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50 Most Trustworthy Companies of the Year 2019

Published by The Silicon Review, 2019-12-09 00:36:22

Description: ‘Trustworthy’, like, many objectives of a company, is in the eye of the beholder.
Here we present you The Silicon Review “50 Most Trustworthy Companies of the Year 2019.”
The companies that are enlisted are known for their business strategies, customer centric approach, employee centred programs, partnerships/collaborations, customer retention rate, financial stability and moreover ‘credibility’ is the first thing these companies care about.

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“Our mission is to creating value through efficient design and first-class interface.” Prashant S. Sengar, CEO to gauge their presence in Fremont, California, and Boston, complement my business.” the market and implement Massachusetts employing nearly - Reid Taylor, New York appropriate measures to scale. 500 professionals. Begun as a response to a rising industry, it “Their approach to initiate the Application Marketing has made its presence known development process is marvelous. Service in the global application They first gathered my ideas development industry. and then documented each AppsChopper also carries AppsChopper continues to feature and screens, exceeding out app marketing to blaze a trail with an unwavering my expectations. They not improve the visibility of their commitment to excellence and a only understood me but also clients’ application. With a steadfast determination. recommended some small features comprehensive marketing to enhance the user experience of strategy that covers the globe, Here Are Some of my app. They are mind-blowing, AppsChopper has the means to the Testimonials of highly recommend.” promote apps for any industry. AppsChopper’s Clients - Salena Hill, Chicago Its marketing strategy serves the purpose to excel app’s popularity, “My journey of finding the iOS “What impressed me about entice potential users, increase development partner finally came AppsChopper is their capability downloads and customer to an end with AppsChopper. In of handling any project, I had 3 retention. one word I will call them stalwart apps developed from them for in their industry. I approached different verticals, and they made Being just seven years old, this them for getting an app for me happy every time. The firm has company has seen tremendous my retail business and shared established healthy relationships growth with several clients from ideas with them, their business with my clients-end and we numerous countries belonging to analyst was very professional see them as a reliable partner. a plethora of industries. Started who dug and mapped my project I recommend them for their from an office in New York City, into a beautiful wireframe and professionalism.” it now has regional offices in finally delivered the right app to - Danny White, San Jose SR 101

An Interview with Tim Barry, VillageMD CEO: ‘We’ve Created a Model of Care that Transforms the Way Physicians and Patients Experience Healthcare’ The Vision Statement: “VillageMD and its primary care partners will help patients achieve greater health by delivering the most effective, accessible, and efficient health care in the world.” Technology has made an organizations moving toward VillageMD started with incredible impact on a primary care-led, high-value a relatively simple idea: every facet of our lives, clinical model. It provides the to support primary care including how we engage with tools, technology, operations, physicians so they can the healthcare system. When and support needed for practice medicine using a it comes to transforming the physicians to drive the highest model that better serves way healthcare is delivered, quality clinical results across a patients and aligns with how implementing medical population. they want to practice. “We technology that can help know a primary care-led model VillageMD was incorporated that enables high-quality care, improve the quality of in 2013 and is headquartered addresses the needs of the care and operations in Chicago, Illinois. It has healthy and sick, and improves of the additional market locations the lives of all within our in Texas, Georgia, New communities has the potential Hampshire, Michigan, Indiana, to transform healthcare,” said and Kentucky. Barry. Tim Barry, CEO, Today, VillageMD has evolved VillageMD, spoke to deliver on that goal in exclusively to The Silicon Review. several unique ways: Below is an excerpt. • docOS: VillageMD’s first-of-its-kind primary care-centered operating system, docOSTM, unifies organization VillageMD’s Primary and normalizes patient becomes a top Care-Led Model is a data across EMRs, payers, priority. Improvements Game Changer hospitals and skilled in medical technology nursing facilities. This have made their way In our healthcare system, technology is designed into every aspect of the there are myriad patients to provide physicians industry – from research and managing multiple chronic with insights that enable diagnosis to treatments and conditions, taking several them to anticipate communications – and have medications every day in a patient needs, intervene made their application vitally $3 trillion industry – but early, and proactively important to the advancement that isn’t working for them. manage conditions. Built of medicine. VillageMD believes that in collaboration with primary care physicians physicians, docOSTM In light of the foregoing, we’re (PCPs) are best positioned works with existing thrilled to present VillageMD. to quarterback care for these practice workflows, patients, but for too long eliminating many PCPs haven’t had the support unnecessary daily or resources they need to administrative tasks for The company is a leading provide the care they know is physicians rather than provider of healthcare for best. creating new ones. 102 Tim Barry, Co-founder & CEO

• Village Medical: VillageMD’s outcomes. It was a struggle for some “Every investment state-of-the-art Village people accustomed to traditional Medical primary care clinics delivery models to understand and we make is tied (launching in late 2019) will embrace the potential for a new to our ability bring the VillageMD model of model of care delivery. A lot of doors to help primary care to patients in convenient that closed a few years ago are now care physicians neighborhood locations. Patients opening as the merits of the model deliver the best will receive high-quality and have been proven. care possible to coordinated care in their own community and adjacent to a VillageMD’s Pilot Project ”patients. Walgreen’s pharmacy. Physicians Unfolded with no Hitches, will get the benefit of VillageMD Delivered Resounding 103 analytics, a team-based Success approach to care and support from a highly-trained staff to VillageMD’s first market launch offset and even eliminate many was in Houston in October 2013 time-consuming administrative with an independent primary care tasks so they can redirect their practice of 13 physicians. This time to practicing medicine. highly engaged physician body was led by Clive Fields, M.D. Already • Village Medical at Home: working in risk-based arrangements, An extension of the primary these physicians needed support care physician’s office, Village to provide the level of quality, Medical at Home brings the cost-effective care that they knew Village primary care model was possible. “Partnering with into the home of complex and us provided them with the people, chronically ill patients who are resources, and technology to improve otherwise unable to receive patient care,” said Barry. Since regular care due to mobility, partnering with VillageMD, this social or financial barriers. market has grown to include almost 200 physicians and the group has Shifting to Primary Care-Led become one of the largest primary Models Required a Mindset care groups in Houston. Change ‘Our Commitment Speaks VillageMD is creating something new Volumes of the Success We in a system that can be notoriously Have Achieved’ slow-moving and resistant to change. Early on, the company had “While there are several industry to provide a lot of education on how dynamics that provide a lot of wind a value-based and primary care- at our backs, the single biggest factor led model can lead to significant shaping our organization’s roadmap improvements in quality and cost is a constant commitment to making life better for the physicians and

