This edition of The CEO Views brings to you “Top 50 Admired Companies to Watch 2020”. The list highlights some of the paramount companies that offer the best in class in the technology landscape,to connect the socially distanced businesses. The proposed list aspires to assist individuals and organizations to find the most admired companies that will help them accomplish their projects.

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Achieve Today:
How successful could
your company be if your
employees had no
limits?
Helping Brands With Psychology,
Technology & Data To Put Their
Consumer First.
atisfy:
Admired Edition 2020
Capital Telecom
Services:
Facilitating Innovative
and Efficient Solutions
for Telecom Services
BoldIQ:
Providing Optimized
Planning and
Scheduling Solutions in
Real-Time for Aviation,
Logistics, and other
Complex Operations
HOTB Software:
A Leading SaaS
Provider in the
Compliance Sector
Shawn Hull, CEO
Hersh Bhatt, CEO & Co-founder

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Aatisfy:
Helping Brands With Psychology,
Technology & Data To Put Their
Consumer First.
Hersh Bhatt
CEO & Co-founder
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Achieve Today: How successful could your
company be if your employees had no limits?
Blue Coast Savings Consultants:
A Leading Consulting Group to Help
Businesses Slash Expenses
BoldIQ: Providing Optimized Planning
and Scheduling Solutions in Real-Time
for Aviation, Logistics, and other
Complex Operations
Capital Telecom Services: Facilitating
Innovative and Efficient Solutions
Expedience Software: Proposal Software
You Already Know How to Use Built in
Microsoft Word
H&M Bay: Delivering Efficient and Reliable
Transportation of Temperature-Controlled Freight
Digital Marketing in Pharma Industry

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HZO: Shielding Electronics from Challenging
Corrosive and Liquid Environments
iClick Interactive Asia Group
Limited: A Multi-Channel Online
Marketing and Enterprise Data
Solutions Provider
Response Mine Interactive: Digital
and Direct Response Marketing
Services Providers
SanUVAire: Say No to Corona and Yes
to Better Indoor Air Quality and
Healthy Living!
SPLICE Software: Customer Engagement is
the Key to Business Success
Common Misconceptions about
AI to Avoid
HOTB Software: A Leading SaaS Provider in the
Compliance Sector

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Star Mountain Capital: A Dedicated
Lower Middle-Market Investment Firm
APiS North America: Revolutionizing the Safety
and Risk Analysis Services in America
Stellar Cyber: An All-inclusive Security
Platform for Enhanced Protection
Quantex: A Revolutionary Leader in
Single-Use Disposable Pump Technology
Torchlite: Transforming Gig Economy
and Inspiring Women in Tech
VativoRx: Innovative and Tailored Pharmacy
Benefit Management Providers
CXO THOUGHTS
SRX: Data-Driven Technology Platform for
Managing Pharmacy Spend

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he effect of COVID-19 has stroked hard to the business plan of every
organization, irrespective of the size and the industry. Thus pushing
businesses to adopt development methodologies, focusing just on the current
crisis. In this process, organizations are making the mistake of not focusing on
the long-term business goal. To maintain brand reputation, organizations need to
commit to overall business excellence. And for that, you might need to focus equally on
areas such as innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social
responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, and long-term investment
value, quality of products and services, and global competitiveness. Moreover, if we are
talking about 2020, you need to take care of all the traditional measures, along with the
new normal of working from home and business changes that come along with it.
In this socially distanced world, to be effective in running business globally,
organizations must have the ability to attract and retain talented candidates. Since the
entire hiring and employees process gets conducted online, organizations need to pay
special focus to this area. The companies that will maintain the strongest reputations
within and across their industries, overcoming all the challenges, will thrive in the
post-pandemic world as well.
In a world moving faster than ever before, executives and directors need to be aware of
all the technological advancement to keep their business running smooth and
automated. Sure, this dark phase will pass, bringing back life to normal, but until then,
organizations need to prepare themselves for the fresh beginning.
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Helping Brands With Psychology,
Technology & Data To Put Their
Consumer First.
atisfy:
Hersh Bhatt
CEO & Co-founder

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Kyra Broadbent
COO & Co-founder
was founded in 2018 and has gone from a consultancy of gaming products run by
two individuals to a company of 30 and recruiting with a line of business focused on
gamification and interactivity. Another line is focused on technology, psychology and
business growth with an upcoming launch of three interconnected products powered by AI that
will solve massive pain points in the influencer marketing and advertising space.
“atisfy offers everything from a one-stop-shop to enterprise-level businesses all the way up to
intricate MarTech and AdTech products poised to disrupt the influencer marketing industry,”
said Hersh Bhatt, CEO of atisfy. “It is also hard to deny our position as a company that has
remained one of the best in its field with no sacrifice to quality despite exponential growth and
global expansion.”
The company works with dedication to finding, attracting, and retaining the best talent in the
industry and is relentless in hiring individuals who are deemed to be unicorns on the spot. atisfy
also has a culture code for the expertise and human resources. Some fundamental values and
codes the organization lives up to include: care about the output, not input; driving measurable
results with return on investment, not just creative campaigns; fostering the best talent; offering
a healthy severance package to anything short of top performers; and also providing
autonomy with vision and direction.

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atisfy offers everything from a
one-stop-shop to enterprise-level
businesses all the way up to
intricate MarTech and AdTech
products poised to disrupt the
influencer marketing industry
Hersh Bhatt
CEO & Co-founder
“We came across most of our ideas by listening to our
customers. But we do not simply listen – we use our
expertise to uncover pain points and find ways to address
this in a way that can be systemized or productized. atisfy
understands what is missing in the market and quickly
makes it accessible to all businesses. That is the core
behind how we take all our ideas forward.” added Bhatt.
The primary differentiator between atisfy and other
competitors is the complete avoidance of industry practices
which are outdated and irrelevant to an increasingly well
informed and spoilt for the chosen market. The company
offers prices that remain similar, despite the outstanding
track record, and the minimum budgets for new customers
also remain low. atisfy uses its acclaimed position as a
market leader to empower more businesses further,
lowering the barrier to entry for customers, and increasing
talent density and complexity growing to avoid a process
laden business model.
The founder of atisfy, Hersh Bhatt, has always looked up to
individuals from sport such as Muhamad Ali, Michael
Schumacher, and Cristiano Ronaldo all the way over to
artists such as Eminem who have impacted him greatly as
idols outside the business world. The reason for this is that
these are people who make others realize that getting to
the top is the easy part. Staying there and maintaining your
position is the part that’s difficult.
atisfy has come across a variety of challenges among
clients and have a catalog of over 200 services and an
endless amount of custom solutions to address this. In
general, their clients are a collection of enterprises that are
struggling to break into new markets, disruptive start-ups,
and businesses looking to transform themselves digitally.
The organization’s approach is to understand the business
or project's bottom line or KPIs, and then provide a
consultative approach from the first contact to the first sale
to post-sale service.
More specifically, atisfy starts by finding out if the client is
actually solving the right problem. Einstein once said “If I
were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59
minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it”.
atisfy always start by helping customers define their
problem clearly which the organization and the customer
often mutually discover are not the same as what they
initially felt their problem was. Most organizations do not
heed Einstein’s advice when approaching innovation or
problem solving and therefore, they fail to overcome
challenges regardless of the investment into the actual
project.
Innovation is a response to a problem that needs solving,
not an act for the sake of innovation. atisfy hire people that
suit the rule that problem-solving is the essence of what
leaders exist to do. atisfy have found in the process of
growing the business that many other firms in the same
space often fail to solve the core of each problem they are
dealt. It is not uncommon for atisfy to get clients from
world-renowned creative agencies approach and say that
despite the most creative campaign and polished design,
the problem never got addressed to its core and their
bottom line was left unchanged.
atisfy works with a different approach as the organization
masters the definition of a given problem. The organization
watches, tests, and records details that relate to the
customers. This is what helps atisfy in solving the biggest
customers’ challenges in the most innovative way possible.
Designers and data scientists at atisfy alike are taught to
ask the question “why?” before they embark on any project.
Another way the approach differs is that the organization
supports the potential customers to work through
ambiguity, uncertainty, and changing industry
environments.
The customers associated with the organization also often
need not just innovation but leadership. In a crisis or amidst
a problem, leadership does not mean having a predefined
response plan, but the behaviors and mindsets that will
prevent overreaction and underreaction. Organizational
structures and processes are not what atisfy invest in. The
organization invests in people that stimulate innovation,
something that puts atisfy ahead of most businesses in the
field.
The biggest technological advancement atisfy sees is in the
marketing, advertising, and the MarTech/AdTech space. It is
the ability to measure from the first touch point to final
purchase and the data generated through this process's
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occurrence. The organization does not focus on chasing
after the latest and greatest marketing software but prefers
to innovate their own in-house or self-serve marketing
software that will give the customers a competitive edge.
The planned launch of the 2020 products includes three
synergistic components that leverage the best in class and
most modern advancements in the industry. These
components will solve the largest pain point in one of the
fastest-growing industries in marketing – influencer
marketing and the inability for any system on the planet
today to enable complete measurement, AI-driven
matchmaking and audience targeting in one easy to use
experience that scales endlessly.
This product will include three unique pieces; atisfyreach,
the first-ever advertising platform that lets businesses
procure influencer marketing services using self-serve
technologies, best in class reporting, and algorithmic
matchmaking. Next is atisfyre, a real-time web and mobile
app for influencers to transform their content and work into
a full-time career through easy monetization and endless
job offers and their desired asking price. Finally, there is
atisfyreact, an AI system that ensures the right business is
matched to the right influencer's audiences, and the
influencer can accept the job with a 2 button click system in
real-time.
atisfy’s services are often like an iceberg, and the impact is
felt 90% below the surface and 10% on the surface. In one
instance, the organization has worked with gaming giant
Wargaming.net on a new to world product that was 100%
unlike anything they had ever done before. atisfy’s role was
to help them establish a brand bible, go-to-market plan, run
micro-influencer tests, and segments for their launch. The
data-driven capacity of the organization was so potent that
while they initially ordered to investigate a market with three
to four overlying attributes, atisfy managed to uncover over
15 attributes that, in conjunction, helped the brand run highly
segmented and personalized campaigns to every segment
in their 100 million plus player target market globally.
In another example, atisfy has worked with Korea’s largest
software firm, along with the Skylanders IP and publisher
Activision to develop influencer marketing strategies. The
organization utilized their database consisting of over 10
million influencers with 30 billion pieces of content and 9
trillion views analyzed to curate the perfect 1,000
influencers for their new product launch. The app achieved
a user base of 1 million plus in under a month.
In terms of technological advancements, the company's
future will involve increased automation, a more significant
investment into data science, the ability to enable small
businesses to market like enterprises with smaller budgets.
And the ability to build products and solutions that can be
used by multiple customers to save them money and
enable better scalability. The organization also seeks to
keep investing in T-shaped marketers with a broad breadth
of digital abilities and depth in a few key areas.
atisfy continues to view the future of marketing as one that
takes place in a data and a technologically driven world
where marketers use these new tools to commit to put the
end consumer at the center of their strategy. Most of the
industry does not think about the future enough, in fact a
study in 2019 called the CMO survey indicated that most
marketing leaders are more focused on managing the
present. That is a mistake in a fast-evolving field like
marketing.
The organization’s other technological focus areas will be
hyper-automation with AI, leveraging distributed cloud
technology, using applicable blockchain technologies
when sensible, and exploring human augmentation as
areas that will empower future marketers. Using technology
to liberate marketers is a critical component of the
industry’s future and enables them to step up to a more
strategic level. The largest technology leap atisfy is taking
is driven by the development of the holy technology trinity
of big data, AI, and quantum computing– a pathway to
open a treasure chest of unprecedented opportunities in
the form of entirely new applications to reach and monetize
customers better.
The organization remains grounded in the fact that besides
being educated and tapping into complex technology
related applications in marketing, it also needs to continue
to excel in the traditional fundamentals, some of which will
remain a constant. What the company wants to achieve will
not be changing, the way by which it will achieve the
changes will be evolving at light speed.
The company’s geographical expansion will involve hiring
more talent from around the world, having a center in each
major continent, and at the same time, not focusing on
geography at the cost of core strength. When atisfy started
with headquarters in Australia (now Singapore), it continues
to service those in Europe, the US, and Canada. atisfy will
focus on expansion into other languages and cultural
trends specific to non-western markets once the
organization is entirely comfortable as a leading service
provider in the western and modern Asian markets.
atisfy is offering pre-beta discounts to businesses at
reach.atisfy.com for businesses looking to run large scale
influencer campaigns and also offering free access to
influencers on fyre.atisfy.com.

