Tom Sweeney

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Storigen Systems, Inc. develops Internet infrastructure for the delivery of next-generation Internet content and managed services. The company provides solutions that enable web hosts, content delivery networks, and broadband access providers to more easily profit from the explosion of Internet content by providing an order of magnitude improvement in system simplicity and scalability. Storigen Systems was founded by Rick Gillett, Dennis Hoffman and John Ywoskus in the year 2000 and is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Sqrrl Data LLC develops software to uncover hidden patterns, trends and links in data. Its product, Sqrrl enterprise, is a scalable big data platform use for building real-time analytical applications. It is a solution that offers the combination of cell-level security controls, petabyte scalability for multi-structured data, native hadoop integration, and diverse analytic capabilities, including full-text search, aggregations and graph analysis. The company was founded by Adam Fuchs, Ely Kahn, Luke Brassard, Phil Eberhardt, Oren J. Falkowitz, Christopher McCubbin and John Vines in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Shiva Corp. provides broadband security appliances and technologies along with virtual private networks and remote access equipment. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Cascade Communications provides telecommunication services. The private company is based in Cascade, IA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

EqualLogic, Inc. provides data storage system solutions. It offers iSCSI storage area network solutions that enable businesses to simplify storage and information technology. The company was founded by Paula A. Long, Peter Hayden and Paul Koning in April 2001 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH.

STAR Ventures GmbH (STAR) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Meir Barel. The firm is headquartered in Gruenwald, Germany with additional offices in Herzliya Pituach and Texas.

Mendix, Inc. operates as an enterprise application platform company. The firm offers digital transformation solutions. It web apps, application platform-as-a-service, enterprise application development, rapid application development, digital innovation, mobile application development platform. The company was founded by Derek Roos, Roald Kruit and Derckjan Kruit in 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

iVivity, Inc. engages in the development of storage infrastructure components to computer manufacturers. Its product, iDiSX 2000, is used in current and new storage infrastructure product domains, including intelligent storage network switches. The company was founded in November 2000 by Zulfiqar Qazilbash, Sanjay Sehgal, and Sukha Ghosh and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Part of SAS Rue la Boétie, ATG Cygnet is a French company that develops optical disk drives. The company is located in France. ATG Cygnet was acquired by Consortium de Realisation SA on May 01, 1997.

DataCore Software Corp. develops storage networking software solutions. Its SANsymphony-V is DataCore?s flagship storage virtualization solution maximizes information technology infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware. The company?s storage virtualization software empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and scale their data storage architectures, delivering massive performance gains at a fraction of the cost of solutions offered by legacy storage hardware vendors. DataCore Software was founded by Ziya A. Aral, George S. Teixeira, Roni J. Putra, Timothy J. Logan, Bettye Grant and John Bocskor on February 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

CAI Software LLC engages in the delivery of on-demand enterprise resource planning and management systems, software, network integration and business consulting services to market companies in the building materials, food processing, precious metals and discrete manufacturing distribution industries. The company was founded by James H. McCooey in 1978 and is headquartered in Smithfield, RI.