Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.
Vietnam Blockchain Corporation (VBC) is a Ho Chi Minh City-based science and technology company founded in 2016 that builds and deploys practical blockchain solutions for enterprises and government. Its flagship platform, Agridential.vn, brings digital traceability and supply-chain transparency to agriculture, while its Blockchain-as-a-Service offering serves manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, fintech, and smart-city projects. VBC positions itself as a hub for blockchain expertise in Southeast Asia, with more than 50 projects and 180+ partners and customers.

Jon 'Irish' Hawkins is an Australian Defence Force veteran of 25 years, SAS-trained officer, and the founder of Omni Executive - one of Australia's fastest-growing sovereign defence companies. Starting from an idea at his kitchen table in 2012, he built Omni into a 400+ person operation spanning aerospace, consulting, security, maritime and vetting, with around $100 million in annual turnover. A fierce advocate for truly Australian-owned defence capability, he stepped back from the CEO role in February 2026 to serve as Chair of Omni's Board.
IBM (International Business Machines) is a 114-year-old American technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, that helps large enterprises and governments run and modernize their most demanding operations. Today its business centers on three pillars - hybrid cloud through Red Hat, enterprise AI through the watsonx platform and open Granite models, and consulting - while it continues to build the underlying hardware, from z-series mainframes to research-grade quantum computers. IBM reported $67.5 billion in 2025 revenue and remains one of the largest patent holders and research organizations in the world.
CivicActions is a fully remote digital services firm that helps U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies modernize the technology behind public services. Founded in 2004 by Henry Poole and Aaron Pava, the company pairs free and open-source software - especially Drupal - with agile delivery, DevSecOps, human-centered design, and accessibility expertise to rebuild legacy government websites and platforms. Guided by the values of Balance, Openness, and Care, CivicActions has served agencies including Veterans Affairs, the FCC, the National Science Foundation, and the State of Georgia while contributing heavily back to the open-source communities its work depends on.
GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group) is the world's largest expert network, connecting professionals - investors, corporations, consultancies and non-profits - with a marketplace of roughly one million vetted subject-matter experts. Through one-on-one phone consultations, surveys, roundtables, site visits and custom research, GLG turns a client's questions into direct conversations with people who have first-hand knowledge, wrapped in a compliance framework designed for regulated industries. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, the firm operates in more than 20 cities worldwide and generates roughly $600 million in annual revenue.
Maven Research runs a microconsulting platform - an expert network that connects decision-makers with vetted industry professionals for on-demand phone consultations, expert interviews, surveys and B2B research panels. Founded in 2008 by Wyatt Nordstrom and Mark Platosh, Maven uses machine-learning-assisted matching plus human curation to source specialists for market research, investment due diligence and product decisions, pitching answers that arrive faster and cheaper than traditional consulting. The company also licenses OpenITM, a white-label internal talent marketplace that lets large organizations build private expert communities.
The Business of Fashion (BoF) is a London-based global media and intelligence company covering the fashion, beauty and luxury industries. Founded by Imran Amed in 2007 as a blog written from his flat in Notting Hill, BoF has grown into an authoritative platform that combines agenda-setting journalism, paid professional memberships, data and advisory work through BoF Insights, online masterclasses, the BoF Careers job marketplace, and marquee events like BoF VOICES and the BoF 500. The Financial Times led its Series B round in 2019, and the company reaches readers and members in more than 200 countries.
Rodolphe Barrere is the co-founder and CEO of Potloc, a Montreal-headquartered consumer research platform that pioneered survey sampling through social networks. Born in France, he moved to Quebec at 17 to study at HEC Montreal, worked briefly at LVMH in Paris and New York, and founded Potloc in 2014 with classmate Louis Delaoustre. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Technology) list and has raised more than $90M for the company, which now serves consulting firms and private equity clients across offices in Montreal, New York, Paris, London and Dubai.
Louisa AI is a New York-based relationship intelligence platform, spun out of Goldman Sachs in 2023, that maps who-knows-who and who-knows-what inside an organization. By reading daily market news against a firm's internal relationship graph, it proactively nudges the right colleague with the right warm lead at the right time - what founder Rohan Doctor calls 'systematizing serendipity.' It sells mainly to investment banks, private capital, consulting and law firms as a cross-sell and deal-origination engine.