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How successful could your company
be if your employees had no limits?
How successful could your company
be if your employees had no limits?
ACHIEVETODAY:
Joshua K. Christopherson,
CEO
he resource of knowledge is the same all across
the world, but how you perceive it depends on
your overall experiences and beliefs. Josh
Christopherson, CEO of Achieve Today, realized this
concept a decade back while he was working with
an organization focused on delivering education services.
With deeper analysis into the area, he comprehended that to
achieve success in life, be it career or self-growth, one needs
personalized guidance throughout the journey, starting from
education to career. Thus he and his partner, Aaron
Peterson, established Achieve Today six years ago focusing
on an individual’s primary reasons behind failure, such as
lack of belief in self, negative thought patterns and habits.
Achieve Today aims to educate individuals on the core
principles that could make them successful in life by building
self-confidence, rather than just focusing on the financial
success of business or career.
With its urge to educate people on how to overcome the
limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns that shape
their world, Achieve Today trains its clients to adjust their
internal programming and progress towards success. “It is
very important that we believe in ourselves and in what we
want to do. That brings a difference in the way we behave
in office or with our family, or even how motivated we are
to gain success,” says Josh.
Achieve Today’s primary focus during its initial days was
to help individuals who wanted to succeed in life, but were
struggling with real-life issues in terms of relationship,
health, or finance. The company observed that most
education providers train people through either online
training with plug and play template learning systems, or
just focusing on one-on-one education. Achieve Today
merged both the aspects of learning to develop a unique
platform that also offers mindfulness courses to clear out
stress. “We merged AI with HI (human intelligence) to work
together seamlessly and balance two different genres of
the learning experience,” adds Josh.

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"It is very important that we
believe in ourselves and in what
we want to do because that
brings a difference in the way we
behave in office or with our
family, or how motivated we are
to gain success."
The company developed a learning experience platform
(LXP) that offers new courses to its students every week,
and every day its internal coaches deliver group coaching
via multiple sessions to provide real-life learning. Its
module of delivering individual education is the core of
Achieve Today’s success. The company has also
incorporated an AI coach (CÜE) in its LXP that helps train
students between sessions and provides knowledge
through audios, videos and texts and interacts just like a
human to suggest solutions to deal with every student’s
individual problems. Moreover, it is a cloud-based
platform so students can access it from anywhere, and
has a journaling feature that helps the user to create a
roadmap and follow it. The LXP turned out to be a
revolutionary disruption in the education industry as only
40% of its competitor company’s student’s stick to their
learning platform after a year, while 80% of Achieve
Today’s students continue after a year and even
throughout their lives. The company now has 30 in-house
best in class coaches. It has worked with over a hundred
thousand students in 74 countries and almost every day a
testimonial or success story is posted online. This learning
experience transforms students into ideal employees for
companies who are happy and high performing.
Gradually, over the years, Achieve Today started getting
queries from organizations about the learning platform,
who wanted to deliver education to their employees or
direct sales people to make them more efficient at work.
Thus, the company expanded its services in the B2B
space as well and has helped several organizations
achieve a large gain in retention rate and overall
employee happiness. Achieve Today has offered its
white-label learning experience platform to multiple
network marketing companies who use it to teach
removing the fear of speaking to others because
communication is the key to network marketing. It also
guides distributors through a roadmap to help them see
success faster. Moreover, in case of any unexpected issue,
the AI comes to the rescue, helping them strategize
solutions. The Achieve Today LXP is also used in the
health care industry by doctors to train their nurses, and
by brick and mortar businesses who use it to recruit more,
train better, retain longer and be happier in life. “Over 91%
of our students in the field of network marketing have said
that our LXP has helped them score direct sales. They
have gained 38% more revenue and 89% retention rates
while the previous retention rate was just 41%,” states
Josh.
Achieve Today is continually working on improving its
platform and continues to offer its services, even after the
breakdown of COVID-19. This is when individuals and
organizations are more in need of support that can guide
them through the crisis, both in terms of mental support
and business planning. It has successfully helped several
businesses all over the world in their hour of need when
the fear of losing jobs have demotivated many individuals
and many organizations are at risk. Achieve Today makes
a close observation of every such challenge and helps its
clients with strategies to keep their business on track while
guiding individuals to overcome fear and create a plan.
Companies are also trying to reduce stress within their
employees and keep them happy and thus they are
reaching out to Achieve Today’s cloud-based learning
platform. “The whole purpose of our business is to reduce
anxiety within individuals and organizations and help them
gain success in life. Our vision is a world without limits, and
Achieve Today works towards removing every limit that
comes in between our clients and their success,”
concludes Josh.
The company recently helped one of its clients who were
concerned about their own internal company culture. With
Achieves platform they were able to build a sense of
community to help their employees calm down during the
pandemic, and learn and engage. Working from home
created an environment without the normal business
culture and solving that was daunting. Achieve Today built
the community platform for thousands of employees
within a matter of hours. They were given access to the
platform that was branded for the clients company. They
started delivering messages through the platform and
their employees also started using the AI to get
suggestions on meditation, job improvement, or mental
condition. Results were seen almost immediately.
Moreover, Achieve Today is currently developing code to
integrate its new Mentor on Demand™ coaching sessions
so that its students can video chat with their coaches
individually and get the help they need through video
rather than just over the phone or in online classes. The
company is also working on real-time AI, for facial
recognition and mood analysis of students and how it
fluctuates throughout the session. It will use the emotions
as feedback to further develop its future AI coaching
sessions with CÜE to make it work more like a human
coach by recognizing their vocal tones and facial
expressions. Moving ahead, Achieve Today believes that
its AI will be able to detect human problems automatically
just by observing them to provide solutions accordingly.

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c o n t e n t . When the content is
entertaining, instructive, and meaningful,
consumers tend to think of the business as their
own. Quality content-marketing will significantly help you
boost conversion rates for your website.
♦ Messaging Apps for Pharma: Currently, several
businesses worldwide are using Facebook Messenger or
WhatsApp messaging applications for customers with
useful and appropriate content. It ensures that
pharmaceutical companies can speak to their customers,
patients, physicians, and even question each other. The
biggest challenge in pharmaceutical campaigns to
messaging apps, like all social media, is adverse events.
Thus planning to track and report adverse events would
help build a case for experimenting with these new
platforms.
♦ Chatbots: Businesses are gradually using chatbots to
respond and communicate with their clients. They have
The healthcare industry is continually pushing
technological progress toward developing therapies and
medicines. Digital has changed the pharmaceutical and
healthcare industries in many ways, including increased
transparency, patient engagement, and medications
development. Owing to their superior economic
efficiency, digital marketing strategies also have various
useful methods for linking potential consumers and
clients.
Critical Trends for Digital Marketers to Rise in
the Pharmaceutical Industry
♦ Producing value-based content: A reputation for
delivering outstanding content is one of the significant
advantages of content marketing. Companies must
operate in today's vibrant digital marketplace with their
leads and customers. Good content will help you create
trust with both customers and leaders. Consumers start
making a brand evaluation when they are reading the
DIGITAL
MARKETING
IN PHARMA
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MARKETING
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configured automated scripts used in the immediate
discussion to imitate human reaction and behavior. It is
possible to process standard applications such as
interviews, questionnaires, and FAQs. In the
pharmaceutical industry, there are many ways to make
chatbots more personalized and automated services in
areas such as customer care, marketing, or training over a
wide variety of time-long processes. Chatbots can assist
clients who are drug users as virtual nurses daily and can
help patients with an application lead a good life,
chatbots can be used to answer commonly asked
questions, and can also be used to assist and train
physicians.
♦ Marketing influencers: An influencer maybe someone
who is interested in a range of social networks with an
appropriate base of followers, from a few hundred to
millions of clients, and who is excellent for the project and
the company based on the content of their tweets. In the
case of medical devices or products, the progress
achieved in using a medication or service can be recorded
through influence.
♦ Blockchain: Trust and accountability are vital
components of digital achievement. As the
pharmaceutical industry is becoming more informative
and providing much more immediate communication
between supplier and customer, it is no longer optional
and trustworthy but now mandatory. Implementing
blockchain technologies as a part of the digital marketing
strategy could help foster organizational growth and
advancement.
♦ VR in Pharma Marketing: The healthcare and
pharmaceutical industries show many promising results
for experimenting with VR. In clinical and pharmaceutical
medicine, a broad range of VR applications and AR and
360 videos were made, including demonstrations for
health products, training and education, and therapy. VR
is an immersive way for healthcare professionals and
physicians to communicate with patients and learn about
the technology's feedback.
By following the above approaches, the pharmaceutical
industry will improve consumer satisfaction in all respects
by providing excellent consumer and patient care, which
is the principal aim of any leading pharmaceutical
company.
“Digital commercialization allows the
industries to grow rapidly. It has
become a strong marketing
cornerstone and has encouraged and
made campaign strategies even
simpler.”

