Stephen F. Thornton

Westin Hotels LP owns and operates hotels. The company provides centralized reservation, advertising, system-wide marketing programs, and centralized purchasing, training, and support services. It is headquartered in New York City, NY

Ditech Networks, Inc. develops, produces and sells voice quality enhancement and voice applications solutions to telecommunication service providers worldwide. The firm's products include phonetag voice-to-text, ethernet voice processor, packet voice processor, broadband voice processor, quad voice processor, quad 2 echo canceller and open source voip echo cancellers. The company was founded in July 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Answers.com Corp. operates as a free, ad-supported Internet search services that supply users with editorial content covering different topics. The firm's platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. The company was founded by Christopher J. Sims, David Karandish, Mark A. Tebbe, and Robert S. Rosenschein in 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Melodeo, Inc. offers mobile podcasting solutions. The firm delivers music and other media via mobile phones and web. It also provides wireless customers with music, comedy, news, sports, and entertainment programs, including radio shows. The company was founded by Bill Valenti, Donald Davidge and Loreen Milbrath in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Integral Development Corp. provides software solutions to banks and other financial institutions. Its products include Integral SEF, InvestorFX, FX Grid, and TrueFX. Integral’s private, customer-branded trading solutions are managed and operated over Integral’s FX Grid, a global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, linking market making banks to FX market participants. The company was founded by Viral Tolat and Harpal S. Sandhu in 1993 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Hightail, Inc. provides cloud based solutions that enable users to share, send and access files from various devices. It offers active directory, alternative file transfer protocol, cloud storage, enterprise success, and mobile file sharing solutions. The company was founded by Ranjith Kumaran, Amir Shaikh and Khalid Shaikh in 2004 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Attenex Corp. develops software for legal document review. Its software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. The company was founded by Skip Walter in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Alfresco Software Ltd. provides enterprise content management software services. Its products include alfresco enterprise on-premise, in the cloud, mobile and community edition. The firm provides solutions in the areas of document management, collaboration, process management, compliance, mobile content management. The company was founded by John Newton and John Powell on May 1, 2002 and is headquartered in Maidenhead, the United Kingdom.

Yapta, Inc. develops and provides online travel management services. The firm specializes in airfare price tracking, hotel price tracking, dynamic price tracking technology, airfare and hotel rates and travel spend analytics. The company was founded by Brett Allsop, Thomas G. Romary, Ryan Allsop, Amy Terrell, Eric Anderson and Aaron Hill in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Qstream, Inc. provides mobile enterprise application for managing the human side of sales acceleration. Its solutions include life sciences, technology, healthcare and financial services. The company was founded by Duncan Lennox and Barry Paul on September 1, 2008 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

AnswerDash, Inc. engages in the provision of context-based answer engine solutions. Its platform enables users to provide selection-based, self-service, point-and-click contextual answers on websites, web applications, and mobile experiences to customers. The company was founded by Jacob O. Wobbrock, Parmit Chilana and Andrew Ko in September 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Voyager Capital LLC (Voyager Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Enrique Godreau, William H. McAleer and Tony Audino. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

SuccessFactors, Inc. provides workforce performance management software solutions. Its services include training & education, support offerings and SAP services. The firm integrated application suite includes the following modules and capabilities: Performance Management; Goal Management; Compensation Management; Succession Management; Career and Development Planning; Recruiting Management; Employee Central; Analytics and Reporting. The company was founded by Lars Dalgaard in 2001 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Akamai Technologies, Inc., Netpodium, Inc. develops interactive Web-based communication software. The company is based in Bellevue, WA. Netpodium was acquired by InterVU, Inc., part of Akamai Technologies, Inc. from April 20, 2000 on August 26, 1999 for $37 million.

JWP Information Services, Inc. provides workstations, networks, and software products.

FullTime Software, Inc. develops software solutions. The American company was founded by Richard G. Thau. FullTime Software was acquired by Legato Systems, Inc. on April 20, 1999 for $52.49 million.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Deloitte & Touche provides audit, enterprise risk management, and financial advisory services. The company delivers services in four professional areas: audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services. It provides its clients with global services such as entering foreign markets, raising funds, and investing in Mainland China. The company was founded in June, 2003 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Ivanti, Inc. provides systems, security and process management software solutions. Its end-to-end service management solution encompasses five key areas such as systems management, security management, security management, asset lifecycle management , and enterprise mobility management. The firm provides solutions that are designed to maximize user productivity while reducing the associated IT complexities, risks, and costs to the business. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Thayer Ventures Management Co LLC (Thayer Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Thayer Lodging Group founded in 2009 by Lucien ruby. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Alfresco Software, Inc. engages in the provision of software solutions. It offers Alfresco content services, Alfresco governance services, and Alfresco cloud (PaaS). The company was founded by John Newton and John Nicholas Powell in 2005 and is headquartered in Wellesley, MA.

Photobucket Corp. provides online photo sharing and video hosting services. It also provides image saving solutions for wireless carriers and web based image services. The Company's technology allows consumers to unlock the photos in their camera phone, and save them in photo albums on e-mail, pc, and the web. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Zipwhip, Inc. provides text messaging platform for existing landline, voice over internet protocol, or toll free phone number to help businesses connect with customers. The firm serves insurance, staffing, medical, radio, finance, dealerships, veterinary, legal, sports, and fitness industries. The company was founded by Anthony Riemma, Michael Smyers, John Lauer, and John Larson in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Empower Personal Wealth LLC provides financial advisory services. Its financial tools offers net worth, fee analyzer, investment checkup and retirement planner. The firm?s financial advisory services include investment strategy, advisors, private client and additional services. The company was founded by William Hamilton Harris Jr. and Robert Foregger in 2009 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Ten-X LLC operates an end-to-end transaction platform for commercial real estate that powers more than 90 percent of all online CRE sales. The firm provides comprehensive auction services, including pre-auction marketing, overseeing service providers that manage open houses and perform property preservation work, conducting the auction sale process and administering the closing process in coordination with third party lenders, title companies, and escrow and closing companies. It also offers online auctions of commercial real estate property and loan notes, as well as specialty auctions. The company was founded by Robert Friedman, Jeffrey P. Frieden and Monte J. M. Koch in 2009 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Blue Box Group, Inc. provides cloud hosting and managed services for open source applications. Its products include blue box cloud, blue box dedicated, and blue box local. The company was founded by Jesse Proudman in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

BetterWorks Systems, Inc. operates a platform which engages in cross-functionally align workforces. It offers consumer-grade design, contextual feeds, push notifications, and summary emails. The company was founded by Di Wu, Paul Reeves and Kris Duggan in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Rowan TELS Corp. provides patent system solutions. Its automated invention protection has created an automated patent creation and analytic system which is used to produce patent documents and monitor patent quality throughout the prosecution process. The firm offers products for law firms and corporations which includes SmartShell, RoboReview and patent preparation. The company was founded by Charles Mirho and James Billmaier in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle. WA.

Kodacloud, Inc. provides wireless networking for businesses. It is a changing the way wireless networks are purchased, installed, operated, expanded and managed by providing the industry’s first Wireless LAN as a Service with Artificial Intelligence provided optimization and support. The company was founded by Bernard Herscovich in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Auction Com, Inc. acts as a real estate investment trust. The private company is based in Irvine.

Fulcrum Management Solutions Ltd. engages in the provision of software development services that enables people to discuss and ask questions. It offers virtual events, support services, story, and video coverage. The company was founded by Amos Michelson, Dave macleod, and Jim Firstbrook in 2009 and is headquartered in Rossland, Canada.