Sponsors

Since its founding in 1994, the Connecticut Technology Council has enjoyed the continued extraordinary support of numerous financial sponsors. Our current sponsors have enabled CTC to stimulate and facilitate the growth and awareness of technology-based companies throughout Connecticut.

 

Corporate Champion:	Catalyst Sponsors:
AT&T Connecticut	Cierant Corporation
	Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Media Sponsors
Business New Haven

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Access Northeast

Access Northeast is the largest privately held Datacenter and Managed Services provider in New England. With over a decade of experience providing managed IT infrastructure, we’ve designed a solution set that focuses on helping companies maximize their application and service availability while meeting their dynamic IT needs.

 

 

Accuvant
Accuvant is the only research-driven information security partner delivering alignment between IT security and business objectives, clarity to complex security challenges and confidence in complex security decisions. Accuvant delivers these solutions through three practice areas: Risk and Compliance Management, Accuvant LABS,and SolutionServices. Since 2002, more than 3,900 organizations, including 65 of the Fortune 100 and 20 of the largest U.S. Federal Agencies, have trusted Accuvant with their security challenges. Headquartered in Denver, Accuvant has offices in 36 cities in the U.S and Canada.

 

Array Networks
Array Inc. is a global leader in enterprise secure application delivery and universal access solutions for the rapidly growing SSL VPN and application delivery controller (ADC) markets. More than 3,000 customers worldwide – including enterprises, service providers, government and vertical organizations in healthcare, finance, insurance and education – rely on Array to provide anytime, anywhere secure and optimized application access. Industry leaders including Deloitte, Red Herring, Gartner, and Frost and Sullivan have recognized Array as a market and technology leader.

 

AT&T
helps businesses thrive in a competitive marketplace with customized, cost-effective voice, video and data solutions. They offer wireline and wireless communications; network and information management; Internet access; and publishing and advertising services. With 120 years of dedicated service to Connecticut, AT&T is uniquely positioned to help customers use new technologies in their business and personal lives.

 

 

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 135 affiliates in 47 countries and 39,800 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.

 

Business New Haven

Conntact.com is published by Second Wind Media Ltd.SWM also publishes Business New Haven, New Haven magazine and Book of Lists CT. Content on CONNTACT.com originates from Business New Haven, our other websites, other publications and websites (through links) and users and contributors. We also publish several websites including: www.ctclix.com, www.ctcalendar.com, www.cteducation.com, ctdataengine.com, and ctsmallbusiness.com, in progress.

 

Cantor Colburn LLP

Specializes in intellectual property law. The law of intangibles. Providing the skills and experience needed to help companies both large and small succeed in this critically important area of the law. Their practice covers all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, computer, trade secret and related licensing and litigation. Cantor Colburn's expertise extends to diverse industries such as biotechnology, telecommunications, polymeric materials, optical imaging, petroleum, electrical power systems, medical instrumentation, software, optics, and  industrial safety protection products.

 

Champion Solutions Group
Champion Solutions Group is an Independent Solutions Provider focused on cloud and virtualization services and data management solutions that reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve application availability for more than thirty years. Champion’s active customer base has grown by 42% in the past twelve months. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, Champion services organizations along the east coast and into Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

 

Cierant Corporation
Powering The People Who Power The Brands.
A division of the Command Family of Companies, Cierant is able to deliver all the
tools and services that are necessary to provide full-service solutions that improve
sales and marketing effectiveness.
Through its internal resources, Cierant can deliver:

• Digital and conventional print
• Pre-media and graphic enhancement
• Automated document composition
• Inventory management
• Digital asset management
• Database management
• Fulfillment and distribution

 

CNA Insurance
As the 7th largest U.S. commercial insurer and the 13th largest U.S. property & casualty insurer, CNA provides insurance protection to more than one million businesses and professionals in the U.S. and internationally.Headquartered in Chicago, CNA works with highly professional independent agents and brokers to ensure customers receive the personal service and attention they look for in a carrier.

