Top 50 most innovative companies to watch 2020

Special Edition 2020
2020
Companies to Watch
MOST INNOVATIVE
TOP
Vertical Field:
A Revolutionary Platform to
Create a Greener World
ASATE Group:
Helping Organizations
Get Priorities Right
Simatree:
A Purpose-Driven
Approach to Analytics
Pumapay:
The Cryptocurrency Payment Solution
for Better Digital Transactions
Canon Business Process Services:
A Constant Focus on Innovation

Stands for Technology too
10.10.
ASATE Group:
12.12.
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Streamlining the Legal Issues of
Foreigners in Spain
14.14.
Process Services:
A Constant Focus
on Innovation
Chalice Network:
Allied Team of Professionals Joining
Forces for Business Optimization
BRITech:
Because Technology is Essential
to Every Organization
16.16.
18.18.
20.20.
Bojorge & Associates:
‘Prevention is Better than Cure’
Appnomic:
Canon Business

Cisive:
Modern Day Background
Investigation Service for Best Talent
Acquisition
Dynamic Blending:
Revolutionizing the Contract
Manufacturing Industry
Identity Management Practice
Euro Exim Bank:
Seamless Finance Solution
For SMEs Globally
Flaum Navigators:
Because Business Decision Making
can’t Afford to go Wrong
Ecolog International:
Leading Provider of Integrated
and Smart Support Service
Solutions
22.22.
24.24.
26.26.
28.28.
30.30.
32.32.
EARA Technologies Inc.:

ImagineSoftware:
Innovating the Healthcare Revenue
Cycle and Patient Experience
Imobile Mind Company:
Smart Application for Faster
Mobile Migration
INSTANT ON:
When Energy Meets Technology,
It Creates More Sustainability
and Resiliency
Lanconic Inc.:
Agile For Advanced
Human Resources
Kerubiel:
Next Generation Threat to Cyber
Security Hackers
34.34.
36.36.
38.38.
The Centre for The Future
KTH Center:
40.40.
42.42.
44.44.
of Places

Ledson Winery & Vineyards:
Custom-Made Wine for You and All
Natuvion:
Pasture.io:
Streamlining the Farming Sector with
Modern Agricultural Technology
Prolung:
Early Cancer Detection has Better
Outcomes and Lower Treatment
Costs
Prescient:
Because A Shelter is Built of
Trust and Technology
Helping You Navigate the Complex
Contingent Workforce Management Industry
Pro Unlimited:
54.54.
56.56.
58.58.
60.60.
62.62.
64.64.
Redesign and Reuse your Data in Half the
Time with Natuvion’s Nnnovative Solutions

Pumapay:
The Cryptocurrency Payment Solution for
Better Digital Transactions
Reservations.com:
Customized Travel Solution for
Modern-Day Travelers
Simatree:
A Purpose-Driven
Wellness Revolution:
Health is ultimately your Wealth
Unlimitedviz Inc:
When Data Suddenly Becomes
Business Critical
A Revolutionary Platform to
Create a Greener World
Vertical Field:
66.66.
68.68.
72.72.
74.74.
76.76.
70.70.

Looking at the recent history of technology, it seems that innovation is the key to success when it comes
to anything related to technology, more so because technology has reached a stage where it is building
upon its already existing structure. With an aim to achieve more and more, we humans have entered a
complex zone where the traditional technological solution is of no use. Modern services are more
customized, faster and cheaper because that is what every business look for. But one cannot also
overlook the quality of service as well. Thus to balance and control the entire scenario, several
innovative solutions are popping up in the market by various organizations.
But the challenge with developing new innovative solution is that it is a game of trial and error. While
a company scratches its brain on an innovation, it involves a 360 degree think through such as the
outcome, revenue, success, ROI, and customer satisfaction. A slight mistake in the presumed
scenario can change the entire concept, turning it into a huge disaster. Entering the world of
innovation is a huge step to take and not all companies gain what they think like during its
initiation.
It takes a lot for an innovation to gain success and a constant struggle from day one to
exemption and even post service. Thus, it is a long haul and one needs to think
from the perspective of the situations that might arise in the future.
Though a lot of organizations look towards developing innovative
solutions, only a few get to reach there.
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APPNOMIC:
knowledge of architecting a
core banking solution and
battling performance issues
plaguing client applications with
high transaction volumes. In most cases,
the performance issues were not code related and ﬁnding the root cause
was a cumbersome task, involving elimination or seeking the cause and effect
relationship between overall usage load and system behavior. On the lookout for a
‘Prevention is Better
than Cure’ Stands
for Technology too
OUR NEWLY
BRANDED PRODUCT,
HEAL, IS A NEW AGE IT
SOFTWARE USING AI
ALGORITHMS AND MACHINE
LEARNING MODELS TO HELP
ENTERPRISES OPERATE
WITHOUT A HITCH Nitin Kumar, CEO
Appnomic
addy Padmanabhan,
the founder of
Appnomic started the
company using his

way to quickly solve the problem and provide a lasting
solution, he found that he could potentially replicate the
actions and decision-making criteria into a learning
system, taking cognitive actions, and preventing
problems from occurring. This led to the establishment of
Appnomic, the industry’s first AI implementation in
Application Performance and self-healing abilities.
With a lot of companies positioning themselves as AI
Ops with similar messaging, even though many of them
only address AI Ops partially, the system got cluttered.
Appnomic’s complete strategic pivot to self-healing
brings clarity to its customers and partners and
demonstrates immediate value. It is the industry’s first
self-healing software that can predict and prevent
problems before they happen. “Our newly branded
product, HEAL, is a new age IT software using AI
algorithms and machine learning models to help
enterprises operate without a hitch,” says Nitin Kumar,
CEO, Appnomic. The company’s self-healing solutions
are capable of solving a very specific problem, opening
partnering opportunities for it.
Contrary to reactive AI-driven monitoring tools that send
alerts when an incident occurs, HEAL can recognize
signals that are leading indicators of future incidents and
eliminate factors that can create problems. It uses
unsupervised AI to learn how a system works under
normal circumstances and creates a dynamic baseline
for the entire system and workload behavior, predicting
and preventing problems. HEAL uses multiple
proprietary machine learning techniques that are
developed and patented by Appnomic.
The recent paradigm shift in IT operations and the
diagnosis of application health has shifted the focus of IT
operations from fast detection and problem fixing to
preventive self-healing whereby digital enterprises
prevent problems before they ever occur. The
self-healing model benefits the user as they see fewer
service disruptions, as well as the IT operations teams
and businesses as higher uptime makes their product
more attractive. Traditional reactive models are not
capable of prior warning, to protect the system from
sudden crashing as it cannot warm against any
unnatural behavior beforehand. This can be a serious
issue for the online trading platform.
“But with the preventive approach the world is a better
place for enterprises,” adds Nitin. With this, the
end-users will rarely encounter any problem as most
potential issues are eliminated before they cause
outage or performance degradation. This ensures better
customer experience and higher retention rates.
Moreover, IT teams need not waste time and energy on
discovering issues as the preventative AI program
automatically detects anomaly signals and finds the
source so that problems can be fixed before they affect
the user.
Appnomic offers HEAL to various industries including
financial services, telecommunication service providers,
digital media, eCommerce and SaaS. A financial
services customer with $150billion assets under
management uses HEAL to prevent incidents. With the
disruption in online banking services causing downtime,
the company was facing issues of bad customer
environment due to multiple silos, its monitoring and AI
Ops tools also became ineffective. But Appnomic’ HEAL
platform offered the company preventive self-healing by
eliminating issues that lead to failures. HEAL also
conducts early warning signal detection on massive
data volumes and at all levels of the stack, preventing
transaction failure and downtime. The company
witnessed more than 15 per cent lift in transactions and
more than 60 per cent reduction of developer time
invested in fixing incidents.
Appnomic has expanded its sales, marketing and
presales presence in US and EMEA. Focusing on the
global expansion and continuing innovation for the next
two years, the company is planning to expand its
partnerships and a direct presence in multiple
geographies. Appnomic is also planning to expand its
HEAL product line with solutions from cloud to edge.
April 2020 11
experience and loss of revenue. Moreover, in a complex

aced with increased competition,
fueled by trends such as globalization,
the digital shift, Industry 4.0, artiﬁcial
intelligence, and agility, organizations
have no choice but to transform
themselves continuously and at a
faster pace. Such transformations
generally include the formulation of a
ASATE Group
F
new or improved strategy, followed by the carrying out of
a series of changes to the organization’s operating model
to enable full execution of the strategy.
However, according to recent worldwide surveys
conducted among thousands of senior executives around
the world, the vast majority of organizations remain
unhappy with their ability to transform themselves,
Pierre Hadaya,
Partner
Bernard Gagnon,
President
April 2020 11

irrespective of the adoption of the best practices. The
challenge is in doing the right things in the right order,
and quickly enough. To break out of this impasse and
ensure their growth, organizations need to change the
way they go about formulating, implementing, executing
their strategy.
The frustration of witnessing too many organizations fail
in their transformations motivated ASATE Group to create
its Organizational Transformation Framework. Its
development started with an in-depth examination of the
difficulties organizations face in their transformations, of
which the main five are:
* The strategy of most organizations is poorly
formulated.
* Executives fail to provide the leadership needed to
make the strategy a success.
* The transformation and other initiatives required to
make the strategy work are defined, prioritized, and
executed in a far from optimal manner.
* The long-term financial forecasting and yearly
budgeting practices hinder the execution of the strategy
and related initiatives.
* Strategy management activities are inadequate and
poorly integrated.
“Following this, we spent nearly 10 years identifying,
developing, testing, and perfecting the integrated set of
methods, practices, and tools that make up the
company’s framework,” says Bernard Gagnon, President
and Cofounder, ASATE Group.
To best help its clients, ASATE Group combines
consulting with research to further perfect its leading
transformation framework. It considers the organization
as a system that needs to be optimized as a whole for the
execution of its strategy. The framework has three key
elements designed to fill important gaps in previously
available practices. The first element is the creation of an
expanded strategic plan that includes a concrete
description of the changes that will have to be made to
the organization’s operating model and an optimized
roadmap for carrying out these changes. The second
element is the establishment and integration of all of the
management activities and mechanisms necessary for
the successful formulation, execution and regular update
of the strategic plan. These activities, mechanisms, and
the creation of the strategic plan, leverage the third
element, ASATE Group’s world-leading business
architecture approach. The company’s framework makes
it possible to design, integrate and optimize all aspects of
the transformation. It also helps avoid initiatives that
contribute little to the execution of the strategy or that
used together, the three elements of our framework
enable organizations to transform themselves
effectively, efficiently, and with agility to grow and
improve their performance,” says Pierre Hadaya,
Cofounder, ASATE Group.
Among its recent engagements, ASATE Group
worked with a mid-sized company that asked for
assistance in implementing a new ERP. Suspecting
that such an initiative would not fix the root causes of
their difficulties, ASATE Group convinced the
management team that it should first conduct a
review of their operating model and then help them
formulate a new international growth strategy. ASATE
Group is currently helping a major bank become more
efficient in transforming itself. This includes the
training of 145 of their managers and professionals in
business architecture.
ASATE Group is also developing partnerships to offer
its services internationally. The company is also
discussing with several Enterprise Architecture tool
developers so that they could support the company’s
framework. By the second half of the year, ASATE
Group will also introduce a certification program on
its world-leading business architecture approach.
We spent nearly 10
years identifying,
developing, testing,
and perfecting the
integrated set of
methods, practices,
and tools that make
up the company’s
April 2020 13
are conceived and performed in isolation. “When
framework.

BOJORGE &ASSOCIATES:
STREAMLINING THE LEGAL ISSUES
OF FOREIGNERS IN SPAIN
Bojorge & Associates is working
towards the improvement of
communication networks and their
access to people to make it simple
and affordable.
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Marla Bojorge, CEO

and make it grow without bad weeds around,”
says Marla.
Bojorge & Associates is working towards the
improvement of communication networks and
their access to people to make it simple and
affordable. In Spain, many advances have
been made by introducing novelties and
improvements in 4G and 5G mobile
telephony, as well as the internet network.
This calls for taking care of the security to
access reliable content.
The company has solved some cases in very
delicate situations. It solved a case where a
mother requested her desire to not modifying
her traditions regarding the birth of her son. In
Spain, people, in general, think that all
foreigners want to stay in Spain or get
nationality. But in this case, the mother did not
want her son to get Spanish nationality,
although in reality, in Spain, nationality is not
acquired by being born in Spanish territory.
Bojorge & Associates helped her to have her
delivery in her home country and return with
her baby to Spain. Another example was a
client who was involved in a serious problem
with transnational consequences and
everything was solved smoothly. Marla walked
on eggshells for solving this case.
The company stays up to date on technology
and that is the secret behind the progress
made by it. Occasionally Bojorge &
Associates also participate in national and
European events related to legal guidance
services. It makes thorough the legal needs of
her clients and the research of the market to
understand the potential challenges in the
field of legal guidance services and fill the
existing gaps.
hile she was
looking for an
answer about how
to adequate her
vocation after her
studies, Marla Bojorge,
CEO, Bojorge &
Associates, wrote and
presented “Bojorge & Associates” as her
company, which was dedicated to providing
legal guidance services to foreigners both
natural and legal persons in English. As her
business project got selected to be presented
on the final day of the course to the
representative of the Dona Institute, Marla
could already predict her company’s success.
After that, she went to New York and China for
training and learning and eventually set up
the company.
There exists a multitude of rules in Spain, to
which adding the regulations of the European
Union is a must for a member country due to
the international treaties signed by Spain.
Bojorge & Associates looks into this area to
streamline the life of foreigners in Spain, as
well as residents.
The company offers customized solutions
depending on its client’s problems. For
example, some foreigners think that they can
do it all by reading the internet, without
consulting a lawyer just to save time and
perhaps, avoid paying fees. Bojorge &
Associates listen foreigners or companies,
understand the problem and develops a
customized solution, so the suit fits. On the
contrary, the Human Resources team contacts
the company by themselves and explains the
matter and leaves it in the hands of Bojorge &
Associates. “I can prune the tree from the top

