William J. Barhydt

Founded in 2005, Sennari Inc. is today's leading Mobile 2.0 company, facilitating 1-1 customer relationships for the first time over the mobile channel. Capitalizing on its roots as a mobile application development and gaming company, Sennari has taken mobile marketing to the next level, giving marketers the tools needed to define and execute on consumer behavior in order to build brand, service loyalty, reduce churn and create new revenue streams. From conception to creation and deployment to measurement, M2O is the only platform of its kind to enable highly targeted mobile campaigns based on consumer behavior. Through a unified platform experience, collective intelligence bay, and behavioral marketing engine, brands, carriers and handset makers alike use M2O for loyalty rewards programs, prize-based campaigns, mobile storefronts, ad-funded services, mobile coupons and promotions. Sennari is headquartered in Cupertino, CA and has satellite offices in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, London, and India.

Icon Vapor, Inc. manufactures, designs and markets electronic cigarettes and men and women's fashion handbags. It offers e-cigarette starter kits and disposable e-cigarette kits, as well as cartomizers in tobacco, menthol, coffee, vanilla, and cherry flavors. The company was founded by Daniel W. Balsiger on February 20, 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Navio Systems, Inc. provides rights-based commerce solutions for web and mobile digital content. It offers legal file sharing, far-reaching content distribution and commerce-enablement for online communities. The company serves music, media, and entertainment companies. Navio Systems was founded by Stefan Roever in 2001 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Plaxo, Inc. operates as a cloud-based online address book that synchronizes, updates and unifies the user's contacts across multiple sources. The company was founded by Cameron T. Ring, Sean N. Parker and Todd J. Masonis in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

KnowNow, Inc. provides live information management solutions. It offers business communications and event notification solutions. The company was founded by Rohit Khare and Adam Rifkin in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

ViVOtech is a market leader in contactless/NFC payment software, over the air (OTA) card provisioning, promotion, and transaction management infrastructure software, NFC smart posters, and contactless readers/writers. These innovative solutions allow consumers to make contactless payments with radio frequency-enabled credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and NFC-enabled mobile phones. The company's products are used by some of the most prominent retailers in the United States. The company's products are in use at movie theaters, fast food restaurants (QSR), casual dining establishments, convenience stores, gas stations, drug stores, grocery stores, buses, taxicabs and vending machine locations, enabling a wide variety of businesses to accept contactless/NFC payments. Founded in 2001, it is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Other offices are located in Asia and in Europe. Investors include strategic partners Citigroup, First Data Corporation, Motorola, NCR and Nokia as well as the venture capital companies Draper Fisher Juvertson and Alloy Ventures.

Boom Financial, Inc. provides mobile transaction technology solutions and services. Its MoTr application suite allows anyone with a cell phone to send, receive and transact money anywhere in the world. The firm offers its services to financial institutions, community-based organizations, retailers, or any other group to provide their customers or members with convenient access to financial services wherever they are, whenever they want. The company was founded by William J. Barhydt and Christopher Sørensen in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.