patients we serve. Every investment we • Partners: “Our primary care partners make is tied to our ability to help primary are at the core of everything we care physicians deliver the best care do. Engaged and devoted physician possible to patients,” said Barry. partners enable us to implement a model that makes a substantial “We’ve created a model of care that impact on the quality and cost of transforms the way physicians and health care.” patients experience health care. Our vision is to help patients achieve greater health • Passion: “We are passionate about by delivering the most effective, accessible transforming healthcare and both and efficient health care in the world. We patients and providers feel it. know this is ambitious, but we embrace the This passion drives us to continue challenge as leaders in our space and have innovating, changing and working seen results that prove it works. We’ve non-stop toward making our vision a developed our own core values to help us reality.” continue to drive toward this vision: Get stuff done, build trust, and innovate.” Sky’s the Limit: Future Arrangements Factors that Make VillageMD Stand Out from the Competition “We will continue to implement the VillageMD model across the country VillageMD focuses on three critical in settings that best fit patients’ needs factors: People, partners, and passion. through a VillageMD partner’s practice, a Village Medical clinic, or in homes via • People: “We are surrounded by Village Medical at Home. We are making a team of people who are smart, widespread changes in how primary care dedicated and committed to achieving is delivered while improving outcomes and our vision. I am regularly astounded reducing the total cost of care throughout by the ability of our teams to push the our healthcare system.S”R bar higher and higher.” Leadership | VillageMD Tim Barry, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer: Tim Barry is the co-founder and CEO of VillageMD. He serves as the visionary and key spokesperson for the organization. He actively advocates for primary care as the foundation of the U.S. healthcare system. Clive Fields, M.D., Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer: Clive Fields, M.D., is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of VillageMD. He has been spearheading value-based care as president of VillageMD’s flagship practice, Village Family Practice, since the early 1990s. Village Family Practice is a Houston- based practice with a team of more than 40 clinicians, recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its quality of care. In 2018, Fields was honored by the American Academy of Family Physicians as the recipient of the Robert Graham Physician Executive of the Year Award. Paul Martino, Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer: Paul Martino is the co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of VillageMD. Under Paul’s strategic leadership, the organization has rapidly expanded into eight markets, grown the base of affiliated primary care physicians to approximately 2,500 and recently announced a partnership with Walgreens. 104

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An Interview with Ollie Roberts, Pasture.io Pty Ltd Founder and CEO: ‘Our Satellite Imagery, Weather Data, Farm Records, and Machine Learning Environment Disrupt Remote Pasture Measuring’ “We remove the constant stress of where to graze livestock 365 days of the year.” dairy farmers record pasture pasture for profit. The first mass or growth rate objectively. iteration of Pasture.io was in Keeping that in view, a system a spreadsheet format from using satellite images has been 2006 to 2014. By 2014, there developed to measure pasture was a pressing need to convert biomass at a paddock-scale in the program into a web-based Australia. The system has borne platform. This allowed a wider fruit in empowering farmers to spread of adoption with farmers. be the best at what they do with The initial platform was built leading AgTech. to handle manual data inputs Ollie Roberts, Founder & CEO In light of the foregoing, we’re by farmers, which proved to thrilled to present Pasture.io Pty be a barrier to adoption. In Ollie Roberts: A Formidable Ltd. 2018, we had a breakthrough Leader with our proprietary remote Pasture.io is an online web pasture measuring models. Ollie Roberts, founder, serves as the platform that compiles and This breakthrough meant that Chief Executive Officer of Pasture. crunches farm pasture data and we were able to overcome the ruminant nutrition giving a simple limitations of satellite imagery io. His background is in agriculture, yet powerful pasture management for measuring the quantity of working predominantly with dairy farmers solution for increasing farm pasture in a paddock and deliver and AgTech. He has founded two AgTech productivity and profitability. accurate pasture measurements web platforms including Pasture.io. The automatically, thus removing the other one is called Milkflow.io. He has The company was incorporated barrier to customer uptake. worked with the University of Tasmania in in 2014 and is headquartered in delivering phone and tablet-based pasture Hobart, Tasmania. How successful was your modelling apps and with the University first project roll on? Share of Sydney overseeing its robotic dairy Ollie Roberts, Pasture. the experience. operations. Mr. Roberts continues to work io Pty Ltd Founder/ with universities on several projects such as CEO, spoke exclusively The first project roll-on taught us the Smartfarm, run by the University of New to The Silicon Review. a lot in terms of listening to the England, and The Women in Agri-Tech, run Below is an excerpt. audience and understanding the by the Central Queensland University. drivers of traction; through this Why was the company learning we experienced success. Australian dairy farms rely set up? And how did you This success paved the way for our on grazing pastures as their expand your company and team to deeply understand our primary source of feed. its offerings over the years? customers’ painpoints and to build Accurate and timely measurement the foundations of the platform of pasture biomass is integral for Pasture.io was initially set up we have today. I am not saying the effective grazing management to solve an issue on my family early years were easy, it has been a practice, however few Australian dairy farm. This issue was hard-long road of reaching where underutilizing farm data to we are today and I thank the early optimally feed cows and grow years for guiding us here. It is true that you learn from your mistakes and that is what drives us and our company’s success today. 106