The rapid growth of technological
innovation in the fields of AI, cloud
computing, and machine learning has
caused massive disruption across every vertical
industry, wealth management included, leading to
an increasing demand of innovative solutions in the
market. To adhere to this situation, organizations
need to, not only be aware of various
advancements happening in the field but also
choose the right technology solution to achieve
better services to their customers.
To fight this situation, wealth management
organizations are now incorporating technology
and services to allow investors to develop a
calculated and systematic
business module by implementing
proper financial strategies. Wealth managers
include overall management of the financial
planning, multi-family offices, investment portfolio
management, and other financial services targeted
towards high net worth individuals to manage
wealth efficiently and realize their strategic goals.
Moreover, proper wealth planning helps create a
deep understanding of economic uncertainties,
resulting in eliminating the unnecessary financial
burden.
Thus, BRITech was established to help
organizations bring forth out-of-the-box software,
Yuryi Ferber, CEO Marcos Puccini, GCGO
BRITech:
Because Technology is Essential
to Every Organization

infrastructure and professional services to reinvigorate
the investment management ecosystem and help its
clients in steering ahead of market peers. In its initial
days, BRITech addressed the needs of broker-dealers
but after R&D investments, the company reached asset
and wealth managers, financial advisors, single &
multi-family offices, private banking and fund
administrators along with some established Fintech
firms.
BRITech offers a cloud-based investment
management platform to maximize operational
efficiency and enhance the scalability with its pure
SaaS approach and expertise in serving the entire
investment management environment. The company’s
platform is built using state-of-the-art micro-services
that are cloud-based to assist SMEs in exploring
technological depths and helping big financial firms
automate manual processes to improve their
economic viability.
To ensure superior investment management across
its vast and versatile clientele, BRITech’s solution is
built with seven modules that include Client Portal &
Dashboards, CRM, Billing & Invoices, Portfolio
Management System (PMS), Front & Rebalancing,
Risk Management, and API. The Client Portal, the
base for all client reports, provides a very flexible
and configurable dashboard engine. The CRM offers
an embedded CRM module along with a robust
client onboarding component that includes the
client’s master file, which is used to include desks,
appointments and lead management. The billing
module governs the management and performance
fees based on the type of customer business and the
PMS, a possible engine for all portfolio accounting
requirements, offers a portfolio- modelling feature to
balance client needs and services.
The company also offers complementary services to
ensure the optimal utilization of its SaaS product and
its ‘wealth management as a service’ approach
leverages innovative tools to increase the speed of
implementation.
BRITech mission state is “To help Investment
Management companies of any size to provide the
best possible services for their customers. Together
we’re building a Wealthy World”.
Being a customer-centric company, BRITech ensures
customer satisfaction by providing a platform for their
specific needs. Founded in 2012, with franchisees
around the world and offices in 8 cities. The company
has witnessed radical growth over the last years, and
conquering over 240 customers across Latin America,
Spain, Belgium and United States, aiming to grow even
more rapidly in the future.
“To help
Investment
Management
companies of
any size to
provide the best
possible
services for their
customers.
Together we are
building a
Wealthy World”
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o help its clients succeed in today’s
hyper-competitive business environment, Canon
Business Process Services (Canon) leverages
advanced technologies and services to deliver
agility, exceptional workplace experiences and improved
business performance.
“Many businesses are looking to fundamentally
transform their operations by capitalizing on digitization,
automation, analytics, mobility and constant
advancements in technology,” says Joe Marciano,
president and CEO of Canon Business Process Services.
“In response to these forces for change, we are applying
innovative thinking to help clients improve their business
processes and streamline their workflows.”
Indeed, Canon’s focus on creative thinking and business
process innovation has been a hallmark of the company’s
approach for over 30 years. It’s also a practice that has
garnered significant industry recognition. As one example,
this year Canon was named a Global Outsourcing 100
Leader by the International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals (IAOP®) for the fourteenth straight year. Last
year, IAOP named Canon to its Best of the Global
Outsourcing 100 list. The list featured companies that
were at the top of the annual IAOP GO100 for a decade.
Canon earned additional IAOP Best of the Global
Outsourcing 100 honors by being acknowledged with top
honors in five special recognition categories. One of these
included, most notably, the “Programs for Innovation”
category. It recognizes a company’s ability to implement
specific programs and resulting outcomes that produce new
forms of value for customers.
One such advanced program is Canon Workplace
Experience Services. Canon’s offering integrates a range of
services designed to deliver the world-class experience that
many companies envision to attract and retain the best
employees, encourage collaboration and improve
efficiency. “Because business is about developing and
nurturing valuable relationships, we have designed services
to help ensure that the people who are most important to
our clients’ success enjoy a remarkable experience while in
the company’s workplace,” notes Workplace Services
Solution Analyst Eric Mead, who heads up Canon’s
program. “Our experts anticipate their needs, saving them
time, improving productivity, removing workplace friction
and making them feel special,” adds Mead.
The foundation of Canon’s offering is a suite of integrated
services, managed by a dedicated, on-site team, which
include the following:
CANON BUSINESS
PROCESS SERVICES:
A Constant Focus
on Innovation
Joseph Marciano, President &
C
EO
April 2020 18

⁎ Community-building and event management. A large part of the
modern employee experience centers around the
community. Arguably, people spend most of their
waking hours at work, so it’s important that they have
an opportunity to get to know their colleagues a little
better. Part of Workplace Experience Services is
community-building, which includes a hoteling system
that offers employees the option to reserve
workspaces—even in different locations so employees
can work with colleagues they wouldn’t otherwise ever
meet. It also includes event planning and management
to encourage socialization at events outside of work
hours.
⁎ Reception,hostandconciergeservices. These services include front
desk management, such as professionally greeting guests;
and coordinating meeting details, such as reserving
conference rooms and organizing catering to make sure
events run smoothly.
⁎ Office and hospitality services. Employees can spend a large
chunk of their time on mail, shipping and receiving,
printing, and records management—all of which may
take them away from their core job duties. The prep
required for setting up meetings—such as setting up
audio/visual equipment—is equally as time-consuming.
Office and hospitality services tackle these tasks so that
employees can focus on getting their job done.
⁎ Facility support. Employee productivity can be
significantly impacted when the work environment is
uncomfortable. By managing the physical details in a
work environment—such as desk chair height, room
temperature, and working coffee machines and light
fixtures—Workplace Experience Services teams ensure
the employee’s physical environment is conducive to a
productive workday.
⁎ Technology enablement. Technology enablement refers to
light tech support, such as for login issues, problems with
an audio/visual system in a meeting room or even phone
issues. Separate to tech support but nevertheless related
is the use of technology to track and communicate the
workplace services activity. One example of this is how
Canon utilizes a best-in-class web-based ticketing
system for conference rooms, printing and mailing, and
facilities management. A Workplace Experience Services
team leverages this ticketing system to coordinate a
productive and collaborative work environment that runs
smoothly.
⁎ Analytics for continuous improvement. Analytics show the value
of an organization’s investment in Workplace Experience
Services. The analytics are typically based on data
gathered from the ticketing and performance
management systems.
“One of today’s major business challenges is how—and
how quickly—organizations can reshape the employee
experience in their workplace,” says Joe Marciano. By
implementing programs such as Canon Workplace
Experience Services to foster community and reduce
friction in the workplace, organizations can win the war
for talent and position themselves for success today and
in the future.
CANON’S OFFERING INTEGRATES A RANGE OF SERVICES
DESIGNED TO DELIVER THE WORLD-CLASS EXPERIENCE
THAT MANY COMPANIES ENVISION TO ATTRACT AND
RETAIN THE BEST EMPLOYEES, ENCOURAGE
COLLABORATION AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY.

CHALICE NETWORK
ALLIED TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS JOINING
FORCES FOR BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION
Keith E. Gregg, CEO
Chalice Network
The company's mission is to become the
industry's leading member-benefit organization
for independent business owners and it is
working hard to make this a success.

he complexities of running a small
business and lack of integrated solutions
takes a toll on the business owners.
“Chalice Network was established out of
necessity as a business owner and financial
advisor,” said Keith Gregg, CEO of Chalice Network. The
average small business owner must seek solutions to
run their business, everything from Marketing, IT, Payroll
to health insurance benefits. It takes time and due
diligence, and for many business owners, they don't
have the experience to vet these vendors or the scale to
negotiate favorable pricing.
Once the selection of products and services has been
made – then the question becomes – how do I aggregate
and integrate versus having to log-in and log-out to 4-6
different websites and disparate systems? This is where
Chalice Network comes in, with decades of experience
and after the creation of a single sign-on technology
platform – Chalice Digital Marketplace, the members of
Chalice can gain access to all the products, services, and
technology & tools they need to run their business better
and serve the clients in the best possible way.
Chalice Network is a member benefit organization that
focuses on supporting small to medium-sized
independent professionals by offering highly favorable
prices for exclusive access to services and
enterprise-quality goods. The company was built to
overcome the business problems of every small and
medium-sized business owner-seeking economies of
scale and operational efficiency while helping them to
simplify and grow their business through the Chalice
Network. “The company's mission is to become the
industry's leading member-benefit organization for
independent business owners and it is working hard to
make this a success,” states Gregg.
The company offers access to best-in-class wealth
management products and services through its digital
marketplace — Chalice Digital Marketplace, in search of the
economies of scale and operational efficiencies that
advisors want and need to thrive. Chalice Network is a
community of over 52,000+ members, composed of
qualified Financial Planners, CPAs, Insurance Brokers, and
other financial experts. Its community also provides unique
opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and collaboration,
providing a platform for exchanging ideas and best practices
to help collectively improve the members.
The clients associated with Chalice are challenged with
a lack of economies scale and operational inefficiency.
In essence, the company provides its clients the buying
power of 52,000+ members and ease of access to
aggregated and integrated business solutions available
through Chalice Digital Marketplace. There are 3
membership tiers to choose from, starting at just
$25/month!. The benefit of cloud-based computing and
API connectivity has become the gold standard to
SaaS/PaaS companies; not only for convenience and
security – but for straight-through processing and
operational optimization.
Most of the members of Chalice are 1099 Independent
contractors or SMBs, so it's difficult to afford business
solutions, technology, and group health insurance.
Chalice is a Member Benefits Organization of 52,000+
members that leverage the buying power of the
members to deliver meaningful business solutions and
affordable group health insurance benefits.
Chalice has three main operating principles: Open,
honest, and frequent communication, gaining trust
through transparency and accountability – do whatever
you said you're going to do! Chalice focuses on taking
the client's business to the next level with confidence by
accessing the right solutions, kick-starting the business
with leading technology designed to save time and
money, and securing the company with must-have
products and services. Chalice Network was founded by
real veterans in the financial industry who recognizes
the needs of the independent business owner today.
The leadership team has a cumulative background of
over 100 years and is committed in providing tangible
and immediate value to all members of the Chalice
Network.
Chalice Network indeed seeks to be a global company
and have some expansion plans in the UK and Canada
right now. Chalice will further expand its services into
other verticals such as Attorneys, Realtors, Mortgage
Brokers, and other Financial Services Allied
professionals. Chalice anticipates that the value of
On-Line Communities of likeminded people will become
the new social norm, and the adoption of technology to
manage both internal and external relationships and
business affairs is the only way to win in a
technology-driven world we live in. Chalice is the Holy
Grail for Financial Services SMBs.

n today’s highly regulated environment and
technology-driven landscape, employers are
competing for top talent more than ever. As a result,
they must focus on providing the best candidate
experience, which normally means balancing
compliance and due diligence with efficiency. Efficient
processes that leverage the latest technology can
determine whether an employer meets their hiring goals.
With Cisive’s technology, employers can have both
without compromise.
Cisive deals with specific risks and regulations that apply
to the financial services and other highly regulated
industries. For over 40 years, the company has provided
tailored solutions to meet the unique requirements of its
enterprise clients. It launched its onboarding suite of
technologies in 2007 to cater to enterprise clients’ talent
acquisition needs and has been enhancing the platform
ever since.
Cisive is a global provider of compliance-driven human
capital management and risk management solutions. The
company’s core onboarding and pre-employment
background screening offering provides clients with a
streamlined, high quality, and regulatory compliant
solution. Comprehensive services include background
screening, vendor/contractor screening, executive
screening, drug testing, fingerprinting, paperless
onboarding, and electronic Form I-9/E-Verify solutions.
While the reduction in the information provided in credit
reports creates challenges for positions regulated under
FINRA, Cisive’s Financial Anomalies Search Technology
(FAST) is the perfect solution for banks and other financial
services institutions that run credit reporting to meet
regulatory requirements. FAST provides compliance
officers and recruiters a means to match regulated
candidates’ self-disclosures regarding public civil
records, liens or judgments in compliance with Federal,
State, or local laws and regulations.
The efficiency of Cisive’s FAST was on full display
when it assisted an organization in solving its
compliance issues after the credit reporting reductions.
While bringing people on board, the client needed an
efficient way of getting missing information in the credit
reports. With FAST, Cisive was able to compensate for
what was lost in the credit reports and provide all of the
information required to vet people and drive the right
decisions.
Cisive:
MODERN DAY BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
SERVICE FOR BEST TALENT ACQUISITION
James Owens, CEO & President
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Cisive’s onboarding solution provides a real-time view of
the status of current and past background checks and
drug testing. The configurable dashboard easily
manages tasks associated with the new-hire process. The
intuitive applicant portal gives applicants an easy
screening experience by guiding them through each step
of the process. The portal features progress bars, an
easy-to-read menu, on-screen text messaging, live chats,
and phone and email contact options to help candidates
complete the process smoothly. The system also carries
forward data, eliminates duplicate data entry, and
provides a faster, more efficient applicant experience.
Founded in 1977 as CARCO Group Inc., it launched its
new brand Cisive in 2017 to keep pace with the
company’s incredible growth and its clients’ increasingly
complex challenges for accurate information and insights
to make confident decisions. Cisive now provides
comprehensive global background investigations on
potential and current employees, vendors, clients, and
business partners. It also provides drug testing and
fingerprinting services through alliance partners.
Governed by a mission to mitigate risk for employers,
Cisive empowers clients with actionable intelligence and
clarity throughout the hiring processes. The uniqueness
of Cisive’s pre-employment screening services stems
from their unwavering focus on truthful reporting, legal
compliance, and integrity of source material. The
company draws on its rich experience to offer the right
solutions to enterprise organizations in highly regulated
industries such as financial services.
Cisive employs technology to automate processes where
achievable by technology but also employs highly
trained personnel for review of background investigation
information at critical points. This approach provides
clients unparalleled insight and the most accurate
information and ensures that they overcome employment
background check challenges and bring the most
qualified candidates on board. “Our accuracy rates are
extremely high, and our dispute rates are very low.
Moreover, while providing this best-in-class quality, our
turnaround times compare favorably to our competitors,”
says James Owens, CEO and President, Cisive.
Cisive not only offers background screening, but also
provides a lifelong partnership as a company that stands
by their work, protects their clients, and provides the
consultation and guidance world-class organizations
require. Cisive’s quality of service, robust reporting,
cost-effectiveness, and state of the art, configurable,
proprietary technology sets it apart from the rest of the
competitors in the industry.
“Cisive not only offers background
screening, but also provides a lifelong
partnership as a company that stands
by their work, protects their clients, and
provides the consultation and guidance
world-class organizations require
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April 2020 23

JORDAN ERSKINE
President & Co-Founder
DYNAMIC BLENDING:
Revolutionizing the Contract
Manufacturing Industry
ith the prominence of shows like Shark
Tank and online marketplaces like
Amazon and eBay, entrepreneurs can think
up almost anything, get it created quite
quickly, and start selling it to the masses. While
the process may come with various names, it is recognized
by many as contract manufacturing. “With over 17 years of vast
work experience in contract manufacturing and working with
companies dealing with personal care/skincare industry and after
gaining knowledge and building connections, we decided to ﬁnally
branch out and set up Dynamic Blending in 2015 to disrupt the contract
manufacturing market and remove the common misconceptions related
to the industry,” said Jordan Erskine, President & Co-Founder of
Dynamic Blending.
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Dynamic Blending is a full service turnkey contract
manufacturer of cosmetics, personal care, skin care,
dietary supplements, nutraceutical, and much more. The
team is comprised of industry experts with extensive
experience in cosmetic chemistry (R&D), formulations,
manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and quality. Each
team member has one aim, and that is to concentrate 100
percent on customer needs. The company started as a
consulting group on R&D formulation. The small team
was able to create unique formulations that were
brokered to other manufacturers from the previous
knowledge and expertise of the founders.
Dynamic Blending is a global manufacturer of cosmetics
that focuses on people, relationships, and consistency.
Dedicated to the ultimate satisfaction of the consumer,
the company partners with cosmetic companies in
creating the most innovative product solutions possible.
Dynamic Blending is determined to deliver new and
innovative products to the beauty industry, keeping
quality at the forefront and exceeding all expectations
with the products.
Dynamic Blending focuses on working with companies of
all sizes to give them the tools and information they need
to launch a product successfully. Most contract
manufacturers ask for higher minimum order quantities
requiring more capital, whereas the services offered by
Dynamic Blending are cheaper and cost effective; they
provide samples before committing to huge capital. “We
have grown at a triple-digit rate and have achieved 566x
times revenue as compared to last year's revenue. We
have grown fast, and we are in the market for only a few
years, it kind of speaks about our vision and how we
respond to the market,” states Erskine.
Dynamic Blending works with the principle of making
clients feel that they are a part of the team so that the
clients can trust and rely on the company. The
company has started a program called Project Ignite,
which helps in providing companies of all sizes more
tools and options to keep their needs under one roof
like Graphic Design, Web Design, and Brand
Consulting. Project Ignite is a comprehensive tool to
help clients achieve success. Under this program, the
company offers an in-house graphic design department
to help close the gap and speed up time to market. An
efficient graphic designer will get rid of costly delays.
Dynamic Blending understands that having a good web
presence is everything these days, especially for the
client's brand. The in-house web design team of the
company works with the graphic design team to put the
client's dreams in front of the masses. Dynamic
Blending has partnered with 4 essential industry brand
consulting firms. Each one of these firms brings
give wings to the client's project. The team provides
clients with the perfect custom formula to wow their
customers. With over thirty years of experience in the
R&D lab alone, Dynamic Blending has know-how and
expertise at the client's disposal. They have some of the
best cosmetic chemists in the industry. The key to the
success of a brand lies in graphic design, and the
company has assembled a team of experts who will
make sure the clients stand out in a saturated market.
Dynamic Blending is ready to help clients in developing
the right look for showcasing their products.
One of the services that Dynamic Blending offers is the
Joint Venture Program, which provides the tools and
resources needed for brands to succeed. It is designed to
help bring indirect financial benefits to clients who
qualify. By joint venturing with the company, clients will
get many benefits, which include massive savings in R&D,
unit costs, priority manufacturing, and more! This
program allows clients to have more working capital to
invest in other parts of their businesses.
Dynamic Blending has doubled the manufacturing and
warehouse space and has moved to a larger facility with
2 separate R&D labs. The services provided by the
company are disrupting the market and putting pressure
on the current contract manufacturing market by
delivering low-key solutions for the clients. The flexibility
to work with clients of all sizes is what truly sets Dynamic
Blending apart from the industry.
unmatched experience in all areas of brand building. As
these firms have worked for the most notable names in
the beauty industry, they know a thing or two about
branding!
Starting a contract manufacturing company is difficult due
to the high overhead cost; the company has been able to
manage the costs more than the other manufacturer,
which is a critical factor for the growth of the company.
Dynamic Blending has experienced staff available to help
Dynamic Blending is a
global manufacturer of
cosmetics that focuses on
people, relationships, and
consistency.
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In order to get there, we need collaboration from
private organizations (i.e., financial institutions,
telco’s, utilities, etc.), the public sector (vital stats,
DMV, etc.), and the general public (both visionaries
and early adopters). We need the public and private
sectors to work on both the issuance and consumption
of digital credentials. The issuance to authenticated
users (general public) of documents/credentials into
secure digital wallets for reuse by the owner of the
credential.
EARA’s Identity Management practice collaborates to
bring the best organizations and people together to
deliver solutions related to Identity. Engaging with
government, academia, industry leaders and
cutting-edge organizations, working collaboratively to
integrate the best qualities to achieve next generation
solutions. Directly or through a consortium, the practice
is able to facilitate collaboration to ensure that good
ideas and tools are brought together to form intelligent
solutions. EARA believes the best ideas can come from
anyone, and engages people with a diverse range of
views, backgrounds, ages, and experiences to explore
problems from all angles. The world of Self-Sovereign
Identity (SSI) is the next big innovation and EARA is
already at the forefront.
nnovation often occurs when you question the status quo
or challenge the current way of looking at things. We do a
lot of that. In most cases, complex problems are solved
with simple solutions. EARA Technologies Inc. (EARA) is
innovative because we view Identity and Access
Management (IAM) as a path to simplicity not as an added
layer of complexity. We see the modern I.T. landscape as
a mine field of one-off solutions held together with bubble
gum and string and it’s our mission to remove the
bubblegum and trim those strings. Helping our customers
get the simple Authentication and Authorization
functionality they should have had 20 years ago.
Additionally, the online or digital world presents
opportunity and chaos. Convenience and disruption.
Risk and simplification.
The mission; to help create in the digital realm what
exists in the physical world with respect to identity and
authentication with significant improvements to both
privacy and security.
Much harm has been caused with the lack of privacy of
information in the online channel and tremendous
convenience in the delivery of services. The chaos has
created opportunity for both innovation and bad actors
to flourish. It is now time to put in place better controls
that reduce friction and raise mitigation.
The mission; to help create in the digital realm what exists in
the physical world with respect to identity and authentication
with significant improvements to both privacy and security.
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Grenville B. H. Lock
President and CEO
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EARA Technologies Inc.
Identity Management Practice