 

Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc.
The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) is a nonprofit
corporation that serves as a unique economic development center of excellence for
the region, state and nation. CCAT offers a wide range of services to a diverse base
of customers that spans manufacturers, high technology firms, small businesses and entrepreneurs, educators and public policy makers. CCAT's expertise focuses on three core areas: efficiencies, workforce development and technology. All of CCAT's initiatives and programs are geared toward improving efforts in at least one of those three areas.

 

 

Connecticut Innovations, Inc.
Connecticut Innovations (CI) is a quasi-public authority dedicated to driving a vibrant, entrepreneurial, technology-based economy in Connecticut. CI stimulates high-tech growth by investing in early-stage Connecticut technology companies, technology transfer and clean energy initiatives through the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.
CI also fosters collaboration among government, business, nonprofit and academic organizations to advance technology growth and promotes public policies consistent
with CI’s mission. For more information on CI, please visit www.ctinnovations.com.

 

 

Covidien
At Covidien, we're passionate about making doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals as effective as they can be. From Autosuture to Valleylab, from Kendall to Mallinckrodt, our industry-leading brands are known worldwide for uncompromising quality. Through ongoing collaboration with medical professionals and organizations, we identify clinical needs and translate them into proven products and procedures. We've pioneered medical advances including contrast media, pulse oximetry, electrosurgery, surgical stapling and laparoscopic instrumentation. Offering an extensive product line that spans medical devices, pharmaceuticals and  medical supplies, we serve healthcare needs in hospitals, long-term care and alternate care  facilities, doctors’ offices and in the home.

 

Day Pitney LLP
400 lawyers collaborate across a range of disciplines from offices in Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C. We value our ability to provide outstanding service to our clients and the community.

 

Dell Computer
Dell Inc. is composed of more than 100,000 team members who serve the IT needs of global corporations, small and medium businesses, governments, healthcare providers, educational institutions and home computing users. From PCs and smartphones to the infrastructure and services that power complex data centers and cloud computing environments, Dell has helped millions of customers around the world achieve the outcomes that are most important to them.

 

 

Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP, founded in 1953, is internationally recognized for its work with clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Dickstein Shapiro provides strategic counsel and develops multidisciplinary legal solutions by leveraging its core strengths—litigation, regulatory, transactions, and advocacy—to successfully advance clients’ business interests.

 

 

Discover Video LLC

Discover Video LLC was founded in 2009 by Rich Mavrogeanes, the founder of VBrick Systems, Inc. The team includes Mike Savic, VP of Business Development, and senior executives in Sales, Marketing, and Engineering.  The company is located in Connecticut USA and serves customers around the world and in the Government, Corporate, Media, and Education sectors. Discover Video is a supplier of hardware software systems, and is a true value-Added Reseller for several 3rd party vendors.  We take best-in-class products and technology and package it with world-class software, streaming services, and our own software to make the use of video powerful and simple.

 

 

Economic Development Corporation of New Haven
The spirit of innovation permeates the city's business community with an appreciation for new ideas, an openness to fresh talent and a willingness to try new approaches. It is one reason why New Haven remains a thought leader in the biosciences, architecture, and manufacturing.

 

eTouches
In most business relationships, clients have a need and they seek a vendor to fill it. We can do that – that’s our admission ticket to your consideration. But we have a philosophy about our event management industry and our work that can be contagious. The way we see it, this is a fun business – people love event planning and going to events. Professionals in event planning are glad to be here, lucky to be here – if you’ve been associated with other industries, you understand.

Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina LLP
As former associates in one of the nations larger accounting firms, the partners are accomplished practitioners in a wide variety of accounting and tax issues —and are accomplished specialists in different areas of expertise, and that enables FML to meet the often-specialized needs of a wide variety of clients.

