Denise M. Wilson

Metris Cos., Inc. used to provide consumer credit products and related enhancement services. The company issued unsecured MasterCard and Visa credit cards including co-branded cards through partnerships with banks, retailers and other companies. Metris was founded in 1994 and was located in Minnetonka, MN.

The precursor of General Electric Information Services began as a business unit within General Electric formed to sell excess computer time on the computers used to give customer demos. In 1965, Warner Sinback recommended that they begin to sell time-sharing services using the time-sharing system (Mark 1) developed at Dartmouth on a General Electric 265 computer. The service was an instant success and by 1968, GEIS had 40% of the $ 70 million time-sharing market. The service continued to grow, and over time migrated to the GE developed Mark II and Mark III operating systems running on large mainframe computers. By the mid-1970s, the GEIS network was providing business-to-business applications to customers throughout the world on its own global network. EDI services were started in the 1980's and grew to be the dominant part of the business. In June 2002, the investment firm Francisco Partners acquired Global eXchange Services (GXS), the successor to GEIS, from GE and began operating it as an independent firm.

NRG Energy, Inc. engages in the production, sale, and distribution of energy and energy services. It operates through the following segments: Generation, Retail, and Corporate. The Generation segment includes all power plant activities, domestic and international, as well as renewables. The Retail segment includes mass customers and business solutions, and other distributed and reliability products. The Corporate segment includes residential solar and electric vehicle services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.