ilo is a comprehensive SaaS Occupational Health
and Safety Information Management System (an
OHS ERP) founded in 2002. Since then we have
been providing clients a state-of-the-art software tool to
support all areas around health and safety defined as
part of the implementation process. Our agile and
consultative implementation process allows for
meaningful customization of each module to meet the
specific needs of our clients.
What differentiates Xilo from other software solutions?
Our SaaS is more like a tailor-made solution. We
essentially build glove (Xilo) to hand (the client)
configuration and customizations client by client. Each
Clients unique requirements are built using our
customizable templates and modules. What does that
mean for the clients? Easier adoption, alignment to
client's business processes, a say in the software
requirements and its successful implementation.
Delivery of IT solutions have been known to fail in
organizations because of technology limitations,
adoption and overruns in budget among other
challenges. Xilo has been serving OHS Software
solutions to larger organizations for over 17 years. We
have identified a niche in how our templates and
system is configured to allow clients to be successful
in the implementation processes.  We are so confident
in our services and methodology that we often provide
fixed price delivery.
Furthermore, we substantially or in some cases have
eliminated the need for paper-based templates,
paper-based letters and reports and demonstrate to
organizations how going exclusively digital can save
time, money, resources and be the most effective
manner in eliminating workplace injury. After all, our
motto is “everyone home safe at the end of the day,
every day”!
Incredible insights. Incredible insights emerge with
every module leveraged. The way data linkages are
made across Xilo modules provides one of the biggest
advantages over competitors.
Where do we see Xilo in the market in the next 5 – 10 years?
An industry leader setting the standard around
Occupational Health and Safety Software, enabling
organizations to live by the motto “everyone home safe
at the end of the day, every day “
MonicaKyver
is, President of Xilo
United States of Americ
a
We essentially build
glove (Xilo) to hand (the
client) configuration
and customizations
client by client
Xilo
April 2020 27

eadquartered in Dubai, U.A.E., with strong U.S.
presence in Washington D.C. and its European
footprint in Germany, the ﬁrm has expanded to
more than 40 countries. Founded more than 2 decades
ago, Ecolog today is a leading global provider of
integrated solutions, supply chain and logistics,
technology, facility management and environmental
services. The company initially was founded to provide
services to the German army deployed during the
Balkan crisis. It gradually extended its services within
the defense sector and beyond. Ecolog has also
offered its services for missions like KFOR, ISAF in
Afghanistan, and Iraqi freedom. Since then, the
company marched forward and expanded its portfolio
as well as global footprint to meet clients' requirements
across several industries.
Within a short period of performance, the company
augmented its service portfolio from few support
services to a whole range of integrated solutions,
facility management, water treatment, waste
management, catering, fuel supply and distribution and
energy. After a few years, Ecolog International
emerged as a reliable partner to support missions in
areas where there was limited infrastructure in place. It
was a signiﬁcant and strategic move for a young
company to tackle projects in remote areas, entering a
new league where both the opportunities and the
stakes were high.
Ecolog International:
Leading Provider of Integrated and
Smart Support Service Solutions
Ali Vezvaei, Group CEO
Ecolog International
April 2020 27April 2020 28

Ecolog International emerged at a time when many
organizations did not outsource their services. To
promote and sustain the shift across the industry was not
so easy. The company was able to disrupt the value
chain creatively, with innovating and redefining
processes, and demonstrating the benefits of using a
reliable third party. It did not stop there and continued to
develop its digital platform to increase productivity and
enhance the quality and reliability of services, while
providing a superior customer experience. Platforms such
as Customer Order Portal (C.O.P.) and E-Laundry are
amongst its innovative digital interfaces.
The services and logistics industry is emerging faster
than ever. The arrival and integration of digitization,
connectivity, the use of A.I, and, more importantly, the
integration of robotics into the value chain are
transforming the industry. In this situation, Ecolog
International believes that productivity and reliability are
the new currencies, and predictive analytics and
connectivity will give rise to the fast arrival of intelligent
logistics and services that, in the past, were more a
fiction. Cargos that schedule their own arrival while
communicating in and outbound, autonomous
warehouses, robotics and intelligent delivery-fulfillment
are just the tip of the iceberg.
Ecolog International has a robust entrepreneurial spirit
and has aligned itself well with market trends. While it
has traditionally been working with the government
sector, there is untold growth to discover across the
commercial industries. With the upside potential in the
energy and water arena, industrial services and also in
the digital transformation and cybersecurity, the
company’s first priority is to deploy the services and
solutions across its extended global footprint and
leverage its extensive pool of nearly 12000 skilled
employees. ”In addition to our core business,
environmental solutions in general and water treatment
as well as waste management in particular, are front and
center in our growth strategy, where flexibility,
technology and skilled resources are well integrated to
unlock potential” says Ali Vezvaei, Ecolog International’s
Group CEO.
In addition to our
core business,
environmental
solutions in general
and water treatment
as well as waste
management in
particular, are front
and center in our
growth strategy,
where flexibility,
technology and
skilled resources are
well integrated to
unlock potential
April 2020 29

ecent policies of market withdrawal and de-risking
by global from key markets in challenging
jurisdictions coupled with the growing burden of
regulatory compliance has left smaller corporate buyers
restricted and bypassed by major financial institutions.
Euro Exim Bank, as specialists in trade finance, saw a
market opportunity here - servicing corporates and SME’s
with a focus on instruments designed to facilitate
cost-effective and efficient global trade, working
exclusively with buyers across the globe. The company’s
collateral requirements address the issue of limited cash
flow for smaller buyers, with appropriate safeguards and
security that permit buyers to compete with international
transactions where they were restricted in the past. It
assists clients in providing appropriate collateral
requirements and looking at each trade on a
case-by-case basis, with unique relationships, enabling
and facilitating trade where possible.
Euro Exim Bank’s challenging journey over the past five
years in terms of jurisdictions and ever mindful of
sanctioned products, countries, PEPs and compliance,
has allowed it to become expert and trusted in its field
and now serves tier 2 and 3 clients where traditional
trade institutions no longer provide the level of service
which make doing business and competing
internationally viable.
SEAMLESS FINANCE
SOLUTION FOR SMEs
GLOBALLY
EURO EXIM BANK:
Serving clients in over 100 countries, Euro Exim Bank has
noticed common barriers such as trade bureaucracy, lack of
access to capital, inability to complete through size, high
shipping costs, lack of access to cross border e-commerce
markets, infrastructure issues, corruption and trust, and slow
customer payments, which restrict trade for SME’s and often
larger corporates in international markets.
“2020 is expected to be a big year for further application
of technological innovation in trade finance. As Free
Trade Agreements (FTA’s) ease movement of goods and
oil the wheels of commerce, coalitions are forming to
provide faster and more appropriate trade finance
services to meet not only the logistics but the financial
needs of producers, customers and shippers,” says
Kaushik Punjani, Director, Euro Exim Bank.
To support local business in local currency Euro Exim Bank
worked with a supermarket group in Kenya needed to pay
suppliers in other countries in Africa and across the globe,
but did not wish to continually buy USD or other fluctuating
currencies from a local bank. This affects cash flow and
access to liquidity where their order size can be in the tens
of thousands. Euro Exim Bank’s RippleNet solution helped
the client with immediate payments in local currency
through xCurrent, and further access to unlimited liquidity
using the XRP digital asset with certainty and immutability of
transfer and settlement.
Kaushik Punjani, Chairman

As a regulated financial institution, the company
constantly reviews its business models and is being
increasingly driven by compliance requirements along
with faster, secure, and guaranteed processes from trade
inception to its settlement.
“This trend is inevitably driven by the enablement of AI, DLT
and blockchain technology, safely and rapidly transporting
immutable and transparent details throughout the trade
life-cycle. IDC predicts AI spend to reach $35.8 billion in
2019 and open banking, machine learning cognitive and
artificial intelligence systems expected to reach $77.6
billion in 2022, more than three times the $24 billion
forecast for 2018,” adds Kaushik. The use cases for the
application of DLT, blockchain, AI and real-time compliance
are known, as complex transactions traversing the globe
with multiple parties needing golden records, trust and
visibility on each stage of a transaction and assurance of
each stage of the lifecycle of the trade. Euro Exim Bank
seeks out to run proofs of concept and if needed, it
integrates new technologies into the processes. This has
resulted in faster, more seamless, paperless customer and
internal processing experience.
In addition to the company’s stance on working with
clients dealing in goods of ethical origin, Euro Exim Bank
aims to reduce carbon emissions and footprint. As an
international bank with representation in St Lucia, India,
Far East, Middle East and the UK, its management was
keen to demonstrate its commitment to good causes and
to make a difference for underprivileged, disabled and
disadvantaged communities across the globe and the
environment. Euro Exim Bank has a strong CSR policy
where it regularly organizes fundraising supporting
international charities.
The company has its Head Office in St. Lucia and a
representative office in London and is globally spreading
its market. It has recently extended operations through
agents and partners in Zambia, India, Singapore and
Dubai, and looks to open new representative offices in
the near future. With Africa being the fastest emerging
market for trade, Euro Exim Bank has uniquely positioned
itself to serve the importers across the continent.
This trend is inevitably driven by the enablement
of AI, DLT and blockchain technology, safely and
rapidly transporting immutable and transparent
details throughout the trade life-cycle.
April 2020 31

Flaum Navigators:
Because Business Decision Making Can’t
Afford To Go Wrong
ur people have innovated in the
pharmaceutical market for decades,
creating the first co-pay plan, the first
evangelical selling plan, the first
persistency program, the first patient guarantee
promotion, and the first indigent patient program.”
Businesses employ the services of consultancy firms
as their content and strategy experts. Whether it’s a
brand trying to gain the market focus or a company
trying to navigate through their operations,
businesses sometimes need to employ consultancy
firms in order to help them navigate towards better
management, leadership, and success. Consultants
bring their expertise and knowledge of particular
subjects to the industry. They assess the issues of the
company at hand and come up with strategic
solutions for their clients.
Sander A. Flaum,
Principal and Founder

“
Flaum Navigators Inc, a pharmaceutical consultancy firm,
provides C-suite counsel to clients on projects at every
step, from marketing to sales, innovation, managed
markets, medical education, regulatory, digital
communications, public relations and advertising. The
company aims to guide its clients towards success by
offering seamless, synergistic solutions without the
artificial silos that add cost and reduce effectiveness.
Flaum Navigators was founded in 2004 and is
headquartered in New York.
“Our firm has introduced more blockbuster drugs than
anyone else within the industry and our focus is always
about finding new and better ways to jump the revenue
curve for our pharmaceutical clients,” says Sander A.
Flaum, Principal and Founder of Flaum Navigators Inc.
The company looks at how other successful firms have
grown in their space with different disruptive innovative
strategies. It then takes these ideas and transforms them
into new strategies and potential successful outcomes for
its clients. The company researches the challenges and
concerns its clients have before coming up with a
tailor-made solution for them. Flaum Navigators aims to
assist its clients with their significant issues, be it sales,
marketing and competitive issues, positioning, or culture.
Flaum Navigators accelerates pharma marketing
business growth through transformational ideas that are
iconic, pristine and hardwired to marketing and sales
effectiveness. Since the last three decades, the company
guaranteed to help brands achieve success with proven
strategies and planning. Their aims are to offer successful
business decision-making by providing seamless,
synergistic solutions, without the artificial silos that add
cost and reduce effectiveness. At Flaum Navigators, we
hold our principles and code of ethics very highly in order
to maintain a good outlook for our people and for our
clients.
‘Our Paradigm is Helping Clients Obtain New and
Innovative Sales and Marketing Solutions by Providing
Actionable and Sustainable Strategic Marketing Counsel’
Moreover, moving ahead along with technological
growth, Flaum Navigators is working with its clients in the
pharma industry on digital and A.I. usage. This technique
has been developed to identify who are their major users
and how to use this technology to further their service to
physicians, hospitals, insurers, and patients.
The major challenge that most of the company’s clients
have to deal with is getting products on formularies
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). Without being on
their formularies, physicians cannot or will have difficulty
writing prescriptions for its client’s products. Also, clients
will not approve Flaum Navigators using its outcomes
with them publicly. Thus the company surrounds itself
with smart and experienced consultants who are way
ahead in the advanced technology field and work with
niche clients globally. Clients know when they need to
jump the revenue curve with current products and
position new products against the competition; we are the
company to go to.
Meet the Man behind the success of Flaum
Navigators: Sander A. Flaum, MBA
Sander A. Flaum is a renowned business leader,
marketing and sales effectiveness coach, motivational
speaker and a best-selling author. He serves as the
founder and CEO of Flaum Navigators. He created the
first persistency program, the first adherence program,
and the first “War Games” program. His ability to
challenge conventional wisdom has assisted Flaum
Navigators’ clients to confront daunting odds and
successfully reinvent themselves to maintain their market
advantage. PharmaVoice selected Sander Flaum as one
of its ‘100 Most Inspiring People’. Sander serves on the
boards of The Ohio State University College of Arts and
Sciences, The John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The
James Cancer Center, Fisher College of Business where
he also serves as the Executive-in-Residence. He also
serves on the boards of The American Friends of Tel
Aviv University, and Edge 4Vets where the company
assists returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan find
employment in the United States. He received his
undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University
followed by an MBA degree from Fairleigh Dickinson
University.
Our firm has introduced
more blockbuster
drugs than anyone else
within the industry and
our focus is always
about finding new and
better ways to jump the
revenue curve for our
pharmaceutical clients
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A statement
2000 as a workflow and document imaging company.
After successfully developing enterprise-wide analysis
and financial systems in 2002, the company began to
focus on the healthcare IT sector around 2003. Twenty
years later, the goal remains the same: ‘To be the leading
healthcare revenue cycle management platform.’
Revenue cycle management possesses the potential
to financially make or break health care organizations.
In addition to ever-changing policies and regulations,
effective billing and collection processes are becoming
more important than ever for medical billing companies,
practices, and hospitals to stay afloat. Designed as a
complete medical billing solution, ImagineSoftware is
reinventing revenue cycle management to create a more
streamlined and patient-centric experience. Ever since its
inception, ImagineSoftware aimed to meet and exceed
the needs of its clients. ImagineSoftware wrote its own
physician enterprise billing system while leveraging its
core competencies and technologies around document
imaging, workflow efficiency and process automation.
The company worked towards revamping the software
to accommodate the needs of its initial clients who got
it started in radiology. ImagineSoftware has appealed to
the market by truly creating systems that are focused on
making the revenue cycle management landscape easier
to navigate and more profitable for all those involved
while enhancing the client’s reputation by providing an
improved patient experience.
Over time, as the industry shifted, ImagineSoftware
evolved along with it. And, as the healthcare market
continues to churn due to increasing government
regulations, ImagineSoftware is always one step ahead
so that its clients never need to worry about their revenue
cycle processes. Operating as one of the leaders in the
automation of medical billing software and RCM solutions,
ImagineSoftware is focused on creating cutting-edge
medical billing software that is both flexible and scalable
while streamlining workflow management, ultimately
allowing for an increase in revenue. The company’s
products not only offer advanced technology and
Innovating the Healthcare Revenue
Cycle and Patient Experience
ImagineSoftware:
f you can imagine it, they can do it.”
proclaimed by one of ImagineSoftware’s first
clients that shaped the future of the company,
ImagineSoftware was incorporated and launched in
Sam Khashman, CEO
April 2020 34

