Robert Spears

Goldman Sachs Bank AG engages in the provision of banking and financial services. Its business activities also include securities trading, asset management, and investment consulting. The company was founded on May 27, 1992 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Benchmark Capital Corp. provides investment services. The private company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Andrew Samuel Rachleff.

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

VoloMedia is the leading provider of advertising and reporting solutions for portable media, extending the reach of video and audio from the PC to devices such as smartphones (e.g., BlackBerry, iPhone, Android), media players (e.g., iPod, Touch) and set-top boxes (e.g., AppleTV, Vudu) whether connected or offline. VoloMedia's products and technologies enable dynamic advertising insertion, targeting, measurement, reporting, and campaign management within RSS-based portable video and audio. In doing so, VoloMedia enables media companies to distribute, track and monetize episodic, premium content by reaching portable media users. VoloMedia also enables advertisers to target high-value consumers in this new media and track advertisements displayed online or offline. VoloMedia's products and services are utilized by some of the largest and most well known media companies, including ABC, Fox, G4tv (Comcast Entertainment Group), MSNBC, Public Radio International, and Washington Post/Newsweek International. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and is funded by Sutter Hill Ventures. VoloMedia is a founding member of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), and has received or filed for twelve patents related to its technology platform.

Blab, Inc. operates as a social network service provider. It provides predictive (social or digital) analytics to assist marketers with real time insights to inform digital marketing activities and allocate resources to acquire and retain customers in an all-digital world. The company was founded by Randy Browning, Joseph Mouhanna, David Snelling, John P. Kottcamp, and Malcolm MacGregor in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Speed Chain Network Ltd. offered supply chain event management and global e-logistics solutions. The company was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

PatientSafe Solutions, Inc. provides wireless workflow optimization and patient safety solutions. It designs hardware and software solutions to provide patient safety and improve patient, family, and nurse satisfaction in hospitals. It offers clinical communications and workflows, coordinated care, and professional services. The company was founded by Keith Blei, Gerald E. Forth, David D. Swenson, Pat Steusloff and Kim T. Rubin in 2002 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Aperto Networks, Inc. manufactures wireless broadband, mobile WiMAX and enterprise VPN solutions. The firm’s products include technology, packetMAX family and waveCenter family products. It also offers license-exempt WIMAX, 3.65GHz WIMAX, voice and IMS over WIMAX solutions. The company was founded by Khuong Ngo, Subir Varma, Reza Ahy and Paul Truong in 1999 and is headquartered in Pitt Meadows, Canada.

IC Compliance LLC provides contingent workforce management solutions. It specializes in the management of independent contractors and contingent workforces. The firm through its web-based application, ensures its clients are in compliance with tax rules for independent contractors, provides advice on employee classification guidelines, tax reporting, invoice submission and other services. The company was founded by Patricia Griffin-Soffel in 1997 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Deloitte & Touche provides audit, enterprise risk management, and financial advisory services. The company delivers services in four professional areas: audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services. It provides its clients with global services such as entering foreign markets, raising funds, and investing in Mainland China. The company was founded in June, 2003 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

LifeSciences British Columbia is a non-profit organization, which engages in supporting and representing the life science community through leadership, investment, advocacy, and promotion. It ensures that no life sciences sector is working in isolation and that all sectors come together in a comprehensive, complementary, and coordinated fashion. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Lifeline Technologies, Inc. operates as a health sciences development company which focuses on novel strategies. It offers ChoLESStolife, a non-prescription and non-synthetic cholesterol absorption inhibitor for the reduction of human cholesterol using a fat-free delivery system for soy sterols and stanols. The company was registered by Curtis A. Spilburg and Richard E. Ostlund on October 1, 2002 and is headquartered in Hendersonville, NC.

VEXTEC Corp. provides predictive models and computer aided engineering services. Its predictive models are used to simulate fatigue, corrosion and other damage mechanisms in structural, mechanical and electronic products. The firm’s technology can be used to determine the need for spare parts. The company was founded by Robert G. Tryon III and Animesh Dey in 2000 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Total Home Health provides healthcare support services. The private company is based in Elgin, IL. The CEO of the company is Rob W. Lange.

GitHub, Inc. is a software development company. The company was founded by Michael Hartl, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, Christopher Wanstrath, Scott Chacon and Long Nguyen in October 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Telematica, Inc. provides design-driven process and consulting services for enterprise digital transformation. The private company is based in San Mateo, CA. The American company offers early stage launch executive consulting and process management for startup and emerging technology companies in transition. Telematica also provides bespoke research and due diligence on cloud native computing, data engineering, and data privacy. The company invests in private companies by accepting equity as compensation for consulting services and advisory services.

Hub (California) provides software solutions. The private company is based in California.

Pencil DATA, Inc. provides cyber security services. The company was founded by Kumar Palaniappan and Valentin Mircea Bercovic and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette is a private company that provides investment banking services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Imagelock LLC is an online store that sells reinvented and redesigned picture combination locks at an affordable price. The private company is based in Sunnyside, NY and was founded in 2015 by Ali Nawaz. The locks can be opened by the combination of funny pictures instead of old classic number combinations. Customers can also design their own custom lock.