 

 

First Experience

Our clients choose First Experience Communications because they trust us and they rely on our 25+ years of knowledge and counsel in these core areas – business-to-business and institutions – to help them address critical communication and marketing challenges. We subscribe to an Integrated Marketing Communications approach, using the following tools: advertising, public relations, direct marketing, internet/web, and market research.

 

First Niagara

First Niagara, through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Niagara Bank, N.A., is a multi-state community-oriented bank that currently has approximately $31 billion in assets, $20 billion in deposits, 333 branches and 5,000 employees providing financial services to individuals, families and businesses across Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts

 

General Electric Corporation
GE is a global infrastructure, finance, and media company taking on the world's toughest challenges. From everyday light bulbs to fuel cell technology, to cleaner, more efficient jet engines, GE has continually shaped our world with groundbreaking innovations for over 130 years.

 

HB Group,Inc.
In 1988 HB Group, Inc. was created as an independent affiliate and has seen rapid growth over the years. Originally functioning simply as an Audio-Visual equipment rental house, we soon saw the need for equipment and services ranging from large screen projection, specialized computer data display, video production equipment and trade show services.

 

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Inc. provides information management services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files,    medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world.

 

J.H.COHN LLP
Founded in 1919, J.H. Cohn exemplifies its original mission of serving clients and employees with honesty and integrity, through its network of offices in New Jersey, New York, California, and Connecticut. This successful company represents the fruits of J.H. Cohn's commitment as well as an ambitious expansion strategy led by CEO Thomas J. Marino. who became the Firm’s chief executive in 1998, and led J.H. Cohn’s to become a leading provider of accounting, audit, tax, and business consulting services.

 

Kelser Corporation

Kelser Corporation provides IT solutions to insurance, finance, and corporate customers throughout the U.S. Kelser's innovative products and leading edge services are designed to enhance performance, productivity, stability, and security. Their business is centered on four critical areas (pillars) of technology; Business Intelligence, Product Supply Chain, Professional Services, and System & Software Innovation.

 

 

Marcum LLP
Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked 15th among the "Top 25 Firms" by Inside Public Accounting, Marcum offers the resources of over 950 professionals, including more than 120 partners, in 15 offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida and Grand Cayman. The Firm's presence runs deep with full service offices strategically located in major business markets.

 

Mohegan Sun
A world at play and a world to its own, Mohegan Sun, created in 1996 by the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, is one of and's finest dining, hotel accommodations, retail shopping, live entertainment and sporting events. Boasting three world-class casinos, Mohegan Sun is also host to the Kids Quest/Cyber Quest family entertainment facility, a luxurious day spa, convention center and meeting facility, a state-of-the-art Poker Room as well as three major entertainment venues with seating from 300 to 10,000. People from across the globe come to see live concerts with some of today's top headliners, along with major sporting events including Mohegan Sun's own WNBA team, the Connecticut Sun.

 

 

 

 

Open Solutions, Inc.

Open Solutions Inc. focuses on the financial services marketplace by providing state-of-the-art industry specific products and services. We provide mission critical technologies that enable our clients across the globe to strengthen relationships, improve productivity, drive new revenue, and reduce training and administrative costs. Our clients have grown to include some of the largest banks, credit unions, insurance providers, retailers and wealth management companies in the world.

 

 

 

Premier Limousine

Headquartered in Berlin CT, Premier Limousine service offers a network of ground transportation partners available to clients anywhere in the world. Its comprehensive selection of late model vehicles and luxury coaches ensure that clients always ride in their  preferred vehicle of choice. Premier Bus Lines now operate 20 coach buses, 16 mini and limo buses and 100 town cars and limousines.

 

Pullman & Comley, LLC
Pullman & Comley, LLC has played an active and distinguished role in the CT and New England business community since 1919. They represent clients in all stages of development, handling the most demanding legal matters including sophisticated corporate transactions and tax structuring for domestic and international clients, complex administrative proceedings, arbitrations, litigation and enforcement actions across the US.  With offices in five locations in CT and NY, attorneys are organized into seven key practice areas (Business Enterprises, Health Care, Litigation, Property Valuation, Public  & Commercial Finance, Real Estate and Trusts & Estates) and targeted practice sections.

