Dan Rose

REDF is a non-profit company that runs the Farber Program, which is in its 26th year and has welcomed over 200 graduate students who are interested in making an impact in the employment social enterprise sector. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The program is run by former Farbers and REDF staff members Maura Welch, Jeff Bergquist, and Karen Chern.

Coatue Management LLC is a private equity/venture capital arm of Coatue Management LLC founded in 1999 by Thomas Jerome Laffont and Philippe P. Laffon .The firm is headquartered in New York.

Borders Group, Inc. owns and operates bookstores and music stores. It operates through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. and Walden Book Company, Inc., which operates stores selling books, music and movie superstores and mall-based bookstores. The company operates a proprietary e-commerce Web site www.borders.com. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Hello, Inc. designs and produces consumer electronic hardware and its accompanying software. It develops a product by name sense, a sleep-tracking device which tracks the sleep behavior and monitors the environment of bedroom and reinvents the alarm. The company was founded by James Proud in July 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.