Health Industry Insights (formerly Life Sciences Insights) provides information technology research and advisory services targeted to customers in the health care and life sciences industry. Health Industry Insights offers business intelligence and custom research services, as well as assessment and strategic consulting services. In addition, Health Industry Insights produces conferences and other events for industry players. Health Industry Insights was started in 2004 as part of IDC, the market research and advisory arm of technology publisher International Data Group.

The National Medical Association (NMA) represents the interests of African American physicians and other health professionals. The organization's more than 30,000 members benefit from services including professional development, advocacy, and research. NMA also publishes a quarterly journal, The Journal of the National Medical Association. It works to promote healthy lifestyles and equity in healthcare for African Americans and other at risk populations by providing national education campaigns on cancer, heart disease, stroke, AIDS, women's health, asthma, and other health issues. The group was founded in 1895 by doctors that were rejected for membership in the whites only American Medical Association.

Dowd Associates is a Boutique and unique executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of senior level financial professionals.The firm is Boutique in that its experienced professionals offer highly personalized service in their efforts to meet and exceed clients’ expectations. Dowd Associates’ professionals are unique in their extraordinary accessibility, nimbleness and results in meeting business objectives within a rapidly changing business environment. If every firm's most valuable asset is its people - and it is - then an executive search firm becomes invaluable when it delivers superior results in its research and recruitment of the best and brightest candidates for clients. Senior executives place an indelible stamp on a company's values and help direct its growth. Successful searches, then, are crucial to companies and their investors. Dowd Associates has built a reputation on identifying executives who are not only outstanding, but whose values fit snuggly within a client's corporate culture.An executive search firm's success depends not only on its state-of-the-art research tools and technologies, though these are important, but also on its relationships nurtured over time with clients and candidates alike.

Advocate Charitable Foundation is the faith-based philanthropic arm of Advocate Health Care. Advocate Charitable Foundation mission is to build relationships and partnerships across Chicago and to inspire charitable giving by individuals, foundations, corporations, and organizations. The not-for-profit group funds programs that offer patient care, research, education, and community-based health services. These include caregiver education classes, family-focused support groups, cancer research facilities, and specialized clinics throughout the city. Advocate Charitable Foundation began as Evangelical Health Foundation in 1984 and took its current name in 1995.

Tallink Silja sails across the Baltic Sea, ferrying both passengers and freight. Trading under the brand names Tallink and Silja Line, the company operates about 20 vessels including large cruise ferries, ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) ferries, and cruise ships. Freight operations include transporting such heavy cargo as trucks, trailers, containers, and factory cars. Tallink Silja's vessels primarily travel Finland-Sweden and Finland-Estonia routes. The company is part of the AS Tallink Grupp, an Estonian ferry operator which transports about 8 million passengers and 800,000 thousands of cargo units yearly.

First Artist Corporation plc operates at the very heart of media, events and entertainment/sport management, with a group of companies wholly distinct as leading brands in their fields, with a wide-range of skills and the vision to guide our group into an exciting and successful future. First Artist Management is a ‘Total Management’ celebrity and media agency with its own in-house public relations and corporate speaking division. The business represents many well-known sport and TV presenters and other media personalities for TV, film and media and has a particularly strong track record of talent development.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1960 to promote research in atmospheric and related environmental sciences. A consortium of more than 60 universities, UCAR provides real-time weather data to universities, educates weather forecasters, and organizes international experiments through its Office of Programs. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research also maintains radars, aircraft, and computer models for weather and climate through the National Center for Atmospheric Research. UCAR is funded by sponsors such as the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA.

AGDATA takes agricultural analysis way beyond the Farmer's Almanac. Founded in 1985, the company provides professional data management and analytical services for clients in the agricultural industry. AGDATA's services include marketing program management, customer data management, electronic data interchange information management, Web-based information systems, and database analysis. The company also offers its proprietary eTRAFX Internet-based system, which streamlines the exchange of data between businesses. AGDATA has counted Dow Chemical, Bayer CropScience, and Schering-Plough among its clients. The company is part of AGDATA, LP, which comprises several other agriculture-focused firms.

Australian Postal Corporation delivers the mail, from Western Australia to New South Wales and from Queensland to Victoria. The government-owned company, known as Australia Post, operates about 3,000 post offices and serves about 10 million delivery points in Australia. Australia Post handles more than 5 billion pieces of mail per year and also sells mail-related products and offers financial services such as bill payment and money transfer. Through a joint venture with airline Qantas, the company owns Australian Air Express, a cargo carrier for Australia. The roots of Australian Postal Corporation go back to 1809 when a former convict was named the country's first postmaster.

M & F Worldwide Corp. is a holding company that owns and manages four operating businesses. Harland Clarke Corp. provides check and check-related products, direct marketing and contact center services to financial and commercial institutions as well as directly to individual consumers. Harland Financial Solutions delivers technology products and services to the financial services industry. Principally targeted at commercial banks, thrifts, credit unions and mortgage companies, M & F Worldwide Corp. is a leader in compliance and operational risk management, lending, core systems, customer relationship management, business intelligence, branch automation, mortgage origination and servicing applications and performance advisory services. Mafco Worldwide Corp. is the world leader in quality licorice products. Scantron Corporation provides testing and assessment systems and services and data collection and analysis services to educational institutions, businesses and government. The business has more than 20 million annual direct customer contacts through its contact centers and websites, which enables it to up-sell and cross-sell higher value checks and related products and services as well as deliver marketing messages and customer service support on behalf of financial institutions. Harland Clarke is a ‘‘best-in-class’’ provider of outsourced services to financial and commercial institutions as well as high-quality products and services to the end-consumer. Harland Clarke serves approximately 15,000 financial and commercial institutions. In 2006, prior to the combination, Clarke American and Harland fulfilled over 110 million check units.

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