Thomas Flageollet

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Hi/fn, Inc. provides network and storage security and data reduction products to network and storage equipment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Log Savvy Corp. provides social networking analytics services. The firm designs solutions for digital media, blogs and forums, social networks and games and gaming communities. It was founded by Mark R. Searle and Tony Calleja and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.