Gary Hemminger

Tektronix, Inc. provides test, measurement and monitoring solutions. It provides services for the communications, computer, semiconductor industries, as well as for the military, aerospace, consumer electronics and education sectors. The firm also assists its clients in designing, building, deploying and managing global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The company was founded by Melvin Jack Murdock, Glenn Leland, Miles Tippery and Charles Howard Vollum in 1946 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Foundstone, Inc. provides security consulting services. It offers risk and compliance services, infrastructure security services, software security, incident response, and training services. The company was founded by George Kurtz, Christopher Prosise, Eric Schultze, and Stuart McClure in 1999 and is headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA.

Arxan Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of application security and protection solutions. It offers threat analytics, key and data protection, and application management. The company was founded by J. Eric Davis, John T. Korb, Hoi Chang, John Rice, Richard P. Earley, and Mikhail Atallah in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Finjan Software, Inc. provided web security solutions and also offers web and email content security in the world. Its solutions provided unified web security by combining productivity, liability and bandwidth control via URL categorization, content caching and applications control technologies. The firm enabled quick deployment, simplified management and reduction of operational costs. The company was founded by Shlomo Touboul in 1996 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

LiteScape Technologies, Inc. develops unified communications applications. Its products include OnCast, CallTrackPro, Secure Profile Management and SmartRoute. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

VoiceObjects, Inc. provides voice application management systems. The company was founded by David B. Becker, Karl-Heinz Land and Michael Codini in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

UCMS Group Ltd. provides customer management and business process outsourcing services for telecommunications, finance, energy, transport and public sectors. It also provides services to electricity retailers, infrastructure operators and technology resellers. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in South Melbourne, Australia.

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.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO.

Nexant, Inc. provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions. It is a globally recognized software, consulting and services leader that provides innovative solutions to utilities, energy enterprises, chemical companies and government entities worldwide. The firm provides intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions that advance electric power grid and alternative energy services. Nexant was founded by Basem Y. Sarandah on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Validity Sensors, Inc. provides intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Cenzic, Inc. provides software, managed service and cloud security products. It focuses on Web application security, automating the process of identifying security defects at the Web application level where more than 75% of attacks occur, help customers in remediating those defects, manage risk and get compliance with regulations such as PCI. The company was founded by Penny C. Leavy and Gregory M. Hoglund in June 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. provides environmental protection services. It provides solutions to environmental threats such as acid rain, dying rivers, over-logged forests, and ozone depletion. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Aspen Institute operates an institution that fosters leadership skills and open-minded dialogue. It conducts seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Telelogic Systems, Inc. provides enterprise, e-business software & tools manufacturing services. It also provides services to enhance decision-making, business process management, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and software development. The company is headquartered in New York City, NY

Education.com, Inc. provides online education information to parents with kids in preschools and colleges. It offers various educational games, including preschool, kindergarten, first grade, math, and reading games, and worksheets, workbooks, and activities for preschool, kindergarten, middle school, and high school, as well as for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. The company was founded by Ronald F. Fortune, Todd Schwartz, and Danielle Wood in 2006 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Embarcadero Systems Corp. engages in the development, integration and deployment of transportation technology systems and solutions. The firm offers computer programming services. The company is headquartered in Chandler, CA.

Elicit Plant SAS is a French agri-biotech company that aims to become a leader in the ecological transition for agriculture and address the challenges posed by climate change on large-scale crops. The company is based in Moulins-sur-Tardoire, France. The company's proprietary technology, based on the exogenous application of phytosterols, enhances plant stress resistance by eliciting their natural defenses. Extensive field trials across three continents have proven that the biosolutions from the eliterra® platform are the only ones providing farmers with a regular and sufficient return on investment for use in large-scale crops, yielding an average increase in productivity of 12%%. The company was founded in 2017 by Jean-François Dechant, who has been the CEO since 2017.