Feb 2020 3
automation but also delivers a seamless connection for
full optimization in the healthcare practices’ management
experience. “The main aim here is to provide the highest
level of automation and support for our clients,” states
Sam Khashman, President & CEO.
The automation that ImagineSoftware provides
enables clients to achieve time and cost savings,
eliminating productivity challenges and decreasing
employee frustration. Automating simple, repetitive
tasks without human intervention is what creates an
extremely efficient billing and revenue collections
cycle. “Numerous clients are seeing as 100 percent of
charges captured automatically and more than 2,500
total saved hours per year, with reductions in the time
it takes to complete tasks like claims processing,
claims filing, and denial management,” mentions
Khashman.
ImagineSoftware has always been at the forefront of
innovation and aims to continue their pursuit by creating
technological enhancements that will assist clients in
working smarter day in and day out. Khashman believes
that advancements in intelligence alone will shape the
healthcare revenue cycle arena into something it has
neverbeenbefore.ImagineSoftwarelookstoleadtheway
with superior software and service, creating lasting long-
term client and partner relationships. To stay the market
leader and to increase market share, ImagineSoftware
constantly takes note of major events that will impact
the business. By integrating both market intelligence and
client feedback to improve its services, the company will
continue to raise the bar to help the current healthcare
industry, which is experiencing a lot of uncertainty.
“We never forget who we work for. Without our
clients, we’re just a software company. They are
the reason we’re successful,” says Sam Khashman,
ImagineSoftware, CEO.
Who We Are:
ImagineSoftware is the leading provider of billing
automation software and revenue cycle management
applications. Offering powerful technology solutions
for medical billing offices, practices, and hospitals,
ImagineSoftware currently services more than 48,000
physicians across all 50 states and Canada. The
company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina
with additional office locations in San Diego, CA, Delmar,
NY and Daytona Beach, FL.
www.imagineteam.com
The main aim here is to provide the
highest level of automation and
support for our clients
“
”

Imobile Mind Company:
Smart Application for
Faster Mobile Migration
taffs and managers of this
technologically driven world need
more enterprise mobile applications to
make their daily work more convenient,
efficient, and in real-time. Enterprises
these days have very strong demand
from their vendors, clients, and staffs to
access original e-system on
Smartphone or PAD. But the CIO faces difficulty to
develop Native APP to integrate with various e-systems.
Moreover, enterprises need to resolve few problems such
as lack of skilful iOS and Android programmers,
outscoring team, and coping with the high budget of
frequent updating of Mobile OS and Various Device
Screen Size to maintain the security of personal devices.
In this scenario, 5G technology has appeared like a
blessing, though the technology is still under progress.
iMobile Mind did thorough research and development in
this area for 10 years to build an ISA APP Platform to
combine all functions into one product to resolve all
problems of migration of e-system.
IT industry has accepted that ISAI APP Platform could
assist the IT Department to migrate original e-system
very fast. Moreover, ISAI could enhance the security of
enterprise mobile system and information. It can save at
least 70 per cent cost, time, and manpower to implement,
develop, and protect various enterprise APP solutions.
The biggest challenge for the company was to convince
IT to accept ISAI Tool Platform and not code native APP
by them. Thus iMobile Mind provides 30 days free trial
program for enterprise in order to approve ISAI and
realize the benefits it could bring for the IT Department,
along with its ease of use and low cost.
iMobile Mind has spent many years in R&D and has built
mobile application middleware and Independent PUSH
Security Gateway. ISAI Middleware could use XML or
HTML5 to integrate fast and easily with various
enterprise systems including SAP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft,
and other software vendors, and self-developing system.
With this, IT can implement many mobile applications for
employees without coding iOS and Android. ISAI PUSH
Server could be installed on the internet and has special
application management, remote mobile data delete,
and 2FA-Advanced AI Authentication to protect the
security of all enterprise data and information on the
user’s mobile devices. “ISAI APP Security can replace
MDM for most of the enterprises,” says Shao Kang Chin,
CEO, iMobile Mind.
The company has worked with Acer, a global famous
high-tech company who has implemented the ISAI APP
Platform for over 4 years for 16 countries and 8,000
Shao Kang Chin, CEO
April 2020 36

global users. The IT Department incorporated ISAI to
integrate original Workflow and BI system as they had to
spend only one month to migrate 56 BPM forms to
implement mobile applications for their staff, saving 80
per cent cost and time to migrate BPM mobility. They
plan to spend 1.5 years to develop iOS and Android
Native APP originally. ISAI also provides the company
automatic APP update service to assure problem-free iOS
and Android OS upgrade.
ISAI Security has been implemented in the finance,
healthcare, manufactory, government, and retail
industries. A hospital, Rong Zong Hospital accepted ISAI
Mobile Security Platform, that allowed them to see
different roles of doctor, nurses, and staff and use
different applications on ISAI APP Portal. Users could log
in the mobile hospital system through the verification of
ISAI 2FA APP. “It also has special SSL/AES Data
decryption and remote to delete mobile data and protect
enterprise data without them having to purchase
expensive MDM that the staff were afraid to use due to
privacy issues,” adds Shao.
The company aims to devote more R&D towards Artificial
Intelligence to integrate mobility, and security and
enable AI technology to provide best enterprise platform
in order to provide real-time information, security, and
smart information for mobile workers. iMobile Mind has
four operation office in USA, Japan, Taiwan, China and
has 15 resellers in eight countries. The company plans to
build six more offices in countries including South Asia
and Europe.
The company
aims to devote
more R&D
towardsArtificial
Intelligence to
integrate
mobility, and
security.

INSTANT ON:
When Energy Meets Technology,
It Creates More Sustainability
and Resiliency
California wildfires highlight that the inadequa-
cies of standalone photovoltaic systems, as
thousands of customers with solar were left in the
dark during outages. Worse still, many solar plus
battery systems were inadequate, as battery com-
panies have not prioritized installing intelligent home
load management which prevents short-circuiting at
the worst moment, when the power goes out and the
spotlight is on the battery to perform.
Instant ON was created when the older
paradigms on sustainability and energy efficiency
could not address the resiliency challenges of the
new decade. Traditional energy storage, solar, and
generatorsystemscreatedpiecemeal,singlesolution
benefits to society, yet never were interconnected
into a broader networked solution. Smart grids of the
new century demand integrators which push for plug-
and-play, holistic systems. As the market is plagued
by false claims and promises, solar alone cannot
guarantee a resilient or sustainable future. The grid
needs dependable and reliable power since the sun
and the weather is out of human control.
Instant ON looked at these resiliency and
renewable products and technologies as a whole
solution rather than a set of products that needed
to be ‘put together’. The idea was to save time
and money for the installers, integrators and
customers and avoid blaming installers, products
or technologies for not performing.
With its new and higher incentive for batteries in
California, Instant ON has witnessed more companies
looking to serve
this segment of the
market and realizing
that the rebate process
is a challenge. Instant ON
ensures that its projects get
the full incentive and has created a solution to help
solar contractors who want to start offering batteries
but don’t want to deal with the rebate issues. By
including the SGIP Compliance Pack, contractors
can now focus on taking care of their customer while
knowing that they will get the full rebate allowed. In
this system, all reporting is done for the necessary
term and a third-party Operations and Maintenance
agreement is in place for the entire term to ensure
that the full rebate is received and the system
performs as prescribed for the customer.
The company has also developed the IO-5M,
a mobile 5kWh battery that can power a wide range of
applications including household appliances and
more importantly, medical devices such as a stairlift,
oxygen concentrator, and CPAP machines. It can
be plugged directly into a home without installation
AJ Perkins, President
of Instant On, LLC
April 2020 38

or permits, meaning that this solution can
easily help families without them having to wait 30
to 90 days to install a full home microgrid. To help
protect more families, Instant ON has started a B1G1
program (Buy 1, Give 1) in which a customer can
pay full price through its non-profit partner, who will
donate an IO-5M to a registered medical baseline
customer in Tier 2 or Tier 3 fire zone.
Instant ON’s solutions are not only AI-
powered with the learning capabilities often
discussed, but also helps communicate with
most devices, platforms and technologies. This
coordinated response capability connects energy
generators, energy distributors and energy
consumers and delivers embedded networks,
Virtual Power Plants and facilitates smart grids
by helping create a
future where energy is
consumed sustainably
and shared fairly.
“Machine learning and
AI are going to be some
of the most disruptive
technologies. There
will be a continued trend towards connectivity
among technologies, devices and platforms,”
says AJ Perkins, President of Instant ON.
Benefits of the System:
• Energy consumers can see and control their
energy consumption and production. They
can decide how and when to share excess
energy and be compensated for this and their
participation in demand response events.
• Solar and battery companies can now deliver
an even greater return on their customers’
investments. Their solutions are actively
and pre-emptively monitored and optimized
in line with the user’s unique energy usage.
• Energy providers can better anticipate and
manage supply and demand and avoid
excess over-production. Advanced insights
and control capability enable greater
customer transparency and support new,
innovative services to manage demand
response.
Instant ON is working with a developer
building homes for US veterans, who wanted to
ensure that the home would be a part of a resilient
community that could be a safe haven. They are
offering ‘Housing As-A-Service’ which would
have one monthly payment including all utilities
associated with the home. To help achieve this,
Instant ON is building a microgrid for each home
by installing rooftop solar, 40kWh of batteries
and an advanced Home Energy Management
System. Instant ON
is also putting a
1MW battery and
CHP system for their
community center for
on-site generation
and storage as well
as their new IO
Eye, solar LED/Camera to provide safety and
security for the community. This will not only
give the community the ability to withstand
power outages of any length, but the home and
community microgrids will also support the grid
with power on demand for the utility. Furthermore,
Instant ON is presently creating “resiliency kits”
with housing developers, including technologies
which will promote fire resiliency for homes and
new construction.
AJ Perkins says, “As our society addresses
the environmental and energy challenges of
this new decade, Instant ON is creating an
environment to come together and collaborate
with technologies, engineers, installation
companies and integrators. Instant ON believes
that only through cooperation, will communities
become truly resilient.”
April 2020 39

n the information society and the so-called
data-driven economy, information is the primary
source of technological, economic and social
development. Cyberattacks or other unwanted
events may seriously disturb or damage the systems
used for storing, processing and harnessing data and,
thus, have serious effects on the operations of
companies. Therefore, from the mid-2000s, it was a
common trend that experts of ICT, information security
and privacy protection would cooperate to reconcile
these areas. But the recent technological and legal
developments, such as the widespread use of AI and
the application of the General Data Protection
Regulation (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) only
sped this process up.
To manage such situation of crisis, Kerubiel was
established with an aim to merge expertise from
the ﬁeld of ICT, information security and privacy
protection to offer complex, personalized, and
rapid assistance to its clients, and for experts to
cooperate exchange, widen, and improve their
knowledge and skills.
In recent years, Kerubiel managed to
establish a wide clientele ranging from SMEs
to big and multinational corporations. The
company provided its services to a variety of
actors from the healthcare, insurance and
ﬁnance, and other sectors to overcome the
Kerubiel:
Next Generation Threat to Cyber Security Hackers
Laszlo Gyorgy Dellei, CEO

problem of complexity generated by the rapidly
changing markets. Generally, complex solutions are
crucial for companies and there is only a generic set of
solution curated by the same brains.
But Kerubiel provides a wide range of services such as
IT audits, information security counselling,
development of complex cybersecurity systems based
on ITIL and AI-based applications, development of and
counselling concerning Business Continuity and
Disaster Recovery Plans. “Hackers have become more
sophisticated these days and leverage AI to lead
automated phishing attacks, to accelerate
polymorphic malware, or relying on AI to bypass
regular security features. But the same technology if
developed and applied properly, can raise the bar of
IT security system,” says Laszlo Gyorgy Dellei, CEO,
Kerubiel.
The company assesses the information and data
management framework of its clients, defines
measures and proposes solutions to improve security
and compliance of their products or activities. Kerubiel
incorporates the most advanced, high-level IT
standards, such as the ISO 27000 focusing on the
state of the IT infrastructure, identifying IT system
availability, potential risk factors, and security or
operational failures, or the NIST 800-53 controls
assessment which helps it identify gaps within IT
systems and focus on controls, time and budget to
minimize deviations and redundancies.
Moreover, Kerubiel offers state of the art solutions in
the field of data protection with services such as GDPR
counselling and outsourced activities like DPO or CISO
services. Thus, the company ensures that controllers
are effectively protected against adverse events, such
as information or data breach, or comply with data
protection and information management standards.
Kerubiel also focuses on training and preparing
employees to prevent and manage risks and any such
incident.
Kerubiel has launched two projects aiming to utilize AI-
and VR-based solutions to simplify the
labour-intensive process concerning cybersecurity
due to a new AI-based solution that will analyze
anomalies, detect the risk levels, and advise system
security analysts on the retaliation course of action in
case of a security incident. At the same time, the
company is also carrying out research concerning a
virtual reality powered game for patients who have
suffered a stroke to help them rehabilitate faster.
Kerubiel has effectively cooperated in and contributed
to the successful management of a data breach that
occurred to a multinational company in Budapest. The
breach itself concerned a couple of hundred people,
but the misuse of the relevant information could have
been harmful to the individuals. Fortunately, the
controller rapidly convened the data breach response
team consisting of the CSO, the DPO, the head of legal
and informatics, developers as well as all relevant
actors. The team could analyze the incident and report
it to the supervisory authority. Finally, all measures
implemented to mitigate the effects of the data breach
were successful and thus the authority discontinued its
procedure finding no further violations of data security
rules.
Primarily operating from Hungary, Kerubiel has an
ever-growing clientele and is one of the most
innovative leading companies to providing counselling
to its clients in the CEE region. As its next innovative
project, Kerubiel is also developing a new IoT-based
solution to aid the orthodontic market, simplifying the
life for both dentists and their patients. This work will
be carried out in close cooperation with knowledge
centres, such as the University of Pisa and the
University of Malta, and British and Cyprian research
centres.
Kerubiel has an ever-growing
clientele and is one of the most
innovative leading companies
to providing counselling to its
clients in the CEE region.
April 2020 41