What kind of responses producing a world-first service but a • Developing a strong focus in have you received from your reachable company that customers our business on the customer’s consumers over the years? can pick up the phone and talk definition of value, where we How have they motivated you with. We put a lot into customer should allocate our resources to shape your offerings/grow success and keep the customers up for creating opportunities, the company? to date with what we’re doing in the and how we should distribute company. To be profound, without our learnings back into the Our customers come from across our customers there is no company community the spectrum of painpoints to be and without trust and transparency, solving in their farm businesses. there is no relationship. It is this Building a culture of The thing about agriculture is that relationship between us and the sustainability inside it is biophysical economics, which is customer that we work hard on an organization is very a highly dynamic environment for improving. important to maintain a service. This means we have quite reputation in the global a number of competing systems, Are there any factors that market. How is it true for feedback, requests, and so on to have played key roles in your company? work with. Pasture.io essentially shaping your organization’s measures how much pasture is road map? This is very true for our company. in a paddock so the farmer can We’re building an environment make the best grazing decisions A major barrier for us to overcome where we all work remotely; on the quantity of pasture and/ was that our target market is time- everyone takes responsibility for or supplements to allocate. This poor. This meant that we needed to their areas of expertise and where brings an array of mixed responses develop automation into our service we’re all as important as each other from farmers who say “why bother for collecting different data points when decisions need to be made. We measuring grass when it just grows”, to feed into our models. We now are a small team that live across most to farmers that say “I love having automate the streams of data from states of Australia. Face to face time peace of mind in knowing that my external sources such as satellite is enjoyable at conferences when animals aren’t going to be underfed”. imagery and weather data and we make extra time to bond and combine this with the farm records have fun together. Otherwise, we’re Is your company a leader or and activities in our platform. in regular contact with each other a follower? Do you formulate and as a group via messaging, phone your own core values? If you have to list five calls, and video hook-ups. Fostering factors that have been/are a free and empathetic workplace I’d say we’re a leader, as we the biggest asset to your culture is integral to driving our formulate our own core values. organization, what would company sustainably internally. These values are core to our ethos they be and why? and what drives us to solve our Where do you see your customers’ painpoints. We’re a • Understanding the problems we company a couple of years company with highly passionate are solving first hand with our from now? people who like to push the own experience with on-going boundaries in what we do. In saying personal links with businesses As any business owner, I would like so, rather than meeting standard in the industries we serve to steer our business to high levels practices, we strive to develop of success. This success would be leading practices. We believe this is • Being completely honest and a testament to the value and core how we demonstrate our core values transparent with our customers ethos we strive to lead with and to to customers and peers alike from and holding a strong moral the strong relationships we build improving everything from customer obligation to deliver value with our customers. acquisitions to gaining word of mouth referrals. • Our team is passionate about SR delivering value and for What do you feel are working hard to meet customer “We’re easing the daily the reasons behind your expectations pressure on farmers company’s reputation? by automating farm • Putting social and environmental As an early-stage startup, I believe values first with the goal to management decisions.” a lot can be contributed to not only relieve the mental burden on farm owners and managers who 107 make daily tactical decisions on-farm

An Interview Businesses of all types and Australian consulting and with Peter White, sizes have environmental technology business, Pacific Envirosuite CEO: issues to consider - both Environment, after several years ‘We are Well- in a social and operational of product development and Placed to be the perspective. The world gets commercialization. World’s Leading smaller and better connected Environmental every year. As populations grow, The Envirosuite vision, now Management industries and communities the reality, was to encapsulate Technology Used increasingly collide. This the intellectual property and as a Key Tool for means regulations are only extensive environmental Improvement in getting tighter, risks higher, and expertise of the company’s Many Different scrutiny more public. environmental engineers Industries and Cities’ and atmospheric scientists In light of the foregoing, we’re in a smarter Software-as- “We have driven to be a reliable solution for thrilled to present Envirosuite. a-Service platform. It goes each of our clients as they deal with unique beyond standard compliance environmental challenges on a daily basis. We The company operates as an reporting to provide customer have always stayed true to this and we know environmental technology organizations with greater company and is publicly listed environmental and operational this is what sets us apart from the rest.” on the Australian Securities intelligence. Exchange (ASX). Their ground- 108 breaking platform provides Envirosuite provides real- environmental intelligence time and predictive forecast for operational management information for operational to heavy industry and cities. planning and decision support, It offers comprehensive real- resulting in operational time monitoring, investigative efficiency improvements, and predictive environmental enhanced environmental management capabilities performance and better through an intuitive cloud- risk management for its based interface. customers, which include global organizations in Envirosuite was incorporated mining, industrial, wastewater in 2008 and is headquartered treatment, and environmental in Sydney, Australia. It has regulatory agencies. additional office locations in Brisbane, Australia; San How successful was your Francisco, California; Montreal, first project roll on? Canada; Glasgow, UK; Madrid, Share the experience. Spain; and Santiago, Chile. Our first project was a real-time Peter White, modeling and fence-line (site Envirosuite CEO, boundary) monitoring solution spoke exclusively to for a heavy industrial customer. The Silicon Review. The project was successfully Below is an excerpt. delivered and our initial customer remains a subscriber Why was the company to the Envirosuite system set up? And how did you today. expand your company and its offerings over the System implementation times years? were much longer in our early days than they are today, The Envirosuite business however this is no longer spun out of the leading a concern due to dedicated software development work to create efficiencies.

Leadership | Envirosuite Peter White, CEO: Peter has had a long- term interest in using technology to benefit business, specialising in growing technology companies providing B2B solutions. He has held senior positions in both multinational and small companies, across Executive Management, Sales, and Operations and Delivery. He has a track record of consolidating and growing companies using his depth of skills in business development and operational delivery. He is a natural leader who enjoys creating teams to win and deliver large projects, whilst developing people along the way. Peter White, CEO Robin Ormerod, Founder & Chief Scientist: Robin oversees Envirosuite’s R&D program, advises on scientific aspects relating to design and sales activities, and coordinates collaboration with research partners. He is a qualified meteorologist and air quality expert with over 35 years of international consulting experience. Robin saw how combining deep scientific expertise with new technologies could provide disruptive real-time and predictive delivery models that improve the speed and quality of environmental management activities. Robin Ormerod, Founder & Chief Scientist Our first project provided What challenges did you at an earlier stage as a trial to a visionary approach to face in your initial years? garner their feedback on our meeting new environmental What can your peers learn proposed development roadmap regulatory requirements from it? and test how it fit their needs. with automated modeling software. Based on experience In the initial years, we spent What do you feel are with our next wave of a considerable amount of the reasons behind your customers, we learnt of a effort to educate the market company’s reputation range of operational and on the value that real-time and today? risk management benefits predictive capabilities can offer that can be delivered from to organizations. In hindsight, Science is at the core of everything information that Envirosuite we could have introduced a few we do at Envirosuite. Features provides. selected customers to the product in our platform are developed 109

