LifeSensors, Inc. is a biotechnology company that discovers and develops enabling technologies for therapeutic, drug discovery and research markets. It has established its leadership position by providing innovative research tools for the ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like protein pathways. LifeSensors is located in the Great Valley Corporate Center, a biotech hub 35 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Founded in 1996, the company develops and licenses innovative protein expression technologies enabling the efficient translation of the genome into the proteome. Its prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein expression platforms are used worldwide by academic and government institutions, as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Lifesensors is also active in collaborations with reputable pharmaceutical and biotech companies, government institutions, and academia, including researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Rutgers University, University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University It is also a member of three NIH sponsored Protein Structure Initiative Centers for protein expression and purification.
Website: www.lifesensors.com
Investor Force, Inc. (InvestorForce), founded in 1999, is a financial software company that has been a pioneer in the development of advanced solutions for institutional investment consultants. Using InvestorForce’s proven, web-based software products, consultants can drive greater operational efficiencies in several areas that include data aggregation, performance calculation, and real-time analysis into client, manager and market movement as well as the timely, automated production of performance reports.
With majority ownership and backing from Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ:ICGE), InvestorForce has successfully brought the most advanced, SaaS based, performance-reporting platform to the Institutional Investment community.
Website: www.investorforce.com
CETRA Language Solutions, headquartered in Elkins Park, PA provides language services in over 100 languages to governments and businesses worldwide. These services include translation, interpretation, sign language interpretation, website localization, multilingual typesetting, voice-overs and transcriptions. With offerings like the CETRA CheckPoint™ Quality Assurance Process for superior accuracy, the CETRA SuperTeam™ of linguists with thousands of hours of language solution experience, and CETRA’s GlobalSearch™ program, which identifies translators from all over the globe who match your project needs, clients can be certain that their cross-cultural communications will always be accurate, on time and culturally sensitive.
CETRA was incorporated in 1997 under the name Central European Translations, Inc. At first it specialized in Central and East European languages and its clients were other translation agencies, but as it grew, the company broadened its focus to include corporate clients and mainstream languages. In 2001, it gained the status of preferred provider to the U.S. Federal Government and began participating in high-profile projects such as the transcription and translation of Saddam Hussein’s trials. To reflect the new scope of services extending beyond the area of Central Europe, the company changed its legal name in 2002 to CETRA, Inc. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 CETRA was included in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Website: www.cetra.com
Contact Singapore is an alliance of the Economic Development Board (EDB) as well as the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore. It serves as the premier one-stop agency for encouraging and attracting talents from around the world to work, invest and live in Singapore, a country reputed for its high standards of living, cosmopolitan outlook, political stability as well as robust global trade and investment. With offices in Asia, Europe and North America, Contact Singapore is the one-stop centre for those who wish to pursue a rewarding career in Singapore, as well as individuals and entrepreneurs who are keen to invest in or initiate new business activities in Singapore. Contact Singapore actively links Singapore-based employers with global talent and provides updates on career opportunities and industry developments in Singapore, and works with private sector partners to facilitate the interests of potential individual investors in Singapore.
Website: www.contactsingapore.sg
Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
The Monte-Jade (Yu Shan) Science and Technology Association, so-named after the highest mountain in Taiwan, was established by a group of high-tech Taiwanese and Chinese-American executives. “Monte Jade” was chosen to signify cross-cultural and technological foresight and excellence of the highest level. It objective has been to bring together the high-tech experts from the Mid Atlantic region and the other side of Pacific, so as to provide opportunities for professionals and corporations on both sides of the Pacific to network and share valuable experiences in investment, opportunities, management, technology and business information.
Website: www.mjma.org
Marc Kramer
Marc Kramer is serial entrepreneur and president of Kramer Communications that provides Internet strategic marketing, sales and communications, business plan development, content service strategy and project management. He is also a project faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business Global Consulting Practicum and a professional speaker and lectures on topics such as Internet marketing, marketing, sales networking, corporate entrepreneurship and turning around distressed companies.
Marc’s portfolio of founded companies and associations include Prompt Payment (a financial services company), ExpertSpeakers.net, which markets business professionals to trade associations and corporations, as well as the Eastern Technology Council, the Pennsylvania Technology Transfer Center; the Institute of Biotechnology and Advanced Molecular Medicine; the Penn State Technology Development Center and the Pennsylvania Private Investors Group, the country’s first formally organized investor angels network. Marc has also served as president/CEO of Business Philadelphia and Seven Arts, two large regional magazines.
Marc is the recipient of numerous business and entrepreneurship-related awards including the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, American Electronics Association Spirit of America Award, was named one of the Top Five Business Leaders Under Age 40 in Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia Jaycees three years in a row, and won the Small Business Journalist of the Year by the Center City Proprietors Association of Philadelphia in 2006.
Website: www.kramercommunications.com
