Guy Craig Vachon

The Yucaipa Cos. LLC is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Ronald Wayne Burkle. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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.

D. E. Shaw & Co. LP (DESCO) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Elliot Shaw. DESCO serves as the managing member, manager and/or investment advisor of certain entities in the D. E. Shaw Group and provides investment advice to a number of affiliated hedge funds and other entities. The investor base of the funds includes institutional investors and other highly sophisticated, high-net worth participants.

Wavecom SA provides embedded wireless technology solutions for machine-to-machine communication. The company offers a range of GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE, and 3G Wireless CPUs as well as programmable processors. Its solutions are used in automotive telematics, smart metering, fleet management, GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, WLL, remote monitoring, and other machine-to-machine applications. The firm was founded on June 28, and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

Gemplus International SA provides digital security systems and components based on smart cards. It manufactures smart cards, develops operating systems, software and hardware for them and provides a number of other associated services. Its products are used as SIM card in mobile telephones, banking cards, loyalty program cards, travel tickets, passports and ID cards. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Morrison & Foerster LLP is a law firm that provides legal services on various industries, which include: litigation, financial services, intellectual property and technology, and transactional work, such as corporate, capital markets and real estate finance representations. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Morris Multimedia, Inc. publishes newspapers and operates television networks. Morris Multimedia was founded in 1970 by Charles H. Morris and is headquartered in Savannah, GA.

WiseNut, Inc. operates an on-line navigation website. The company was founded by Yeogirl Yun on September 1, 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Rembrandt Venture Management LLC (Rembrandt Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm which was founded in 1997 by Gerald Casilli. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sierra Wireless Solutions & Services SA provides telecommunication solutions. It specializes in cloud computing, internet hosting, networking, and other related connectivity services. It offers its expertise to the energy, industrial, transportation, private, public. and healthcare sectors. The company was founded by Ludovic Le Moan and Slyvain Wallez in 2000 and is headquartered in Labege, France.

Asetek, Inc. provides vapor phase, chamber and liquid cooling solutions. The firm’s products are used for reducing power, greenhouse emissions and lowering acoustic noise. The company was founded by Andre Sloth Eriksen in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Sierra Wireless Sweden AB provides wireless solutions. It offers secured and scalable management solutions that provide end-to-end network control for energy service and industrial companies. The company was founded on September 20, 2001 and is headquartered in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Part of Omnes Capital SAS, Exitis SASU is an alternative investment manager. The company is based in Paris, France.

Soparcif SAS provides investment services. The company is based in Paris, France. The CEO of the French company is Jean-David Haas.

Metnext SA provides weather risk management services. It designs weather information awareness for understanding, measuring and anticipating the impact of weather fluctuations on business. The firm's products include meteoeco and meteowind. Its services allow companies to use weather fluctuations for its products or services. The firm also caters to the energy, finance and insurance, and tourism and leisure sectors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cofir NV is a healthcare services company based in Brussels, Belgium. Cofir NV provides healthcare services, as stated in their Belgian company description. The private company was founded in 2007 and is led by CEO Christian Haas.

Tapjoy, Inc. provides social and mobile applications. The firm operates as a mobile performance-based advertising platform that drives deep engagement and monetization opportunities for app publishers, while delivering valuable, engaged consumers to some of the brand advertisers. It has locations in Atlanta, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. The company was founded by Ben Lewis, Shukla Anu, Lee Linden and Mitch Liu in 2007 and is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

Credit Sesame, Inc. engages in the design and development of personal financial management tools. The firm operates an online credit and loans analytics engine. It provides a complete picture of its credit and loans in one place, including its credit score, credit monitoring, personalized financing analysis, and pre-qualified loan and savings recommendations. The company was founded by Adrian A. Nazari and Sean Donn in 2010 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

V.V.T. Med Ltd. is an Israeli medical company that offers innovative solutions for the treatment of insufficiency conditions, both medical and aesthetic indications. The private company is based in Kfar Saba, Israel. The company's flagship product, ScleroSafe with V-Block, is designed to treat severely dilated and challenging Great Saphenous Vein (GSV) conditions. The company delivers a new standard of care in aesthetic and medical vein treatments by offering advanced non-thermal non-tumescent solutions. VVT Medical was founded in 2007 by Zeev Brandeis, and the CEO is Erez Tetro.

Bolt Financial, Inc. engages in the development of checkout experience platform. Its product, Bolt, optimizes conversions and manages hundreds of integrations and the rising risk of fraud. The company was founded by Eric Feldman and Ryan Breslow in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Nextstage Evergreen SCA is a French Paris-based company that was founded in 2022. The private company provides investment services.

Blotout, Inc. provides analytics and marketing attribution tools. The company is based in Fremont, CA. The company was founded in 2019. The CEO is Mandar Shinde.

Pinpoint Predictive, Inc. provides data science services for psychology machine learning. The company was founded by Avi Tuschman and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

GREAT NORTH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP (Great North Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan J. Weber, Robert J. Weber and James DonFrancesco. The firm is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

Grain Technology, Inc. engages in the development of artificial intelligence based credit solutions. It focuses on underwriting methodology based on a cash-flow analysis. The company was founded by Carl Memnon and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P is an investment and technology development firm founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of its staff.