“Our goal has always is becoming more educated on environmental issues. This is now been to make complex guiding all stakeholders including environmental management the community, industry bodies, and simple and allow anyone to regulatory agencies to make better decisions. Envirosuite is the ideal tool understand it in order to to link these groups together. make better decisions.” Is your company a leader or under scientific scrutiny, but also Our reputation– Technology and a follower? Do you formulate to serve the users’ specific needs. innovation are two of the core your own core values? Envirosuite’s goal has always been reasons we exist as a company. The to make complex environmental other one is science, the subject Envirosuite is the first of its kind for management simple and allow matter that we work with. We began a number of reasons. One aspect we anyone to understand it in order the company’s journey on the back have always prided ourselves on is to make better decisions. We have of a major innovation, which was not delivering a fantastic user experience. driven to be a reliable solution for so much based on an identified need There are products out there that each of our clients as they deal with in the market, but drawing on our do select parts of what we do, but unique environmental challenges on strengths and known market trends. none that we have seen that are so a daily basis. We have always stayed holistic, seamless and easy to use. true to this and we know this is what Our dynamic product– Australia We consistently communicate this in sets us apart from the rest. is a unique country. It experiences our brand and in the way we market a large variety of environmental Envirosuite solutions. We believe in If you have to list five conditions that are not experienced ‘design thinking’ with the primary factors that have been/are in other parts of the world. This aim to benefit customers the most. the biggest asset to your helped us build Envirosuite’s organization, what would groundbreaking capabilities into an We’re also committed to our they be and why? all-in-one platform that addresses core value of ‘making complex multiple environmental challenges science simple’ in order to ‘reduce Our team– Our team combines (air quality, water, noise). environmental impact for mankind’. recognised innovators in This is easier said than done but our environmental science with A changing world– Growing goal is to have the user make the best vision, passion and a technology populations and increasing needs decision possible based on science- development and support team for industry to co-exist with oriented guidance that is fast and that has put us at the forefront communities have created the easy to assimilate. By giving the user of what is possible today. This ideal marketplace for Envirosuite’s a focus on actions rather than just the passion for innovation, excellence groundbreaking technology. data or beautiful visualisations, we and client satisfaction is what aim right at the benefits for the user. makes Envirosuite such an exciting Increasing environmental company. awareness– The mainstream public Where do you see your company a couple of years from now? Populations in major cities will continue to increase and at the same time, so will the needs of industry in order to co-exist with communities they serve. We are well placed to be the world’s leading environmental management technology used as a key tool for improvement in many different industries and cities. SR 110

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The Only Company Which Lives And Breathes Secure Access - Pulse Secure Every single day, the global to be simple – this is no longer the Fortify Your Network team is innovating its products case. Security Posture with to ensure that you can Next-Gen NAC dramatically boost your workers' Modern enterprises require productivity, make a smooth and secure access solutions based on Enterprises face increasing secure transition to the Cloud and a Zero Trust model of continuous cybercrime activity and data ensure that your networks are verification and authorization. breaches, which now cost an protected without a burden on IT. Zero Trust ensures that only average of USD 4M each. authenticated users with compliant Put simply, Pulse Secure is a devices can connect to authorize Network Access Control (NAC) company that is 100% focused on applications over any network. solutions provide organizations delivering secure access solutions with continuous visibility, for people, devices, things, and Pulse delivers end-to-end Zero Trust endpoint and IoT access services. For years, enterprises visibility, protection and availability control, and automated threat of every size and industry have for hybrid IT environments. The mitigation. Using NAC, they trusted its integrated virtual private solution portfolio enables simple, can implement a “comply to network, network access control efficient access to enterprise connect” strategy that uses strong and mobile security solutions to applications and resources in the endpoint authentication, host enable secure access seamlessly in cloud and non-cloud environments checking, conditional access, their organizations. - without compromising security or guest management, IoT security, productivity. interoperability, and automated Redefining Secure threat response capabilities to Access in a Zero Trust • Extensive user and device fortify their security posture and to World authentication and support compliance requisites. authorization With digital transformation Software-Defined accelerating, secure access is being • Zero Trust unified policy and Perimeter Access for redefined by mobility, BYOD, IoT, compliance Hybrid IT and cloud services. As applications and resources continue to be • Simple, integrated user Digital transformation is here. distributed across the data center experience from the device of The migration of applications to and cloud, attack surfaces have choice the cloud coupled with anywhere expanded, increasing the risk of access from a myriad of devices has cybersecurity breaches. Securing • Single-pane-of-glass secure increased the threat surface, and the perimeter of a network used access management and made enterprises more vulnerable operational visibility across on- to advanced attacks on the premises and cloud application infrastructure. • Flexible, scalable and reliable Traditional security perimeters have shifted and organizations must be “We make the Secure Access solutions able to extend dynamic, on-demand that companies rely on to make their application access to users without workforce more productive.” compromising security or user experience. By enabling secure

Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO The Leading Man Sudhakar Ramakrishna is CEO of Pulse Secure where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution. With nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets, Sudhakar joined Pulse Secure from Citrix. At Citrix, Sudhakar served as the senior vice president and general manager for the Enterprise and Service Provider Division, where he had profit and loss responsibility for approximately a $2.5 billion portfolio of virtualization, cloud networking, mobile platforms, and cloud services solutions. Before Citrix, he was at Polycom and was president of products and services. Sudhakar has also held senior leadership roles at Motorola, 3COM and US Robotics and brings significant experience in strategic planning and execution, organization development, and incubating and scaling new businesses to Pulse Secure. Sudhakar earned his master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar is a member of the board of directors at the Health iPass. He has significant experience as a board member and advisor of Public and Private companies. “verified” user and device access to Pulse Virtual ADC security. More than just a only authorized applications, Pulse solution for Software software load balancer, Pulse vADC Software Defined Perimeter helps and Cloud drives more transactions, even at customers reduce their exposure to peak load conditions, ensuring Delight your users, with faster, continuous uptime and real-time advanced threats while simplifying more reliable applications, with no security monitoring of application compromise on performance or traffic. connectivity and improving the SR experience. 113

