| Ravinder Singh Sandhu, Advanced Assembly Products, Inc. - President |
 | Advanced Assembly Products is a market-leading minority-owned and operated manufacturer and product-solutions provider of automotive component parts, with both domestic and international customers. The Company is dedicated to exceeding its global automotive customers' increasing expectations. |
| Dan Coker, Amerigon Incorporated - Chief Executive Officer |
 | Amerigon develops products based on its advanced, proprietary, efficient thermoelectric (TE) technologies for a wide range of global markets and heating and cooling applications. The Company’s current principal product is its proprietary Climate Control Seat® (CCS®) system, a solid-state, TE-based system that permits drivers and passengers of vehicles to individually and actively control the heating and cooling of their respective seats to ensure maximum year-round comfort. CCS, which is the only system of its type on the market today, uses no CFCs or other environmentally sensitive coolants. Amerigon maintains sales and technical support centers in Southern California, Detroit, Japan, Germany, England and Korea. |
| Richard L. Stanbaugh, ANXeBusiness - President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | ANX provides an innovative suite of services, including Managed Network Services, Managed Security Services, Transaction Services and Lifecycle Management Services. |
| Richard J. Bloom, Bloom Asset Management - President |
 | Bloom Asset Management is a fee only financial planning and investment management firm. The firm provides active professional portfolio management and/or financial consultations. The firm accepts no commisions or remunerations whatsoever from anyone other than from our clients. The firms sole compensation comes directly from our clients and is fully disclosed prior to any services being performed. |
| Robert A. Verdun, Computerized Facility Integration, LLC (CFI) - President |
 | Since 1990, CFI has been providing consulting and information technology services to a host of public and private clients. We service Real Estate, Design and Construction, Maintenance and Facility Management departments as trusted advisors and business partners. Our software application expertise includes CAFM, CMMS, and IWMS technologies (ARCHIBUS, MAXIMO, TRIRIGA), and more. |
| Phil Hagerman, Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy - President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy is the nation’s largest independently held Specialty Pharmacy; providing cost-effective, personalized medication management programs for patients with severe and chronic illnesses. Diplomat’s patient centric programs achieve adherence rates far above national averages. The company’s innovative solutions include: compliance packaging and a proprietary patient care system that electronically provides patient specific outcome reports. |
| Stephen W. Blocki, Dürr Systems, Inc. - Vice President, Environmental & Energy |
 | Durr Systems, Inc. - Environmental and Energy Systems offers one single source for engineering, fabrication, installation, start-up, and aftermarket for air pollution control and energy conservation needs. |
| Kevin Schnieders, Educational Data Systems, Inc. - Chief Executive Officer |
 | EDSI offers training design and management consulting |
| Mindi K. Fynke, EHIM, Inc. - President |
 | EHIM is an innovative solution to containing costs in healthcare. Operating as a third party administrator, pharmacy benefit manager and consultant, EHIM is true to what the name stands for: custom-designed programs tailored to the education and overall Employee Health Insurance Management. |
| Joseph Ruicci, Gil-Mar Manufacturing Co. - Vice President - Director of Purchasing |
 | Gil-Mar Manufacturing excels in the machining, welding and assembly of automotive and military components. |
| Sandy Rosen, Great Lakes Recycling (GLR) - Chief Executive Officer |
 | GLR is a full-service metal, paper, plastic and electronics recycling company with locations in Michigan and western New York. |
| David C. Zimmermann, Kalexsyn, Inc. - Chief Executive Officer |
 | Kalexsyn provides experienced drug discovery and scaleup chemistry services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies around the world. |
| Dr. Robert Gadwood, Kalexsyn, Inc. - President & Chief Scientific Officer |
 | Kalexsyn provides experienced drug discovery and scaleup chemistry services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies around the world. |
| Matthew Hill, Liquid Web, Inc. - Chief Executive Officer |
 | Liquid Web is a managed web hosting and data center company with over 20,000 clients in more than 100 countries. |
| Richard B. Sheridan, Menlo Innovations - President & Chief Executive Officer |
 | Menlo Innovations is a custom software design and development firm. Our mission is to end human suffering as it relates to technology. We believe the most expensive software in the world is software that is built and that no one uses. We design and build software that is widely adopted by the target user audience, and produces better business results and a competitive advantage for our clients.
