James Schmidt

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

3Ware, Inc. develops storage solutions for workstations and enterprise level storage such as high-capacity Serial ATA and ATE RAID storage solutions. Its storswitch architecture applies network packet switching to storage controllers, eliminating the bottleneck found in traditional storage architectures. The company has operating divisions in Europe, Asia and Japan. It was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA

HearMe develops products for three distinct market segments-VoIP Calling, Conferencing, and Customer Relationship Management.

Steel Excel, Inc. operates as a capital pool company. It operates its business through two segments: Energy and Sports. The Energy segment provides drilling and production services to the oil and gas industry. The Sports segment provides event-based sports services and health-related services. The company was founded by Larry Boucher in 1981 and is headquartered in New York, NY.