Ronald Packard

Knowledge Universe, Inc. provides online information and consulting services. It invests in companies such as internet-oriented education, day care & childhood learning, and B2B companies. The company has offices in Menlo Park and Los Angeles. Knowledge Universe was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA

Academy123, Inc. provides homework help and self-study guides for middle and high school students. The company was founded by Maury Friedman and Yarone Goren in 2004 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, CA.

The Knowledge Universe Learning Group LLC operates a nationwide network of private elementary and middle schools. It provides early childhood education in more than 300 community-based and corporate sponsored centers in the U.S. It operates under various brand names including Children's Discovery Centers and Knowledge Beginnings. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Zumbox is dedicated to creating a better way to receive and manage communications traditionally sent via paper mail. Zumbox provides the world's first platform for digital postal systems. It connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail via the Internet. Digital postal mail is an exact facsimile of paper mail created from a redirection of the print stream delivered to a secure, centralized digital mailbox and including convenient, powerful interactive features. Zumbox is certified by Verisign and TRUSTe and complies with PCI, HIPAA and BITS security standards. In addition to operating the Zumbox digital postal system, through its Zumbox Software subsidiary, the company licenses the Zumbox Platform to operators outside the United States. Zumbox is a privately held company, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.