David Fowler

Chipcom Corp. was a developer, manufacturer and marketer of fault-tolerant LAN products for the facility network market. It was located in Southborough, MA.

FTP Software, Inc. was a provider of high-performance connectivity software with unique, centralized management capabilities that simplify host access for users of all abilities, protect sensitive corporate information, and reduce the cost of software deployment and administration. FTP Software developed TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) networking software for the personal computer market. It was located in Andover, MA.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

KANA Software, Inc. helps the world's best known brands master the service experience. Its solutions help companies create consistent, knowledgeable conversations with their customers across every channel -- phone, email, chat and web. KANA is a complete solution for mastering the multi-channel service experience spanning the contact center agent desktop, email management, chat management, agent knowledge, and web self-service. KANA is proud to work with companies who have a relentless focus on customer service.

Groove Networks, Inc. provides collaboration software solutions and services. It offers desktop application and mobile collaboration services for enterprise applications. It operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. The company was founded by Raymond Ozzie, Jack Ozzie, Ken Moore, and Eric Patey in October 1997 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

Core Security SDI Corp. provides threat-aware identity, access, authentication, and vulnerability management solutions. It specializes in identity and access management, from provisioning to governance to identity and access intelligence. The firm also provides insight from analyzing the big data generated from an organization’s identity and access relationships so users can identify and minimize risks and maintain continuous compliance. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

ASCVid Holdings LLC engages in the provision of physical security information management software solutions for situation management. Its solutions include Vidsys enterprise, Vidsys enterprise mobile, and intelligent GSOC. The company was founded by James I. Chong in 2005 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Kadient helps companies improve sales performance by arming their salespeople with the content, messages, and strategies proven to win at every stage of the customer's buying cycle. Kadient is the only on-demand sales enablement platform that embeds interactive, situation-specific Sales Playbooks in a CRM system and provides analytics for unique actionable insights to close more business faster. The result is shorter sales cycles, faster ramp up, and increased sales productivity. The company offers InciteKnowledge, which automates and standardizes the creation of personalized sales presentations and selling documents, as well as collects and organizes selling content, and provides sales assistance; and Pragmatech that is used to create proposals and request for proposal (RFP) responses. It also provides RFP Machine for capturing and managing RFP content; RFP Express that is used to answer RFP’s using the library of RFP content; and Proposal Automation Suite, which is used to manage a library of content and create proposal wizards.