Marc A. Friend

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

3Dfx Interactive, Inc. develops high performance, cost-effective graphic chips, graphic boards, software and related technology that enabled an interactive and realistic 3D experience across multiple hardware platforms. The company was founded on August 24, 1994 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Blue Martini Software, Inc. provides e-business software and services which enable direct customer interaction across internet related customer points. The customer relationship management (CRM) software enables companies to manage a variety of functions including phone and web based customer service interactions, call center operations, loyalty program management, marketing and online sales efforts. It was founded in 1998 by Monte Zweben. The company is located in San Mateo, CA.

Charles River Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm founded in 1970. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Intalio, Inc. provides business process management solutions and enterprise cloud computing platform. Its products include Intalio Create, Intalio BPMS and Intalio Jetty. The firm's suite of products enables businesses to rapidly build business applications that leverage processes and deliver compelling user experiences that are scalable from behind the firewall to the cloud enabling businesses to support an agile response to their market. Intalio was founded in July 1999 by Bechara Wakim, Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Pascal Belloncle, Thierry Koehrlen and Assaf Arkin and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Part of Oracle Corp., NetDynamics, Inc. is a company that makes software that gives Internet users access to information on a corporate database. The company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Doron Sherman, Zack Rinat. NetDynamics was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. on October 21, 1998.

Acta Technology, Inc. provides data integration platform expanding extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) technology beyond its traditional data warehousing role to more effectively integrate business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and eCommerce solutions

Part of PLATINUM Technology International, Inc., Channel Computing, Inc. is a computer software development company. The company is based in Newmarket, NH. The company was founded by Mark Klein. Channel Computing was acquired by Trinzic Corp., part of PLATINUM Technology International, Inc. from August 25, 1995 on March 10, 1993.