Paul Madera

Openlane, Inc. is engaged in the operation of automotive online auctions. It offers remarketing solutions to automotive manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale automotive auctions. The company was founded by Michael Leon Stein and Gary Edelstein in 2006 and is headquartered in Carmel, IN.

Banc of America Specialist, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp. Their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Banc of America Specialist provides securities services on the New York Stock Exchange and assists with IPOs. The firm follows S&P 500 companies in several sectors including financial services, energy, consumer products, retail and telecommunications. Banc of America Specialist was originally founded in 1982 as Quick & Reilly Specialist, ultimately incorporating Conklin, Cahill & Co. and Colin Hockstin & Co. From 1990 until 1995, the firm acquired three prestigious specialist firms: Murphy, Marseilles Smith & Nammack, Stokes Hoyt & Co and Pforzheimer/Drexel Burnham Specialists. In 1995, Quick & Reilly Specialist was renamed JJC Specialist. In 1998, JJC Specialist was purchased by Fleet Boston Financial, which also acquired Merrill Lynch Specialist, and the firm was renamed Fleet Specialist. In 2000, FleetBoston Financial acquired MJ Meehan and merged the operations into Fleet Specialist. In 2004, Bank of America acquired FleetBoston Financial and Fleet Specialist became known as Banc of America Specialist, Inc.

DealerSocket, Inc. creates and delivers a technology platform to the automotive industry. Its products include marketing, sales, service, customer experience, data mining and dealer fire. The company was founded by Jonathan E. Ord and Brad Perry in 2001 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Tegile Systems, Inc. provides flash-driven storage arrays for databases, virtualized server and virtual desktop environments. Its products include IntelliFlash, IntelliCare, Hybrid Array and All-Flash Array. The firm offers server virtualization, desktop virtualization and database solutions. The company was founded by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Alok Agrawal and Justin Cheen in 2010 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

ForgeRock, Inc. provides open platform of identity management solutions. Its platform includes common services, access management, user-managed access, identity management, identity gateway, and directory services. The firm serves digital health, financial services, omnichannel retail, communications and media, and government industries. The company was founded by Lasse Oddmar Andresen, Jonathan Antony Scudder, Victor Hugo Ake Franco, and Hermann Ove Svoren in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Icertis, Inc. develops enterprise contract management platform. It provides solutions to energy and utilities, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and transportation. The company was founded by Samir Bodas, Unmesh Bhathija, and Monish Barda in 2009 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Filevine, Inc. provides project management solutions. The firm offers legal case management and corporate legal software. The company was founded by Jonathan E. Ord, Ryan Anderson, James Blake and Nathan Morris in 2014 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

DataStax, Inc. designs and develops database management software. Its products include DataStax enterprise, built on Cassandra which provides the massive scalability, continuous availability and enhanced data security big data applications demand, DataStax opscenter is a simplified management for DataStax enterprise and Apache Cassandra database clusters and DataStax sandbox is a packaged and personal virtual machine image that contains everything customer need to get started with DataStax software. The firm also offers training, consulting and support services. The company was founded by Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Yubico AB provides technology to quickly and securely log on to websites and networks. Its products include Yubikeys and YubiHSM. Yubikeys is engaged in mobile authentication. YubiHSM offers encryption, decryption, and storage of servers. The company was founded by Stina Ehrensvärd in 2007 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.