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Over the past two decades, Blue Coast Savings Consultants has
established themself as the nation’s premier experts in helping
companies of all sizes improve their bottom line. With help from
Blue Coast, thousands of business owners have improved their
organization’s overall financial health, kept their workers
employed, and made sure that their doors stay open and that their
bills are paid. All in all, Blue Coast has helped business owners
save millions of dollars.
How do they accomplish this? Shawn Hull, founder and CEO of
Blue Coast, has been on the cutting edge of the business world
his entire career.
“For the last 30 years, I've been pioneering unique services
and have been the first to bring them to market. I've done
that with prepaid phone cards in the early '90s, then
internet marketing, and now in the cost savings
industry,” Hull said. “With Blue Coast, I’ve been
able to identify services that companies
desperately need, but cannot do
themselves.”
Blue Coast offers an unprecedented
suite of services that business
owners can utilize to help them
slash their expenses, including
expense reduction, revenue
gains, and specialized tax
incentives.
For example, if clients
have supply chain or
capacity issues, Blue
The Authority in Helping Businesses
Save Money
Blue Coast Savings
Consultants:
Blue Coast Savings
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Coast can automate their shipping department and
provides them with world-class software, helping them
save about 35% on shipping expenses. Blue Coast also
helps companies save on an additional 20 other
savings categories, not to mention 75 different hiring
incentives.
Blue Coast offers a win-win situation for everyone. Either
they find savings for the company or they charge no fee.
In the midst of the pandemic and the severe economic
conditions, Blue Coast and its services have become
more relevant than ever. They have been able to deliver
cost-effective solutions for cash-strapped companies
and helped them ease their financial woes.
Blue Coast’s advisors know that the company has been
on the cutting edge for years. Not with just their suite of
cash-savings services, but with their revolutionary
business model. Blue Coast allows its advisors to close
deals once and then earn monthly residuals for the next
decade or more. This means that Blue Coast advisors
can basically earn money while they sleep.
Advisors come from all types of professional
backgrounds, whether they are retirees looking for
part-time work or corporate executives looking for
supplemental income. They are experts in leveraging
relationships with clients, with help from Blue Coast’s
marketing support system of face-to-face or virtual
appointments, inbound messaging, email marketing
programs, direct mail services, and sub-advisor
programs.
Best of all, Blue Coast advisors utilize this unique
business model from the comfort of their home office.
They are basically their own boss and business owners,
without the stress of rent, brick-and-mortar locations,
payroll, and inventory.
“We get a lot of inquiries because our business model is
so smart and practical,” Hull said. “I’m a major advocate
of working smart, so residuals and leveraging
relationships are the two strongest principles of making
money. Once people find that out the light bulb goes off.
You do the work once, with our flagship services, and
then get paid monthly residuals for the next 10 years or
more.
Not only has Blue Coast been helping business owners
improve their bottom line, they’ve also helped
individuals launch their very own cash-savings
consulting business. The company offers an
unparalleled support system to help its advisors
engage, maintain, and close deals so that they can earn
monthly residuals.
The company hosts quarterly events across the country
that allows the advisors to network and learn. Other
training consists of live weekly webinars, access to their
online resource center, one-on-one conversations with
their support staff, and specialized training groups.
Advisors learn while they earn, meaning they are able
to maximize their income while still learning
life-changing skills. Most importantly, advisors are not
restricted by their physical location. They can advise
clients from all across the country from the comfort of
their home office.
Blue Coast has mastered cash-saving services that
businesses are just simply too busy to do. And, with a
revolutionary business model that puts their advisors
first, Hull has built a business that is not only set to
survive during any economy, it is set to thrive.
And with companies desperately looking for ways to
save money, they’re looking for the right type of
individual who can help.
“The thing I look for in professionals is if they can
build relationships with C-Suite executives,” Hull
said. “We are pioneering our services so location
doesn’t mean much because our advisors can sit
from the comfort of their home office and present
clients around the country.”
“Blue Coast is the quickest way
for companies to gain revenue
without risk.”

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expanded the solutions into parallel verticals, logistics,
and mobile fleet services. “BoldIQ provides customers
with true on-demand operations at scale by
continuously improving the performance, delivery, and
value of industry solutions for advanced planning and
scheduling,” says Shelly Freeman, COO of BoldIQ.
was established in 2008, and the first
built software of the organization was
a part of DayJet, an on-demand business aviation
operator as the founders have deep roots and
experience in aviation. Over time the organization
evolved into software as a service company and
Providing Optimized
Planning and
Scheduling Solutions
in Real-Time for
Aviation, Logistics,
and other
Complex
Operations
Shelly Freeman,
COO
BoldIQ:

21. September 2020 21
impacting customer service,
cash flow, and ultimately,
profitability. BoldIQ uses AI optimization
to plan and schedule personnel and tails
throughout all aspects of your operational
schedules.Logistics service providers are continuing to
search for ways to address the demands of competition
and the workforce. Some are finding schedule
balancing and optimization are critical tools in attracting
and keeping drivers while maintaining customer service
levels. The application provided by BoldIQ optimizes
the utilization of trucks during cargo operations,
maintenance activities, and anytime in between.
To stay ahead in the competitive market and in terms of
technological breakthroughs, BoldIQ is combing Artificial
Intelligence (AI) with Human Intelligence (HumInt) to deliver
real-time planning, scheduling, availability, and disruption
recovery solutions. The organization is not trying to
replace deep expertise and the human touch; instead it is
maximizing HumInt with AI-derived feasible and optimal
solutions. As their business needs change, the
organization will continue to offer highly configurable
Collaborative intelligence that scales. It can be seen that
there is a need to build tools that are highly configurable to
meet business needs that are changing hour-to-hour,
day-to-day, or week-to-week.
BoldIQ works in several industries with varying
customer sizes. BoldIQ has worked with the fifth largest
aviation company globally and has helped them
increase their utility rate by over 10% and increased the
number of revenue legs by over 15%. The organization
has worked with smaller aviation companies and seen
similar results. At a large retailer with a workforce of
over 6,000 technicians, the organization can shrink
service windows from 4 hours to 2 hours and from 2
weeks to 3 days and hasincreased the utilization of their
field service technicians by 30% and capacity by 55%.
BoldIQ has also seen similar results at one of the largest
trucking companies in the US, with a 10% improvement
in the number of jobs scheduled and significantly
decreasing the number of deadhead miles driven,
leading to substantially more annual revenue.
BoldIQ continues to focus on Collaborative Intelligence
and expand its footprint in aviation with new customers
and strategic partnerships; while also focusing on the
expansion into logistics and mobile fleet services.
BoldIQ works across the globe today and will continue
too!
To automatically
optimize schedules in
real-time, BoldIQ’s unique solution
intelligently incorporates all relevant
business rules, constraints, and goals to
support optimal utilization and enable seamless
scalability across mission-critical personnel and
physical assets. Moreover, BoldIQ’s unique approach to
optimized scheduling mitigates disruptions and human
errors while maintaining compliance requirements,
demand goals, and operational efficiencies that drive
growth and profitability.
BoldIQ is working on a mission to provide organizations
with state-of-the-art technology to operate at greater
utilization and maximum efficiency in real-time so that
they can grow, be profitable and scale to keep pace
with disruption and increasing customer demand.
BoldIQ works with the vision to work towards an entirely
demand-driven world, uninhibited by the constraints of
supply, timing, and disruption: a world where everything
is available when and where the customers want it.
BoldIQ sees that the customers are struggling to
automate their scheduling and react to business
disruptions in real-time. The automated and optimized
schedule provided by BoldIQ allows customers to see:
30% increase in resource utilization, a 25% reduction in
operating costs, a 10% improvement in order fulfillment,
and a 20% increase in profitability. BoldIQ’s core is a
customer-centric, delivery-focused team, the foundation
of the company's performance and delivery excellence.
A talented engineering team led by expert Operations
Research scientists, a group of highly experienced
executives, and an impressive board to take the
organization to the next level of performance, delivery,
and customer usefulness.
Aviation service providers face complicated planning
and scheduling problems, long before circumstances
begin to change by the minute. Disruption management
is the key for them, as even small delays are costly,
”
BoldIQ provides customers with true
on-demand operations at scale by
continuously improving the performance,
delivery, and value of industry solutions for
advanced planning and scheduling

