New Members
Welcome the newest members of the Pittsburgh Technology Council!
April 2025 New Members:
Ardent Data Centers
Ardent pioneers high-performance, scalable colocation and modular data centers, delivering secure, efficient, and rapidly deployable infrastructure for AI, edge computing, and enterprise workloads.
Compass Facilities
Compass Facilities is an experienced and dedicated firm whose only goal is to empower your operations team by outfitting them with the tools they need to succeed. They share their decades experience and best practices to help their clients with facilities management, asset management, EAM optimization, project management, facility operations readiness, facility operations training
assessments, and incident management.
Eastern Atlantic States RCC
The Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters represent men and women who provide safe, productive work every day. They span a variety of crafts such as general carpentry, pile driving, trade show, interior design, mill cabinet and millwrights.
Eisaman Contract Associates
They are one of the premier contract furniture manufacturer's representative in the area with coverage extending through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Since 1981, they have represented top manufacturers of quality office furniture.
Glenmede
An independently-owned boutique wealth management firm, Glenmede's innovation and unparalleled commitment to their clients have made them a trusted partner for more than 65 years.
Mass x Velocity
They offer product design, machine design, and manufacturing engineering services. They leverage their experience in mechanical design, rapid prototyping, manufacturing, marketing, and branding to help your company do more.
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International (PMI) is a leading international consumer goods company. Headquartered in Stamford, CT and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PM), PMI is building their future on replacing cigarettes with smoke-free products that—while not risk-free—are a better alternative than cigarette smoking.
TechLift Pgh
TechLift Pgh is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding technology access and opportunities in the Pittsburgh community. The organization focuses on raising awareness of technology, technology careers, and practical technology usage while providing education across various technological disciplines.
TWD
TWD is a leading global engineering firm focusing on traditional and transitional energy projects and innovative infrastructure projects. Together we deliver expertise and client collaboration enhancing the sustainability of our communities.
Whistler Partners
Whistler Partners is a boutique matchmaking firm that counsels the best and brightest attorneys throughout their careers. With a strong foothold in the tech and innovation sectors, they specialize in guiding legal talent into roles at startups, venture-backed companies, and leading technology firms.
March 2025 New Members:
Abnormal Security
Abnormal Security is the leading AI-native human behavior security platform, leveraging machine learning to stop sophisticated inbound attacks and detect compromised accounts across email and connected applications. The anomaly detection engine leverages identity and context to understand human behavior and analyze the risk of every cloud email event--detecting and stopping sophisticated, socially-engineered attacks that target the human vulnerability.
Arcjet
Arcjet is a brand agency specializing in GTM strategy, identities systems and website design.
BV Staffing
BV Staffing, a division of Staffing Solutions Enterprises (SSE), is a leading talent acquisition firm with over 50 years of combined experience. Founded in 2002 by industry experts Anthony Bucci and Scott Ventura, BV Staffing specializes in direct hire placements, initially within the technology sector, and has since expanded to include healthcare, sales, and other professional services.
Convoy Group
Convoy Group is a veteran-owned and operated security consulting, intelligence, and protection firm. They leverage their range of expertise and network across public and private sectors to provide clients with highly professional, tailored, and effective security solutions.
Delinea
Delinea is a pioneer in securing identities through centralized authorization, making organizations more secure by seamlessly governing their interactions across the modern enterprise. Delinea allows organizations to apply context and intelligence throughout the identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, and SaaS applications to eliminate identity-related threats.
Intertech Ci (Fedora Intertech)
Intertech Ci is a leading provider of customized security and systems integration solutions, leveraging extensive expertise and cutting-edge technology.
JLL
JLL is one of the world leaders in real estate services, whose services cover the entire life cycle of real estate. Globally represented with almost 100,000 employees in over 80 countries, more than 1,000 people work at eleven locations in Germany.
LaFace & McGovern Associates
They focus on understanding the lighting system needs of their clients, who range from large scale industrial and corporate enterprises to small startup businesses and residential clients with the intention of offering the latest in LED and conventional lighting solutions for both indoor and outdoor applications.
Lighthouse Electric
They are thinkers and doers, innovators and optimizers, risk-takers and hard conversation-havers. They do whatever it takes to get the job done, to get it done right- and they're raising the bar while we do it. Real forward movement honors the past. It's going to take the perspective of more than just a few to define the future. Let's power the progress the electrical industry needs.
