Rajesh Patel

Firetide, Inc. develops and supplies mesh networks and networking equipment. It offers wireless mesh infrastructure and access solution for video surveillance, internet access, public safety networks, and temporary networks wherever rapid deployment, mobility, and ease of installation are required. The firm's customers include the public safety, transportation and automation industries. The company was founded by Lawrence Rosenthal, Barbara Cardillo, Tareq Hoque, Isaac R. Nassi and Keith Klemba in 2002 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the design, development and sale of semiconductor products. Its products are used in communication, computing, industrial automation, consumer and automotive applications. It offers serial and parallel Flash/electrically erasable programmable read only memories (EEPROM), programmable micro-controller supervisory and voltage reference circuits and mixed signal devices. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

High Tower Software, Inc. provides advanced security threat management solutions that quickly improve organizational security while simplifying processes for network and security administrators. The company's flagship product, High Tower Security Threat Manager, leverages patented analytic technology to assess security risk conditions, reduce false-positives and deliver a streamlined view of active threats to the enterprise network. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Virident Systems, Inc. developed flash-based storage class memory solutions. It offered solid state disks for data-intensive workloads, such as databases, business analytics, simulation, visualization, and computing applications. The firms products included FlashMAX II and Virident vFAS. The company was founded by Kumar Ganapathy, Rajesh Parekh and Vijay Karamcheti in 2006 and was headquartered in Irvine, CA.