he purpose of the Centre for the Future of Places
(CFP) is to use the focus on public space to merge the
knowledge from different urban development silos
and to create links among the experts in them in order to
create a holistic understanding of the city. It was
established to promote sustainable urban development
by shifting the urban discourse from objects to places.
“We envision a networked community of leaders actively
working across sectors, frontiers, and disciplines to build
a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world.”
The ambition is to enhance an already ongoing paradigm
shift where the focus in urbanism studies (in disciplines of
urban planning and urban design) is shifting from objects
to places. It came about as an amalgamation of Future of
Places Conferences, Urban Form and Human Behavior
Research Lab and International Network in Urbanism.
The CFP investigates the challenges faced in various
regions, metropolitan cities, towns and neighbourhoods
Established to Promote Sustainable Urban
Development by Shifting the Urban Discourse
from Objects to Places
THE CENTRE FOR
THE FUTURE OF
PLACES:
such as contemporary and future urban condition,
development, planning, design and the urban form and
placemaking processes of the city, to develop more
sustainable, resilient, livable, just and inclusive urbanism.
It focuses on the urgent topic of public space, its role as
an essential urban frame-work, its degradation under
current global urbanization processes and the reforms
that will be needed to achieve the public space goals of
a “New Urban Agenda” as deﬁned in 2016 by United
Nations member states.
The CFP provides a link between the research resources
at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built
Environment and the wider professional practice
community to modernize the role of urban planning and
designing within broader interdisciplinary ﬁelds, and their
impacts upon human environments and social life. As the
public communication and dialogue occur through
research, education, social media, symposia,
April 2020 42

roundtables, colloquiums, debates, conferences,
exhibitions, and publications, the CFP ensures that its
output complies with the most stringent standards of
academic scholarship as well as ensuring practical
relevance and human benefit. It aims to raise
professional and public appreciation towards urbanism
and its impact on the city and the responsibility for
creating a better life for all citizens.
CFP is also involved in dynamic outreach activities with
other universities and relevant organizations. Through
these activities, the company forms interesting projects to
rethink and improve the conventions of planning and
design theory and practice. CFP aspires to make a
tangible difference in the lives of human beings through
the physical environment of the cities.
The CFP has the largest international cross-disciplinary
network in the world of academia, where the disciplines
included are architecture, human geography, Urban
Planning, City Planning and Urban Design, Environmental
Planning, Environmental Psychology, Urban Social
Geography, Urban Sociology and provides services such
as world-class conferences, symposiums, talks, seminars,
expert advice, education, books, research reports, and
consulting on best-case projects.
“We are also firmly committed to attaining and sustaining
the highest level of quality in our research and
associated programs and projects, as well as push for
internationalization on all levels,”...Since its initiation in
September 2016, CFP’s staff and researchers have
contributed to more than 150 new books, academic
publications, book reviews and research reports and has
pioneered a plethora of new systemic solutions.
Moreover, Academic Conversations - The Centre for the
Future of Places Event Dictionary and the first-ever
female academic series was established with 20
international scholars coming with the total number of
events numbering over 200.
The main issue is that cities are getting more complex and the
challenges are rising on a daily basis with multiple converging
crises that seek answers for new theories, tools and
approaches. The CFP will try to answer these calls as it goes
into the next period. The focus will be on the critical issue of
rising smart and new experimental cities and issue of
autonomous mobility, but the first three year’s theme is of cities
for all and who owns the city in the backdrop. Reflecting the
interdisciplinary nature of CFP’s work, more than 220
presentations, talks and interviews have been given over the
past one and a half years by the company’s researchers at a
range of institutions and academic environments. Through all
the research projects in the four thematic fields – from
sustainable urbanism, urban form and human behaviour, to
urban transformations, housing and urban spaces, all focusing
on public spaces, CFP’s staff have established strong
relationships with other international research nodes and
centres of learning and research within the School.
CFP has been giving expert advice to UN-Habitat, Abu Dhabi
Urban Planning Council, Aseer Regional Development
Authority (ASDA), City authorities in Vietnam, South Africa,
Venezuela and other places as well as Universities such as
University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Harvard University, TU Vienna, ETH in Zurich, UCL Bartlett
London and organizations such as Project for Public Spaces,
PPS, Gehl Architects and others.
Over the next 12 months, the company is planning to
develop a new biennial research theme that will focus on
Livable, Viable and Intelligent Smart Cities and Public
Realm Futures, which will further expand the CFP’s
research program within the four thematic groups and
strengthen the international ties and upcoming work with
UCL Bartlett in London and LCAU at MIT in Boston.
Over the next 12 months, the
company is planning to develop a
new biennial research theme that
will focus on Livable, Viable and
Intelligent Smart Cities and
Public Realm Futures.

echnology has witnessed a massive growth in the
last two decades and Agile is one such part of
technology, which has not only disrupted the tech world
but has been working its way into other areas and
functions. After being used for product development,
manufacturing, marketing - Agile is now transforming
how organizations hire, develop, and manage their
people. To help meet customers’ growing demand for
advance products and exceptional service, businesses need to
grow and develop their workforces. But to avoid strain on
personnel and to increase productivity, businesses are now using
agile for managing human resources throughout all stages of this
growth.
This people-focused solution offers comprehensive HR
technology to restore the human aspect of human resources,
including the crucial components lost to mounds of paperwork,
constant input of repeated information, compiling and pulling
spreadsheets for reporting, and other time-consuming tasks that
otherwise prevent HR teams from personally connecting with their
people.
“Turning to technology for human capital management means
less time spent worrying about accuracy hindered by rules &
regulations, and more time spent collaborating and making
strategic decisions that can facilitate your business’s growth,” says
Sandeep Reddy Vinjamuri, CEO, Lanconic.
Addressing this situation, Lanconic Inc offers a diverse collection
of solutions for managing human resources, all on a single,
cloud-based platform. It provides a central portal for all of the
company’s people information, offers one-click access to
employee data for a simpliﬁed process, and is all about creating
efﬁciencies. Moreover, this technology transcends traditional HR,
with features for optimizing recruiting, onboarding, time, talent,
performance, and succession management, and business
intelligence reporting. “When it comes to developing your
Lanconic Inc.:
Agile For Advanced
Human Resources
Sandeep Reddy
Vinjamuri, CEO

workforce and growing your business, Lanconic is the key
to unlocking your utmost potential,” adds Sandeep.
A company’s human resources department is responsible
for more than just hiring employees and handling
conflicts. Human resource departments must also
manage benefits, payroll, and wages, employee
engagement, training, and understanding of workplace
laws, among many other things. Though today’s
technology has made it much easier to juggle multiple
responsibilities and see better results in areas such as
employee retention, communication, and even cost
management, Lanconic noticed that its clients have
plenty of challenges to overcome within human resource
management in an organization. Thus, Lanconic serves
its purpose and has become their best solution to
overcome their challenges on human resource
management.
By the virtue of technology, HR for the first time in history
is playing a true leadership role in business execution.
While technology plays a crucial role in transforming
human resources management software and operations
from personnel management to business execution,
technology itself does not create this change. HR
managers must leverage technology to drive real value
to the business since digital technologies facilitate
greater integration and flexibility, thus allowing
employees to have a great voice and share their work
experience. Technology is poised to disrupt HR and
redefine the future of the human resource department.
Employee engagement and culture management drives
HR in the ever-changing landscape. As HR continues to
adopt the change, the enterprise will become smarter.
The business mainly depends on three things – defining
strategy, asset management, and driving business.
Lanconic Inc acts as an indispensable factor for success
is intelligent technology in this aspect. Lanconic also
offers software development, implementation and
consulting services to its clients. The company worked
with one of its clients that used to spend hours a day to
analyze risk and process large data sets to enable them
to make an effective and informed decision, by coming up
with solutions for the ease of business in the industry.
Lanconic started small with a single employee and a
small office in 2013. With constant struggle and listening
to the needs of the market, the company evolved over the
years into a market leader. It has also recently launched
Smart Recruit – ATS Tool & WCMS – (Onboarding, ETMS)
and a Careerportal Careersfetch.
A company’s human resources department is
responsible for more than just hiring employees
and handling conflicts
April 2020 45

Since the day
one of mankind’s existence,
we have been thriving on innovation. The
innovation of technology was a revolutionizing
factor in human lifestyle and since then, we never looked
back. With an array of technology solution for almost every
problem, technology started growing and thus started growing
the demands of humans. There upon came up several organizations
with more innovative solutions. But only few companies could make it
to the top level to be addressed as innovative companies. It takes a lot
to reach to that level, from analyzing the ROI to customer experience.
Thus the current edition of CEO Views brings to you "Top 50 Most
Innovative Companies to Watch 2020”. The list highlights some
of the innovative companies who offer the best in class in the
technology landscape. The proposed list aspires to
assist individuals and organizations to find the
best companies that will help them
accomplish their projects.
Top 50 Most Innovative
Companies to Watch 2020
2020

Company Management Description
Nitin Kumar,
CEO & Board
Member
Bernard Gagnon,
President
Joseph Chan
Founder & CEO
Ravi Modukuri,
Founder & CEO
Sami Spiezio
Founder & CEO
Joseph Marciano,
President & CEO
Marla Bojorge,
CEO
Yuryi Murias Ferber,
Founder & CEO
Steve Foster,
CEO
Appnomic Systems
AsiaPay
BizNuvo
Bojorge &
Associates
BRITech
CannaGroup
ConsultingLLC
CanonBusiness
ProcessServices
appnomic.com
Cupertino, CA
North Point,
Hong Kong
ASATE Group
asategroup.com
Montreal, Québec
Charlotte, NC
Valencia,
Spain
São Paulo, SP
Columbus, OH
NY, USA
Axim Prepaid
Holdings
axiompph.com,
UK
biznuvo.com
marlabojorge.com
britech.global
cannagroupllc.com
cbps.canon.com
Appnomic Systems deals with self-healing software that
allows autonomous IT operations before they arise to predict
and avoid problems.
ASATE Group is a management consulting and training firm. It
helps organizations of all sizes and sectors better transform
themselves and achieves superior results. ASATE has
developed the world's most sophisticated company architecture
approach, a rapidly evolving management discipline.
AsiaPay enables merchants to securely accept the most
popular digital payment methods from credit cards, internet
banking, and more on a single platform.
Axim Prepaid Holdings is bringing simplicity and
convenience back to financial transactions. Through the
power of advanced digital tools and a desire to disrupt, the
organization gives consumers and businesses around the
globe easy-to-use prepaid Visa® and Mastercard® products,
programs, and services.
BizNuvo is an enterprise transformation platform for financial
and retirement services. The organization's platform,
delivered on-premise or cloud, will transform the way
businesses perform and serve.
Bojorge & Associates is an international corporate and
immigration law firm located in Valencia, Spain. The firm
specializes in finding the right legal solution for each client's
unique circumstances.
BRITech is making Investment Management Simpler and
Faster! The organization provides software, infrastructure,
and professional services provider for investment
management ecosystem.
Canna Group Consulting offers a full range of consulting
services, from facility build-out, licensing and zoning, to
managing daily retail operations, production, and
processing.
Canna Group Consulting offers a full range of consulting
services, from facility build-out, licensing and zoning, to
managing daily retail operations, production, and
processing.
Canon Business Process Services helps clients promote
agility, digital transformation, and an increasing workforce.
Canon tackles these problems by leveraging its seasoned
team, backed by insights from Six Sigma and best-in-class
technology.
Canon Business Process Services helps clients promote
agility, digital transformation, and an increasing workforce.
Canon tackles these problems by leveraging its seasoned
team, backed by insights from Six Sigma and best-in-class
technology.
April 2020 47

Keith E. Gregg,
CEO
Sunil Sangal,
CEO
James Newman,
Senior VP
Nir Simionovich,
CEO
Grenville B. H. Lock,
President and CEO
Rachel Murphy,
CEO
Jordan Erskine,
President
James Owens,
CEO and President
Cavisson
Chalice Financial
Network
cavisson.com
chalicefn.com
cFive Solutions
cfive.com
Tustin,CA
Santa Clara, CA
San Diego, CA
Cisive
Holtsville, NY
cisive.com
Cloudonix
Inc - cloudonix.io
NY, USA
Difrent Ltd.
difrent.co.uk
Chiswick, London
Dynamic Blending
dynamicblending.com
Vineyard, UT
EARATechnologies
Canada
earatech.com
Cavisson Systems Inc. is a leading provider of performance
intelligence platform that ensures exceptional customer
experience and business efficacy of mission-critical
applications.
cFive Solutions provides software that connects innovative
community supervision agencies with the information needed to
support behavior change, promote rehabilitation, reduce
recidivism, and keep communities safe.
Chalice Financial Network is a community dedicated to
solving the unique challenges the client face as a wealth
advisor and entrepreneur. The organization empowers
clients with best in class technology and business solutions
while inspiring them through a peer-to-peer community.
Cisive is a global provider of compliance-driven approaches
to human resource management and risk management. The
main on-board and pre-employment background screening
service for the organization offers a standardized,
high-quality, and regulatory-compliant solution for
employers.
Cloudonix is the world's first contextual communications
infrastructure as a service. Enabling voice, video, and
messaging to be embedded into existing mobile and web
applications - provided at a highly disruptive pricing model
and ease of use.
Difrent is a professional services partner to 'public good'
organization delivering business efficiencies by challenging
the status quo for tech-enabled business transformation.'
Dynamic Blending is a global manufacturer of cosmetics that
focuses on individuals, relationships, and quality. Dedicated
to the customers' absolute satisfaction, they partner with
cosmetic companies to produce the most creative
manufacturing solutions available.
EARA Technologies specializes in health and safety
software that help companies with safety excellence. In
2004, they released their revolutionary software, Xilo, and
quickly transformed the health and safety market.
EARA Technologies specializes in health and safety
software that help companies with safety excellence. In
2004, they released their revolutionary software, Xilo, and
quickly transformed the health and safety market.
April 2020 48 April 2020 4

Ali Vezvaei,
CEO
Bret Keast,
CEO
Sander Flaum,
Principal
Enivanis Vilela Jr,
CEO
Sam Khashman,
CEO
Shao Kang Chin,
CEO
Kaushik Punjani,
Director
Ecolog is a leading provider of integrated products, supply
chain, logistics, technology, design, facilities management,
and environmental services. It offers turnkey and tailored
solutions and services for governments and defense, energy,
oil & gas, mining and infrastructure, and humanitarian
organizations.
enCodePlu is the most advanced web-enabled technology used
for writing, editing, updating, altering, archiving and publishing
zoning and land development regulations, municipal codes or
any other document, especially tables and graphics-rich ones.
Euro Exim Bank is a revolutionary financial institution with a
'Class A' international banking license from Financial
Services Regulatory Authority of St. Lucia and a member of
the Caribbean Association of Banks.
Flaum Navigators accelerate the pharma marketing
business growth through transformational ideas that are
iconic, pristine, and hardwired to marketing and sales
effectiveness.
ImagineSoftware is dedicated to creative technology and
intuitive revenue cycle management technologies that help
clients achieve peak efficiency and tangible outcomes by
streamlining the process of billing and collections,
maximizing employee productivity, and increasing
profitability in action.
iMobile Mind is an creative and global technology company
offering customers smart solutions for operations and
communications management through the Mobile
Information Platform (MIP) and mobile security technology.
INFLOR is the market leader in forest management systems.
High performance in bio-asset management INFLOR is changing
the way people manage biological assets around the world.
INFLOR is the market leader in forest management systems.
High performance in bio-asset management INFLOR is changing
the way people manage biological assets around the world.
Ecolog
International
ecolog-internation-
al.com
Dubai
enCodePlus
encodeplus.com
ugar Land, TX
Euro Exim Bank
euroeximbank.com
St. Lucia,
West Indies
Flaum
Navigators, Inc
flaumnaviga-
tors.com
NY, USA
ImagineSoftware
Imagineteam.com
harlotte, NC
iMobile Mind
Company
imobilemind.com
Taiwan
INFLOR
inflor.com.br
Orlando, FL
AJ Perkins,
President
Instant ON (IO) insists on resiliency. Public Safety Power
Shutoffs and blackouts can impact everyone. Instant ON
facilitates the integration and distribution of smart Microgrid
and Nanogrid technology. IO provides timely solutions to the
industry's salient needs.
Instant ON
instanton.energy
Santa Ana, CA
April 2020 49

