Bill Laird

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. is a learning company, which engages in instructional curriculum, assessment, technology, and professional learning. The company was founded in 1832 by William Ticknor and James Fields and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Yankee Candle Co., Inc. manufactures and retails scented candles. Its products include candles, wax melts, candle accessories, flameless fragrance, car and small spaces, gifts and gift cards, personalized candles and fragrances. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in South Deerfield, MA.

HM Publishing Corp. publishes textbooks and dictionaries. The firm develops educational programs, comprised primarily of textbooks, workbooks, supplemental materials, teaching guides, technology-based components and other resources. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

General Nutrition Centers, Inc. engages in the retail of nutritional supplementary products. It provides vitamin, mineral, herbal and other specialty supplements and sports nutrition, diet and energy products. The company was founded in October 2003 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

WMG Acquisition Corp. engages in recording and publishing of music. It operates through two businesses: Recorded Music and Music Publishing. The Recorded Music business engages in marketing, sale and licensing of recorded music in various physical format such as CDs, LPs and DVDs, and digital format such as downloads, streaming and ringtones. The Music Publishing business owns and acquires rights to musical compositions, exploits and markets these compositions. The company was founded on March 18, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TravelClick, Inc. engages in development of cloud-based and data-driven solutions for hotels. Its solutions include suites, business intelligence, reservations and booking engine, media, web and video, and guest management solutions. The company was founded by Raymond Martin Cohen, Richard W. Gray and Ray Cohen in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bain Capital Private Equity LP (Bain Capital Private Equity) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Bain Capital LP founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Siemens Industry Software, Inc. engages in the development and provision of product lifecycle management software solutions. Its products include mechanical design, electrical and electronics development, software engineering, simulation and test, manufacturing planning, factory automation, manufacturing operations, and performance analytics. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital, Inc. provides health care services. The firm’s services include medical, surgical & psychiatric care, emergency, ambulatory and diagnostic services. It also offers services in the areas of internal medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, pulmonary and orthopedics, gastroenterology. The hospital was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

ModusLink Open Channel Solutions, Inc. provides software licensing and management solutions. It offers POETIC self-service software solutions and its customer care centers help software publishers manage their software licensing agreements. The company was founded in 1990 by Ed Rose and is headquartered in Norwood, MA.

Boston Medical Center provides healthcare services. It provides a spectrum of pediatric and adult care services from primary to family medicine specialty care. The hospital is established in July 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA

Houghton Mifflin Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company. Its subsidiaries publish textbooks, reference works, fiction, non-fiction and educational software and video. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

OSI Restaurant Partners LLC owns and operates a chain of casual dining restaurants. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

The Bridgespan Group provides management strategies and tools. Its services include consulting to nonprofits and philanthropists, leadership development support, and developing and sharing insights. The company was founded by Thomas J. Tierney and Jeffrey L. Bradach and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

New Profit, Inc. provides support and services to innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations. It offers services to visionary entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and other partners. The company was founded by Vanessa Kirsch in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Turnitin LLC engages in the development of anti-plagiarism software. Its products include Turnitin feedback studio, revision assistant and scoring engine, iThenticate and writeCheck. The company was founded by John M. Barrie, Max-Emmanuel Briand, Melissa Lipscomb, and Christian Storm in 1998 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

The Broad Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of research and development in biomedicals to cure infectious disease. Its scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics, genome regulation, cellular circuity and epigenomics, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. The company was founded by Eric S. Lander, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

RAGE Frameworks, Inc. provides enterprise mission critical business process automation, cognitive intelligence, and big data solutions. The firm provides enterprise solutions in wealth management and business banking through information products and custom solutions. It offers RAGE LiveWealth, a wealth management service ranging from data aggregation to powerful big data analytics; and RAGE LiveCredit that enables near real time development of solutions for various financing products. The company was founded by Venkat Srinivasan in 2001 and is headquartered in Dedham, MA.

Altimeter Capital Management LP (Altimeter) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Brad Gerstner in 2008. Altimeter provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to private investment funds intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors.

The Coryn Group II LLC owns and operates hotels and resorts. The firm through its subsidiaries Apple Vacations, AMResorts and Amstar DMC offers travel and tourism services. The company was founded by John Joseph Mullen in 1969 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.

The TJX Companies, Inc. is a retail company that specializes in selling apparel. The private company is based in Framingham, MA. The company was founded by Bernard Cammarata. The CEO is Ernie L. Herrman.