Ed Birss

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

AXENT Technologies, Inc., was a provider of enterprise-wide information security solutions for distributed computing environments. The OmniGuardTM suite of products enables organizations to centrally manage information security. Headquartered in Rockville, MD, AXENT's broad line of security offerings is used by companies and governments to effectively secure and protect information systems in heterogeneous computing environments

Peakstone Corp. provides software solutions. It offers integrated systems management tools developed for the high-end data processing market, to online infrastructure. It provides metrics and analytics for Line of Business Owners, IT executives, CIOs, CFOs and Technologists. Peakstone was founded in 1999 by T. M. Ravi and is located in Sunnyvale CA.

Interactive Digital Solutions Plc develops software for interactive digital and entertainment services. The private company is based in Portslade, UK.

ATV Capital Management Inc. (ATV Capital Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Part of HP, Inc., Taligent, Inc. designs software operating systems. Taligent was acquired by HP, Inc. from Apple, Inc. on January 06, 1994 for $10 million.

Solar Junction Corp. manufactures solar cells and receivers for the terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic market. Its products include triple junction solar cells, four junction solar cells. The firm engages in developing and manufacturing next-generation solar cells for space power applications. Solar Junction was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.