Ross Bixler

Hydration Technologies is a leading provider of water filtration and purification solutions for government, industrial, military, and emergency response entities. HTI manufactures a proprietary forward osmosis membrane material that allows water to migrate through the membrane, powered only by a draw solution on the clean water side of the membrane, leaving behind virtually all contaminates. It provides personal and group water filtration systems using forward osmosis membrane process to yield highly pure filtered water with substantially all bacteria, viruses and toxic pollutants removed, it's a foolproof method of commercial and industrial water filtration that truly minimizes the need for collateral production. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Albany, OR.

Part of Altaba, Inc., C2B Technologies is a company that develops on-line comparison shopping software. The company is based in San Mateo, CA. The company was founded by Scott Walchek, Greg Newman. Scott Walchek has been the CEO since incorporation. C2B Technologies was acquired by Inktomi Corp. on September 01, 1998 for $139.84 million.

Part of STMicroelectronics NV, Waferscale Integration, Inc. develops programmable system devices. The company is based in Fremont, CA. Waferscale Integration was acquired by STMicroelectronics NV on July 28, 2000 for $68 million.

Integrity Partners Management Co. (Integrity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. The firm is headquartered in Alamo, California.

Part of Foot Locker, Inc., CCS, Inc. is a company that distributes clothing products via catalogue and mail-order services. The company is based in Westerville, OH. The CEO of the company is Martin E. Muscatello. CCS, Inc. (United States) was acquired by Foot Locker, Inc. from dELiA*s, Inc. on November 05, 2008 for $103.20 million.

Synteleos, Inc. develops software packages. The private company is based in PLEASANTON, CA. The company was founded by Mike Duensing, Mark Ebersole.

MarketRiders, Inc. provides investment services. It helps investors create the appropriate global asset allocations using low-cost Exchange Traded Funds based upon the Modern Portfolio Theory approach. The company was founded by Stephen Beck, Mitchell Jay Tuchman and Ryan Seth Pfenninger in 2007 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Adaptive Spectrum & Signal Alignment, Inc. offers broadband software solutions to service providers. It offers DSL Expresse, GPON Expresse, cloudcheck and professional services. The firm provides customer experience management, customer empowerment, customer care automation, customer care enhancement, next generation networks, smart vectoring, active care and outside plant maintenance solutions. The company was founded by Assia Cioffi and John M. Cioffi in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Serra Ventures LLC (Serra Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Tim Hoerr. The firm is headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.