We accomplish this by using our team of High-Tech Anthropologists®, specialized business analysts who are highly empathetic, sympathetic, and compassionate individuals who work with the client and end users throughout the lifetime of the project to iteratively and incrementally design the application that the Menlo software developers implement. |
| Pete Lazic, Michigan Automatic Turning Inc. - President |
 | Michigan Automatic Turning is in the business of the manufacturing of transmission shafts and gears. |
| Fred Minturn, MSX International - President & Chief Executive Officer |
 | MSXI is a global provider of outsourced integrated business solutions, focused primarily on warranty management, dealer process improvement, and human capital solutions, to automobile and truck original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), dealers, suppliers, and ancillary service providers in Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. We have over 75 years of experience servicing our clients and combine innovative people, proprietary processes and leading technologies to deliver integrated solutions addressing our clients’ unique requirements. Our clients are increasingly seeking outsourced solutions that enhance operational effectiveness and efficiencies, improve quality, reduce costs and generate sales opportunities. |
| Don Leith, Panther Global Technologies - President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | Manufacturer of small engine crankshafts, connecting rods, medical oxygen regulators, and other miscellaneous assemblies and machined components. |
| Mark Symonds, Plex Systems - President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | Plex Systems is the developer of Plex Online software. Plex Online offers industry-leading features for every department within a manufacturer, including MOM and QMS for the shop floor, CRM for sales/marketing, SCM for procurement, and ERP for finance and management. Plex Online’s fully integrated model helps manufacturers improve efficiency. Plex Systems was the first software company to apply SaaS technology to manufacturing. While others have taken a client-server base and applied it in a hosting model to simulate SaaS, Plex Online is based on the true SaaS model. As such, it serves customers without expensive servers, operating systems or backup equipment. It is always up to date, and available via a monthly fee. In 2009, Plex Online became the only software solution to ever achieve the Champion ranking in Aberdeen Group’s “ERP in Manufacturing” AXIS report. It has more than 400 customers, 2,000 interconnected global suppliers and 30,000 daily users. |
| Matthew Jonna, Plum Market - Co-founder, Managing Member |
 | Plum Markets operates premium grocery stores. |
| Margery Brown Krevsky, Productions Plus - The Talent Shop - President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | Established in 1981 Productions Plus- The TAlent Shop is a leading talent agency and talent marketing and entertainment firm. The company has three offices, Michigan, Chicago and Los Angeles. They provide top notch people for the film industry, print, commericals, auto shows, conventions, and entertainment venues. |
| Linda Girard, Pure Visibility - Visionary & Co-Founder |
 | Pure Visibility is a Michigan internet marketing company based in Ann Arbor, specializing in website optimization and AdWords management. We serve both national and local companies, helping businesses increase their web visibility. Our "own page one" strategy gets companies listed at the top of the major search engines through search engine marketing focused on search engine optimization (SEO) and paid strategies. |
| Stephen Polk, R. L. Polk & Co. - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
 | R. L. Polk & Co. is the premier provider of automotive information and marketing solutions. Polk collects and interprets global data, and provides extensive automotive business expertise to help customers understand their market position, identify trends, build brand loyalty, conquest new business and gain a competitive advantage. Polk helps automotive manufacturers and dealers, automotive aftermarket companies, finance and insurance companies, advertising agencies, media companies, consulting organizations, government agencies and market research firms make good business decisions. A privately held global firm, Polk is based in Southfield, Mich. with operations in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. |
| Terry Terhark, RightThing - Chief Executive Officer |
 | The RightThing is the number one enterprise recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider. Harnessing the power of unmatched proprietary technology, The RightThing continues to lead the industry with innovative, scalable solutions that help clients find, recruit, hire and retain top talent. Dedicated to recruitment leadership, technology and outsourcing, The RightThing offers recruiting solutions to small, medium and large organizations serving many of the world’s leading companies. The RightThing is also parent company to AIRS, the leading provider of recruitment training. For more information, visit http://www.rightthinginc.com. |
| John Rakolta, Jr., Walbridge - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
 | Walbridge is a privately owned corporation with a distinguished history covering over 94 years in the construction industry. Founded in 1916 in Detroit, Michigan, Walbridge has steadily grown to become one of the most successful construction companies in the country. Walbridge has expertise in several construction market segments including: automotive, aviation, cultural, education, government, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, office, power, residential, retail, wastewater and sewerage. |
