Michael J. Pittman

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

SouthWest Water Co. is a company that owns and operates regulated water and wastewater systems in seven states in the United States, serving over half a million residential and business customers. The company provides a broad range of operations, maintenance, and management services, including water production, treatment, and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, customer service, and utility infrastructure construction management. The company has subsidiaries in the United States, including Hornsby Bend Utility Company, Midway Water Utilities, Inc., and more. The company takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable service to its customers. The company was founded in 1891 as Land & Water Company and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX, with around 500 employees. The CEO is Robert MacLean.

Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1981, WSIB manages investments for retirement plans which includes public employees, teachers, school employees, law enforcement officers, firefighters and judges. They also manage investments for several other important public funds that benefit Washington’s industrial insurance program, colleges and universities, and developmental disability programs.

SmartBrief, Inc. delivers free email newsletters. It publishes email newsletters in partnership with trade associations, professional societies and corporations. The firm provides its services to the subscribers without any charge. The company was founded by Thomas E. Wheeler, Richard D. Stamberger and Daniel F. O'Brien in 1999 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wenatchee Valley Medical Center PS provides healthcare services. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Wenatchee, WA.

BentallGreenOak (US) LP (BentallGreenOak) is a SEC-registered real estate investment advisor headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm was founded in 2010 as Bentall Kennedy (US) LP and is a majority owned indirect subsidiary of Sun Life Financial, Inc. (TSE: SLF) in Canada. BentallGreenOak acts as a real estate investment advisor for a select number of public, corporate and Taft-Hartley retirement systems and private real estate funds, as well as major university endowments and sovereign wealth funds.

Northwest Research Associates, Inc. provides geophysical science research services. It offers research services on solar and stellar physics, atmosphere and climate, electromagnetic wave propagation and fluid mechanics, and data assimilation and statistical signal processing. The firm also provides space weather indices, field observations in the Indian ocean, shoreline monitoring service, video metric systems, and coherent radio receiving system. The company was founded by Donald Delisi and Edward Fremouw in 1984 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

The Washington State Bar Association operates the state bar association.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Life Technologies Clinical Services Lab, Inc. offers clinically guided personal genetic testing services for customers. The firm develops and commercializes genetics-based products and services to enhance individual health and wellness; and educates and empowers individuals and their physicians by providing personalized genetic insights about disease risk and medication response to catalyze behavior change and inform clinical decision-making. The company was founded by David B. Agus and Dietrich A. Stephan in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Neuro Kinesis Corp. designs and manufactures surgical tools. The firm focuses on creating next-generation surgical tools that incorporate advanced biosensor technology which provides physicians and surgeons with real-time environmental monitoring that can greatly enhance a patient’s surgical outcome. The company is headquartered in Inglewood, CA.

Cognos Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a medical device company focusing on creating technologies to diagnosis and treatment of neuropathic diseases. Its treatment of diseases including tumor-based brain and spinal cancers, degenerative cognition disorders (such as Alzheimer?s and Parkinson?s disease), cerebral trauma occurrences (such as epilepsy and stroke) as well as other central nervous system afflictions. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Autonomous Medical Devices, Inc.. develops medical devices for the detection of pathogens and viruses. Its products include PathSMART and OvaSMART. It offers its services to restaurants, hospitals and hotels. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Bechtel Corp. operates as an engineering, construction, and project management company. Its portfolio encompasses energy, transportation, communications, mining, oil and gas, and government services. The firm also raises finance from a host of international lenders including commercial banks, multilateral and bilateral lending institutions, export credit agencies, and the capital markets. The company was founded by Warren A. Bechtel in 1898 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pharmaco-Kinesis Corp. provides research and development services. Its products include smart drug delivery systems and associated advanced devices to measure biological responses; and Magnetic Breather Pump, a device in the field of local drug delivery that delivers a remotely programmable metronomic combination of tumor fighting medications in single implantable system, as well as is used for the treatment of malignant gliomas and other aggressive brain tumors. The company was founded by John Shachar, Frank Adell, Eli Gang and Thomas C. Chen in 2006 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Soft Switching Technologies Corp. provides power quality and monitoring solutions for the automated industrial markets. The firm offers scalable, battery-free DySC products, voltage sag detectors and I-Sense intelligent sensors to semiconductor, food and beverage, and automotive industries, as well as manufacturing customers and utility industries. The firm's customers include both middle market firms and blue chip companies. The company was founded by Deepak M. Divan in 1995 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides audit, assurance and crisis management services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Muscat, Oman.

Amnis Corp. provides cell imaging and instrument development, manufacturing and marketing services. The Company's ImageStreamX and FlowSight imaging flow cytometers combine the speed and sensitivity of flow cytometry with the power of digital microscopy serving a broad spectrum of Life Sciences research market needs. The company was founded by David A. Basiji, William E. Ortyn and Harold H. Kawaguchi in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.