Jan C. Silverman

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Cray, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and servicing of computing products. Its products include shasta, CS series cluster supercomputers, clusterstor storage system, cray graph engine, and XC series supercomputers. The company was founded in December 1987 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Virident Systems, Inc. developed flash-based storage class memory solutions. It offered solid state disks for data-intensive workloads, such as databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization, and computing applications. The firms products included FlashMAX II and Virident vFAS. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy, Rajesh Parekh and Vijay Karamcheti in 2006 and was headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Spansion, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies flash memory semiconductors. It offers flash memory and microcontrollers for infotainment, body and climate control systems, instrument clusters, and advanced driver assistance systems. The company was founded on June 30, 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.