Melillo Consulting
Since 1988, Melillo Consulting has helped organizations power their businesses through technology with a full suite of IT solutions and services. The company helps organizations across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, by developing and executing digital business acceleration strategies.
Premier Automations
Premier Automation is an industry-leading engineered solutions company focused on providing best-in-class automation, drive, robotics, electrical control solutions, panel building and services for the industrial market. They have experience in a variety of industries including Metals, Power, Water, Plastics, Glass and more.
roboLoop
roboLoop is an environmental services company that deploys AI robotic applications for the disassembly of electronic devices. They are a downstream processor for Flat Panel TVs and other devices from collectors and other recyclers with the intent to keep it from entering a landfill.
Sojitz Energy Services
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Sojitz has operated in the US for over 70 years, engaging in diverse sectors such as exporting commercial aircraft to Japan and owning automobile dealerships on the West Coast. Through its subsidiary, Sojitz Energy Services LLC ("SOESCO"), the company has expanded its investment focus to the private sector, particularly construction and energy efficiency. In 2021, SOESCO acquired McClure Company, one of the largest integrated mechanical construction, engineering, maintenance, and energy service firms in the Mid-Atlantic, based in Harrisburg, PA.
Steel Nation
Steel Nation is a Canonsburg, PA-based corporation working primarily in the energy sector of North America. Steel Nation is the leading designer/builder of transmission, storage and compression facilities, for the upstream, midstream, downstream and transmission operations of the Oil and Gas industry throughout the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale and other American reserves.
Transcendworx
Transcendworx is a technology company focused on advancing innovation in the substance use disorder (SUD) space through AI-driven solutions. Its flagship product, SUDCx, is an AI chatbot designed to close the gap in translational research effectiveness by integrating research, innovations, funding opportunities, and lived experience perspectives.
Wade Trim
Wade Trim is a full-service, consulting engineering firm. Their seasoned professionals have the expertise needed to plan, design, and manage infrastructure improvements to enhance communities and regions. Market segments include Water, Community Design, ICE (Industrial, Commercial, and Energy), Transportation, and Construction.
February 2025 New Members:
Apex Systems
Apex Systems, an On Assignment company, provides organizations with scalable IT staffing solutions to address critical gaps in their current workforce and augment workforce management strategies. They specialize in providing IT professionals for contract, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and managed solutions to clients in Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies. Their specialized technology and industry practice groups help them match the most talented and qualified technical professionals to great companies across the country.
Baker Public Relations
Baker Public Relations is a full-service, woman-owned public relations agency representing clients in healthcare, technology, real estate, travel and tourism, education, government, nonprofit and more. They are storytellers at heart, helping organizations build awareness and increase visibility through strategic integrated communications campaigns and programs.
BlackRock Resources
BlackRock Resources was founded in Canonsburg, PA in 2012 with the mission of providing professional staffing and consulting services to the energy (Oil, Gas, Renewables) industry. In 2015, they expanded their services to include engineering and field services, which today has a team with over 350 years of experience. In 2024, they entered the Data Center industry. At BlackRock Resources, they are flexible problem-solvers eager to put decades of hands-on experience to work for you.
C3 Complete
C3 is an award-winning international technology consultancy headquartered in Florida. The company specializes in providing outcome-driven, relationship-focused solutions to a diverse client base. With a commitment to excellence, C3 operates a geo-diverse infrastructure offering advanced solutions in hybrid cloud, voice and collaboration, backup and disaster recovery, and more..
Cato Networks
Cato Networks is the SASE leader, delivering enterprise security and network access in a global cloud platform. Cato creates a seamless, agile and elegant experience, and enables powerful threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response. Using Cato, businesses replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN, a purpose-built global cloud network, and an embedded cloud-native security stack.
DataCents Analytics
Datacents Analytics empowers government agencies and the organizations that serve them with data-driven insights for smarter decision-making. They specialize in optimizing data collection, integration, and analysis to enhance public sector operations, infrastructure planning, and policy development. By transforming complex data into actionable intelligence and creating products that help organizations serve government better, they help agencies and their partners improve efficiency, transparency, and service delivery, ensuring they make informed choices that drive meaningful outcomes and create lasting benefits for communities.