Tigran Haas,
CEO
Dellei László György,
CEO
Sandeep Reddy
Vinjamuri, CEO
Maninder Singh,
MD
Steve Noble Ledson,
CEO
Mark D. Barnes,
CEO
Søren Kjærulff,
Founder & CEO
Kerubiel specializes in the delivery of ICT, information
management and privacy services, providing creative
approaches from scratch, with many years of extensive
experience in both the public and private sectors.
Since its inception in 1827, KTH has developed into one of
Europe's leading technical universities and an important arena
for knowledge development. As Sweden's largest university
for technical research and education, they bring together
students, researchers, and faculty from all over the world.
Lactobio focuses on the creation of new probiotic and
microbial solutions to target and fight the problem of
increasing infections caused by microorganisms being
resistant to antibiotics.
Lanconic was established with a vision in which it wanted to
be a pioneer in the Technology Domain by offering solutions
to realistic day-to-day problems with future requirements in
mind. By concentrating on providing technology with
experience, Lanconic provides solutions to issues that will
make the process substantially more efficient.
Ledson Winery and Vineyards is a family winery located in
the heart of Sonoma Valley. This is the story of five
generations, spanning two centuries with one common
family trait – a dogged determination and tireless work ethic
in pursuit of their dreams.
LNL Systems is a leading supplier of integrated retail and
supermarket communications solutions. LNL Systems
delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of smart devices,
platform integration, and analytics that retailers use to profit
from the Internet of Things.
Manzeers Solutions enable companies to bridge the gap and
unlock data in mission-critical ERP systems, driving data-driven
business decisions from a single point of data truth.
Manzeers Solutions enable companies to bridge the gap and
unlock data in mission-critical ERP systems, driving data-driven
business decisions from a single point of data truth.
Kerubiel
kerubiel.com
Budapest, Hungary
KTH Center
abe.kth.se
Stockholm, Sweden
Lactobio
lactobio.com
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Lanconic Inc
lanconic.com
Iselin, NJ
Ledson Winery &
Vineyards
ledson.com
Kenwood, CA
LNL Systems
lnlsystems.com
Natick, MA
Manzeera
Solutions
manzeerasolutions.-
co.uk
Bracknell,
England
John Funkhouser,
Founder & CEO
Myocardial Solutions, Inc. is a software company developing
cardiac diagnostics to leverage MR imaging and empower
physicians to take preventive, proactive, and individualized
approaches to heart health.
Myocardial
Solutions Inc.
myocardialsolu-
tions.com
Morrisville, NC

Nicola Veratelli,
CEO
Joanne Lang,
CEO & Co-founder
Natuvion Americas
Debra L. Griffin,
Founder
Magued Eldaief,
CEO
Andrew Schultz,
CEO
Ollie Roberts,
Founder & CEO
Natuvion is known for its expertise and years of experience in
delivering IT products and services to support companies
through the whole process of Transformation & Data Privacy.
Octo Telematics is #1 global provider of telematics and data
analytics solutions for the auto insurance industry. Founded in
2002, Octo invented the insurance telematics industry. Today,
we are the largest and most experienced insurance telematics
company in the world, providing actionable intelligence to
100+ industry partners.
Pasture.io empowers farmers to be the best at what they do
with leading farm management. The company's mission is to
deliver value to farmers. Pasture.io has been developed
on-farm under farming conditions.
PPX-Tec's mobile patient engagement platform sends,
receives health & insurance data between patients and
providers with multiple vendors, multiple visits across the
healthcare delivery system.
Prescient's digital design-build network is an innovative,
collaborative, turnkey solution used in the design and
construction of multi-unit housing and hotel structures.
Prescient use the power of technology to connect
architectural design, architecture, manufacturing, and
assembly to the distinct disciplines.
PRO Unlimited is a pioneer in contingent workforce
management, laying the foundation with the launch of
independent contractor misclassification and
co-employment risk management services in 1991.
Natuvion
natuvion.com
Walldorf, Germany
OCTO Telematics
octotelematics.com
Rome, Italy
Pasture.io
pasture.io
Australia
PPX-Tec
ppx-tec.com
Sheung Wan,
Hong Kong
Prescient
prescientco.com
Charlotte, NC
PRO Unlimited
PROunlimited.com
Boca Raton, FL
Jared Bauer, CEO
ProLung is a pioneer in cutting-edge cancer predictive analytics
that blends a proprietary algorithm with a patented non-invasive
scanning technique called Electrical Impedance Analytics (EIA).
ProLung is a pioneer in cutting-edge cancer predictive analytics
that blends a proprietary algorithm with a patented non-invasive
scanning technique called Electrical Impedance Analytics (EIA).
ProLung
prolunginc.com
Salt Lake City, UT
Yoav Dror, CEO
Decentralized Vision is the blockchain-based FinTech
company behind the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol.
Through its innovative solution, PumaPay has redefined the
boundaries of everyday crypto payments with a payment
platform, which is not only truly comprehensive but benefits
both the merchant and the customer.
PumaPay
pumapay.io
Limassol, Cyprus
Yatin Patel,
Co-Founder
Reservations.com works with the mission is to bring the human
touch back into the world of online travel. With a vision to
provide travelers with personalized experiential travel planning.
Reservation.com
reservations.com
Orlando, FL
April 2020 51

Patrick McCreesh,
Co-Founder
Edward M. Senez,
President
Lane Mendelsohn,
President
Desmond Tay,
CEO
Charles Sells,
CEO & Co-Founder
Simatree is an advisory practice that blends a unique mix of
technical prowess with people-focused service to achieve
data-driven change. The organization harnesses the strengths
of exceptional people to help clients transform their
organization and build modern solutions.
The PIP Group focuses on the highest interest rate tax
liabilities, the highest amount of equity to protect the lien,
and a high-yield compounding impact by redemption
reinvestment proceeds into further tax liabilities.
UnlimitedViz is a professional services company that
focuses on developing and implementing Microsoft Office
Sharepoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services related
solutions. The company has tremendous expertise in
Document Management, Content Management, and
Business Intelligence fields.
Vantagepoint AI, LLC, was the first trading software
developer in the financial industry to provide strategy
backtesting capabilities in trading software for personal
computers with its introduction of ProfitTaker Futures Trading
software in 1983.
vCargo Cloud (VCC) is a leading Infocomm Technology (ICT)
solution and service provider in Asia, specializing in offering
trade and logistics related solutions to governments and
enterprises worldwide.
Simatree
simatree1.com
NY, USA
The PIP Group
ppipgroup.com
Hilton Head Island,
SC
UnlimitedViz Inc
unlimitedviz.com
Ontario, Canada
Vantagepoint AI,
LLC
vantagepointsoft-
ware.com
Wesley Chapel, FL
Vcargo Cloud
vcargocloud.com
Singapore
Guy Elitzur, CEO
Vertical Field integrates natural values into daily life by
developing solutions for the global food supply and growing
green walls with the mission of creating healthier, prettier
environments that improve the quality of urban life.
Vertical Field integrates natural values into daily life by
developing solutions for the global food supply and growing
green walls with the mission of creating healthier, prettier
environments that improve the quality of urban life.
Vertical Field
verticalfield.com
Raanana,
Central District
Madhup Verma,
CEO
Cathleen Beerkens,
Founder
VTeamLabs is a technology solutions and services company
that serves enterprises and other customers around the
world through direct and partner channels.
Wellness Revolution was founded to introduce new information
and understanding to assist this change as we build leaders
who will enable us to coach more holistically.
VTeamLabs
vteamlabs.com
Redmond,
Washington
Wellness
Revolution
awellnessrevolu-
tion.net
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
April 2020 52

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pour migrer vos GRANDS
VOLUMES de donnés
preserving data ecosystems

he days of face to face sales are going away
and people buy most products online today. In
this fast-paced world, time is very precious and
people don’t want to spend a lot of time shopping
like they used to. They want to ﬁnd the product they’re
looking for, purchase it and have it shipped to their
doorstep. But it is extremely important to know your
customers’ likes and dislikes.
Ledson Winery & Vineyards is a Direct-To-Consumer
winery. The company does not distribute through any
other channels, therefore, touches every customer
itself to assure its customer service is impeccable and
gets to know its customers. With a database of over
60,000 customers the Ledson business is based on
simple metrics of ‘people buy people’ not product.
“Dad used to say, it’s not what you say or do, that will
matter with your customer, it’s all about how you
make them feel. If every customer goes away feeling
good about their experience, they will tell everyone
LEDSON WINERY & VINEYARDS:
Custom-Made Wine for You and All
Steve Ledson, CEO,
Ledson Winery & Vineyards
April 2020 54

they know about how great your company is and
every one of those people will tell many more. The
moral of the story is simply word of mouth is by far the
best advertising we can do in today’s world,” says
Steve Ledson, Owner, Ledson Winery & Vineyards.
The wine industry is changing rapidly and a new
generation is entering the marketplace. Their
decision to whether have a glass of wine, a beer,
martini, cannabis or all of them throughout the
evening is affecting the sales of wine like never
before. The price point someone is willing to spend
is also dropping, making it extremely important to
know your customers’ likes and dislikes. Ledson
Winery & Vineyards is improving its software to
track and market the new generation, as well as
adjust price points to make sure that the company
stays on track with its long term sales strategy of
making wine for everyone’s palate and pocketbook.
Moreover, the company is constantly looking ahead
and making the technological and geographical
changes to remain a front runner in the industry.
Though the company uses software to understand
its customers’ demand, however, the software is
only as good as what the human puts into it
according to the needs of the business, such as all
contact information, birthdays, anniversaries and
any such special occasion, the best time to reach
them, their buying habits, what they have purchased
in the past, price point of products they purchase,
and color or style of product they’re purchasing. But
we live in a world of change, what works today
doesn’t work tomorrow in this constantly revolving
world. “Change means growth in opportunities,
change is important in organizations to allow
employees to learn new skills, explore new
opportunities and exercise their creativity in ways
that ultimately beneﬁt the organization through new
ideas and increased commitment,” adds Steve.
The company is constantly looking ahead and
making the technological and geographical
changes to remain a front runner in the industry
April 2020 55

ith only 16% of customers
live on SAP S/4HANA and
63% still caught in the
planning phase, SAP has
decided to extend the
deadline requiring
companies to move to SAP
S/4HANA from 2025 to 2027.
This announcement, however, does
not ease the urgency for companies
to rethink their migration methods
and integration of new and innovative
technologies in their future business
structure and processes.
Most companies that are still in the
planning phase are most likely
comparing the different methods in
which they should transfer their
data – whether it be a full system
upgrade from an old ERP to a new
SAP S/4HANA system (Brownfield),
where readjustments are only
possible to a limited extent. Another
traditional option could be a
completely new implementation of
SAP S/4HANA (Greenfield), which
does not provide the possibility to
transfer historical data or
completed processes.
YOUR SAP S/4HANA PLANNING
DAYS ARE STILL NUMBERED
Redesign and reuse your data in half the time
with Natuvion’s innovative solutions
The good news is… you don’t have to
choose.
Together in an innovative community
with SAP and partners, known as the
SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition
Engagement, Natuvion offers a third
option called the Selective Data
Transition to help customers reuse and
repurpose their data by enabling them
to keep their historical data and
existing processes. It represents an
attractive hybrid of the other traditional
migration approaches, which offers
customers a certain degree of flexibility
in their data migration needs.
As part of the Selective Data Transition,
proven processes are initially retained
and implemented on SAP S/4HANA
and historical data can then be carried
over. You can find out more about the
Selective Data Transition Engagement
in Natuvion’s Transformation Training
webinar series here and listen to SAP,
Customers, and Partners talk about
their lessons learned during their SAP
S/4HANA Selective Data Transition
journeys. Print version
https://www.natuvion.com/en/tags/
webinar
Joanne Lang
CEO & Co-founder
April 2020 56

“With Natuvion’s Cutover App,
you can cut your migration
efforts in half.
To compliment what may seem
to be a very complex migration
consisting of several cutovers,
Natuvion has innovated a new
project management app that
can help you plan your detailed
work breakdown structure for
your move to SAP S/4HANA. This
transformation app provides
project leaders with
transparency and the ability to
automate task assignment
throughout the entire cutover
process. The app was built on the
SAP Cloud Platform and can be
used in several types of cutover
projects.
However, this cloud app comes
with an SAP S/4HANA project
cutover template to help you
stay on the right track.
Depending on your exact project
needs, you can set-up your app
to track your individual team
member tasks and automated
messaging.
You can request a free
demo on the SAP App
Store here:
Print version:
https://www.sapappcenter.com/apps/42057#!overview
Picture 1: Many of Natuvion’s customers have already been able
to transform their complex and long Excel project task lists into a
dynamic and easy-to-use dashboard.
This announcement, however, does not ease the urgency
for companies to rethink their migration methods and
integration of new and innovative technologies in their
future business structure and processes.

PASTURE.iO:
Streamlining the Farming Sector with
Modern Agricultural Technology
Oliver Roberts, Founder & CEO
Our product is built for scale and with
the latest traction, this has been a
critical component to our journey
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Graze Smarter
s Oliver Roberts came across the problem of lost
profits due to not managing his dairy farm’s
livestock grazing practices with pasture
measurements, he analyzed the situation and
established Pasture.io, to aid such issues.
Since then the platform has evolved from manually
measuring the pasture quality and quantity in each
paddock. Pasture.io has now developed solutions to deal
with the impacts of seasonal and management changes
on-farm profit through to a program that automates pasture
measurements and delivers timely insights for maximizing
the benefits of accurate grazing decisions. So much so, that
his dairy farm is now rewarded with more than 50,000
dollars of extra profit each year.
By collaborating with universities around Australia, Pasture.io
has solved various farming issues like completing tasks on
time, losing an opportunity by not making calculated
management decisions and seasonal volatility that impacts a
farmer’s bottom line of profitability. The company offers
automatic and timely insights into farming operations. It saves
the farmers from expensive labour to measure the pasture
quantity in each of their paddocks. Pasture.io rather uses
satellites, local weather information and the farmer’s paddock
compliance records to find the measurement. The solution not
only saves on time but has measured metrics that they can
make sound farm management decisions that enable them to
see the effects of seasonality and importantly increase their
profit sustainably.
With the recent advancements of computing power and
satellites that fly over earth daily, capturing images at a
resolution that is beneficial for meaningful information,
Pasture.io also made a massive development in the rural
areas as well. It uses advanced technology in the modelling
space, utilizes bleeding edge statistical methodology and
has maximized its machine learning architecture to run in
parallel. The company also uses technologies such as soil,
air and climate sensors and cow wearables for animal
health, production and welfare purposes with more
technology in their development pipeline.
Pasture.io has an interest in opening up the agricultural
industry to the agtech world, universities and pre-tertiary
students. It has thus been involved in a project that was
headed by The University of New England called the
SMARTFarm Project, where Pasture.io was able to partner
with The University of Tasmania and Sense-T in developing
a learning module for use across universities throughout the
world. The project aims to bring realtime farm collected data
into the classroom, allowing students to make on-farm
management decisions from their computer. Thus, allowing
students to get a feel of the daily decisions farmers make
with real data. This allows students to see another side of
farming that doesn’t involve gumboots.
“Our product is built for scale and with the latest traction, this
has been a critical component to our journey,” says Oliver
Roberts, Founder & CEO, Pasture.io. The company has API
backed everything in the system, which allows it to quickly
partner with those who are open to sharing and who also
share a similar ethos in helping farmers with their daily
tactical and seasonal strategic outlooks.
Pasture.io has customers across Australia, New Zealand, the
United Kingdom and North America and is gradually
expanding in other pasture growing regions such as South
America, South Africa and parts of Europe. The company is
100 per cent bootstrapped and proving to be an innovative
company to watch throughout 2020 as global sales increase
and the company grows a strong foothold in this agtech
space. “We wish to aggressively expand our customer
footprint across the globe, bringing a service to farmers with
a high return on investment above 40x,” adds Oliver.

