NYSE Euronext operates the world’s leading financial markets, providing the platforms on which world-class companies raise the capital that drives the world’s economy. Investors participate in that growth through our liquid, fair and accessible markets. NYSE Euronext provides the most compelling venues for investment products and services to the financial services industry. From the world’s first stock exchange to state-of-the-art trading technology, NYSE Euronext’s rich heritage combines the experience and expertise developed over four centuries with an innovative vision for the future.
The character of a company is shaped and defined over time. It evolves. It deepens. It is expressed in an ever-changing corporate culture, in transformational strategies, and in new and compelling offerings for customers. IBM’s character has been formed over nearly 100 years of doing business in the field of information-handling. Nearly all of the company’s products were designed and developed to record, process, communicate, store and retrieve information — from its first scales, tabulators and clocks to today’s powerful computers and vast global networks. IBM helped pioneer information technology over the years, and it stands today at the forefront of a worldwide industry that is revolutionizing the way in which enterprises, organizations and people operate and thrive.
Ernst & Young’s worldwide Strategic Growth Markets Network is dedicated to serving the changing needs of fast-growth companies. For more than 30 years, we’ve helped many of the world’s most dynamic and ambitious companies grow into market leaders. Whether working with international mid-cap companies or early stage venture-backed businesses, our professionals draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help your business achieve its potential. It’s how Ernst & Young makes a difference. For more information on Ernst & Young’s Strategic Growth Markets networks, visit www.ey.com/growth .
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. The vision of the Kauffman Foundation is to foster a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities. The Foundation works to catalyze an entrepreneurial society in which job creation, innovation, and the economy flourish. It works with leading educators, researchers, and other partners to further understanding of the powerful economic impact of entrepreneurship, to train the nation’s next generation of entrepreneurial leaders, to develop and disseminate proven programs that enhance entrepreneurial skills and abilities, and to improve the environment in which entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
Make Your Mark is a national campaign to create an enterprise culture among young people in the UK. It does this by giving people in their teens and twenties the inspiration and opportunity to turn their ideas into reality, whether through starting businesses or social enterprises or by making an idea happen at work. The campaign is backed by an unprecedented coalition of business, charities, education bodies and government - it’s unique in being young-people focused, business-led and government-backed. It is funded by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and was founded by the four main UK business organizations - the British Chambers of Commerce, CBI, Federation of Small Businesses and Institute of Directors. Make Your Mark leads a campaign coalition of 25 national organizations from education, the voluntary sector, business and government.