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continuous technical education across our growing
workforce.”
A constant theme in the telecommunications industry is
maintaining tight budgets and achieving accelerated
timelines from carriers and 1st
tier customers. All builds
seem more and more compressed for timing to ensure
profit margins once they leave the primaries. CTS thrives
on these conditions. CTS remains agile and willing to
travel with allocated local resources providing teams at a
moment's notice. The core area of CTS is the BAWA
market with strategic expansion along the east coast. The
team is continuously looking for efficiencies and optimum
workflows for our customers while facing challenges as
unique as the end users. How an organization responds to
challenging times speaks directly about a company’s
internal communication and team empowerment, and at
CTS, it is often required to address these types of
challenges. It is typical for the CTS team, while interfacing
with a new client, to provide them with additional
apital Telecom Services was established in 2016.
After 22 years in the business, the founder realized
the immense impact of Telecommunications on
society and finally decided to build a Telecommunications
company with its core as a home for passionate telecom
professionals. Capital Telecom Services (CTS) has been a
customer-centric focused organization, and the customers
have been the catalyst to creating innovation and change
within the company while reinforcing the company culture
of hard work, attention to detail, commitment, and excellent
team energy. The organization’s goal is to recruit, engage,
and train the best team in the industry providing expertise
and passion to every project.
“In this highly competitive and ever-evolving
marketplace, CTS delivers, at-the-moment of truth, laser
focus on clients' needs through its talented and tenured
technical team. CTS is a full service telecom,
engineering, and construction company delivering
wireless projects from conception to completion for their
valued partners. The team at CTS provides professional
engineering and construction services to large wireless
providers, wireless support organizations, general
contractors, and large enterprises worldwide,” said
Kevin Turrisi, CEO & President of CTS. “Watching our
team evolve and grow organically in a few short years
has brought me great personal joy. Now larger clients
have heard of our strong reputation and are hiring us as
their trusted “go-to” partner. CTS’s telecom journey is
exciting because it’s full of tremendous potential. CTS is
ALL about the Company Culture! In a competitive and
dynamic market, CTS strives to employ professionals in
the industry who want to grow and be a part of
something incredibly special. Our goal is to
successfully grow the company through
fanatical customer support and
Capital Telecom Services:Capital Telecom Services:
Facilitating Innovative
and Efficient Solutions
KEVIN TURRISI,
CEO & President

23. September 2020 23
buildings, the demand for blanket coverage is now
paramount. As for Smart City, buildings need to be
better equipped to support the mix of business and
personal life. This includes technologies which allow
people to return to work and school over the coming
months without spreading COVID-19. CTS continues
to utilize State-of-the-Art Technology & Testing
Equipment.
CTS has worked with several industries of different
sizes. We resolve challenges arising from geographic
locations and maintenance and troubleshooting
needs in airports and various DC government
buildings. CTS and partnering organizations have built
a DMV team for all telecom services and maintenance
for wireless service customers. Various challenges
have risen from the COVID-19 economic shutdown
with ongoing and critical Public Safety Education
deployments. CTS quickly became a trusted and
reliable partner during these unprecedented times.
CTS has accepted and painstakingly followed up with
every Public Safety project presented, without
hesitation, regardless of budget constraints and
current situations.
Capital Telecom Services is expanding services and
couldn’t be more excited about adding great people to an
established and outstanding team. CTS has recently
added new teams in the Southeast and is actively hiring
new engineers and project managers in Virginia and
North Carolina.
CTS’s telecom journey is exciting and full of potential and can
be found on the new website, www.CapitalTelecomUSA.com.
Please visit us for news and updates! Stay tuned…
professional services amid a project. CTS thrives on
providing bottom-line efficiency to client timelines
exceeding expectations.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected countless
people and businesses all over the world. Many
companies are having to shut down or postpone their
work temporarily. Fortunately, CTS has been deemed as
an essential business. CTS has continued to work
throughout this pandemic, helping communities with new
communication infrastructure. CTS immediately pivoted
during education shutdowns to complete multiple Public
Safety & DAS projects in numerous schools. CTS is
grateful for the opportunity to help serve and support
communities which require immediate essential
mission-critical communications.
Capital Telecom Services shares the nation's concern for
the well-being of families, neighbors and citizens with the
outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Understanding that
communication is essential for maintaining business,
education, emergency and other daily activities, CTS has
pledged full support and resources to Keeping America
Connected, an initiative launched by the Federal
Government on March 13th
designed to help the nation
remain connected during this unprecedented time of
uncertainty.
In terms of the advancement of technology, one cannot
avoid the conversation of 5G and Smart City
Infrastructure. The ability to adequately support 5G
requires up to 10 times new infrastructure equipment to
meet these new demands. In addition, Public Safety
Communications is at the forefront of needs. With new
regulations and the requirement of 99% coverage in all
The organization’s
goal is to recruit,
engage, and train the
best team in the
industry and bring
out the expertise
and passion for the
business to every
project that they
come in contact
with.

24. September 2020 24
he outbreak of COVID-19 has
introduced businesses to
numerous unpredicted situations,
creating a challenging landscape for
every sector. By understanding and
analyzing the situation, it is the responsibility
of every organization, irrespective of the
industry, to upgrade their business systems
to match the new normal. And this is the only
key to emerge as an admired company
through this pandemic crisis.
With most of the businesses at a halt due to
the current lockdown and financial crunch, it
can take more than usual to prosper your
business and get enlisted under ‘Top 50
Admired companies to watch 2020’.
But with innovation in business
50505 ADMIRED COMPANIES TO WATCH 2020TOP ADMIRED COMPANIES TO WATCH 2020TOP
strategy and up-gradation of technological
tools, one can overcome all the probable
challenges during these difficult times.
Further, if you are a solution or servic e
provider, you might want to revise your
existing business rules to meet the current
need for customer satisfaction.
Thus the current edition of CEO Views brings
to you "Top 50 Admired companies to watch
2020”. The list highlights some of the
paramount companies who offer the best in
class in the technology landscape, to connect
the socially distanced businesses. The
proposed list aspires to assist individuals and
organizations to find the most admired
companies that will help them accomplish
their projects.

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Company Management Description
Achieve Today
achievetoday.com
Orem, UT
Josh Christopherson
CEO
Achieve Today is helping individuals and businesses awaken
their greatness from within. Through the proprietary, world-
class mentoring and accountability format, the organization help
individuals become clear, live fulfilled, and achieve more.
APiS North
America
apis-iq.com
Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A.
Dr. Lynn M. Johnson,
President
APiS North America provides the best tools for performing the most
robust and innovative risk assessments and optimization plans.
APIS IQ-Software continues to set standards for FMEA, Functional
Safety, and Risk Analysis.
Arco Information
arco.be
New York
Paul Coillie
CEO
Arco Information’s core business is to capture information, process
it in digital workflows, and save, share, convert, and deliver it. Arco
Information currently has a 50-strong and highly experienced
workforce to cater to your specific needs.
ARGOS
argos-solutions.io
Seoul, Republic of
Korea
Wonkyu Lee
CEO
Argos is Korea’s leading KYC/AML service company, which allows
financial service providers, online platform enterprises, and other
businesses to effectively apply legal, regulatory, and operational
measures for combating identity theft, money laundering, and
terrorist financing.
Artiza Networks
artizanetworks.com
Amsterdam,
Tachikawa, Tokyo
Takashi Tokonami
Chairman & CEO,
Co-founder
Artiza Networks is the leader in 3G, 4G, and 5G radio access network
(RAN) and core network (C.N.) node testing. Artiza has collaborated
with the industry’s top vendors and operators in testing the RAN and
core network nodes of the world’s most advanced mobile networks.
atisfy
atisfy.com
Singapore
Hersh Bhatt
CEO
atisfy is a data-driven full-service marketing company for modern
business. The organization uses the power of technology to help the
clients solve some of the biggest marketing challenges. Customer
obsession, vision-based leadership, and diversity of staff empower
atisfy to achieve what they do.
AvidXchange
avidxchange.com
Charlotte, NC
Michael Praeger
Co-Founder & CEO
AvidXchangeistheindustryleaderin automatinginvoice and payment
processes for mid-market businesses. AvidXchange is distinguished
as a global fintech unicorn and one of the fastest-growingtechnology
companies in the U.S.
Blue Coast Savings
Consultants
bluecoastsavings.com
Key West, FL
Shawn Hull
CEO
Blue Coast excels at Savings Consulting, and over the last fifteen
years, the organization has helped save thousands of business
owners millions of dollars! Blue Coast has become the most
trusted and most unique national organization in business savings
consulting.
BoldIQ
boldiq.com
Bellevue, WA
Shelly Freeman
CEO
BoldIQ provides customers with reliable on-demand operations at
scale by continuously improving the performance, delivery, and
value of Solver’s industry solutions for advanced planning and
scheduling.
Capital Telecom
Services
capitaltelecomusa.
com
Sterling, VA
Kevin Turrisi
Founder & President
Capital Telecom Services, LLC (CTS) is a full services
telecommunications, engineering, and construction company. CTS
successfully execute and deliver wireless projects from conception
to completion.