Feb 2020 2
T
he housing shortage that’s reported daily by the
media is a significant challenge around the world.
Thatshortageisdrivenbyseveralfactors,butthelack
of innovation and the structure of the housing construction
industry is one of the key contributors. Prescient’s founders
understood this and leveraged their experience, ingenuity,
and the latest software and hardware technology to
develop an integrated system that simply enables multi-
unit residential projects to be built more efficiently. The
software and the hardware system called Digital Thread
and Unified Truss Configuration System (UTCS for short)
are the foundation for the company and its success.
The company started building a loyal team since Day
1, who faced and overcame an incredible number of
challenges - from customer resistance and scepticism to
regulatory hurdles to never-ending resource constraints
to challenging technical issues, which all had to be solved
to move forward. Some of them were pragmatic problem
solvers who were inspired by the company’s vision of
“Attainable Housing for All”. What makes Prescient unique
is the combination of its ‘Digital Thread’ software and
‘Unified Truss Configuration System (UTCS)’ hardware.
Prescient’s proprietary software system interconnects
a project’s components, processes and enables all
stakeholders to have timely information to drive faster
and cheaper project execution. The company’s projects
begin with very accurate and detailed 3D Building
Information Modelling (BIM) drawings. This requires more
decisions to be made upfront, but results in far fewer
surprises and associated greater costs that typically show
up later in a project. The Digital Thread also provides a
transparent view of a project’s schedule and progress
for all project team members. That’s referred to as 4D
BIM with Time being the fourth dimension. This supports
communication, optimizes the schedule and provides
alerts about potential risks. The Digital Thread uses
artificial intelligence to analyse the immense amount of
data it collects on projects to identify future efficiencies. It
allows the company to pinpoint where the focus needs to
be to impact time, cost and risk. Finally, the Digital Thread
Prescient:
Because A Shelter
Is Built of Trust
and Technology
Magued Eldaief, CEO
April 2020 60

Feb 2020 3
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delivers 5D BIM, with the fifth dimension being Cost, by
providing project costs and changes to those costs as
project requirements or decisions change. Having 3D
drawings, along with clear and communicated schedules,
together with costs early in a project is a major step
One of the main reasons the company’s Digital Thread
is accurate in its 3D representation – with the drawings
matching the physical building - in its schedule and its
cost estimate is that its UTCS can be manufactured and
assembled very precisely. Prescient’s manufacturing
plants are driven by the same Digital Thread and
produces building components, which are accurate to
1/32nd of an inch. This means that all of the structural
components that arrive in the field have been cut
precisely, holes are where they’re supposed to be, rough
openings are the exact size they were designed to be,
and because they use steel, there is no ‘settling in’ period
where dimensions shift. Components arrive on-site in a
just-in-time fashion to reduce excess inventory on-site.
Assembly can be done at rates over 20,000 square
feet per week. And the assembly process only requires
a crew of 36 installers. This is a huge advantage that
the Prescient system delivers within an industry where
labour is in such short supply! Finally, given the accuracy
of the company’s designs, manufacturing and assembly,
Prescient’s projects have little to no waste. The bottom
line is that Prescient reduces costs, time and risk for every
project it helps build.
Prescient’s approach to developing multi-unit residences
is also more environmentally friendly than traditional
methods. Their buildings typically weigh 50 to 65 per cent
less than concrete equivalents, which mean they require
significantly less carbon to produce. As mentioned
above, the overall approach of digital design and
precision manufacturing means the company’s projects
experience significantly less waste. Also, the company’s
steel is highly recycled, and 98 per cent of the water
used to produce steel can be filtered and re-used. “While
our buildings are designed for over a hundred years life
cycle, when they are ultimately torn down, the steel can
be recycled and used again. Finally, our steel-framed
buildings are energy-efficient throughout their useful
lives,” says Magued Eldaief, CEO, Prescient.
Speaking of green initiatives, Prescient is currently
being used to build the country’s largest Net Zero
housing project. Prescient’s system was chosen for
the 1.3 million-square-foot Student Housing project at
UC Davis by CBG Building Company. CBG had used
it on three previous Student Housing projects and one
very large apartment building. They knew that using
Prescient would reduce the number of workers they
would need to use and more importantly, it would be
Prescient’s technology initiatives span both the
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The company continues to works on advanced digital
solutions which will enhance its end-to-end digital
thread for its core platforms. It’s also developing a
market-facing portal that offers all project stakeholders
the ability to interact real-time using the detailed BIM
models to evaluate, design and execute projects faster
Two of the most significant hardware initiatives are
becoming certified to build up to 180 feet tall in seismic
zones and demonstrating Prescient’s ability to avoid
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opportunities in markets like California, Mexico, South
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Prescient is seen to be considerably cost-advantaged
to deliver seismic buildings over five stories tall.
The company has been recently approved by the Army
Corps of Engineers for its engineered system to be
adopted for all military barracks, dorms and hotels on
bases around the world as it meets the government’s
exacting technical requirements. Prescient is planning
to start its first projects this year and expect a significant
PRESCIENT’S TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES
SPAN BOTH THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
COMPONENTS OF ITS SYSTEM.

RO Unlimited, through its purely
vendor-neutral and integrated Managed
Service Provider (MSP) and integrated
Vendor Management System (VMS) is a pioneer
and leader in the contingent workforce
management industry. Recently, we caught up
with Dustin Burgess, SVP of Strategy, Analytics,
& Metrics, PRO Unlimited who provided us with
a detailed glimpse into the innerworkings of the
innovative company.
Since 1991, PRO Unlimited has helped notable
brands address costs, risks and quality issues
associated with contingent workforce
management. As a proven leader, PRO lists
several areas that help us stand out from our
competitors:
PRO UNLIMITED:PRO UNLIMITED:
Helping You Navigate the Complex Contingent
Workforce Management Industry
Dustin Burgess
SVP of Strategy, Analytics, & Metrics
PRO Unlimited
Pure Vendor-Neutrality
Industry-leading Integrated Services an
Software Offering
Award-winning Business Intelligence
Quantifiable Cost Savings
Time-tested Risk Mitigation
Complete Client Dedication
Purely Vendor-Neutrality
As a purely vender-neutral MSP, PRO is not
affiliated with any staffing supplier, which
allows for a level playing field and competitive
bidding on requisitions. This delivers
market-driven, cost-effective rates and
exceptional supplier engagement. ThePRO has historically achieved
program adoption and
compliance rates well beyond
industry benchmarks

combination of PRO’s staff, processes and technology
yields true savings, cost avoidance and control. PRO has
historically achieved program adoption and compliance
rates well beyond industry benchmarks. This means that
we capture and manage labor spend more effectively
and make decisions in the best interest of the client
because there exists no conflicts of interest between the
vendors, the MSP, and the client.
Our vendor neutrality means that 4,500+ supplier network
will not be managed by a competing entity. Instead, PRO
builds working relationships with suppliers as partners –
with our success hinging upon theirs. PRO mentors and
provides feedback to the supplier community to ensure
client managers’ needs are understood and they receive
the right labor as quickly and effectively as possible. This
is one of the largest contributing factors as to why PRO’s
clients work with the industry’s best suppliers, and those
suppliers are submitting their top-quality candidates
through our programs.
Industry-leading Integrated Services and
Software Offering
PRO’s integrated MSP and VMS creates a seamless and
agile experience for clients. In contrast, clients have
indicated that staffing companies, with an MSP division
lack the technology expertise, while companies that are
technology focused are not well-versed in the human
element of a full-service program. PRO has expertise in
both and is fully accountable for the entire scope – this
produces optimal performance and efficiency.
Furthermore, we make changes and configurations to
both the process and technology quickly, ensuring that
programs remain agile and can adapt as the business
grows and evolves.
PRO’s VMS, Wand, has been independently rated, by
analysts such as Gartner and Forrester, as an industry
leader. As an omnichannel platform, Wand pioneered the
industry on mobile capability enabling users with the
freedom of access to data anywhere, anytime. The entire
contingent workforce lifecycle for hiring managers and
workers can be completed globally on a tablet,
smartphone and wearable device.
Award-Winning Business Intelligence
PRO delivers actionable analytics, reporting, and
innovative business intelligence that includes predictive
and prescriptive performance metrics. Using our
integrated model, we are able to capture previously
unmonitored contingent worker data to understand and
optimize the MSP program. The firm is uniquely
positioned in the market as a vendor-neutral MSP,
enabling access to vast and unmatched amounts of data,
combined with expertise that allows us to deliver
valuable insights to our clients they can’t receive through
other consultants or staffing-aligned MSPs.
Quantifiable Cost Savings
PRO works with each client to define and agree upon
hard and soft dollar cost savings and cost avoidance
components, savings goals and strategies. PRO takes a
measured, analytical approach to delivering cost savings
to our clients. Year one cost savings range on average
from 6 to 12% with respect to managing the professional
contingent labor. We measure these components
through Wand, metrics, reports, audits, and historical
data we collect from the client and suppliers to determine
the appropriate baseline from which to measure. Also, we
review quarter over quarter and year over year savings
and equally as important, our strategy to achieve future
savings without compromising candidate or supplier
quality. Not only are year one savings important, but
year 15 savings are equally as important. We ensure that
any recommendations or strategies to drive value factor
in impacts to quality, risk, and overall program health.
Time-tested Risk Mitigation
Founded as a consulting and compliance organization,
PRO was not developed by a staffing company. Risk
mitigation is at the forefront of everything we do. We
implement leading practices that stay ahead of tax and
labor changes. Our world-class compliance team guides
client programs to mitigate risk and exposure to
co-employment, independent contractors and labor law
classification, while implementing policies that meet
needs of the business.
Complete Client Dedication
PRO’s service delivery model is comprised of fully
dedicated onsite staff, regional strategic account
management, senior-level executive sponsorship, and full
back office support. PRO’s teams assimilate themselves
at each client to maximize program education and
adoption, and to ensure that the program is aligned
completely with each organization’s culture and goals.
PRO’s purpose has always been rooted in helping
organizations expertly leverage their contingent labor in
a way that is mutually beneficial to the employer,
suppliers and workers. Our team members come directly
from the industry, as well as leading organizations – from
former IRS auditors and Labor Attorneys to staffing
industry and business veterans with significant global
experience. These teams are recognized by our clients
as being knowledgeable, professional, resourceful, and
consistently successful at exceeding our client’s
expectations.
April 2020 63

PROLUNG:
Early Cancer Detection has Better
Outcomes and Lower Treatment Costs
JaredBauer,CEO,ProLung
THE PROLUNG
SYSTEM HAS BEEN
DESIGNATED A
‘BREKATHROUGH
DEVICE’BY THE
U.S. FDA

ung cancer is the leading cause of cancer
deaths worldwide, killing more than colorectal,
breast and prostate cancers combined.
There is a severe unmet clinical need to
reduce the time required to determine malignancy in
patients with Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules
(IPN). Patients with IPNs can wait months, or even
years, receiving multiple CT scans to confirm
malignancy in the lungs. This wait often proves fatal
as the cancer advances and spreads. To address this
situation, ProLung, utilizes a patented non-invasive
scanning technique called Electrical Impedance
Analytics (EIA) combined with a proprietary
algorithm. ProLung is focused on developing, testing
and commercializing predictive cancer analytics
utilizing bioconductance and Artificial Intelligence
(AI) which is designed to accelerate the time to
diagnosis, expand the therapeutic window for cancer
patients and reduce the cost burden to healthcare
systems.
The ProLung System is based on the principles of
bioconductance where it measures the electrical
impedance of the body. Moreover, the company is
building upon earlier published research in this field
that demonstrated an electrical impedance difference
between malignant and benign breast, thyroid and
cervical tissue. The Company continues to expand its
intellectual property portfolio.
“Lung cancer patients are often diagnosed too late
when the disease is in its later stages and when the
five-year survival rate is just 17 per cent,” says Jared
Bauer, CEO, ProLung. Thus, the company is aiming to
help physicians shift the diagnosis to the earliest and
most treatable stages, to increase the five-year
survival rate to nearly 80 per cent. Early cancer
detection models have repeatedly shown that
outcomes are better and treatment costs are lower for
earlier-stage cancers than for advanced-stage
cancers. Keeping this in mind, the ProLung Test™,
ProLung’s first predictive analytics platform for lung
cancer, was developed to contribute to significant
survivorship increases and treatment cost
advantages.
The FDA designated the ProLung Test as a
Breakthrough Device in February 2020. Through this
program, the FDA will provide ProLung with expedited
reviews and the Centers for Medicare Medicaid
Services (CMS) will provide a simpler and faster
pathway to reimbursement. The FDA’s Breakthrough
Device program is intended to expedite the
development and prioritize the review of certain
medical devices that provide for more effective
treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or
irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions.
Furthermore, this program is intended to help patients
have more timely access to these medical devices by
expediting their development, assessment, and
review while preserving the statutory standards for
premarket approval.
As a patient is scanned with the ProLung Test, a
tremendous amount of patient-specific data is
collected by the company’s system and ProLung
believes that AI may help identify previously
unrecognized patterns, yielding even greater
performance. “The recent advances in AI may provide
new avenues to further improve the performance of the
ProLung Test,” adds Mr. Bauer.
ProLung is pursuing two development paths
concurrently: First, it is focused on gaining FDA
clearance to market in order to commercialize its
ProLung Test in the USA. Second, the company is also
pursuing feasibility research to determine the
applicability of its novel EIA system to other cancers.
ProLung has already partnered with a hospital to scan
breast cancer patients for feasibility research. The
company plans to start additional feasibility studies for
other cancers shortly.
April 2020 65

PUMAPAY
The Cryptocurrency Payment Solution
for Better Digital Transactions
Yoav Dror, CEO
April 2020 66

ith its origin in the online, high-transaction
industry, PumaPay noticed a lack of flexibility in
blockchain cryptopayments. This was a major
challenge in several industries as merchants wasted a lot
of time and energy on some of the common issues
associated with financing their businesses. PumaPay was
established to streamline this situation, creating a
completely comprehensive payment solution, for the
benefit of both the merchant and their customers.
PumaPay analyzed some of the major pain-points its
customers were facing on a regular basis when it came to
card payments. Of those, they found that chargebacks and
high transaction fees posed a major challenge - areas
where traditional banking was not meeting the needs of the
modern business.
The PumaPay PullPayment Protocol
After realizing that cryptocurrencies are a good solution to
this problem, PumaPay found that there was no singular
currency that offered advanced billing models without the
added risk of crypto volatility or slow settlement times. This
led to the development of the PumaPay PullPayment
Protocol, and the company was able to limit merchants’
financial issues through the simplicity and flexibility of this
solution.
“Blockchain itself is an advanced technology. It is still very
new, and we are still seeing its development in the crypto
space. Through the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, we
were able to bring adaptability to this technology,” says
Yoav Dror, PumaPay CEO.
The company took the traditional mechanism of the
customer sending funds and completely inversed it.
PumaPay’s PullPayment Protocol allows the merchant to
‘pull’ funds from its customer’s account, based on
pre-approved terms. This opened a wealth of billing
possibilities globally, allowing PumaPay to become the
first company able to provide subscription payments over
the blockchain back in 2018.
Ultimate Billing Flexibility
The company also found that its clients, especially within
the adult industry, were struggling to find a payment
solution that would offer privacy, without costly transaction
fees and chargebacks for the merchant. However, after
integrating the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, many of
these businesses realized that they could avoid these
pains by utilizing blockchain technology. “We also found
that any concerns over handling cryptocurrencies was
eliminated with our Fiat Settlement functionality, which
improves settlement times by automatically converting the
crypto to fiat and delivering the funds direct to our client’s
bank account,” adds Yoav.
PumaPay is working on developing more innovative
solutions in the payment field by incorporating advanced
technologyto its system to fill the existing gap in the
finance sector. The company is constantly including
additional features to its solution, including a service which
will temporarily lock the PMA token rate and help
overcome the crypto volatility risk. Moreover, PumaPay
continues to publish regular updates on company news
and industry trends on its website and social media
channels as it keeps up with the modern demands of the
ever-changing crypto landscape.
PumaPay’s PullPayment Protocol
allows the merchant to ‘pull’ funds
from its customer’s account, based
on pre-approved terms.
For more information, please visit pumapay.io.
April 2020 67

eservations.com was founded in 2014 by Yatin
Patel and Mahesh Chaddah, two travel industry
veterans who saw an opportunity to create a new
online travel agency that filled the gap between
traditional travel agencies and large OTAs like Expedia
and Priceline.
“Travel has gone through massive changes over the last
30 years. Travellers used to meet face-to-face with travel
agents to discuss travel preferences and arrange trips.
When the internet became more ubiquitous, travel moved
online,” says Yatin Patel, Co-Founder. What was once
defined by personalized relationships with travel agents
became a highly commoditized online product. Under the
new paradigm, customers generally don’t interact with a
human during the reservation process. Reservations.com
realized that there was an unmet middle-ground between
traditional travel agents and low-touch internet
alternatives. The company wanted to bring the human
touch back into the world of online travel. Thus,
Reservations.com invested heavily in a 24/7 call centre to
give customers the option to call a travel expert at any
stage of their travel booking process to ask questions, get
ideas, or finalize a reservation.
The biggest challenge for the modern-day traveller is
accessing a wide selection of accommodation options in
an easy-to-use, intuitive platform. The second-largest
issue is the ability to tap into higher-touch service when
needed. Reservations.com focused on addressing both of
these pain points. The company offered some of the
widest inventory available at any OTA. Irrespective of the
customers’ desired price point, room type, or location,
Reservations.com has a solution for every travel planning
process. Reservations.com offers its customers with
unobtrusive call centre service to speak with a travel
expert who can assist them in finalizing their decision and
even help secure a cheaper, non-published rate.
RESERVATIONS.COM:
Customized Travel Solution
for Modern-Day Travelers
Yatin Patel, Co-Founder

The company believes that artificial intelligence and
machine learning solutions will completely redefine the
way it interacts with its customers. With such
technologies, it can leverage solutions that present smart
choices to customers based on the type of travel they like
to do and what price point they prefer, recreating the
current one-size-fits-all travel paradigm. Asking questions
like, “Do you like adventure travel?” or “Is this a romantic
trip?” can proactively trim search results to only display
the most relevant properties for each customer.
Moreover, this can serve as a lead generation tool,
sparking travel ideas for customers rather than just
reactively displaying results based on manual search
queries. Younger consumers prefer to interact with
brands through chat features rather than phone calls. As
chat intelligence increases and the technology improves,
these solutions will serve as a more common medium for
customer interaction.
Reservations.com will continue to invest in this
technological backbone to power the success of the
entire company. This will enable it to add new supply
partners and inventory types like cruises, flights, tours,
and other experiences. Also, it will enable
Reservations.com to enter new geographies, especially
outside of its core North American market. As it expands
and localizes the website to different languages,
Reservations.com can easily market its global inventory
of hotel rooms to customers in Europe, Asia, South
America, and the Middle East.
As of 2020, Reservations.com has powered over 3m
unique hotel reservations and 7.2m room nights. It has
also been recognized as a leading growth-stage
business by third-party organizations such as Inc.,
Deloitte, Comparably, Best in Biz, and the Stevies among
others.
Reservations.com is continually thinking about ways in
which it can better assist its customers in planning and
reserving their dream trip, whether these be front-end
tools that help customers brainstorm or uncover travel
ideas or solutions that customer can interface with during
their trip to power unforgettable experiences. “Consumer
preference in travel is changing rapidly and we believe
we will continue to be at the forefront of helping our
customers through a seamless and easy-to-use
reservation service,” adds Yatin.
Reservations.com will continue to invest in this technological
backbone to power the success of the entire company.

