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
	Deloitte
	Shipman & Goodwin LLP
	The Computer Company, Inc.

	Program Sponsors :
Connecticut Innovations, Inc.	Open Solutions Inc.	Tyler Cooper
Cantor Colburn LLP	Pfizer inc.	United Technologies Corporation
Cronus Partners	PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	Wellstone Insurance
Day Pitney LLP	Pullman & Comley, LLP	Wiggin & Dana LLP
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP	The Impact Group, LLC
Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina LLP

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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.

 

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 industries as diverse as biotechnology, telecommunications, polymeric materials, optical imaging, petroleum, electrical power systems, medical instrumentation, software, optics, and industrial safety protection products.

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:

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

 

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.

Cronus Partners

Cronus Partners LLC is an independent investment banking firm focused on middle-market transactions. They provide financial advisory services to public and private corporations, both domestic and international. Their advisory services are distinguished by a disciplined evaluation of client objectives and competencies and a commitment to the successful execution of strategic corporate transactions.

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.

Deloitte
Wherever you need us, we are there
Deloitte, a leading global professional services organization, delivers world-class assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services through its national practices. With over 95,000 people around the world, we bring a wealth of knowledge to each engagement. Our internal culture fosters mutually beneficial relationships with our clients and our people. Above all, client service excellence is an integral part of the way we do business.

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is a firm of more than 550 lawyers with ten offices in the United States and a representative office in London. We offer a full array of legal services worldwide with a mission to create value by providing superior legal advice and business counsel that protects and advances the interests of their clients.

 

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.

 

 

Open Solutions Inc.

Open Solutions Inc. was founded by professionals with in-depth experience in financial services, enterprise data management, system design and Web-based technologies. The Open Solutions team envisioned a better way for institutions to operate using relational database technology to promote more dynamic customer relationships. Their enabling platform can provide new avenues for cost savings opportunities to diversify products and offer new ones. Their relational technologies give financial institutions the ability to offer new products and services to better compete in today’s ever-changing market environment.

Pfizer
The world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company. Pfizer Inc discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets leading prescription medicines.

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Measuring our success by yours.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 139 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders.

Pullman & Comley, LLP

Pullman & Comley, LLC. has played an active and distinguished role in the Connecticut and New England business community since 1919. They represent clients in all stages of development and handle 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 United States.  With offices in five locations across the state and in New York, their attorneys are organized into seven key practice areas (Business Enterprises, Health Care, Litigation, Property Valuation, Public & Commercial Finance, Real Estate and Trusts & Estates) as well as various targeted practice sections.

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.

 

The Computer Company (TCC) enables organizations to gain full advantage of IT to increase efficiencies, improve effectiveness, and reach new goals. Our TCC team of highly experienced, knowledgeable technology and design professionals will work closely with you.  We provide the analysis, expertise, tools, and monitoring to help you solve your toughest business challenges through IT solutions. The Computer Company works with clients in nearly every major category: Health Care, Medical, Insurance, Financial services, hospitality, government, nonprofit, professional services, legal, marketing, media and manufacturing.

The Impact Group, LLC

The IMPACT Group is a small-by-design firm made up of a collaborative group of experienced senior executives from diverse industry backgrounds.  This team brings a combination of consulting, investment and leadership expertise to strategy-driven business transformation.

Tyler Cooper

Tyler Cooper is one of Connecticut's largest law firms. With approximately seventy lawyers in offices in New Haven, Hartford, Stamford and Madison, they provide a full range of legal services to businesses and individuals. As a firm, they can trace their roots back to 1847. Their mission is to combine excellent lawyering with good business sense to help clients achieve practical and cost effective results.

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.

 

Wellstone Insurance

Wellstone Insurance has one of the largest Technology practices in the region.  Their Technology Practice is headed by Ben Adler. Ben holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Certified Insurance Consultant (CIC) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designations. In addition to experience within insurance companies, Ben has worked in the Software and Technology Services industries. This experience allows him to understand the unique needs of Technology companies.

Wiggin and Dana LLP
Founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1934, Wiggin and Dana LLP provides first-class legal counsel to an international client base of major corporations and institutions, as well as to private businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and families. The firm serves clients located in the Northeast, as well as throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, Latin America and Asia. Many, such as Yale University and United Illuminating Company, have been our clients for a generation or more. The firm acts as general or special counsel for publicly traded corporations, banks, accounting, architectural engineering and securities firms, public utilities, insurance companies, family-owned businesses, new technology companies and start-ups, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers, universities, colleges and schools, and individuals.