26. Company Management Description
Centenal
centenal.com
Singapore
Betty Sun
CSO
CENTENAL is a FinTech company provides digital operation
and compliance solution for Wealth Managers, headquartered
in Singapore. CENTENAL’s mission is to promote visualization,
collaboration, automation, and increase the workflow productivity
for the Wealth Management industry and its customers.
Connecterra BV
connecterra.io
Amsterdam,
North Holland
Yasir Khokhar
CEO
Connecterra BV’s mission is to train an A.I. to learn how to farm so
that the organization can empower farmers of all sizes to increase
their farms’ productivity while reducing the impact of farming on the
planet.
Expedience
Software
expediencesoftware.
com
Bellevue, WA
Melissa Mabon
President, and CEO
Expedience Software creates fast, accurate, and beautiful proposals
directly from Microsoft Office. The software platform automates
RFP & RFI responses (even Excel RFPs!), FAQs, DDQs, SOWs,
Questionnaires, PowerPoint presentations, and more!
H&M Bay
hmbayinc.com
Federalsburg, MD
Walter Messick
Co-Owner
H&MBayisareliablecold&frozentransportpartnerwhounderstands
that there’s no room for perishable errors. The organization invests
in innovative tech and the trucker network, so with H&M Bay, the
temperature is always right, from storage to delivery.
HeiTech
heitech.com.my
DE, Malaysia
Mohd Hilmey bin
Mohd Taib
President
HeitTech has developed a comprehensive suite of solutions and
services that are holistic, integrated, and cutting-edge, covering the
entire life cycle of systems and products. By embracing advanced
technologies, HeitTech has revolutionized numerous customers’
automated systems in both the public and private sectors.
Hot Spring IT
hot-spring.it
London
Parmi Lally
Owner & MD
Hot Spring I.T. offers a suite of services, including start-ups,
relocations, server, desktop, network, voice, cloud, I.T. Security
infrastructure, and Managed I.T. services, all through a single door.
Hot Spring I.T. is a team of dedicated I.T. professionals, working
across various disciplines while focusing on the client’s needs.
HOTB Software
hotbsoftware.com
Bellevue, WA
Andy Firoved,
CEO
HOTB provides the leading and most comprehensive enterprise
and cloud-based business and compliance process risk mitigation
software applications. HOTB Software’s highly customizable SaaS
solution, primarily designed for healthcare, is also touching other
sectors such as the services industry and government.
HZO
hzo.com
Morrisville, NC
James T. Fahey
CEO
HZO is the global leader in delivering world-class protective
nanocoatings that safeguard electronics from the most demanding
environments – such as water, salt, dust, dirt, coffee, or corrosive
materials. A diverse, world-class leadership team leads HZO from
around the world.
iClick Interactive
Asia Group
i-click.com
Quarry Bay,
Hong Kong
Dr. Jian Tang
CEO, and Co-
Founder
iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (NASDAQ: ICLK) is an
independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions
provider that connects worldwide marketers with audiences in
China. The proprietary platform of iClick boasts cross-channel and
cross-screen capabilities and transforms data into insight, action,
and performance.
ImprimisRx
imprimisrx.com
San Diego, CA
Mark L. Baum
CEO
ImprimisRx is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to delivering
high-quality and innovative medicines to physicians and patients
at affordable prices. ImprimisRx offers proprietary compounded
ophthalmic formulations.

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Company Management Description
IMTF
imtf.com
Givisiez, Switzerland
Mark Busser
CEO
IMTF provides financial technology solutions and regulatory
compliance software to banks, financial institutions, and other
industries globally. IMTF offers innovative and reliable software
solutions that enable the clients to increase efficiency achieving
significant cost reductions with assured compliance.
Integrasys
integrasys-space.com
Madrid, SPAIN
Alvaro Sanchez
CEO
Integrasys is a privately owned company specialized in engineering
and manufacturing Satellite Spectrum Monitoring Systems in the
telecommunication and broadcasting markets. Integrasys’ mission is
to provide the industry with the best quality and fastest technology
available in carrier monitoring systems.
KyungwooSystech
kyungwoo.com
Geumcheon-gu, Seoul
Yong Jun Chang
CEO
Kyung-Hyun Systech has been developing and supplying ICT-
based electrical solutions for construction equipment and industrial
vehicles with innovative technologies for 20 years. The organization
strives to create a safer and more convenient world based on smart
convergence technology for a hyper-connected society.
Lingo
Communications
lingo.com
Macon, GA
Chuck Griffin
CEO
Lingo Communications provides modern, efficient, IP-based Cloud
voice and data and other unified communications technologies to
small-to-medium sized businesses and consumers.
LUXE Digital Now
luxedigitalnow.com
Portland, Oregon
Jacqueline Hudson
CEO & Founder
LUXE Digital Now is a leading luxury digital marketing agency and
technology solutions company. The organization works closely with
top brands and companies globally and discovers how they can
collaborate to transform your business performance.
Metaswitch
Networks
metaswitch.com
Bellevue, WA
Martin Lund
CEO
Metaswitch is a recognized leader in the development of ultra-high-
performance, a cloud-native communications software. Metaswitch
products are designed to run on the customer premises or in private,
public, and hybrid clouds.
Netpluz
netpluz.asia
Techpoint, Singapore
Leng Fong Lau
MD
Netpluz is a one-stop managed communications service provider
for businesses. Netpluz delivers reliable, high-performance
communications services for your business’s data, voice, video,
cybersecurity, mobility, and analytics needs.
Neuro-Sys
neuro-sys.com
Gardanne, France
Yann Jaudouin
CEO
Neuro-Sys is a research-intensive and innovative organization
specializing in pharmacology and in advanced in vitro and in vivo
models of neurodegenerative diseases, mode of action research,
and drug development in the CNS and PNS fields.
Objectif Lune
objectiflune.com
Montréal, QC
Didier Gombert
CEO
Objectif Lune has become a leader in composition, business process
automation, multi-channel output, and capture solutions. Objectif
Lune supplies a flexible platform for creating and automating
interactive customer communications through print, web, email, and
mobile.
Optimity
optimitysoftware.com
North America
Erik Sandberg
MD
Optimity offers a complete supply chain planning solution,
from strategic supply chain optimization to detailed production
scheduling, and everything in between. Optimity’s collaborative
platform brings together all stakeholders for collaborative planning.

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Company Management Description
PAXON Energy
& Infrastructure
Services
paxonengineering.
com
Pleasanton, CA
Nooshin Behroyan
CEO
PAXONEnergy& Infrastructureis anaward-winningWomenBusiness
Enterprise (WBE/DBE) and Top 100 fastest growing professional
services firm in the fields of oil, gas, and utilities.
ProvenDB
provendb.com
Australia
Guy Harrison
Founder, and CTO
ProvenDB uses Blockchain technology to create the world’s first
genuinelytrustworthydatabase.ProvenDBisforregulatedindustries,
or wherever impeccable data integrity is crucial. ProvenDB bridges
the gap between database and blockchain.
Quantex
quantex-arc.com
London, UK
Dr. Paul Pankhurst
CEO, and Chairman
Quantex is the innovative leader in single-use disposable pump
technology. The organization supplies single-use pumps and also
provide a design and development service for custom applications.
Qvalia
qvalia.com
Stockholm, Sweden
Henri Taipale
Founder and CEO
Qvaliaimprovesandautomatesfinancialprocesses.Theorganization
is the leading Nordic expert in transaction analysis, and its software
solutions provide complete automation capabilities in accounts
payable, accounts receivable, and transactional accounting.
Response Mine
Interactive
responsemine.com
Atlanta, GA
Ken Robbins
CEO & Founder
Response Mine Interactive (RMI) is an industry-leading digital
marketing services firm that expertly wields customer acquisition
and retention data. RMI focuses on honest, meaningful feedback
to create dominant online brands in the e-commerce, healthcare,
retail, travel, and home services markets.
S3 Security
S3security.com
DALLAS, TX
Mitchelle
Schanbaum
CEO
S3 has successfully helped organizations implement and oversee
their information security, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory
compliance initiatives. By understanding the business, culture,
environment, and staff, S3 specializes in maintaining truly secure
environments without limiting business growth.
SanUVAire
sanuvaire.com
Orchard Park, NY
Chad Sleiman
CEO
SanUVAire is the leader in Indoor Air Quality - IAQ using the
ONLY Patented and Licensed Breathe-Safe Ultraviolet Germicidal
Irradiation Technology for Transit. SanUVAire excels in problem-
solving, consulting, design, and development of Indoor Air Quality
(IAQ) Improvement Technology.
Scientia Consulting
Group
scientiaconsulting.eu
Fifth Avenue, NY
Alexandros C.
Argyriou
CEO
Scientia is a worldwide FinTech Consulting & Software Development
Firm based in London - United Kingdom, with offices also in New York
and Athens. Scientia provides the data, tools, and expertise needed
to deliver market-beating digital banking products and services.
Siemens USA
siemens.com
Munich
Joe Kaeser
President & CEO
Siemens is a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of
electrification, automation, and digitalization. Siemens is a leading
supplier of systems for power generation and transmission, as well
as medical diagnosis.
Silver Lining
Information
Technology
sh-silverlining.com
JingAn, Shanghai
Allen Yen
CEO
Silver Lining Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a born-for-cloud
start-up company that focuses on providing professional services
on the cloud, including cloud architecture design, implementation,
and operations and billing management to enterprise customers.

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Company Management Description
SPLICE Software
splicesoftware.com
Calgary, Alberta
Tara Kelly
President & CEO
SPLICE Software supports businesses in developing the best
communication programs and strategies to ensure overall customer
satisfaction. SPLICE partners with great organizations to drive
industry-leading reach and unparalleled results.
SRX
srx-tech.com
Valley Stream, NY
Scott Taylor
Founding Principal
& CEO
SRX was established by a group of experts in the LTC and skilled
nursing space who wanted to develop a solution that addressed the
complexity of managing pharmacy spending. SRX delivers the most
complete solution in the Industry.
Star Mountain
Capital, LLC
StarMountainCapital.
com
New York
Brett A. Hickey
CEO
Star Mountain is a specialized asset management firm focused
exclusively on the U.S. lower middle-market by investing debt
and equity directly into established operating companies, making
strategicinvestmentsintofundmanagers,andpurchasingsecondary
fund positions.
Stellar Cyber
stellarcyber.ai
Santa Clara, CA
Changming Liu
CEO & Co-Founder
Stellar Cyber’s industry-leading security infrastructure data
collection analysis and automated anywhere detection and
response (XDR) mechanisms improves productivity and empower
security analysts to kill threats in minutes instead of days or weeks.
Vantagepoint Soft-
ware
vantagepointsoft-
ware.com
Wesley Chapel, FL
Lane Mendelsohn
President
Vantagepoint software is the first trading software developer in the
world to introduce strategy backtesting capabilities in trading soft-
ware for personal computers. Vantagepoint software remains at the
forefront of trading software research and software development.
VativoRx
vativorx.com
Miami, FL
Lisa Quarterman
Managing Partner
VativoRx is a full service, innovative, leading solutions provider in
Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM). VativoRx develops and oper-
ates prescription benefit programs that provide cost savings on for-
mulary and non-formulary medications to the company and stake-
holders.
ViewQwest
viewqwest.com
Bellevue, WA
Vignesa Moorthy
Founder, CEO
ViewQwest is a regional telecommunications & information technol-
ogy services company with headquarters in Singapore. The com-
pany specializes in providing Connectivity (local, regional, global),
Managed Network, Managed SD-WAN, and Managed Security solu-
tions.
VMware
vmware.com
Palo Alto, CA
Pat Gelsinger
CEO
VMware believes that software has the power to unlock new pos-
sibilities for people and our planet. VMware streamlines organiza-
tions’ journey to becoming digital businesses that deliver better ex-
periences to their customers and empower employees to do their
best work.
Vula Telematix
vulatelematix.co.za
Johannesburg,
Gauteng
Agnat Max Mak-
goale
CEO
Vula Telematix, in partnership with Ingenu, operates ‘The Machine
Network S.A.,’​a dedicated network providing for the Internet of
Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine Solutions. By enabling sim-
ple and seamless connectivity for the IoT, Vula Telematix enables
organizations of all types to focus on their business and not on the
technology.
WEB Biotechnology
spyderecg.com
Singapore
Dr. Philip Wong
Interim CEO & CMO
WEB offers the Spyder ECG platform, the world’s first direct patient
to database ECG system that transcends huge distances, improving
patient accessibility, data connectivity, and physician reactivity for
Cardiac Rhythm Management.

