Lyn Chamness McGee

The Center for Organizational Excellence, Inc. provides management and technology consulting services. The firm supports agencies through organizational effectiveness services, restructuring, program and agency assessments and management, performance management, strategy, and resource alignment. It designs and builds technology systems that make organizations help to ensure they have robust and usable data to make meaningful decisions. The company was founded by Stephen P. Goodrich in 1984 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

The American Marketing Association operates professional associations for marketers. The company offers services to marketing professionals including best practices and research studies, job resources, publications and directories. Its publications include flagship semi-monthly magazine Marketing News, as well as journal of marketing, journal of public policy and marketing and a variety of newsletters. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Women in Technology (WIT) is a non-profit organization with over 18,000 members worldwide, including more than 1,000 members in the local area. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The organization provides leadership development, technology education, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women at all levels of their careers and for girls interested in STEM. WIT aims to make the state with the highest percentage of women in the STEM workforce by partnering with the community to provide opportunities that champion women throughout their education and career. The company was founded by Gavriella Schuster, Deborah Gore Cassidy.

Qwest Communications International, Inc. engages in the provision of broadband Internet-based data, voice, and image communications services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

MCI, Inc. provides telecommunication services. It serves thousands of businesses and government entities throughout the world and provides voice, data and Internet communication services for millions of customers. The company is located in Ashburn, VA

Carpathia Hosting, Inc. provides information technology and managed hosting solutions. It offers cloud computing, managed hosting, colocation and continuous assurance platform. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Dulles, VA.

Telarix, Inc. engages in the provision of interconnect business optimization solutions and services. The company offers iXLink, which enables carriers, resellers, and emerging market providers to automate wholesale interconnect purchase processes. It also provides iXTools, which offers carriers visibility and control of interconnect traffic. The company was founded by Hormoz Hekmat, Shawn Zargham, and Amir Yazdanpanah in 1996 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.