Steve C. Sutter

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of Synopsys, Inc., inSilicon Corp provides communications semiconductor intellectual property for semiconductor and system companies. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Barry Hoberman. inSilicon was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. on September 20, 2002 for $61.55 million.

Centric Software, Inc. provides product lifecycle management software for retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods companies. It focuses on the needs of consumer goods companies. The firm's software Centric 8 PLM incorporates line planning, global sourcing, calendar management, materials management, quality management, collection management, and product specification and mobile applications for product lifecycle management in one platform. The company was founded in 1989 by Steve Lakowske and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Identity Engines, Inc. develops scalable, identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. The company's solutions provide comprehensive identity services such as authentication, authorization, and auditing to distributed network devices while enabling centralized administration and policy management for improved access control and compliance. The company solves the principle mobility challenge plaguing most organizations today—how to authenticate individuals on porous networks and provision them with the minimum-necessary authorization privileges consistent with their role in or relationship to the organization. Operating at the convergence point of networking, security, and identity management, Identity Engines renders consistent and correct admission and authorization decisions through rich policies that not only interrogate identity and role-based privileges, but also location, time of day or day of the week, and method of access. Identity Engines was founded by Richard Bush in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Elance, Inc. operates as an online talent marketplace. It helps companies hire and manage professionals online on an hourly or project basis. The firm provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results. The company was founded by Beerud Sheth, Srini Anumolu and Sanjay Noronha in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Netfish Technologies, Inc. develops business-to-business solutions used by Internet enabled companies. The company was founded by Patrick Hogan and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Valdero Corp. provides prepackaged software services. The company used to design supply chain management software and analytical collaboration software applications. Its services include providing multi-enterprise visibility application for maintaining inventory supply and demand order fulfillment application for allocating supply and directing orders. The company was founded in the year 2000 and was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.