International Federation of Freight Forwarder Associations (FIATA).
www.tianet.org

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services. Formed in 2000 by the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp, Verizon grosses more than $75 billion in annual revenues. Verizon has a diverse work force of 217,000 in four business units: Domestic Telecom provides customers with wireline and other telecommunications services, including broadband; Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliable wireless network, serving 51.3 million voice and data customers across the United States; Information Services operates directory publishing businesses and provides electronic commerce services; and International includes wireline and wireless operations and investments, primarily in the Americas and Europe.
www.verizon.com