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The following companies are members of The Corporate Connection program:

	Allston Trading Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Allston Trading, LLC is a premier high frequency market maker in over 40 financial exchanges, in 20 countries, and in nearly every conceivable product class. We sit at the intersection of financial strategy and high-technology; this requires us to hire the best and brightest and give them the tools and freedom they need to be successful.
	Bloomberg Bloomberg's research and development department offers exciting opportunities for highly-motivated individuals seeking a challenging technical role in the financial industry. An extensive training program will provide technical and financial skills needed to succeed in Bloomberg's fast-paced and dynamic organization. Successful applicants will be involved in the design and development of state-of-the-art financial information software products. The position can lead to a variety of career paths, including technologist and financial specialist.
	Boeing Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial planes and military aircraft. Boeing designs and manufactures rotor-craft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA, Boeing operates the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. Boeing provides numerous military and commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries around the world and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales. Headquartered in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 160,000 people in the US and 70 countries.
	C3 C3 offers a family of software solutions that help companies to understand, optimize, and report on their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce cost, risk, and environmental impact.
	Chopper Trading In today’s financial markets, world-class technology is essential to success. Chopper Trading’s technology team builds the systems, software, and network capabilities that lead the industry. From trading algorithms and optimization techniques to computational parallelism, we offer the opportunity to work at the very forefront of technological innovation.
	Cisco Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Since 1984, Cisco has led in the innovation of IP-based networking technologies, including routing, switching, security, TelePresence, unified communications, video, and wireless. The company’s responsible business practices help ensure accountability, business sustainability, and environmentally conscious operations and products.
	Facebook Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
	Google Google is a worldwide leader in information accessibility whose goal is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible through a variety of technologies including search engines, web browsers, and email platforms, amongst others.
	Intel Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead—in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone.
	Interactive Intelligence Interactive Intelligence is a global developer of business communications software and services for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation. Ranked by Forbes Magazine among its “100 Best Small Companies in America,” and by Software Magazine among its global “Top 500 Software and Service Providers,” Interactive Intelligence is not just a pioneering software company, but one that has demonstrated sustainable growth and long-term stability. The company’s innovative communications technology solutions are used by more than 4,000 customers worldwide.
	John Deere John Deere helps its customers – those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich, or build upon the land – meet the world’s dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter, and infrastructure. John Deere operates as two global growth operations (Agriculture and Construction Equipment), two complementary businesses (Turf and Forestry Equipment), and four supporting businesses (Financial Services, Power Systems, Parts Services, and the Intelligent Solutions Group). John Deere has recently been recognized as a Thompson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator and ranked second on the InformationWeek 500 Most Innovative Users of Business Technology for 2012.
	Jump Trading Jump Trading is an industry leader and innovator in the increasingly popular world of algorithmic high-frequency trading. We design software and implement new technologies as we uncover new opportunities in the financial markets.
	LinkedIn LinkedIn takes your professional network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world’s largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, more than 120 million professionals are on LinkedIn, including executives from all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from user subscriptions, advertising sales and hiring solutions.
	Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is an information technology and global security company whose business is mostly generated from the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies. The Stealth Fighter and Hubble Space Telescope are among the company's many creations.
	Microsoft Microsoft is a worldwide software corporation that has created essential computer products, such as the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. Microsoft has also expanded into entertainment sectors, creating the Xbox gaming system, the Zune music player, and the MSNBC cable network.
	Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. citizenship is required for most positions.
	Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies is working to radically change how groups analyze information. Palantir’s platforms are used for visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information. We support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Our products are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration.
	Qualcomm At Qualcomm, students and new graduates jump right into next-generation technologies that are changing the wireless world. A world where power and capabilities keep increasing while the solutions get smaller and smaller. What’s more, Qualcomm leads in technology innovations no other company is even touching in the mobile space.
	Riverbed Riverbed Technology and our award-winning WAN optimization solutions are changing the way organizations work. The pride, expertise, and innovation we build into our products and services are an integral part of who we are and how we work. Whether you're a recent college graduate or you have several years experience working in the technology sector, we're looking for the best people to join our team.
	Rockwell Collins Big thinking. Big network. Big possibilities. Why does that describe working at Rockwell Collins? Because the first moon transmission was our achievement. So was the development of GPS. What about networked battlespaces and Next Gen air transportation systems? Yes and yes. Big ideas call for big thinkers … and we have a lot of them. In fact, we’re building a global workforce of men and women with diverse backgrounds, viewpoints and ideas who are committed to our foundation of innovation.
	State Farm State Farm is an insurance and financial services company that has been the leading insurer of automobiles in the United States for close to 70 years. State Farm ranked 32nd in the 2008 Fortune 500 listings.
	TCS TCS is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 198,500 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 42 countries and consolidated revenues of US $8.2 billion for year ending March 31, 2011.
	Union Pacific As one of America's leading transportation groups, Union Pacific Corporation and principal operating company Union Pacific Railroad provide Americans with efficient and safe freight transportation. The company's portfolio includes agricultural, automotive, chemicals, energy, industrial and intermodal products and services. Union Pacific seeks individuals to move the transportation industry forward.
	ViaSat ViaSat creates new ways to connect customers to today’s advanced network applications with satellite and other wireless networking systems. ViaSat employees enjoy freedom and independence, as well as individual responsibility, and work that is both interesting and rewarding.
	Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is an internet service provider best known for its search engine, web portal, news, and e-mail functions, amongst many others. Yahoo.com receives an average of 3.4 billion hits a day as of October 2007.

POWER AFFILIATES SPONSORS

Ameren
Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) is among the nation's largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities, with about $24 billion in assets. The largest electric utility in Missouri and the second largest in Illinois, Ameren companies provide energy services to 2.4 million electric and one million natural gas customers throughout its 64,000-square-mile territory.

Sargent & Lundy
Sargent & Lundy is a professional engineering services company for the electric power industry and has been dedicated exclusively to serving electric power clients for over 120 years. Sargent & Lundy provides comprehensive engineering, energy business consulting, and project services for both new and operating nuclear and fossil fueled power plants and power delivery systems. Corporate offices are in downtown Chicago.

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