Dawood Engineering
Dawood Engineering delivers award-winning technology and infrastructure solutions to energy, utility, transportation, environmental, land & site development, municipal, real estate, and retail clients. Starting in Pennsylvania with a single civil engineering office and handful of employees in 1992, Dawood is now global. The firm plans and designs sustainable environments throughout the U.S., features Government Finance Solutions, develops real estate through Good Hope Ventures, and extends geospatial technologies across Eurasia and the Middle East. The certified Minority Business Enterprise advances survey, mobile LiDAR, geographic information system (GIS), building information modeling, and digital transformation tools.
FirstLight Fiber
For over 20 years, FirstLight has been designing, building and maintaining fiber-based communications networks throughout the Northeast. FirstLight provides high-quality scalable data, internet, data center and colocation, security, voice connections and more to its enterprise and carrier customers to help them thrive in today's digital world - and prepare for tomorrow's.
Illumio
As ransomware and cybercrime continue to rise, Illumio provides simplified microsegmentation for Zero Trust security. They believe all organizations should be able to thrive with confidence, assured their digital infrastructure and assets are safe. To achieve this goal, Illumio was launched in 2013 to build remarkably easy-to-use security technology that stops hackers and malware from moving laterally through networks.
Iron Workers Local Union No. 3
In Clearfield, Erie, and Western PA there are over 2,000 Iron Workers specializing in the following craft sectors: structural steel erection, pre-cast concrete construction, bridge erection and repair, ornamental iron/curtain wall, concrete/reinforcing steel, pre-engineered metal buildings, welding, rigging/machinery moving, post tensioning, industrial construction, industrial plant maintenance, and wind turbine construction. Taking pride in their craft and performance has resulted in the building of some of the most recognizable buildings, sports arenas, bridges, stadiums, monuments, and hospitals in the area and across the country. As you plan and prepare for your next construction project, recruit the highly skilled, best-trained, and safety-conscious team of craftsmen in the industry - Iron Workers Local Union No. 3.
Nerd Lawyer
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Nerd Lawyer is your repository for news and information about artificial intelligence, Large Language Models, machine learning, natural language processing, the people who are developing these technologies, and tools incorporating them.
Pittsburgh Coastal Energy
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Pittsburgh Coastal Energy is using ocean wave energy to power undersea robotics for defense and commercial applications. By harnessing the power of ocean waves, their wave energy converter technology aims to provide continuous operational energy at sea, delivering reliability and enabling true autonomy for underwater systems.
R&R Family Companies
The R&R Family of Companies has provided end-to-end logistics solutions for over 40 years. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the R&R Family of Companies has developed into a leading provider of transportation and logistics services to a variety of industries by utilizing our unique ability to deploy assets and partners' strengths on behalf of our customers.
Sargent Electric Company
Sargent Electric Company is a full service electrical, instrumentation, wireless and teledata contractor serving the industrial, commercial, utility, energy and telecommunications sectors nationwide. They deliver both 24/7 service assignments, including emergency/storm response and their customers major capital projects. Sargent is active in the energy transition and delivering data center projects in support of their customers' advanced technology needs. Their customers include Fortune 500 companies, as well as major General Contractors and EPC contractors.
Sngular
They're not the average tech partner. They're the next-generation innovators, proving that the unconventional delivers. With decades of expertise in bringing groundbreaking technology services and projects to life for industry leaders, they're not content with the ordinary. They dare to disrupt and transform visionary ideas into reality. Their secret? They combine deep technical expertise with talent and tenacity to always deliver.
Swank Construction
Swank Construction is a 4th generation, family-owned business and an industry-leading heavy highway contractor specializing in roadway and bridge construction. Founded in the 1930s, Swank has built a reputation for quality, efficiency, and innovation. As the transportation industry evolves, Swank remains at the forefront, integrating cutting-edge technology and methods to continuously improve safety, durability, and efficiency. With decades of expertise and a commitment to excellence, Swank continues to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions that support the future of transportation.
Tellabs
Tellabs provides fiber optic-based layer-2 networks to the enterprise and federal markets. They have an international footprint and are in most major verticals. Their solutions are efficient, cost-effective and sustainable.