Ingrid Burton

Plantronics, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of headsets, voice, video, and content sharing solutions. It operates through the Products and Services segments. The Products segment includes the firm's headsets, voice, and video product lines. The Services segment includes maintenance support on hardware devices, as well as professional, managed, and cloud services and solutions. The company was founded by Courtney Graham and Keith Larkin in 1961 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Itron Networked Solutions, Inc. operates as a networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. It provides solutions like silverlink network and data platforms, which offers advanced metering, distribution automation, demand-side management, street lights, and wireless ipv6 network services. The company was founded by Eric P. Dresselhuys and Raj Vaswani on July 3, 2002 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, WA.

Aerohive Networks, Inc. engages in designing and developing cloud networking platform and enterprise Wi-Fi solution. Its products include Wi-Fi access points, routers and switches; a cloud services platform for centralized management & data collection, analytics and applications. The company was founded by Changming Liu and Gang Zhu on March 15, 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Quantcast Corp. provides media measurement services. It enables any web publisher to quantify their media properties including distributed widgets and video players by participating in the quantified publisher program. The company was founded by Paul G. Sutter and Konrad S. Feldman in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Advertising Council, Inc. promotes public service campaigns. It carries out pro bono ad campaigns on behalf of both government and private organizations. The company campaigns on children's issues, health, community, environment and family matters. The council relies on volunteer efforts from advertising firms. The Advertising Council was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hortonworks, Inc. engages in the provision of open-source global data management solutions. Its platforms allow enterprises to manage their data on a global basis, whether it is data-in-motion or data-at-rest. It offers the Apache projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark, which individual clients can modify the source code of a particular open-source project and then commit those changes to the central repository. The company was founded by Robert Bearden, Alan F. Gates, Arun C. Murthy, Devaraj Das, Eric Baldeschwieler, Mahadev Konar, Owen O'Malley, Sanjay R. Radia, and Suresh Srinivas in April 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.