Ingrid J. van den Hoogen

Plantronics, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of headsets, voice, video, and content sharing solutions. It operates through the Products and Services segments. The Products segment includes the firm's headsets, voice, and video product lines. The Services segment includes maintenance support on hardware devices, as well as professional, managed, and cloud services and solutions. The company was founded by Courtney Graham and Keith Larkin in 1961 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

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.

Itron Networked Solutions, Inc. operates as a networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks. It provides solutions like silverlink network and data platforms, which offers advanced metering, distribution automation, demand-side management, street lights, and wireless ipv6 network services. The company was founded by Eric P. Dresselhuys and Raj Vaswani on July 3, 2002 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, WA.