Brian Contos

Norse Corp. provides Internet security intelligence solutions to eCommerce and enterprise clients. The company was founded by Samuel M. Glines and Tommy Stiansen in April 2010 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Solera Networks developed network forensics solutions that enable complete visibility into network traffic. They improved network security, management, forensics and compliance capabilities by providing a complete historical record of all network activity through deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology. This resulted in full visibility of all traffic crossing the network. The company was headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.