Abbvie’s Relentless Drive to Discover Promising New Immunology Pathways is Inspired and Guided by Those Whose Lives are Touched by Immune-Mediated Diseases “We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases where we can leverage our core R&D expertise to advance science.” The global pharmaceuticals Here are Abbvie’s areas dysregulated immune cells with the industry is integral to modern of expertise: goal to turn down inflammation, medicine and healthcare. restore normal immune function and From conducting research on Immunology spare normal tissue. By combining various life-threatening diseases to AbbVie’s expertise in discovering compiling data about public health, The company’s relentless drive to and developing specific monoclonal pharmaceuticals make up an industry discover promising new immunology antibodies with its experience in that is valued at a few hundred billion pathways and targets is inspired small molecule chemistry – AbbVie dollars. Numerous pharmaceutical and guided by those whose lives is leading the field in applying ADC corporations pour hundreds of are touched by immune-mediated technology to immune-mediated millions of dollars in research each diseases. Its current successes diseases. year. motivate us to continue that exploration, strengthening its resolve Oncology Abbvie is one of the world’s as it strives to impact their disease leading pharmaceutical research and their evolving expectations for a AbbVie scientists combine deep organizations. Its employees life better-lived. biologic knowledge with cutting- consist of about 30,000 employees edge research technology to advance are scientists, researchers, AbbVie has 8,000+ research and cancer care. communicators, manufacturing development team members at the specialists and regulatory experts forefront of discovering, developing Immuno-Oncology located around the globe. Abbvie and delivering therapies to solve comes up with new approaches to unmet patient needs. The company’s • Relies on the immune addressing today’s health issues— innovation and expertise are response and the immunologic from life-threatening illness to powered by leading scientists, whose memory chronic conditions. The company work continues to pave the way for targets specific difficult-to-cure new generations of researchers – and • The immunologic memory is diseases where it can leverage its we all share the goal of identifying a distinct characteristic of the core R&D expertise to advance therapeutic approaches that have immune system. It allows our science. The team at Abbvie is remarkable impacts for patients immune systems to quickly and constantly working to create everywhere. specifically recognize an antigen solutions that go beyond treating the that our bodies have previously illness to have a positive impact on Antibody Drug encountered patients’ lives, on societies—and on Conjugates (ADCs) science itself. • There are two types of immune This technology platform uses the responses, the innate and the Abbvie is driven by a compassion for targeting of an antibody to deliver a adaptive people, commitment to innovation therapeutic agent. ADC technology and inclusion, service to the is more traditionally used in • The innate response is an community, and uncompromising Oncology; however, by coupling a antigen-independent response integrity at the heart of everything it highly potent immunomodulator to that is immediate and has no does. an anti-inflammatory monoclonal immunologic memory antibody, it can be delivered to • The adaptive response is an antigen-dependent and antigen-specific response with the capacity for immunologic memory 114

B-Cell Signaling Interfering with the communication signals of malignant B cells is a potential strategy for treating some types of cancer. • AbbVie is a leader in the research of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK), a key enzyme in the B cell receptor signaling complex that plays an important role in the survival and expansion of malignant B cells.1 • AbbVie is researching other B cell signaling pathways. Regulated Cell Death - Apoptosis Apoptosis is a form of regulated cell death, a natural process that eliminates damaged, unneeded or dangerous cells from the body. Through a deep knowledge of apoptosis and the role impaired apoptosis can play in the proliferation of cancer cells, Richard A. Gonzalez Abbvie is advancing novel cancer research. CEO & Chairman • A highly controlled process for eliminating unneeded or damaged cells in response to developmental cues, cellular stress, or injury. ”We’re a company that • A way that homeostasis is regulated and takes on the toughest maintained in adult tissues. health challenges. • Instrumental in safeguarding the integrity of the “genome in response to severe DNA damage Neuroscience Abbvie is advancing research across several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s In MS, the immune system attacks a protein called disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. myelin, which forms a protective sheet around neurofibers. When myelin is damaged by MS, neurons Alzheimer’s disease struggle to communicate, leading to an accumulation of neuronal loss, atrophy and significant disability As the number of patients and caregivers seeking over time. Abbvie is committed to meeting the needs help from the health care system increases, Alzheimer’s represents a growing challenge for society. Current of patients with MS, and it is currently supporting treatments simply address the symptoms and do nothing to prevent the progression of the disease or reverse the treatment options that promote nerve protection and facilitate neuronal regeneration. damage. Abbvie is collaborating with the world’s leading Parkinson’s disease Alzheimer’s researchers to identify ways of stopping the disease in its earliest stages. Its anti-tau antibody Parkinson’s disease is the second most-common is being investigated to treat Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegenerative disorder, affecting more than 10 progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and is advancing million people worldwide. In addition to its therapy for to phase 2 developments. advanced Parkinson’s, Abbvie is currently exploring Multiple Sclerosis other pathways that could provide patients with a new method of treatment for this progressive chronic disease. Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a progressive chronic It is also developing a new delivery system to enhance disorder of the nervous system that is most often the patient and caregiver experience while administering seen in patients between the ages of 20 and 40. its existing therapy for Parkinson’s disease.SR 115

Ushering transformative growth through ease of banking: Finastra The banking industry is one broadest set of financial software leveraging emerging technologies of the integral parts of the solutions available on the market, while complying with tougher economy of a nation. While Finastra has $1.9 billion in revenues, regulations – and constantly technology and digitization have 10,000 employees and over 9,000 innovating. made banking easier and more customers, including 90 of the top accessible to the common man, this 100 banks globally. It’s a tough to-do list. Finastra’s industry has seen little in the way of retail banking software solutions disruptive innovation. In an era of Finastra delivers flexible, are designed to help you to increasing choice and regulation, all componentized software that allows complete it. The company’s portfolio customers – corporate, institutional clients to gradually upgrade existing is the broadest, deepest suite of and retail – are demanding greater systems through open interfaces. integrated solutions for retail value from financial services. They The company believes in long- banks, commercial banks, universal expect more agility, innovation, lasting relationships, always putting banks, community banks, and integration, and security than ever its customers and their customers credit unions. Finastra’s innovative before. Attempting to change that is first and acting as a trusted advisor solutions cover the following a Fintech company called Finastra. for transformation. verticals: Formed in 2017 by the combination of Misys and D+H, Finastra builds Here are some of Core Retail Systems and deploys innovative, next- Finastra’s solutions for generation technology on its open banking & finance: The banking core is the single most Fusion software architecture and important technology investment a cloud ecosystem. The company’s Retail Banking financial institution makes. scale and geographical reach mean that it can serve customers Retail banking is changing at Finastra’s award-winning core effectively, regardless of their size unprecedented speed. Success banking solutions have the breadth or location—from global financial depends on satisfying the demands of functionality to handle the most institutions to community banks of the digital-savvy consumers and sophisticated banking requirements. and credit unions. They include the latest innovations “Enabling you to to maximize operational efficiency, The team at Finastra brings deep transform with reduce cost-to-income ratios, and expertise and an unrivaled range of agility in a hyper- ensure compliance and speed up pre-integrated solutions spanning connected world.” time to market. retail banking, transaction banking, lending, and treasury Integrated with advanced and capital markets. With analytics, Finastra’s solutions a global footprint and the generate the insight needed to develop timely and relevant 116

