Herb Pyles

IKANO Communications, Inc. provides private-label, wholesale, and retail Internet services. It offers hosted voice and broadband solutions for consumers and businesses through direct and wholesale channels. The company was founded by Henry Smith, Jeffrey Madison and Smith Doris in 1999 and is headquartered in Northridge, CA.

DSLExtreme.com, Inc. provides high-speed and traditional Internet services. It offers a suite of online products and services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. The company was founded by Ari Ramezani and Jim Murphy in May 1999 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

SpringCM, Inc. provides an enterprise-class document management and workflow solution designed for online collaboration. Its cloud platform manages contracts and all types of documents across desktop, mobile, and partner applications like Salesforce. The company was founded by Christine Mason, Greg T. Buchholz, and Jeffrey Piper in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Actifio, Inc. provides data management virtualization solutions. It offers database, hypervisor, application, operating system, Hyper-converged and cloud solutions. The company was founded by Ashutosh Ashutosh in 2009 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Riversand Technologies Inc. develops enterprise software services. It offers professional, training, support and content services such as classification, cleansing, attribute extraction, enrichment, schema services and content creation services. The company was founded by Upen Varanasi, Anil Kini and Sashidhar Narahari in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GiGstreem LLC provides independent fiber and micro/fiber hybrid internet services. It serves residential and commercial clients. The company is headquartered in Tysons, VA.

VPLS, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology (IT) services. It provides infrastructure management; public and private cloud deployments; disaster recovery and backups; IT support services and management; networking; cyber security; colocation; and professional services. The company was founded by Ted Mektrakarn and Tim Mektrakarn in 2005 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

DNAmail provides high-speed and traditional Internet services.

Crestline Investors, Inc (Crestline Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Douglas Bratton. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. develops and markets multifunction location platforms based on semiconductor and software products that are designed to enable location-awareness utilizing GPS and other location technologies, enhanced by wireless connectivity and multimedia capabilities, for high-volume mobile consumer devices and commercial applications. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Virtacore Systems, Inc. develops virtual infrastructure solutions. It offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), disaster recovery, and co-location solutions. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Ashburn, VA.

Evocative LLC engages in the provision of internet infrastructure services. It offers colocation, connectivity, cloud, bare metal hosting, security, and managed services. The company was founded by Arman Khalili in 1999 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.