Russell N. Fairbanks

ENSCO International, Inc. engages in the provision of contract drilling and marine transport services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc. offers a range of micro-acoustic, electro-mechanical and related technology platforms. The firm serves military, medical and security industries. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Itasca, IL.

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops and markets proprietary analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. Its products includes integrated voltage regulator semiconductors, integrated power protection and distribution semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by electronic systems. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract equipment manufacturers and merchant power supply manufacturers. Volterra Semiconductor was founded by Craig Teuscher, David B. Lidsky, Anthony Stratakos and Marco Zuniga in August 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

SigmaTel LLC designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits. Its products are used in the digital media players, printers, and televisions. The firm has operations in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The company was founded by Spence H. Jackson in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance processors and high-speed integrated circuits that help accelerate the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia content for advanced enterprise, datacenter, communications, and mobile wireless networks. Its product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, high-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GE) physical layer (PHY) devices, network search engines, and ultra low-power embedded processors. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, access aggregation, radio network controllers, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded by Varadarajan Srinivasan and Norman Godinho in 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Caustic Graphics, the creators of the OpenRL specification, is reinventing ray tracing and changing how interactive cinema-quality 3D graphics are produced, used, and enjoyed. Caustic's customers currently include AfterCad, Autodesk, Strata, e-on, LightWork Design, Open Design Alliance, and Robert McNeel & Associates. The company is headquartered in San Francisco

Part of Sportech Plc, Rodime Plc is a British company that manufactures disk drives. The company is based in Glasgow, UK.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

eASIC Corp. engages in the development of fabless semiconductor technology solutions. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Shelton Group provides marketing, investor relations and public relations services. It offers knowledge and expertise in areas such as semiconductors, telecommunications, intellectual property and enterprise software. The company was founded by Jodi Shelton 1994 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Accell Corp. engages in the aluminium wire and cable business. Its products include adapters, cables, digital signage and mobile accessories. The company is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

HGIM Corp. engages in selling gasoline and lubricating oils. The company was founded on May 20, 2008 and is headquartered in DE.

Part of Targa Resources Corp., Southcross Energy Partners GP LLC is a company that provides natural gas transportation services. The company is based in Dallas, TX.

Globallink1 Capital Management LLC (Globallink1 Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ronald Steven Jankov. The firm is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Paragon Offshore Ltd. engages in the provision of offshore drilling services. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Diakopto, Inc. develops electronic design automation software tools. The company was founded by Ronald Steven Jankov and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Silvaco Group, Inc. provides technology computer aided design software, electronic data automation software and semiconductor intellectual property. The TCAD, EDA and SIP solutions enable semiconductor and photonics companies to increase productivity, accelerate their product's time to market and reduce their development and manufacturing costs. Its services include SPICE Modeling Services, TCAD Modeling Services, Library Design Services and Library Characterization Services. The company was founded on November 18, 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.