Decisyon’s $15 million Series A round includes $10 million of immediate proceeds to the company and a pre-negotiated second tranche of $5 million scheduled for 2013. The round was led by New York-based growth investor Axel Johnson Inc. and included other prominent private technology investors from the United States and the United Kingdom.

Built upon a unique collaborative data integration and analytics platform, Decisyon’s applications integrate and analyze disparate sources of information dynamically across the enterprise — enabling teams to quickly engage with new insights, make informed decisions and initiate actions.

“Decisyon has an extraordinary set of assets, most notably breakthrough technology, great people and a strong customer base of well-known global brands,” said Tom Cowan, Decisyon president and chief executive officer. “This funding enables us to support the company with the resources to expand into the global software market.”

“Axel Johnson has a long history of investing behind exceptional management teams working to create deep, lasting value for customers and their businesses,” said Michael Milligan, president and CEO of Axel Johnson Inc. “We are pleased to have the opportunity to participate in the rapid expansion of Decisyon’s business.”

About Decisyon

Decisyon’s unique software allows its customers to drive significant financial and operational benefits by quickly discovering the key factors affecting business issues and processes, collaborating and deciding on the best course of action, and executing activities that optimize impact. Its diverse Global 1000 customers include many of the most respected pharmaceutical, banking, manufacturing, media and fashion companies.

Today’s Decisyon solutions include:

DECISYON/CDME — a collaborative decision making and execution application that unifies business intelligence and planning, collaboration and workflow — uniquely supporting both structured and unstructured data.
DECISYON/Plant — a visual manufacturing optimization application that enables automatic scheduling and execution of plant processes, operations, and problem resolution.

DECISYON/Tools — a development framework for partners to rapidly create collaborative data-driven applications, which incorporate both structured and unstructured data from virtually any source inside or outside the enterprise.

ECCE/Customer — a social CRM application powered by Decisyon that combines analytics, real-time engagement, workflow management, and integration into enterprise systems.

“Information technology needs to evolve from data silos to a ‘digital nervous system’ that continuously senses, responds and adapts to changing business conditions,” said Franco Petrucci, founder and CTO of Decisyon. “We designed Decisyon to give organizations the ability to bring multiple sources of information to critical decision points in an ad hoc way – unconstrained by the highly structured nature of traditional ERP, CRM, data warehouses and other enterprise systems.”

Management and Advisors

Decisyon’s management team includes enterprise computing veterans: Tom Cowan, president and CEO (IBM, OutlookSoft); Franco Petrucci, founder and CTO (Decisyon); Ben Hennelly, CFO (Monitor, Axel Johnson); Gary Banks, SVP Customer Services (Monsanto, Xerox); Ken Lavoie SVP Sales (Mercator, OutlookSoft); Deirdre Silberstein, SVP Operations (Deloitte); Bill Ryan, CMO (Apple, Yahoo!). The company’s Board of Directors is led by experienced private equity investors Erik Jansen (Pequot Ventures, RockRidge Capital) and Bill Laverack (J.H. Whitney, Morgan Stanley).

The company is further supported by a team of strategic advisors led by Ron Rose (Priceline, Dell).

Contact
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Bill Ryan 415-814-0037

Building on the success of Lamella® as the industry’s first gravity plate settler, Parkson engineers researched ways to maximize usage of the system’s settling area and improve the flow rate.

“Forty-two years ago, Parkson set the industry standard for inclined plate settlers,” said Madhavi Batchu, Product Manager for Lamella®. “Now we’re raising the standard by introducing the next-generation Lamella® EcoFlow™ that utilizes 100% of the clarification area.”

Currently, Parkson’s Lamella® and imitation plate settlers manage to utilize only 80% of the available clarification area, because the design of the feed opening disrupts proper settling at the bottom of the plate. The new design, however, changes the way the feed enters the inclined plate, eliminating the zone of interference.

The result is that customers who choose to install the new Lamella® EcoFlow™ system or upgrade their existing Lamella® equipment can expect to process 25% more flow than a competitive settler with the same settling area.

“More of our customers are under pressure to reduce the overall footprint of their facilities, while at the same time increase capacity,” said Mark Turpin, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Parkson. “Lamella® EcoFlow™ addresses both of these critical needs.”

For existing Lamella® operators, the retrofit program provides a low-cost opportunity to achieve higher-quality effluent and better sludge concentration without causing a major disruption to the system.

“In a crowded field of manufacturers who wish to capitalize on a product by simply copying our old designs, this patented new process enhancement gives Parkson’s trademark Lamella® a shot in the arm in the market,” said Rob Kershner of Kershner Environmental Technologies.

About Parkson Corporation:
With 25,000 installations in its 50 years of existence, Parkson Corporation is a leading provider of advanced solutions in water recycling and treatment and is committed to providing clean water for the world. The company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, with offices in Chicago, Montreal, Dubai and partners in Latin America, India and China. To learn more, visit www.parkson.com.