A Purpose-Driven
SIMATREE:
imatree is an advisory practice that brings established solutions to
other organizations intending to integrate and educate the people,
culture, technology, and processes of other organizations to optimize
the use and capitalization of complicated and unclear data. Simatree
harnesses the strengths of exceptional people to help develop the
business and build effective solutions. The unique and personalized
approach covers all industries and company sizes, and allows the
clients to recognize and capitalize on the value of their data assets.
Patrick McCreesh
Co-Founder

The team at Simatree has been working in data, analytics,
and change management for over 20 years and has
knowledge about the market and understands the trends.
“There are two converging trends where we saw an
opportunity to emerge; first, there is a push by organizations
to do more with data irrespective of their size. As a result,
companies are creating leadership positions such as Chief
Data Officers and forming a team to capture value from
data. Secondly, the data industry's response to this demand
was technology and tools, but leveraging the value from
data is not a technology problem, it is an organizational
problem. Most organizations have tools to manage and
analyze their data. Instead, they lack the right people to
utilize the data to business need, the right processes to get
data-driven challenges from decision-makers, and the right
leadership to use data to drive and transform organizations,”
reveals Patrick McCreesh, Co-Founder of Simatree. He
further added, “It was the convergence of demand and
misaligned leadership where Simatree saw an opportunity
to provide something else – a real leadership and
people-driven strategy for leveraging data and analytics.”
The people at Simatree believe that staying ahead of the
curve is about culture. There is no way to mitigate
uncertainty, except to keep a broad perspective on the
development and delivery of services. Simatree is doing this
in two key ways. First, the team at Simatree collaborates
relentlessly and partners with a variety of technology
partners and remains agnostic from any single solution to
provide the clients with the right solution and allow their
recommendations to evolve with emerging trends.
Secondly, Simatree drives for general problem-solving in the
employees. As Simatree doesn't want complete specialists,
they hire curious Swiss Army Knives who can solve
problems in a variety of ways with a variety of tools.
Simatree believes that adaptability is built into the DNA, and
that is how they will lead in an evolving marketplace.
Simatree would rather be the leaders of a $100 M
ecosystem than the sole owner of a $5 M company, which
will add more value to Simatree and their clients.
The biggest unforeseen challenge in driving analytics
solutions is change management. Central to this is the
assumption that the analytics solutions provided by the
company will be used and accepted by people. Simatree's
entire strategy is, therefore, based on understanding the
end-user and then designing, communicating, training, and
promoting the use of analytics solutions.
Analytical tools have proliferated in the marketplace. It is
not just business intelligence software, but over the last
ten years, the whole stack of data analytics products has
expanded dramatically. “I foresee one of two things
happening in this space- consolidation or specialization.
Some tools are certainly better for certain industries, but a
lot of tools have duplicative capabilities. Some players
build from the data to visualization; some start with
visualization. All of them provide some value, but it doesn't
seem like this expansion of data and analytics products
can continue forever. It will be interesting to watch where
the consolidation happens,” reveals McCreesh.
On a current engagement, Simatree is supporting an
organization that is designing its Chief Data Officer role
and team. Simatree is helping the organization to define
the characters and the structure of the team as well as
providing assistance to design the data and implementing
the architecture for the organization. Moreover, Simatree is
supporting the migration of the data from on premise
solutions to the cloud and simultaneously working with the
business units to develop analytics use cases and provide
data to decision-makers. In short, Simatree is helping the
organization to build a full approach to data and analytics.
Simatree is building a technology ecosystem of partners
that allows operating at all levels of the tech stack and
across all industries. Simatree may go more in-depth with
few partners and receive certifications or become
implementation partners and may go lighter with other
partners and maintain loose relationships. Either way, it is
about expanding that ecosystem to maintain a reliable,
relevant, and growing business.
Simatree currently has offices in New York and
Washington, DC, and has operations in Dallas. Simatree
would like to build out their Dallas presence and add
another office in Boston. The expansion will follow the key
markets – financial services, insurance, health care, and
the public sector.
The Simatree team supports organizations as they develop
their purpose-driven approach to analytics. Simatree
believes that effective data and analytics programs start with
a strong purpose for the use of data that yields a strategy for
data and analytics. Simatree helps organizations develop
this purpose and strategy and then works with organizations
throughout the transition journey to execute that strategy.
Simatree tailors its solutions to suit the client's needs,
regardless of the industry or sector of their client.
Simatree is building a technology
ecosystem of partners that allows
operating at all levels of the tech
stack and across all industries

Unlimitedviz -Makers of tyGraph:
When Data Suddenly Becomes Business Critical
JohnW
hit
e, CTO
and Co-Founder
Ed Senez
President and Co-Founder
April 2020 67

”
Organizations produce a lot of data but often lack the
technology to adequately capture and convert that
data into actionable insights. Nothing underscored this
more than when all office workers across the globe
were forced into a work-from-home environment.
Suddenly organizations faced the daunting task of
understanding if users were struggling and what the
mood of the workforce was given that they could no
longer walk by people’s desks to find out.
Most companies have already transitioned their
workforce to Cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 and
this has really allowed them to deploy a
work-from-home workforce at scale. Certain key
workloads of the Microsoft 365 platform like Microsoft
Teams have become business critical. This is
evidenced by the exponential spike in daily active
usage as reported by Microsoft in March 2020. One
gap that exists is the ability to properly measure and
monitor this usage not just for Microsoft Teams, but
across the entire Microsoft 365 stack. This is where the
tyGraph solution was able to close that gap.
tyGraph was originally created to assist organizations
with digital transformation by providing rich insights
into usage and adoption patterns. Given these
founding principles it could quickly be adapted to
answer the new questions created by this surge in
work-from-home users.
“We have been inundated with calls from customers
asking for analysis for key questions like ‘are people
connected and who is struggling?’ or ‘what are people
saying and how are they feeling?’” says Ed Senez
-President and Co-Founder. To fill this gap, UnlimitedViz
repurposed the data it was already collecting into new
visualizations which included employee usage churn,
and artificial intelligence algorithms for key word
analysis and sentiment tracking. “When you cannot see
your workforce, it makes it extremely difficult to assess
organizational mood. Like people who have lost their
vision, they need to enhance other signals to get a sense
of what the world around them looks like. The data can
tell you that if you have a sophisticated processing
engine and the ability visualize it.” says John White, CTO
and Co-Founder.
“Nothing could have prepared us for what has
happened over these past few weeks.” states Ed
Senez. “This data has become business critical as
evidenced by the fact that it is included in daily
briefings to senior leadership of some of the largest
companies in the world. Given our global footprint and
the fact that all customers are using a homogenous
solution like Microsoft 365, we have been able to scale
rapidly to meet this demand.” UnlimitedViz is currently
deployed to global enterprises on five continents with
major concentrations in the USA, Northern Europe and
Australia and about 2MM users.
tyGraph was originally
created to assist
organizations with
digital transformation
by providing rich
insights into usage and
adoption patterns.
April 2020 73

n the last few decades, technology has
always aimed to improve the quality of life
but inevitably has sometimes destroyed
nature in the process of advancement.
Vertical ﬁeld’s technology is doing the
opposite; our goal is to revive nature
by using technology.
Vertical Field was established in
2006, motivated by the ambition to
bring nature into the urban lifestyle.
Over time, the company realized
that there is more than just
aesthetic to living walls and that
nature can contribute in many
intangible ways. “We understood
people’s need to surround
themselves with a green and healthy
environment, and that’s when we
started to collaborate with Bar-Ilan
University and the University of Nanjing
in China on a study sponsored by the
National Science Foundation,” says Guy
Elitzur, CEO, Vertical Field. The study aims to
monitor the environmental, health and the direct
and indirect economic beneﬁts of living walls on the
Guy Elitzur, CEO, Vertical Field
VERTICALFIELDVERTICALFIELD
FROM WALL-TO-FORK
EATVERTICAL FOOD

u r b a n
environment
such as local
c l i m a t e ,
temperature,
r a d i a t i o n ,
humidity, wind,
and carbon and
water fluxes.
Now, Vertical
Field is involved in
urban planning,
urban renewal,
building preservation,
construction, and
interiors as well as the
vertical urban food supply.
Vertical Field aims to lead the
transformation of the urban
ecosystem by integrating natural
values and improving the quality of
city life. One of the main solutions that
the company is focusing on is a vertical,
soil-based system for urban farming in any indoor
or outdoor space. The portable urban farm can be
located on the roofs of buildings, in recycled shipping
containers and more to offer fresh, healthy, organic and
free of pesticides garden, curated for every specific
space. The system allows maximum yield from a small
area. Its fast plant growth cycle provides a frequent and
regular supply of agricultural produce year-long for
urban environments and smart cities.
The company’s primary objective is to give
supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals or any other
institution, the tools to grow their own produce and to
provide it onsite. Most supermarkets struggle with the
high costs of the supply chain and longer growing
cycles dependent upon unpredictable weather
conditions. With Vertical Field’s solution,
organizations need not worry about the weather or
external conditions. They can get a consistent
in-house supply and reduce and monitor their
inventory waste.
“The real challenge is to show corporations the
economic and the health benefits so that they get
motivated to change the way they are operating,”
adds Guy.
Most indoor urban farms use hydroponic growing
systems and Vertical Field is the only company that
developed a unique soil-based vertical growing
platform, revolutionizing the concept of planting. The
idea of using a soil-based solution supports Vertical
Field’s values of keeping plants in their original
environment and utilizing natural values in people’s
life. The vertical agriculture platform has an irrigated
system that distributes air equally for perfect growing
conditions, including climate control and an
independently operated lighting system that
simulates sunlight and optimizes the photosynthesis
process.
Vertical Field’s intuitive app helps its users to control
and monitor all the plant vital signs while the smart
algorithms and sensors take care of the rest. The
vertical portable farm is built in a recycled shipping
container, can be located anywhere and is capable of
growing and distributing more than 200 different
crops. The vertical farm can be located near a
supermarket store, in the parking lot of a restaurant,
or on the roof of a hotel. The produce is fresh,
healthy, pesticide-free, and super tasty. The vertical
farm uses 90 per cent less water than conventional
agricultural methods and consumes less electricity
than any other vertical farming solution on the
market.
One of Vertical Field’s projects was to build a vertical
farm located on the rooftop of a building for usage by a
famous restaurant in Tel Aviv located within the
building. The farm provides constant and fresh produce
to the restaurant on a rotating basis given that the
concept of the restaurant is to have a new chef every
six months with menus that are also changing. In
addition, it is important that the roof is maintained for
visitors to experience not only fresh food but also its
beauty.
With a goal to penetrate the global market, Vertical
Field has started focusing on the US market and is
about to launch its new agriculture CEA (Closed
Environmental Agriculture) platform this year. The
company is also planning to offer a completely new
business model in which they will not have distribution
costs and will allow its clients to create a unique
shopping experience for their customers who can walk
up to the vertical wall and pick off the herbs ready to
eat and at the same time create a greener and
healthier environment.
Vertical Field is all about making our cities, buildings,
food and our urban life greener, healthier and prettier,
emphasizing nature’s value in our lives.
Vertical Field aims
to lead the
transformation of
the urban
ecosystem by
integrating
natural values
and improving
the quality
of city life.
April 2020 75

aving the resources to meet all
the needs of our existence on earth
can be challenging. However,
when we are sick, stressed out,
unhappy and exhausted this
becomes even more challenging.
Ultimately avoiding illness is not
good enough. We need to appreciate that
possibility and learn to focus on creating a life of
wellness where we feel balanced, happy and full
of life and optimism.
A Wellness Revolution
Health is ultimately
your Wealth
Cathleen Beerkens, Founder

The year 2020 is significant as it marks a shift for
the next decade of tremendous technological
changes.
It is becoming evident that as a society, we are
challenged to adapt, both personally and in our
communities. Chronic diseases are on the rise as
well as health care expenses. Health Care
workers are also stressed and are having trouble
managing their workloads and many are suffering
a Burn-Out.
Thus, A Wellness Revolution was created to bring
new information and understanding to help this
transition. A Wellness Revolution is an
educational company, committed to training
Health and Wellness Coaches. These certified
Health and Wellness Coaches become leaders
who can help people coach more holistically. The
students are taught the significance of the cellular
level, focusing on body, mind and spirit so they
can bring to their clients a much deeper, more
robust definition of self-care. The company
exposes them to the newly evolving and
developing Sciences of Epigenetics,
Neuroscience, and Glycoscience, giving a more
Holistic Vision of what Wellness means.
Its innovation lies in the fact that we look to
science for a better and more complete
understanding of Health and Wellness. The
company believes that students from any
background, be it therapist, practitioner, nurse,
business or lifestyle coach, parents and people
who are interested in living a more conscious
health-driven life can influence their path and
future self by consciously living their lives. A
Health Coach can help someone by coaching
their clients to reprogram the subconscious mind
to effect real change in their life. Health Coaches
often help clients change behaviors so that they
can support them with Lifestyle changes related to
eating habits, exercise routines, stress reduction
practices and often taking a closer look at areas in
their life that are unsatisfactory.
The company’s coaching course is online and its
students are from all over the world, from Hawaii
to Australia, on almost all continents. Its 6 months
course runs twice a year accredited by the ICF
(International Coach Federation) and upon
completion of this course, students will earn 63
hours for ICF Approved Coach Specific Training
Hours (ACSTH). Its uniqueness is the personal
attention the company gives to its students as it
offers a continuing education program. A
Wellness Revolution has started a YouTube
channel to help people learn about Holistic
Health and Wellness, which discusses the topic of
Health and Wellness and interviews someone in
the field monthly.
“We want to look at what the science of
Epigenetics is teaching us. The science is showing
us that our Lifestyle choices matter and that we
are more powerful than we ever realized,” adds
Cathleen.
A Wellness Revolution is passionate about
training the students to help their clients adapt to
change and to find balance and true wellness on
all levels within themselves We are committed to
creating a ripple effect in our communities as we
help people realize their potentiality and
opportunity to influence their future in a new way
in this new time.

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