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these organizations were able to convince themselves
that the challenges of adopting this technology were too
burdensome or that they were too busy to advance this
critical function. Remote working during the Covid-19
pandemic has further exposed the risks associated with
manual proposal processes. In addition to proposal
efficiency and accuracy improvements, Expedience
Software helps customers scale their team and become
more capable of working remotely.
Before adopting Expedience Software, it is common for
organizations to have a chaotic proposal process and
have proposal content spread across many files and
locations. As a part of the implementation process, the
Expedience professional services team helps customers
formalize a scalable and efficient proposal process
fueled by a well-organized, up-to-date content library.
Because the content library stores native Word content, it
can store anything that can be inserted into a Word
document, such as images, charts, resumes, and even
videos, and can be saved with formatting completely
intact.
usinesses with complex solution sales are
commonly required to submit a formal proposal
or response to RFP to win new business. Most of
these organizations manually build these
documents by searching and copying/pasting content
into the next proposal from previously written proposal
content. The process is sluggish, inconsistent, and riddled
with errors. The use of proposal software removes these
manual measures, allowing writers to build
business-winning proposals and RFP responses more
efficiently and reliably.
“Expedience Software solves this problem by bringing
proposal software to the application that all proposal
writers use – Microsoft Word,” stated Melissa Mabon,
President and CEO. "The use of Word ensures strong
user adoption and simplified training for users. Content
may be selected, formatted, and inserted into proposals
without ever leaving the Word environment.”
Nearly every company that manually creates proposals
knows that there is a better way. Historically, many of
Expedience Software:
Proposal Software You Already
Know How to Use
Melissa Mabon,
President and CEO
Built in Microsoft Word
these organizations were able to convince themselves
that the challenges of adopting this technology were too
burdensome or that they were too busy to advance this
critical function. Remote working during the Covid-19
pandemic has further exposed the risks associated with
manual proposal processes. In addition to proposal
efficiency and accuracy improvements, Expedience
Software helps customers scale their team and become
more capable of working remotely.
Before adopting Expedience Software, it is common for
organizations to have a chaotic proposal process and
have proposal content spread across many files and
locations. As a part of the implementation process, the
Expedience professional services team helps customers
formalize a scalable and efficient proposal process
fueled by a well-organized, up-to-date content library.
Because the content library stores native Word content, it
can store anything that can be inserted into a Word
document, such as images, charts, resumes, and even
videos, and can be saved with formatting completely
intact.
usinesses with complex solution sales are
commonly required to submit a formal proposal
or response to RFP to win new business. Most of
these organizations manually build these
documents by searching and copying/pasting content
into the next proposal from previously written proposal
content. The process is sluggish, inconsistent, and riddled
with errors. The use of proposal software removes these
manual measures, allowing writers to build
business-winning proposals and RFP responses more
efficiently and reliably.
“Expedience Software solves this problem by bringing
proposal software to the application that all proposal
writers use – Microsoft Word,” stated Melissa Mabon,
President and CEO. "The use of Word ensures strong
user adoption and simplified training for users. Content
may be selected, formatted, and inserted into proposals
without ever leaving the Word environment.”
Nearly every company that manually creates proposals
knows that there is a better way. Historically, many of

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The Content Portfolio is a Microsoft Word ribbon
containing dropdown galleries of user's reusable content
that can be searched, previewed, and inserted into the
user's RFP or proposal. A complete set of finishing step
tools ensure that proposal documents are completed
correctly with names, addresses, and other fields
replaced appropriately before releasing the document.
The Style Palette allows the creation of consistently
branded, beautifully formatted proposals every time.
Using the Style Palette, users can embed the corporate
style guide inside of Microsoft Word. Users centralize
styles and core proposal elements into a simple and
intuitive ribbon directly in Microsoft Word. The Style
Palette also houses standard design elements that wrap
around a proposal, such as cover pages, headers,
footers, table styles, and other essential proposal
elements that are always readily at hand.
Expedience Software has successfully improved the
proposal process for organizations in multiple industries
of varying sizes and languages. In the example of their
client itelligence, the global bid team sought to simplify
complex data using Expedience.
itelligence Enhances Proposal Creation
with Expedience
For more than 30 years, as an SAP Global Platinum
Partner, itelligence has helped companies optimize and
enhance their IT environments.
The Global Managed Services Solution Design and other
proposal teams generate several 100 proposals a year
with an order value of 100,000 euros up to 2-digit million
euro amounts.
A key challenge in the proposal process was
incorporating extensive data from a sophisticated
Microsoft Excel-based pricing tool for Managed Cloud
offerings into their Microsoft Word proposals while
maintaining careful and consistent formatting throughout.
In addition, the itelligence bid team produces proposals
in both English and German and needed a solution that
would support the delivery of high-quality proposals in
both languages as well as content development and
content management in multiple languages.
Expedience delivered an automated proposal solution
that integrated fully with the bid team’s internal
calculation tool. The team no longer loses time by
manually entering, checking, and rechecking figures
from the calculation tool. Now, data is automatically
inserted into the proposal, with the client-specific
Microsoft Excel information and pricing tables created
through Expedience without any additional manual
effort.
Due to Microsoft's significant investment in the Office 365
platform, Microsoft Word's evolution has set the stage for
the unique new features of the Expedience proposal
automation solution. These advances include much more
comprehensive and unified task coordination,
collaboration, and planning capabilities.
With over 25 years of experience in proposal automation,
the Expedience leadership team originally founded
Pragmatech Software, suppliers of The RFP Machine.
The team combines extensive experience in sales and
proposal processes with a deep understanding of
Microsoft Office automation.
Expedience Software helps sales and proposal teams
create simple, precise, and beautiful proposals directly
from Microsoft Office. Users can easily automate RFP &
RFI answers (even Excel RFPs!), FAQs, DDQs, SOWs,
Questionnaires, PowerPoint, and more. Expedience is the
trusted solution for financial, healthcare, legal,
manufacturing, and technology organizations worldwide.
“Expedience Software
solves this problem by
bringing proposal software
to the application that all
proposal writers use –
Microsoft Word,”

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H&M Bay was established in 1982 by Walt Messick and Lawrence
Hayman and has since become one of the nation’s premier LTL
(less than truckload) brokerage firms. Following the deregulation
of the trucking industry in the early 80s, the two founders
recognized the unfulfilled demand in the frozen and refrigerated
LTL market and formed a business with the tagline “service is what
we sell...and we won’t see you short.” This vision holds strong
today as almost four decades later, H&M Bay delivers excellence
in service and operations, transporting 20 million pounds of food
across America each week. H&M Bay is honored to repeatedly be
recognized with leading industry awards, including being a Top
3PL Provider by Food Logistics for 13 consecutive years.
Practical knowledge, driven ambition, and dedication to
exceptional customer service have led H&M Bay to become one
of the top LTL brokerage firms in the country today. H&M Bay has
remained a driving force of excellence from their very first load
almost four decades ago to the impressive amount of cold and
frozen food and commodities it currently transports each week.
The organization is proud to provide logistics, cold storage, and
temperature-controlled LTL delivery of goods through the food
supply chain, focusing on customer satisfaction that is stronger
than ever. The specializations include frozen and refrigerated LTL
transportation for manufacturers, retailers, and distributors who
rely on high-tech logistical expertise to deliver baked goods, dairy
products, meat, seafood, prepared foods, and more.
H&M Bay is a reliable cold & frozen transport partner who
understands that there's no room for error when it comes to
perishables. The organization invests in innovative tech along with
an impressive independent trucker network, so with H&M Bay, the
temperature is always right, from storage to delivery. H&M Bay
strives to beat competitive pricing to win new business and have the
opportunity to prove its operational excellence & superior service.
Customers appreciate their industry award-
winning logistics, as the technology of H&M Bay allows
real-time communication, paired with warehouse consolidation
expertise that maximizes timeliness and efficiencies into final
delivery destinations. The nationwide storage facilities allow
re-routing for temporary or long-term storage as needed.
H&M Bay’s state-of-the-art technology allows members of
the supply chain to know where each load stands. The
automated web-based systems, barcode technology, and
intuitive mobile app provide the team, trucker network, and
valued customers real-time data from order through delivery.
When a client starts working with H&M Bay, they patner with
an industry-recognized leader with proven customer service
and operating performance. The H&M Bay family sees it as
their personal duty to stay well connected and provide
superior service to every customer.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as many states have undergone
unprecedented changes, many activities have reduced; so volume
H&M BAY:
Delivering Efficient and
Reliable Transportation of
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Freight

