Sterling Partners, founded in 1983, is a growth-oriented, private-equity firm with offices in Chicago, Baltimore, and Miami. Over the past 30 years, the firm has established a track record of successful investment activity throughout a variety of economic and market environments. The principals of Sterling Partners have extensive investment and operating experience, and have developed a consistent, disciplined and repeatable methodology, which enables portfolio companies to reach their full potential. We are guided by our purpose of Inspired Growth, which reflects an unrelenting commitment to people and partnerships, to ideas and ideals that drive success. For more information, please visit www.sterlingpartners.com.

Shorelight provides students from around the world exceptional academic success by internationally enabling 2,000 undergraduate and graduate degree programs from distinguished American universities. International students seek American education for a combination of rich academic choices and the opportunity to become citizens and leaders on the world stage. The Shorelight REACH platformTM enables students academic success, tailoring of degrees to meet the needs and wants of international students and access for our university partners to students from 33,000 cities in 150+ Countries.

Amerigo helps international students discover their passions, build lifelong friendships, and most importantly, thrive in the classroom. Through our boarding programs operated in partnership with American preparatory schools, we ensure that students receive the support they need to prosper in high school and grow into leaders that go on to succeed at American universities. At all of our campuses, Amerigo builds a close-knit community with support from caring mentors and programs to advance their English skills, academic abilities, and personal development. Each day, we strive to provide students with an enriching experience that builds the foundation for a bright future.

Recognized as Leader by Gartner for three years running and as a top 10 most innovative EdTech company by Fast Company in 2017, Panopto is the leading provider of video lecture capture, screencasting, video streaming and video content management company for E-Learning and communications.

PlattForm is one of North America’s largest providers of enrollment management and marketing services to the higher education industry, including both career colleges and traditional universities. The Company offers a full-suite of marketing solutions including search engine marketing, interactive lead generation, online marketing, traditional media placement and creative services.

IO products are purposefully designed and elegantly engineeredIO designs, engineers, and delivers digital energy technology to the world's largest enterprises, governments, and service providers.Digital Energy. Delivered.Customers expect that the businesses they interact with will be available 24x7xForever. Keeping IT always-on is the required service level. Downtime is not an option. IO delivers the digital energy that keeps the world’s largest enterprises, governments and service providers online- always.IO ANYWHERE®IO ANYWHERE® is a fully integrated modular data center system that allows the customer to deploy data center capacity faster, more cost-effectively and at a location of their choice. Learn more about IO ANYWHERE®IO OS®IO OS® is a state-of-the-art operating system that enables real-time control, historical performance trending, alarm notifications and self-healing to proactively address impacting events to your data center. Learn more about IO OS®

For more than 70 years, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has provided critical contributions to critical challenges with systems engineering and integration, technology research and development, and analysis. Our scientists, engineers, and analysts serve as trusted advisors and technical experts to the government, ensuring the reliability of complex technologies that safeguard our nation’s security and advance the frontiers of space. We also maintain independent research and development programs that pioneer and explore emerging technologies and concepts to address future national priorities

Meritas schools are a worldwide family of exceptional college preparatory schools committed to maximizing student potential. By building a network of top schools focused on educational excellence in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, Meritas will provide families with the preeminent college preparatory experience in the world.Schools in the Meritas family all share a commitment to the highest levels of quality and professionalism. They hold in common the belief that a student-centric approach to education is paramount to successfully preparing young people for life.

SecureNet Payment Systems™ is a leader in payment processing technology, providing customized PCI-compliant solutions to businesses, organizations and institutions in a wide range of industries and markets. Through SecureNet's web-based Virtual Terminal application, merchants are able to access a full array of advanced PCI-compliant tools and features, such as cutting edge end-to-end encryption and sensitive data storage and retrieval through SecureNet Vault™ with tokenization

MOSAID Technologies Incorporated is one of the world's leading intellectual property (IP) companies, focused on the licensing and development of semiconductor and communications technologies. MOSAID counts many of the world's largest semiconductor companies among its licensees.The Company's core business is the licensing of patented semiconductor and wireless/wireline communications IP, complemented by the development of innovative semiconductor memory technology. A key element of MOSAID's strategy is to expand its patent portfolio through licensing partnerships, patent acquisitions, and patents obtained on internally developed technology.

Created in 2008 with a US$10 million commitment, the GMAC® Management Education for Tomorrow (MET) Fund formalizes and enhances the Graduate Management Admission Council's long-standing commitment to investing in strategic philanthropic initiatives that benefit business and management education globally.Ideas to Innovation (i2i) ChallengeThe GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Challenge seeks to find the world’s best ideas for improving graduate management education and then to fund the top proposals, turning the best ideas into active innovation.

Connections Academy delivers a quality K–12 private school education directly to your door. Using the latest technology and a proven curriculum, our highly qualified, responsive teachers create an online classroom experience where students can learn, thrive and succeed from anywhere