 

Robert Half Technology
Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis. We offer our clients flexible, cost-effective staffing solutions that allow
them to maximize the power of technology for the ongoing success of their business.

 

Sandler Training
Sandler is a professional Sales and Sales Management training firm with 200+ offices around the world. Sandler delivers results using proven sales force development and executive coaching strategies and practices. Sandler has been awarded the #1 ranking for training programs in Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Franchise 500” nine times since 1994, most recently in 2010.

 

Shipman & Goodwin LLP
Shipman & Goodwin LLP is a full service law firm of over 130 attorneys with offices in Hartford, Stamford, Greenwich and Lakeville, CT. Through it's Ventures and Intellectual Property (VIP) Group and Intellectual Property Litigation Group, the firm has a long-standing practice of assisting high-technology and other emerging growth companies, as well as venture capital and other financing sources and financial intermediaries.

 

SIMA Search, LLC
SIMA® International is a worldwide group of consultants who use our proprietary assessment technology, SIMA®, to help our clients make the best possible "people decisions."

 

 

Total Communications

Total Communications is a single source for cutting edge telephone systems, LAN/WAN installation and support, local and long distance telephone service, and Internet services. Recently, Total has become a leader in Voice-Over-IP technology, hosted communications and network monitoring. With offices in East Hartford, Milford and Massachusetts, Total services over 11,000 businesses throughout the Northeast. Established in 1980, and is the nation’s 7th largest                                            teleconnect company.

 

 

TriNet HR Corporation
TriNet is a trusted partner to small businesses, providing critical HR-related services on an outsourced basis. TriNet’s solutions help contain costs, minimize employer-related risks and relieve administrative burden to keep an entrepreneur’s focus on core business functions. From employee benefits service and payroll processing to high-level human capital consulting, TriNet’s PEO expertise is integrated with every facet of a client’s business. TriNet specializes in serving fast-moving companies in fields such as technology and financial services, who recognize that top-quality employees are the most critical competitive asset.

 

UK Trade & Investment
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the United Kingdom Government department that helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy and also help overseas companies bring their high-quality investment to the UK's economy – acknowledged as Europe's best place from which to succeed in global business. For US companies with international ambitions, UKTI can help with identifying the right location, talent and partners, as well as navigating the logistics and legalities of opening a new office. In short, UKTI offers a fast track to your business solutions.

 

United Technologies Corporation

High technology for building and aerospace industries. United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified company whose products include Carrier heating and air conditioning, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire & Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells. www.utc.com.

 

Visual Technologies, Inc.
VISTECH.com, located out of Hartford, Connecticut offers solutions in: IT support services, software development, website development and hosting, network design, staff augmentation, consulting, software products, and network solutions. VISTECH consistently delivers cost-effective, leading-edge technological solutions to business challenges. We take a custom-tailored approach, focusing on the unique needs of each client, regardless of size.

 

 

Webster Bank
Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank, National Association. WIth $17.2 billion in assets, Webster provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, insurance, financial planning, trust and investment services through 181 banking offices, 343 ATMs, telephone banking and the Internet.  Webster Bank owns the asset-based lending firm Webster Business Credit Corporation, the insurance premium finance company Budget Installment Corp., Center Capital Corporation, an equipment finance company based in Farmington, Connecticut and provides health savings account trustee and administrative services through HSA Bank, a division of Webster Bank, Member FDIC.

 

 

Wellstone Insurance

Wellstone Insurance specializes in providing coverage for Technology companies and represents insurance companies that specialize in the unique needs of the Technology marketplace. Wellstone's expertise is in special coverages including Professional Liability (Errors & Omissions), Products Liability, Internet Liability, Director's & Officers, etc. We also help our clients to manage risks in a variety of ways in addition to insurance.