Meet the brains behind Finastra’s meteoric rise, Simon Simon Paris, CEO Paris Simon serves as the CEO of Finastra. Simon takes responsibility for Finastra’s strategic direction and growth. His leadership steers the company as it realizes it’s open platform vision, encouraging industry-wide collaboration to spark innovation and transform the next generation of financial services. Simon joined Finastra (formerly Misys) as President in 2015, was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 2017 and became Chief Executive Officer in June 2018. He brings more than 20 years of sales, management and global leadership expertise to the company, having previously held the role of President, Industry Cloud, at SAP. Prior to that, he was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company. He holds a degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the INSEAD Business School in France and a Bachelor’s degree in Business & European languages from the European Business School. products and services and can be are starting to steal wallet share Lending combined with its market-leading away from banks and credit digital channels. With front, middle unions. Seamless borrower and back-office connected, your experience financial institution becomes a For many banks and credit unions, consumer-focused, profitable sales data remains an underused and Finastra offers the most machine. under appreciated asset. The comprehensive portfolio of end- ability to use quantitative data to-end loan management software Whether you are a traditional or to shape business decisions and in syndicated, commercial, challenger bank, a community outcomes have become a key consumer, and mortgage lending. bank or a credit union, Finastra source of competitive advantage It creates a consistent, seamless can help you to engineer your as consumers demand more digital borrower experience for financial institution and processes qualified information and expect large multinational corporations, around your account holders. more personalized experiences. It mid-sized and small business The company’s open modern, is critical for financial institutions customers, and consumers. flexible platform helps you to to be able to segment clients based deliver the ultimate consumer on needs, channel propensity and Easier lending and staff experience, the potential value. operational efficiency for growth Covering the full loan lifecycle and compliance, and ongoing Analytics and insights are rising – origination, underwriting, innovation. to the top of banks’ and credit covenant tracking, collateral unions’ priority lists; According to management, loan servicing, and Insights and Analytics the Financial Brand’s 2016 State portfolio reporting – Finastra’s of Financial Marketing, “National solutions make lending easier by Many financial institutions are and regional banks have the desire improving customer onboarding, on a mission to become more to improve analytics capabilities increasing transparency consumer-centric. But how well do as their third-highest “top three” and streamlining back-office you really know your consumers? priority (47%).” operations. What services and products attract them most? Knowing this, how can Business analytics and insights Reduce complexity you then leverage data to identify software help you gain insight their needs and gain wallet share? into the profitability of customers, As the only single, open- branches, and products and deliver architecture solution provider for Business analytics and insights are services that your consumers will all loan types, Finastra enables no longer a luxury, but a necessity value most. easy integration and helps in a world where fintech startups reduce the complexity and costs associated with managing multiple systems. SR 117

Enterprise-class digital wealth management: Trizic Trizic’s enterprise-grade platform automates Drew Sievers, CEO the industry’s digital wealth solutions CEO Corner Trizic was conceived with a goal of helping the wealth industry prepare Drew Sievers, CEO: Drew drives for, and implement digital wealth solutions. White-labeled and enterprise-class Trizic’s vision to help the wealth from the start, the firm sought to enable, industry prepare for and implement not compete, withits advisor and enterprise digital wealth solutions. Prior to customer base. While other companies tried Trizic, Drew was Co-Founder & to replace wealth managers with investor- CEO at mFoundry where he helped direct robo solutions, Trizic works closely revolutionize customer access in the with banks, credit unions, broker-dealers, banking industry via mobile banking and other asset managers to leverage and payment technologies. As CEO, technology that supports and enhances Drew led the company to an industry a wealth manager’s ability to deliver leadership position with more than meaningful results for their clients. 1,000 bank and credit union clients, before selling the company to FIS Deep dive into Trizic Global. Drew also serves as General Partner at early-stage fintech investor, Optimized For Banks & Credit Operative Capital. Unions Trizic offers the only platform designed to work seamlessly between private and retail banks. Its team and partners are focused on delivering fully integrated digital wealth solutions for the banking industry. • Wealth & Trust: Trizic’s platform creates a seamless, automated solution across your wealth and trust businesses. • Digital Account Opening: Its digital account opening technology helps you rapidly open accounts and eliminate paper processes that waste time and cost you money. • Digital Advice: Its digital advice platform allows you to profitably offer small balance wealth or trust accounts, 118

“ At Trizic, we’re building cutting-edge tools that bring more innovation and efficiency to the wealth management industry. Our team has deep experience with retail bank and credit union systems, and we’re committed to redefining the standards and processes so that our clients can deliver high value, cost- effective wealth solutions to their entire customer base. ” automating your own advice and driving more • Multi-Custodial Support: Its API-based profit. architecture supports your traditional custodians, • Existing Integrations: Legacy technology is hard to access. The company connects into your existing as well as home grown custodial and clearing core banking, trust, brokerage, financial planning, and CRM systems. It provides a single pane of glass systems. that exposes all the data you already have • Modern Interface: Easily customize its white- • Model Management: Create, update, and assign labeled user interface with your branding and model portfolios and set the frequency for deliver the experience that your customers expect • Easy Deployment: Trizic’s team has deep rebalances as well as drift parameters. experience with retail bank and credit union systems. Trizic’s understand your workflows, • Role-Based Access: Advisors with larger teams guaranteeing a quick ROI have the ability to control models at a firm-wide level, or at the advisor level Automating Advisors Large & Small The Power Behind Large Deployments Trizic has everything your firm needs to run a digital advice solution that will increase your firm’s revenue Trizic’s hosted platform was built from the start with while driving down operating costs. the enterprise in mind. Its technology was architected • White-LabeledUi: Easily customize its white- and engineered to deliver cutting edge, end-to-end digital wealth solutions to the industry’s largest, most labeled client interface with your firm’s logo, copy, demanding players. and more. Control your own messaging. • Infinite Scalability: Trizic was born in the cloud • Robust Advisor Portal: Trizic’s advisor portal provides powerful practice management tools and moved rapidly to support load balancing, and ongoing monitoring for all of your clients’ life service discovery, microservices, queues, and stages. containers. • Digital Account Opening: Trizic’s digital account • Enterprise Extensibility: The firm’s APIs connect opening technology helps you rapidly open into myriad back-end systems while allowing its accounts and remove friction from your paper- customers to build their own mobile, web, and app based onboarding process. interfaces. • Open Architecture: Its technology connects into existing portfolio management systems, giving you one single platform to distribute your own advice. SR 119