Primerli is an edtech company that condenses decades of industry knowledge into engaging, story-based, one-hour video 'primers' that bring any professional up to speed on an unfamiliar sector fast. Built on an 'engagement-first' content philosophy and co-created with subject-matter experts from Fortune 500 companies, its Industry Library is sold to companies, consulting and financial-services firms, and universities on a subscription basis - and reports course-completion rates of 78.6%, far above the 5-10% typical of e-learning.

Brittainy Lovett is a Meta operator who works inside the Office of the CEO, one of the highest-trust seats in a 77,000-person company. A Northwestern-trained mechanical engineer who started in consulting at Deloitte, she has built a career on privacy critical incident response - the unglamorous, high-stakes work of keeping user data safe when something goes wrong. Based in New York, she is the kind of behind-the-scenes operator who makes very large machines run quietly.
Kelly Kiel Garramone is the CEO of KRW International and Executive Director of the KRW Research Institute, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm built on the evidence-based Return on Character methodology. With more than three decades of executive experience and assignments in six countries alongside her diplomat husband, she translates behavioral science research into coaching and certification programs used by boards, C-suites, and learning and development teams worldwide.
Skillcentrix is a Boston-based consultancy and Workday services partner focused exclusively on helping Workday customers build skills-centric talent strategies. Founded in 2022, it advises, deploys, innovates and manages HR technology across the talent lifecycle - planning, acquisition, development, mobilization and retention - for enterprises modernizing their workforce.
Nextgen Technologies Inc is a San Jose, California IT services and software consulting firm built around data and AI. A Databricks partner, it helps enterprises in finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and life sciences move from raw data to working machine-learning systems - alongside custom software, cloud, mobile, CRM, QA automation and global talent acquisition. With roughly 210 people and an estimated $27M in annual revenue, the company sells speed: speed to action through accelerators, speed to value through domain expertise, and speed to scale through deep data partnerships.
RSC (Robert Stephen Consulting LLC) is a San Ramon, California consulting firm that helps large organizations run their buildings like data. Founded in 2000 by Bob Stephen, RSC implements Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) and Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software - notably Archibus - and bridges it with Esri GIS mapping through its REALS platform. It serves Fortune 500 companies, government, healthcare, education, energy and manufacturing clients on everything from space planning and chargeback analysis to lease and asset tracking. In October 2024 RSC was acquired by Langan Engineering & Environmental Services to power Langan's growing digital solutions practice.
ThinkSys Inc is a global technology services, software engineering, and consulting company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with delivery operations in Noida, India. It specializes in quality assurance and software testing, QA automation, custom software development, DevOps, and cloud (AWS) consulting, serving 300+ clients across SaaS, FinTech, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, and education. Fully CMMI Level-3 and ISO 27001 certified, the firm pairs an engineering-first culture with a reputation for top-rated client reviews on G2 and Clutch.
Trilyon, Inc. is a Cupertino-based, women-owned global workforce and consulting firm that has spent more than 15 years matching skilled technology talent to Fortune 500 and enterprise clients. Built on an 'outcome over output' philosophy, Trilyon delivers SOW-based consulting, contingent and direct-hire staffing, RPO, and managed services across AI/ML, cloud, Salesforce, healthcare IT, life sciences, and technical writing, with delivery teams spanning the US, Canada, LATAM, India, and Europe.
COR Medical Ventures is a San Diego-area medical device development company that acts as the center of rotation for medtech innovation. Through three branches - consulting services, a venture studio, and distribution services - it partners with surgeon-inventors and corporations to take orthopedic, spine, and other devices from clinical idea to FDA clearance and market launch. Founded by engineer Ben Arnold, the firm has stood up a portfolio of more than a dozen independent companies spanning robotics, wearables, spinal fusion, and soft-tissue fixation.

