Joseph J. Raffa

Adams Capital Management, Inc. (ACM) is a venture capital firm founded in 1994 by Joel Adams. The firm is headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

Shoreline Investment Management, the in-house asset management arm of Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), is a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, California.

TimeSys Corp. provides embedded Linux solutions. Its services include design review and consulting, jump start service, kernel, bootloader, and device driver development and porting, board bring up, application development, boot time optimization, power management optimization, system development, and android porting and development. The company was founded by Raj Rajkumar, Bala Kumar, and Srini Srinivasan in 1995 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

NuCORE Technology, Inc. develops digital and analog imaging chips for digital still and video cameras. It offers software, hardware, and support services to enable camera manufacturers get products to the market. The company was founded in May 1997 and is headquartered in Waukesha, WI.

AutoESL is the leading provider of high level synthesis for FPGAs and ASICs. AutoESL was founded in 2006 based on advanced proprietary technology that was nurtured, developed, and exclusively licensed from UCLA. AutoESL has now deployed this solution at many leading edge system and semiconductor companies. AutoESL provides the fastest path from algorithms to silicon. AutoESL provides a powerful high level synthesis solution that enables: Synthesis of complex algorithms in C, C++ or SystemC into ASICs or FPGAs. Software architects to accelerate software algorithms by implementing them in silicon. System architects to take software models into silicon without manually writing RTL. Hardware architects to explore and implement the right architecture in silicon.

Paladin Capital Group (Paladin Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Penn Ave Investments LLC founded by Mark Maloney and Michael Steed in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London and Luxembourg.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.