Developing state-of-the-art solutions that make it possible for healthcare professionals to do what they do, only better: Synzi We enable better performance for healthcare organizations, better access for patients, and better outcomes for all. Lee Horner, CEO The Synzi name conveys ease Trilogy selected Synzi’s virtual of use and synchronicity care communication platform to “Our goal is to amongst patients, family improve patient management, continuously caregivers, and colleagues. The engagement, and care. With Synzi, improve our firm’s tech-forward logo reflects Trilogy is able to follow through platform and who we are today and symbolizes on their dedication to delivering future-proof its dynamic and unswerving compassionate care to their patients commitment to better technology, by introducing technology to get offerings better care, and better outcomes. desired patient outcomes and that simplify reduce hospital readmissions. With complexity and The company was incorporated Synzi’s platform, Trilogy’s clinical inspire positive in 2018 and it’s headquartered staff connects with patients more change among St. Petersburg, FL frequently, improving patient healthcare engagement. Going forward, Virtual professionals In a colloquy with Lee care is going to be instrumental and in the lives Horner, CEO of Synzi in Trilogy’s upcoming patient of patients.” discharge program, BEAT (Better What led to the inception of Engagement After Transition). The 120 the company? Synzi platform is now being rolled out into additional branch offices Since we launched in early 2018, and Trilogy will be able to expand our company has evolved amidst a its reach into 42 Florida counties. dynamic, ever-changing healthcare industry. During that time, we And, one of our first health have developed an award-winning, system clients was Mary Free integrated communication Bed rehabilitation hospital. Using platform that goes beyond Synzi’s platform allowed Mary traditional telehealth applications Free Bed’s specialists to “lay their to help healthcare organizations hands virtually on the patient” effectively engage patients across throughout the care continuum the continuum of care. The Synzi and across geographies and platform is equipped with a variety facilities. Synzi’s platform enables of communication modalities the facilitation of timelier, more (including video, audio, email, text, convenient care while eliminating and secure messaging) to optimize transportation costs and burdens. engagement, improve health With enhanced connectivity, outcomes and reduce costs. patients are provided access to the Mary Free Bed clinician best suited How successful was your to address a patient’s individual first project roll on? needs, regardless of either party’s location. An interdisciplinary team One of our first home health clients of providers can focus on optimizing was Trilogy Home Healthcare.

CEO Corner Lee Horner is the CEO of Synzi. Lee is responsible for corporate strategy and development at Synzi, with an emphasis on revenue growth, product direction, and customer satisfaction. Recognized as an innovator in technology and healthcare, Lee is focused on using technology to advance the timing and quality of care delivery. His career includes over 25 years of enterprise operating experience, with a proven track record in creating and operating successful organizations that develop new technologies designed to transform the healthcare IT industry. Prior to launching Synzi, Lee was the President of Stratus Video Telehealth and successfully launched several innovative telehealth solutions into the marketplace. His leadership experience also includes his serving as President of CareCloud software, a leader in the EHR marketplace, and Senior Vice President of Sage Healthcare. the care for the patient (as well a culture of excellence. We more effective care while bringing as share best practices amongst are dedicated to the success convenience and peace of mind each other) by also using HIPAA- of our teammates as well as to patients and caregivers. This compliant emails, text, and SMS to providing advanced technology is our 2nd consecutive MedTech communicate with each other and to professionals, patients, Breakthrough award; Synzi won engage the patient across all points and members to increase the the “Virtual Care Innovation Award” of care. With the platform, medical availability of care in 2018. Also, Synzi was recently staff can coordinate patient care • Ingenuity: Our company named a “Best Company To Work For from the ER and hospital admission supports energetic, clever, In Florida”. onto rehabilitative care and post- inventive and creative discharge care at home. Virtual individuals to guide Synzion a How would you describe care technology can help patients continuous path to success Synzi, a ‘leader’ or a return home sooner and become • Accountability: We accept ‘follower’? more self-sufficient by facilitating responsibility for doing what and improving access to efficient we say we will do when we say We see ourselves as a disrupter in and effective care. By implementing we will do it the ever-evolving post-acute care virtual care into the admissions market. Unlike our competition, we process and ongoing treatment Building a culture of focus on the last 5 feet in healthcare (whether inpatient or outpatient), sustainability inside – essentially, reaching the patient Mary Free Bed is able to continue an organization is very where s/he wants to age and heal to deliver on their commitment important to maintain a at home – while providing the to providing unparalleled reputation in the global analytics which helps our customers rehabilitation care. market. How is it true for make better decisions on how to your company? best engage patients throughout What are the greatest the episode of care. Our core values attributes of your company? Our technology is cutting-edge and are distinctly Synzi. To continue to award-winning, helping to solidify drive innovative communication All our team members all embody our reputation in healthcare. We solutions for our home healthcare the following values which are are excited to share that Synzi’s customer base, Synzi announced critical to our success: next-generation virtual care and the grand opening of its new HQ • Collaboration: Our team patient engagement platform in St. Petersburg in mid-December has been selected as the winner 2018. The location at 200 Central demonstrates collaboration of the “Best Patient Relationship reflects our commitment to cutting- which results in the company’s Management Solution” from edge technology as downtown Success as ONE Synzi team MedTech Breakthrough, an St. Petersburg is emerging as a • Integrity: Our commitment independent organization that “hub” and “hot spot” for talented to always have strong moral recognizes the top companies professionals in the technology and principles in doing business, and solutions in the global health healthcare fields. Our new office not only with our internal and medical technology market. space has been custom-designed team but to all healthcare This award recognizes how Synzi to enable Synzi team members to professionals, patients, empowers healthcare organizations “live/breathe” its core values! members, and the communities with valuable connections and we interact with SR • Commitment: We promote 121