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reductions and
pick-up/delivery
cancellations are happening
due to safer-at-home orders
and catering, event, and
restaurant closures. H&M Bay is
working in real-time with customers to
re-route and store their refrigerated and frozen
food until it can be rescheduled. The logistics team and
drivers are working overtime helping food companies keep
up with demand surges as consumers stockpile groceries and
reduce trips to supermarkets. With truck stop closures and
unforeseen obstacles for some drivers, the organization is helping
everyone stay connected via their hi-tech customer portal and
mobile app to navigate through these challenging times and pivot
where needed successfully.
With an increased need for temporary storage space for
commodities that have delayed scheduling. H&M Bay has been
happy to offer overflow storage space across its 9 facilities
nationwide to customers who lack space and have experienced
inventory build-ups. The customers associated with H&M Bay are
reinventing how commodities are packaged and delivered, from
the intended foodservice packaging and deliveries to creative
redirection for grocery warehouse redelivery. Last-minute
cancellations require hi-tech communications and re-routing
efficiencies.
Technology has enabled widespread growth in the trucking
industry. From the invention of refrigeration and the first portable
air-cooling unit allowing cold chain transport back in the 1930s to
technical advances in corporate offices of trucking companies, to
the very trucks themselves, technology is a critical part of today's
cold chain. Supply chain management software (SCMS) helps
streamline operations with incredible efficiency. Trucks are
equipped with smart technology to track temperatures for food
safety, enhance communications, and provide geo-location data.
Mobile apps offer instantaneous notifications across the chain,
allowing information to be shared in the event of redeliveries,
delays, road condition concerns, and confirmation of deliveries.
There are growing technological advances that allow H&M Bay to
offer superior service, security, and transparency to customers.
Through H&M Bay’s hi-tech systems, the customers enjoy
real-time status reports on orders and delivery for LTL
cross-dock information and a host of other valuable on-demand,
web-based services, and data. Barcode technology and
computerized
dispatch allow
a u t o m a t e d
identification and
tracking of pallets in
select storage and
consolidation centers. The
use of barcoding allows faster and more accurate tracking of
pallets in cross-docking, reducing downtime and saving time
and money. Since implementing barcode pallet tracking in July
2012, H&M Bay has significantly improved its receiving process
without the need to wait for RFID readers to recognize the tag,
or the dreaded manual data entry and downtime resulting from
an inaccurate reading. Employees can scan these larger
barcodes on the move from up to 45 feet away, making them
easier to read than the previous RFID tags.
H&M Bay takes great pride in its national footprint with 9 locations
across America. The LTL cold storage, consolidation centers, and
pick-up areas provide regional pick-up and nationwide delivery. The
organization intends to complete a rollout of the latest in barcoding
technology across all facilities by the end of 2020. Superior
customer service and hi-tech communications paired with
competitive pricing and operational excellence, offer significant
added value for customers’ temperature-controlled LTL shipments,
storage, cross-dock, redeliveries, and unique or late requests. H&M
Bay works with the mission to remain faithful to the connected roots
of hard work and customer satisfaction as the organization
continues to provide hi-tech logistical services through transporting
over 20 million pounds of temperature-controlled LTL freight across
America each week; when keeping it cold counts.
“H&M Bay is a reliable cold & frozen transport
partner who understands that there's no room
for error when it comes to perishables.”
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HOTB Software had its founding in developing large enterprise
software solutions for federal and state governments that have
allocated well above $6 billion dollars. Building off that foundation,
HOTB now provides the leading and most comprehensive
award-winning enterprise and cloud-based business and
compliance process risk mitigation software. Focusing primarily in
the ambulatory surgery center space and now broadening out to
other healthcare verticals such as behavioral health and nursing
homes, SCT/CoreCompli has made waves in the healthcare
industry, leading HOTB to capture an exclusive partnership with
Medline to assist healthcare facilities in managing and navigating
the complicated accreditation and compliance landscape.
The founders of HOTB Software found that staying compliant and
attaining industry accreditation/certifications is a significant pain
point for the healthcare industry. Given that patients have a choice
of their healthcare provider, the quality of care is a paramount
concern and compliance plays directly into that notion. However,
HOTB found that many facilities were still running their compliance
programs through paper, binders and excel. HOTB Software aimed
to take digital transformation to compliance to reach the last mile
with a zero-tolerance culture. “Being recognized with MedTech
Breakthrough Award 2020, for innovation in Healthcare data, has
inspired us to continue to work hard and deliver true business value
to companies globally,” said Andy Firoved, CEO of HOTB
Software.
HOTB Software’s highly configurable SaaS
solution is also touching other
sectors such as the services industry and government as these
industries also have shortcomings within their compliance program.
The healthcare facilities served by the SCT/CoreCompli include
Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Hospital, Addiction & Substance
Abuse, Behavioral Health Centers, Nursing Homes/LTC, and
Pharmacy & Labs. “The pre-built digital platform solution of HOTB
Software ensures organization-level, and facility compliance
prioritizes staff and patient health, and guarantees operational
continuity even at a time of emergency events. The solution aims to
foster the culture of compliance continuity and make healthcare
facilities future-proof for unprecedented emergencies like the one
we are currently facing- Covid-19,” added Firoved, CEO of HOTB.
As for the healthcare industry, today is more challenging than ever,
with constant shifts in regulations, reporting requirements, and
reimbursement models. Healthcare facilities recognize the
importance of earning and maintaining their customers’ trust and
high cost of non-compliance. But from a practical standpoint,
managing compliance programs well is time-consuming and
difficult, and if the process is done manually, then there are chances
of errors. Many healthcare facilities struggle to find adequate time
and resources to maintain compliance continuity and random
audits and surveys are costly in terms of human capital and
extra support costs.
HOTB Software’s one-stop digital solution,
SCT/CoreCompli streamlines the
entire process of compliance
management,
A Leading SaaS Provider in the
Compliance Sector
HOTB SOFTWARE:HOTB SOFTWARE:
Andy Firo
ved,CEO

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◼ Quickly communicate updated
policies to all of your locations via automated
texts, emails, and phone calls.
◼ Monitor employee health, employment data at the click of a
button
◼ Compliance reporting output precisely in the format prescribed
by governing authority
◼ Instant incident reporting mechanism
By adapting quickly and planning for new and emerging risks and
challenges, compliance teams can help mitigate risk and support
business strategy for organizations to navigate the crisis
successfully. As things tend to change almost daily or weekly, it is
now, crucial that compliance teams have a seat at the table when
business plans and meetings take place and make (or re-create)
such a case for a seat at the table.
In general, compliance technology has begun as nothing more than
a significant data storage location for documentation. However,
cost efficiency, stringent and constantly changing rules and
regulations, staff productivity, has propelled the need for process
automation, event-triggered alerts to staff, and advanced data
analytics. Advancements in Big Data, AI, and Cloud have enabled
institutions to automate processes and solution workflows that
previously required dedicated human intervention. These
innovative technologies help reduce errors and speed up
processes, freeing up resources to perform higher-level functions
such as reviewing alerts and developing responses. HOTB’s SaaS
solution is built with the understanding of where the market is
developing in regard to digital compliance platforms.
HOTB is proactively working towards software enhancements
based on existing and potential client requirements, market needs,
inputs from subject matter experts, advisory groups, and
accordingly, establishing its product roadmap and associated
criticalities & priority levels. This advisory process includes periodic
knowledge sharing and feedback discussions and annual user
group conferences. Besides, HOTB has a dedicated marketing
research team that does extensive research on new services and
analyzes healthcare facility challenges. HOTB Software is
expanding its footprint in the North American market, meeting the
niche requirements of the healthcare community.
HOTB Software has worked with several facilities of different sizes,
and each of the customer success stories illustrates how HOTB and
its clients are improving healthcare together — from more efficient
compliance process workflows to delivering quality patient care to
helping compliance department of healthcare facilities- maximize
the use of their healthcare data and timely completion of
accreditation surveys. The cost of non-compliance is high that
leaves companies at risk for financial losses, data security breach,
business license revocations, business disruptions, poor patient
care, erosion of patient trust, and a damaged brand reputation,
which serves no one.
internal process
controls, accreditation
requirements, and operational
reporting at for healthcare facilities. The
solution eliminates manual processes by
digitizing policies, procedures, logs, online survey
forms, creating a central database and document
repository, and workflow automation, with check-ins and
proactive operational reminders. As a single-source-of-information,
the platform stores and supports remediation activities to prove
continuous facility compliance and continuous auditing approach.
HOTB Software’s facility and employee compliance capabilities
cover a dozen areas, ranging from compliance certifications,
employee data management, facility records, policy and
procedures inventory, dynamic survey forms, incident reporting,
automated reminders, and much more.
Many HOTB customers faced major challenges before the
implementation of SCT/CoreCompli: managing large volumes of
policies, procedures, overworked staff with a significant amount of
time consumed in administration activities, low employee
satisfaction, and tremendous cost pressure and need for more staff
recruits. The list of challenges also includes lack of attention that
has been paid to medication safety issues, enforcing policies and
procedures that made them vulnerable for penalties, growing
incidents of fraud cases in the facility, and allocating extra time for
continuous staff training sessions.
After the implementation of HOTB's solution, the audit/survey
preparation time reduced by 60-70%, survey duration came down
to 5 to 6 hours, which is 80% less time than average time taken and
a decrease in deficiencies were reported in each instance. Average
cost reduction came down 5x times, and also employee productivity
has gone up by 30-40%.
The onset of Covid-19 has dramatically reshaped life as we know it.
Healthcare providers are the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. In
the U.S., efforts to support healthcare facilities have resulted in rapid
changes to the regulatory environment. HOTB is actively monitoring
the changing healthcare compliance landscape and sharing
insights with the existing customers. HOTB is building new features
such as an enhanced compliance checklist to help assist with the
various changes occurring in this environment. There is a strong
push from stakeholders to re-strategizing/re-designing their
compliance programs on the following:
◼ Address rapid chan
ges and emergency additions to business process, facility
standards, and other mandatory requirements
◼ Collect and share relevant, educational documentation
surrounding protocols, policies, procedures, and SOPs, for staff
operating at multiple locations.
◼ Quickly and efficiently onboard new data attributes, audit
forms, survey questions, new certifications, and accreditations.
“HOTB Software aimed to take digital
transformation to compliance to reach
the last mile with a zero-tolerance
culture.”