Eric Berridge is a 23-year Salesforce ecosystem veteran and CEO of Coastal, a premier Salesforce consultancy he joined in 2020 and took the helm of in September 2023. He previously co-founded Bluewolf in 2000 - one of the first Salesforce-focused consulting firms - and built it to a major acquisition by IBM in 2016. A TED speaker, two-time author, and MFA-holder in creative writing who never studied computer science, Berridge argues that the humanities are tech's most underrated competitive advantage. Under his leadership, Coastal was acquired by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for $700 million in January 2026, the largest professional services acquisition in Salesforce ecosystem history.
VigourSoft Global Solutions is a digital transformation and software product engineering services firm founded in 2016, with roots in Pune, India and a presence in the United States. It helps enterprises build and sustain cloud-based products by combining big data analytics, AI/ML, cloud engineering, DevOps, identity & access management, and language/localization technologies. The team positions itself as an engineering partner for companies that want to turn unstructured data into business decisions and modernize aging software.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.

Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
QBurst is a global digital product engineering and consulting firm founded in 2004 in Trivandrum, India. It builds custom software, cloud platforms, data and AI solutions, and digital experiences for a blue-chip client base across the US, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa. Now majority-owned by Multiples Alternate Asset Management after a ~USD 200 million 2025 deal, QBurst employs roughly 3,500 people across more than 20 cities and positions itself as a 'High AI-Q' partner blending human expertise with intelligent technology.
Toptal is a fully remote talent marketplace that connects companies with freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers it claims represent the top 3% of applicants. Founded in 2010 and famously bootstrapped after a single seed round, Toptal built a profitable, distributed business around one promise: skip the resume pile and hire pre-vetted, elite talent in days rather than months.
Copper is a CRM built for Google Workspace users - specifically teams of 5 to 100 people who live in Gmail and Google Calendar all day. Founded in 2013 as ProsperWorks and rebranded in 2018, Copper is the only CRM officially recommended by Google on the Workspace Marketplace. Rather than forcing sales reps to log every interaction manually, Copper pulls contact and activity data straight from Gmail, auto-populating records so nothing falls through the cracks. Used by over 30,000 businesses across 100+ countries - from creative agencies to consulting firms to real estate teams - Copper has raised $99.5 million and evolved from a sales tool into a full client management platform for professional services.
Scott Bajtos is the Global Vice President of Adobe Customer Solutions — spanning Customer Engineering, Customer Success, and Professional Services for Adobe Experience Cloud. With over 30 years in enterprise software, he has served as Chief Customer Officer at both VMware and FinancialForce, and built customer advocacy programs at SAP, Business Objects, Marimba, and Cadence Design Systems. His philosophy is simple: helping every customer succeed and become a customer for life.
Anthony Vidergauz is the former CEO of California Closets who turned a struggling $2 million acquisition into a $300 million-per-year national brand. A South African immigrant and trained lawyer who arrived in the US in 1986 with $5,000, he joined California Closets in 1987 as legal counsel, then acquired the company from Williams-Sonoma in 1994. Over the next 13 years, he transformed it through lifestyle marketing - including a magazine sold at Barnes & Noble - and franchise relationship-building, growing to over 100 locations across North America and six countries. After selling in 2007, he now runs The Paradise Group, a boutique consulting firm advising franchise businesses on strategy, culture, and leadership.
Arun Kumar Ramchandran - known as 'Rak' - is the Chief Executive Officer of QBurst, a global product development and consulting firm backed by Multiples Private Equity. Appointed in April 2025 following a $200M investment, Rak brings 25 years of leadership experience spanning Infosys, Virtusa, Capgemini, and Hexaware Technologies. An IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alumnus based in Palo Alto, he is driving QBurst's transformation into an AI-first engineering services company with his 'High AI-Q' framework - embedding generative and agentic AI into every layer of software delivery.
Bill McBride is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Active Wellness, a San Francisco-based fitness center design and management company. With nearly four decades in the fitness industry - starting at age 18 selling health club memberships - he co-founded Active Wellness in 2013 after a decade-long run as President and COO of Club One. He also runs BMC3, his consulting and coaching firm, and has served as Chairman of the IHRSA Board of Directors. Named an ATN Power Player of 2024, McBride is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and advisor shaping the future of fitness delivery through medical integration, digital hybridization, and community-centered wellness.