Rick Gately

Founded in 2002 by Brian Kritzer, BlueFin Research Partners, Inc. is an independent research firm headquartered in Boston. The firm follows the semiconductor, distribution, EMS, networking/telecommunications and semiconductor equipment sectors. BlueFin seeks to provide objective, value-added information to technology investors. In addition, they firm provides spot market information in both the U.S. and Asia/Pacific markets on DRAM, CPU, chipsets, SRAM, flash memory and capacitor pricing. Their investment opinions include both long and short ideas.

EMC Corp. develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. It enables businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service. The company was founded by Richard J. Egan, John Curly and Roger M. Marino on August 23, 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

Akara Corp. was previously provided storage networking products such as tape, disk back-up, synchronous disk mirroring, server geo-clustering and FICON extension, between data centers over any distance. Akara's customers included were those from the financial, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail and government segments. Akara Corp. was headquartered in Frisco, TX.