Helping Organizations Customers – SizeUp Business Intelligence for All “ Anatalio Ubalde SizeUp is a Fintech for banks, insurance CEO & Founder (Financial Technology) companies, and Internet service accounting software We help you company dedicated to to deliver SizeUp’s make smarter providing powerful business services to their small decisions intelligence. The company business customers. through data delivers its products either • SizeUp LBI (local and learn the as Software as a Service governments, answers to (SaaS) or as Data as a chambers of the burning Service (DaaS) through its commerce, and questions that API. utilities) – SizeUp Local keep every Business Intelligence business owner SizeUp helps its clients is designed for and aspiring better serve their small organizations to help entrepreneur up business customers by their local businesses at night.” providing high-quality grow. This service business intelligence. provides enhanced 122 SizeUp helps small demographic analysis. businesses make better • SizeUp API (custom decisions through big data. integrations) – SizeUp provides an API that As a result of SizeUp’s empowers software disruptive model of small developers to consume business intelligence it has SizeUp data as a service. become a popular Fintech company winning awards, History of the being profiled in the media, Company and being invited to present at conferences around the SizeUp launched at world. TechCrunch Disrupt when it was selected as one of thirty SizeUp currently finalists chosen from over offers three products: 1,200 applicants worldwide. TechCrunch Disrupt attracts • SizeUp FI (banks, global leaders in Internet insurance, and technology companies as accounting software) well as investors that want – SizeUp Financial to see the most disruptive Institutions is designed new technology companies launch for the first time

to Better Serve Their Small Business with live demonstrations. to banks. Today, SizeUp TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield technology can be seen in use finalist, winning startup at the SizeUp has been featured in by the largest bank in the world, Future of Money and Technology numerous media including headquartered in the United Summit, winner of the Innotribe MSNBC, Forbes, Entrepreneur, States. The company is now Startups Showcase, USA Business Insider, cnet news, expanding domestically and Department of Commerce 1st ZD Net, and many other quality internationally in partnership place business app to help media outlets. Learn more about with banks and insurance businesses and grow jobs (jury what the media is saying about companies. of Sheryl Sandberg, Vint Cerf, SizeUp. Tim O’Reilly), and a perfect score SizeUp has been invited to speak from BankNXT. He has spoken As a result of SizeUp’s innovative at numerous events including at the G20 Summit SME Finance use of data to help the American the G20 Summit SME Finance Forum, Latin America FINPYME, economy, service businesses, Forum in Turkey, SWIFT Sibos Finovate, Paris Fintech Forum, and create jobs, SizeUp was in Singapore, Latin America MoneyConf, and many other selected by a jury including FINPYME in Colombia, Paris Fintech events. Previously he co- Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook, Fintech Forum, Efma SME founded GIS Planning Inc., the Vint Cerf at Google; Vivek Summit in Milan, Fleming SME SaaS leader in online economic Kundura at Salesforce.com; Tim Banking in Austria, CEE SME development solutions and O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, and Banking Club in Poland, Finovate its service ZoomProspector. others as the 1st place business in Silicon Valley and London, com, a corporate real estate app to help businesses and grow and many other Fintech events. and site selection analysis jobs. platform. It made the Inc. 5000 The Founding Leader list of fastest growing private Early users of SizeUp’s companies 5 years in a row. The technology included Anatalio Ubalde | CEO New York Times recognized organizations such as the and Founder ZoomProspector.com, along with United States Small Business Google and Yelp, as one of the Administration (SBA), the Anatalio is an experienced “basics of starting a business” for President of the United States’ executive leading Software as a market analysis. The Financial Business USA program, Service ventures. At SizeUp, he is Times acquired GIS Planning Bloomberg BusinessWeek, responsible for leading product, in 2016. Mr. Ubalde’s work Staples, power companies, strategy, and growth. Along with has been featured in The Wall local economic development gaining globally recognized Street Journal, Bloomberg organizations, and Chambers of corporate customers, his team BusinessWeek, MSNBC, Forbes, Commerce. has quickly established SizeUp Fortune, and Entrepreneur. He as a leading Fintech startup, has a Master’s degree in City The company expanded earning international attention Planning from U.C. Berkeley. domestically and internationally as a finalist for the SWIFT Sibos by licensing its technology fintech innovation challenge, SR 123

Ho technology has influenced philantn recent philanthropy. figure hropy w years, The satisfaction of helping it out others, even if only in small — people Itechnology and increments, is available to all. aren’t shy about complaining online digitization have More options for if they feel a charity removed many logistical anonymity has misused their funds. limitations in philanthropy, Likewise, those that leading to a shift in how Prior to the Internet, many large maintain high standards people think about charity. charitable gifts were secured via public and have a positive impact are Innovations have improved gatherings, such as galas and other easier to find. fundraisers. The expanding landscape of online platforms and forums for donating make it increasingly possible our ability to tackle many of the to donate without telling anyone. This Fundraising via social most pressing social problems caters to the preference that many media facing humanity — including have for contributing privately and poverty, lack of access to education, without fanfare or attention. Besides providing a way to and environmental destruction. Revolution of communicate with supporters, social The influence of technology on the crowdfunding media also provides a new, interactive nonprofit sector is apparent from a avenue for fundraising. If you were number of standpoints. Crowdfunding has been a boon for online in the summer of 2014, you many nonprofits, especially those that probably encountered the Ice Bucket Listed below are few changes are less well known or traditionally Challenge. On Facebook, people posted ignored by major donors. By videos of themselves dumping a Give anytime: change in harnessing the power of the crowd and bucket of ice water over their head (or the timeline soliciting thousands or even millions of onto a friend) to promote awareness smaller donations, these organizations of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS. The Many people tend to think of don’t have to depend on large gifts. videos challenged others to do philanthropy as an activity Crowdfunding technology has also the same, and/or donate to the someone takes up after they have made it possible for individuals to nonprofit ALS Association. This raise money for their favorite causes. simple, fun challenge went viral, enjoyed a long and successful with more than 2.4 million career. Nowadays, because Increased accountability tagged videos on Facebook, and resulted in the ALS technology makes it easier to The digital presence that most Association receiving $100 donate any amount, however nonprofits have benefits donors and million in donations small, anyone at any age the organizations themselves because for the month of and from any economic it promotes greater transparency and August 2014 background can alone.SR engage in accountability. If a nonprofit has a bad reputation, it’s not hard to 124

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