36. HZO is led by a diverse, world-class leadership team
from around the world. Each member is a
recognized expert in their fields, doing their part to
ensure HZO and the customers' success.
By 2025 there will be over 41.6 billion devices,
transforming the way we work, play, communicate,
and get things done. These connected electronics
will traverse industries, from industrial to automotive,
medical devices, consumer electronics, and IoT and
will operate in diverse environments, serving a
multitude of functions. Although the electronic
components in connected devices vary, they share a
few commonalities. Electronic components are
intricately sensitive. Many environmental factors
can irrevocably damage devices, leading to
total shutdown, including humidity, pollutants,
salt fog, standing water, rain, and other
corrosives. These components are also
generationally valuable. If electronics can
run reliably, this can boost brand
reputation and lead to increased
loyalty and ancillary purchases,
driving significant revenue for
decades and ages.
Conversely, if electronics fail
without warning, this can
lead to unnecessary costs
was founded in 2011 and is a global
leader in delivering world-class
protective nanocoatings that safeguard electronics
from the most demanding corrosive and liquid
environments. “The organization brings people,
processes, capital equipment, and material science
together, leveraging an extensive portfolio of
patents to create unique solutions to meet specific
customer requirements,” said James T. Fahey, CEO
of HZO. The company delivers a better, more
reliable, and durable water-resistant and waterproof
product, which reduces costly returns, improves
customer loyalty and drives overall brand value.
Shielding Electronics from
Challenging Corrosive and
Liquid Environments
James T. Fahey, CEO
associated with downtime,
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warranty returns, repairs, or recalls. With these ideas
in mind, the founders evaluated the electronic
protection options available. Mechanical seals are
unreliable; traditional conformal coatings require
solvents and curing time and can be thick and bulky.
Vendors that do provide Parylene often only offer
one piece of the puzzle, material, or equipment when
they render services. Competitors that offer
nanocoating solutions often cast a wide net with a
one-size-fits-all solution that can leave businesses
feeling pigeonholed. There had to be a better way,
and HZO has set out to innovate that solution.
“In this competitive market, to stay ahead in the race,
HZO adds chemical composition profiles to the
expansive Spectrum of Protection™ portfolio of
coating solutions with Parylene, Plasma, Hybrid, and
Atomic Layer Deposition” adds James T. Fahey.
Atomic layer deposition delivers nanocoatings at
precision thickness, so the organization is perfecting
the process to fill this need. HZO understands that
businesses need custom solutions sometimes, so it
continues to drive unchartered innovations on
Parylene-based hybrid coating solutions.
Additionally, for businesses that need protection at a
competitive price-point, the nanocoating solutions
provided by HZO are always evolving.
HZO delivers more than Parylene for consumer
electronics. HZO provides an innovative Spectrum
of Protection, offers Parylene competitively and
quickly, can coat anything anywhere (whether it is
with the factory-in-factory or coating-as-a-service
business model).
Clients often have trouble coordinating a thin-film
solution. Other vendors may only offer material or
equipment, and it is usually up to the client to find
technicians and manage all the different operations
and production variables. HZO helps clients
overcome these challenges with its turnkey solution,
which means that HZO is ready to deploy at any time
with the best people, equipment, processes, and
material science to meet the standards of excellence
for clients.
Intellectual property portfolios can represent
technological advancements and nanotechnology
leadership. IP assets such as patents, trademarks,
and industry secrets signal a dedication to research
and development and foster innovation. HZO’s IP
portfolio has over 370 assets, and it continues to
advance. The organization draws upon the insights in
their IP portfolio to produce solutions that provide
exceptional service that other vendors cannot offer,
such as automated masking and demasking.
Masking is an essential part of a conformal coating
application; it is the process of sealing off electrical
components that should not be covered in the
coating. However, with Parylene, masking can be
very costly and time-intensive. HZO offers automated
masking, semi-automated, and manual masking to
optimize efficiency, yield, and drive down costs.
HZO has worked with several industries of different
sizes. Although it is not possible to mention all of the
Fortune 100 customers by name, HZO has worked
with industry leaders in consumer electronics, top
tier automotive companies, industrial giants, IoT
trailblazers, and is diversifying into protecting
medical devices in the healthcare market. Dell,
Nike, PRISMVIEW -a subsidiary of Samsung, Sarcos,
Netatmo, and Kobo are few companies that have
worked with HZO.
In terms of technological expansion, HZO is pushing
the limit with laser ablation, plasma ashing, and
plasma etching. The organization is also perfecting
the nanocoatings, speeding up the Parylene process
andmakingtheatomiclayerdepositionprocessmore
efficient while decreasing costs every step of the way.
Geographically, HZO is planning to expand its global
footprint of 15 worldwide locations covering North
America, Europe, and Asia as the market demands.
“By 2025 there will be over 41.6 billion
devices,transforming the way we work,play,
communicate,and get things done.”

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COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
AIAbout To Avoid

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isconceptions about artificial
intelligence (AI) and the processes behind
it spread like wildfire in a world where big
data, automation, and neural networks have become
daily lingo. Naturally, AI's vast and unprecedented
potential applications tend to generate a lot of
buzzes, especially concerning the economy.
However, people tend to mischaracterize or
misunderstand the sense of AI, which serves only to
weaken its potential as a transformative technology.
Let's clarify the most common misconceptions of AI,
to get a more grounded understanding of this
emerging technology and its potential cases of use.
AI is taking away my work: Arguably, the most
common and potentially dangerous misconception
about artificial intelligence is that it will take jobs
away from people. Automation leads to increased
flexibility for several other low-skilled workers, but in
recent years this phenomenon has dramatically
overblown. However, most scientific estimates show
that automation powered by the AI is likely to
generate more jobs than it will displace. AI in the
workplace can improve how people and businesses
do their jobs, rather than eliminating the need for
people to do those jobs entirely.
AI works just like a human brain: This is a
widespread AI-related untruth generally accepted as
fact. The fact is, AI is quite a simple field with
particular applications to a large extent. Indeed,
there is plenty of evidence that AI effectively defeats
humans at a chess game or imitates a person
through Siri's witty voice responses. This isn't
anything more than a dreamscape, though. AI cannot
understand or comprehend its environment, nor can
it truly "know" from its environment in the same
manner as humans do. Simply put, we're
also a long, long way from AI, which can
even do simple human stuff like reading
a book or putting on a suit and tie.
AI algorithms are neutral systems and
are unbiased: You may already know this
because in the news these days, it gets a
lot of coverage, but AI is actually not
impartial or objective. AI would be
just as good as the people or company that built it.
Also, when businesses use examples, AI's efficiency
and trustworthiness differ enormously. Let's take an
example of one widespread case of usage: forex
trading robots, which use AI to help financial traders
make currency market decisions. There are several
different AI robots, but industry experts like Top
Rated Forex Brokers provide painstakingly
comprehensive reviews of Forex Robots'
trustworthiness as trading tools indicate that not all
AIs are neutral or trustworthy. AI is often easily
misrepresented to people who have so much trust in
the technology itself.
AI is too challenging for the laypeople to grasp:
Most people who don't have a background in
computer science are automatically dissuaded from
trying to understand and take advantage of AI,
wrongly thinking that scientists can comprehend it. AI
processes are, in fact, easy and can be generated
with just two or three lines of code. AI is nothing more
than a processor; to get the results you want, you
feed the data into it. It operates effortlessly, so
anyone who wishes to devote a small amount of time
to studying the basic tenets of it can easily
understand. There is far too much gatekeeping of AI,
particularly among AI experts, which only serves to
alienate those who may best benefit from its uses.
Around AI, there are a lot of myths, but those are the
most pernicious. You should set the record straight
the next time you hear one of those misinformed
comments.

40. iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (NASDAQ: ICLK) is an
independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions
provider that connects worldwide marketers with audiences in
China. Built on cutting-edge technologies, iClick's proprietary
platform possesses omni-channel marketing capabilities and
fulfills various marketing objectives in a data-driven and
automated manner. The company helps both international and
domestic marketers reach their target audiences in China.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, iClick was established in 2009
and operates in ten locations worldwide, including Asia and
Europe.
Since its establishment in 2009, iClick Interactive was founded
with a vision to redefine the digital marketplace with data,
insights, and innovation. “From 2009 until now, iClick has been
through a journey of milestone developments. The birth of the
company, continuous product evolution, investments and
mergers, and acquisitions – not to mention conglomeration, the
setting up of 10 branch offices around the global to support
business expansion, four rounds of fundraising and the listing on
Nasdaq in late 2017,” said Dr. Jian Tang, CEO, and Co-Founder
of iClick Interactive.
Setting sights on the China market, iClick built a first-of-its-kind
R&D center in China to engage in advanced data mining and
algorithmic technology development to empower iClick
Interactive’s marketing technology capabilities. The company
capitalized on the opportunities to develop overseas markets by
continuously strengthening its marketing technology
capabilities. In the second half of 2018, iClick officially unveiled a
new round of strategy upgrades towards the new positioning of
‘integrated enterprise and marketing cloud platform’. Besides,
the company's organizational structure was strengthened, by
which a new smart retail division and an innovation institute were
launched riding on the original advertising and marketing
business.
Here are the strategic attributes that led to the growth of iClick
and distinguished the company from competitors:
◼ Leading independent online marketing technology platform
in China with a highly scalable and flexible business model.
◼ Largest independent Chinese consumer data set covering
930M+ with omni-channel, targeted audience reach.
◼ Highly sophisticated and automated platform powered by
proprietary, cutting-edge technologies.
◼ Strong, diverse, and loyal client base.
◼ Deep knowledge and familiarity with China’s online
marketing industry.
◼ Visionary leadership with a proven track record of organic
growth and acquisition execution.
iClick Interactive Asia
Group Limited:
A Multi-Channel Online
Marketing and Enterprise
Data Solutions Provider
Dr. Jian Tang,
CEO
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