The Council's primary mission is to identify the workforce needs of Peninsula-based employers. Our workforce innovations provide solutions to ensure that we have a highly skilled workforce to meet these needs and build economic wealth in our region. Economists say that human capital contributes to 70 percent of all wealth creation. Education and training are the most important investments in human capital and contribute to developing workplace skills.

Fiderion is a leader in retained executive search and strategic management consulting. Founded in 2002 as James Norton Partners, we changed our name to Fiderion and expanded our team to include leading alumni from major search firms such as Spencer Stuart, Korn/Ferry, Heidrick & Struggles and A.T. Kearney. Together, we bring our collective might to bear on behalf of clients’ human capital challenges. Fidere, the root word that inspired our name, stands for trust, connotes confidence, and reflects the importance of both to Fiderion.For additional information on our principles, approach, process and services, please click on the links to the left.Fiderion is a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants.

MercadoLibre, Inc., through its subsidiaries, hosts online commerce and payments platforms in Latin America. Its services are designed to provide its users with mechanisms to buy, sell, pay for, and collect on e-commerce transactions. The company principally offers MercadoLibre marketplace, an automated online commerce service, located at mercadolibre.com, which permits businesses and individuals to list items and conduct their sales and purchases online in a fixed-price or auction-based format. It also enables registered users in MercadoLibre marketplace to list and purchase motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, real estate, and other services through online classified listings; users and advertisers to place, display, and/or text advertisements on its Web pages to promote their brands and offerings.

The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. Psychology is a diverse discipline, grounded in science, but with nearly boundless applications in everyday life. Some psychologists do basic research, developing theories and testing them through carefully honed research methods involving observation, experimentation and analysis. Other psychologists apply the discipline’s scientific knowledge to help people, organizations and communities function better.

Frances Kernodle Associates, Inc. (FKA) is a certified WBE consulting firm headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Since 1991, FKA has served a diverse client base on wide-ranging issues including transportation and infrastructure, economic development, homeland security and emergency management. FKA provides individual advisors or a team organized to meet the special requirements of a particular project, research initiative, business delegation, conference or event. We serve the business objectives of our clients with skilled original investigation, top quality primary and secondary research, strategic marketing and communications expertise and experienced advisory services.

Chris Cappuccilli was instrumental in the founding of Brown & Joseph, Ltd. in 1996. Cappuccilli, having worked in Business Development for several conventional debt recovery agencies, consistently received requests for help from his clients that were outside of the normal company service offerings. Bringing this to his managers he was denied the opportunity to expand the support to assist with his client’s needs. Cappuccilli and others from within the industry quickly assembled a group of Subject Matter Experts with extensive expertise in Finance, Credit and Collections, Quality Process Control, IT and specific trade experience in Insurance, Transportation, Utilities, Staffing, and Manufacturing and Brown & Joseph, Ltd. was incorporated. Brown & Joseph partnered with 9ci, a leading provider of enterprise applications for revenue, trade, and receivables management, to help facilitate the Receivable Management Group. 9ci was originally started in 1994 as a bolt-on software solution that managed deductions for retailers in the CPG industry. As 9ci grew, it added Cash Application, Trade Promotion, Collections and finally Analytics intelligence software to its offerings. Together both companies’ synergies evolve around providing its clients a full Credit to Cash Solution tailored to meet our client’s unique specifications.

Business law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice has about 530 attorneys who practice from about ten offices in Delaware, the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington, DC. The firm covers a range of practice areas that include antitrust, health care, bankruptcy, patents, trusts, government affairs, antitrust legislation, and technology issues. It even has an industry group dedicated to obesity litigation through its product liability practice group. Womble Carlyle serves a wide range of regional, national and international clients in industries that include financial services, commercial real estate, information technology, health care, manufacturing and telecommunications, as well as educational institutions and governmental bodies and agencies.

American Conference Institute is devoted to providing the business intelligence that senior decision-makers need to respond to challenges both here in the US, and around the world.Staffed by industry specialists, lawyers and other professionals. American Conference Institute operates as a think tank, monitoring trends and developments in all major industry sectors, the law, and public policy, with a view to providing information on the leading edge. Each of our events is based on a solid foundation of research conducted with industry key players. Before we can develop a program that delivers the critical information our delegates demand, we must first do the market research necessary to ensure we understand and hit the “hot button” issues for that industry sector. As an objective third party, we strive to add value to the industries we serve by producing unbiased events that balance the needs and views of different stakeholders.

Eckerd Youth Alternatives (EYA) provides early intervention and prevention, wilderness education, residential and day treatment, and re-entry and aftercare programs for at-risk youths. The not-for-profit organization has worked to help more than 80,000 kids through its operations in about 10 states, located primarily in the eastern US. Many of EYA's some 40 programs are offered under contract with state juvenile justice agencies. EYA was established in 1968 by Jack Eckerd, the founder of the Eckerd drugstore chain, and his wife, Ruth Eckerd. During the past few years, Eckerd Youth Alternatives has been focused on expanding its community-based support programs.

DCA Services provides convergent billing and outsourced back office services to telecommunications carriers, resellers, agents and other service providers. Since 1987, DCA has helped companies reduce costs, enhance revenue, protect cash flow and asset values, and improve customer satisfaction with integrated systems and services that support all aspects of wireline, wireless and VoIP operations including customer acquisition, provisioning, call center, customer care, billing, collections and consulting. With one of the most innovative and flexible systems in the industry and an expert staff dedicated to client success, we help clients compete with confidence. DCA’s parent company is Platinum Equity, a global firm specializing in the merger, acquisition and operation of companies that provide services and solutions to customers in a broad range of business markets, including information technology, telecommunications, logistics, manufacturing, and entertainment distribution.

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