John A. Amster

RPX Corp. provides new patent acquisition services. The firm offers patent risk solutions, defensive buying, acquisition syndication, patent intelligence, and advisory services. It operates through the RPX: Patent Risk Management and Inventus: Legal Discovery Management. The RPX: Patent Risk Management segment is involved in the solutions that rationalize and lower the costs of patent licensing by reducing the unnecessary legal costs associated with infringement litigation brought by NPEs. The Inventus: Legal Discovery Management segment focuses on intelligent document analysis, hosting and managed review to its clients for litigation and investigations. Inventus serves industries across the board from Financial Services, Energy, Healthcare, Retail, Aerospace and Defense, and Technology. The company was founded by John A. Amster, Geoffrey T. Barker, and Eran Zur on July 15, 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Intellectual Ventures Management LLC (Intellectual Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Nathan Myhrvold, Edward Jung, Peter N Detkin and Greg Gorder. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington..

Ocean Tomo LLC provides opinion, management and advisory services. It offers address financial expert testimony, valuation, technical insights, strategy, ratings, risk management, venture development, investments and transaction brokerage. The company was founded by James E. Malackowski and Andrew W. Carter in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Intertrust Technologies Corp. licenses intellectual property for digital rights management and computing. It helps, protect and manage content rights for companies that distribute music, movies, information and other digital content. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges provides its clients with legal services. The firm offers services to areas including consumer, financial, government and non-profit, health care, industrial, and technology. The company was founded by Claude Serra in 1931 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Town School for Boys, Inc. provides education services exclusively for boys. It offers academics, arts, global education, learning services, and physical education for lower and upper school. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tyfone, Inc. provides cyber and mobile secure identity and secure transaction solutions. It offers solutions to the government, business-to-business, and healthcare sectors. The firm's mobile applications, transaction software and Connected Smart Card (CSC) security hardware enables identity and transaction security on any mobile operating system or device. The company was founded by Siva G. Narendra, Thomas N. Spitzer and Prabhakar Tadepalli in 2004 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.