Contact
Parkson Corporation
Renato Sá, Global Marketing Leader, 954-935-6237
rsa@parkson.com

Millions of children in Africa spend their day walking hours to collect water instead of going to school. With the Schools for Water campaign, Katie Spotz has signed up ten schools in Northeast Ohio to help ten schools in Kenya gain access to safe water. The students have raised funds through a variety of methods, including art and bake sales, walks, dances, and runs for water.

With the financial support from Axel Johnson Inc. and other sponsors, the Schools for Water campaign has raised over $75,000 to date and provided clean water to over 7,500 students.

About Katie Spotz:
Katie Spotz of Mentor, Ohio set the world record as the youngest person ever to row an ocean solo in March of 2010. She traveled 3,038 miles from Senegal, West Africa to Guyana, South America. Aside from her record-setting solo row, Katie has cycled across America, run across deserts, and swam the 325-mile Allegheny River become the first person to do it. Her adventures have raised over $150,000 for the Blue Planet Network, a San Francisco based non-profit funding safe drinking water projects for the billion people around the world in need.

Contact
Axel Johnson Inc.
Sally Sarsfield, Chief Financial Officer, 646-666-7531
ssarsfield@axeljohnson.com

In December 2011, Sprague transitioned to its own Sprague Real-Time (“Real-Time”) platform. “While Sprague had initially relied on a third-party software vendor, we realized that we could better serve our retail oil dealer customers if we were to build and manage our own platform,” says David Daoust of Managing Director of Sprague.

While the platform offers what is now standard fare – prompts, 42,000 gallon forward contracts and trading history, Sprague has introduced revolutionary flexibility via its Small Volume HeatCurve tool. The Small Volume HeatCurve product allows retail dealers the chance to lock in a degree-day weighted single price over a variety of different winter delivery schedules, in volumes as low as 1,000 gallons. Now, instead of the dealers having to combine multiple customers to build sufficient volume (i.e., 42,000 gallon trading volume increments), Sprague’s Small Volume HeatCurve tool gives dealers the power to hedge their forward fixed-price programs on virtually a customer-by-customer basis.

“Given the December release of our proprietary platform, we had anticipated a fairly slow adoption. However, in less than two months, all of our customers have made the switch. The new tool is easier to use, works across multiple browsers and devices, and offers industry-leading features such as Small Volume HeatCurve,” says Tom Flaherty, VP of Sales.

About Sprague Operating Resources LLC:
Founded in 1870, Sprague owns and operates a network of 15 refined products and materials handling terminals with a combined storage capacity of ~350 million gallons for refined products and ~1.5 million square feet of materials handling capacity. Sprague delivers over 100 million gallons of transportation fuel annually. The company’s refined products group supplies wholesale dealers, municipalities and commercial customers a full range of petroleum products and services. Additionally, Sprague’s natural gas group supplies ~50 billion cubic feet of natural gas to over 4,000 accounts located behind 36 utilities.

Contact
Sprague Operating Resources LLC
Grant Brown, Vice President Investor Relations & Marketing, 603-430-5397
gbrown@spragueenergy.com

“ConforMIS’ key objective for Series E funding was to work with investors who focus on high-growth opportunities around the globe and who see the value in funding differentiated technologies in markets with tremendous room for growth,” said Philipp Lang, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of ConforMIS. “This latest round of financing provides us with the resources to aggressively grow our business and invest in our scale up. It also provides us with the resources to pursue strategic initiatives in technology and intellectual property expansion.”

Since its founding in 2004, ConforMIS, the fastest growing orthopedic implant company, has built and brought to market the only full line of patient-specific implants and instruments for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis , a $7 billion global market. In 2010, the company launched their second generation personalized partial knee solutions, the iUni® G2 and iDuo® G2 . In 2011, ConforMIS received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration to market the iTotal® CR Knee Replacement System , the first and only patient specific total knee implant on the market.

“ConforMIS continues to challenge the conventional wisdom associated with traditional total knee replacements through its customized orthopedic implant technologies,” said Michael Milligan, CEO at Axel Johnson, Inc. “We are pleased to be a significant investor in the company given its prospects for substantially altering the industry competitive landscape.”

For more information on ConforMIS visit www.conformis.com.

About ConforMIS, Inc.:
ConforMIS, Inc. is a privately-held company that develops and commercializes medical devices for osteoarthritis treatment and joint damage. Its proprietary intellectual property includes more than 300 patents and patent applications in the areas of imaging software, image processing, implant design, surgical techniques, instrumentation, and manufacturing, spanning knee, hip, shoulder, spine, and small joints. ConforMIS knee implants and instrumentation are designed to address all stages of osteoarthritis, the most common reason for knee replacement surgery . All devices have been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration for marketing in the US. In 2009, ConforMIS was named a winner of the Medical Design Excellence Awards, the premier recognition for contributions and advances in the design of medical products, for its iUni and iDuo resurfacing implants. In 2011, ConforMIS received the American Technology Award for innovation with its iTotal CR product. Follow ConforMIS on Twitter at @ConforMIS and become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ConforMIS .

Contact
Racepoint Group
Amanda Griffith, 781-487-4635
conformis@racepointgroup.com