Richard Cameron Blake

Chordiant Software Inc. solutions automate and manage operational business processes for leading service-driven global organizations in retail finance, telecommunications and consumer direct industries. Chordiant orchestrates the unique processes of an organization from the point of customer interaction, through the front and back offices to multiple transactional systems, corporate applications and data stores

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Vendavo, Inc. provides margin and profit optimization solutions. It offers Profit Analyzer to analyze transaction data for pinpointing leaking margins; Power and Risk that provides data-driven optimal prices for salespeople to negotiate and grow revenue; Price Manager to manage price lists and set policies for deal negotiations; Deal Manager that provides deal guidance and targets for profitable deal execution to sales teams; and Deal Guide to expedite deal cycle time and equip sales force to negotiate profitable deals. The company was founded by Jamie Rappperport and Joshua W. Sommer in November 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Benvenue Medical, Inc. engages int the provision and development of invasive systems for spine repair. It offers Kiva an implant solution for vertebral augmentation and a departure from balloon kyphoplasty, Blazer-C a vertebral augmentation system that utilizes a unique cannulated curved wire offering mechanical channel creation, and Luna a interbody implant that is delivered through a minimally-invasive cannula to the disc space and expands in-situ. The company was founded by Laurent B. Schaller in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Bridgelux, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state lighting and light-emitting diode components for use in diverse exterior and interior lighting applications. Its products include LED sub-systems are integrated products that deliver world class performance and leading cost while additionally reducing time to market, and LED chips, provides light emitting diode solutions. The firm serves the retail and hospitality, warehouse, exterior, industrial and eco system partners. Bridgelux was founded by Heng Liu in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Experimed Bioscience, Inc. engages in research and development of drugs. The company was founded by Schepartz Alanna and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Holland & Hart LLP provides legal services. It delivers integrated legal solutions to regional, national, and international clients of all sizes. The company was founded by Stephen H. Hart and Joe Holland on July 1, 1947 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Aeroprise, Inc. is the world's most-deployed software for mobilizing BMC Remedy IT service management applications. Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses and public institutions use Aeroprise to extend service desk, asset management and change management functionality to BlackBerry and other mobile devices. Aeroprise lowers IT support costs, improves customer satisfaction and reduces critical asset downtime. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with operations in Bangalore, Aeroprise is a privately held company.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP provides legal advisory services. Its practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate finance, insurance, tax, labor and employment, political law, private equity, corporate, antitrust, white collar crime, international, regulatory, and legislation. The company was founded by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps in 1948 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc. provides wireless communication solutions. The firm designs and supplies advanced 4G LTE and 5G semiconductor solutions. GCT’s market-proven LTE solutions, commercially available since 2010, have enabled fast and reliable LTE connectivity to numerous commercial devices such as smartphones, tablets, hotspots, CPEs, USB dongles, routers, M2M applications, and more, to the world’s top LTE carriers. It's system-on-chip solutions integrate radio frequency, baseband modem and digital signal processing functions into a single die, therefore offering complete 4G platform solutions with small form factors, low power consumption, high performance, high reliability and cost effectiveness. The company was founded by Kyeong-Ho H. Lee and Ki-Sub Lee in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Financial Executives International enhances member professional development through peer networking, career planning services, conferences, publications and special reports, and research. Its members include Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance, Treasurers, and Controllers. The company was founded in December 1931 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

WS Investment Management Co. (WS Investment) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professional Corp. founded in 1978 by Larry W. Sonsini. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cooley LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It offers strategic litigation and business transaction services and is a representative of private and public companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and nonprofit organizations. Its practices include commercial litigation; patent counseling and prosecution; employment and labor; asset recovery; and estate planning and personal representation. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

NY Tech Alliance, Inc. engages in technology advocate organization operation. The company was founded by Scott Heiferman and Dawn Barber on July 23, 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY

Roambee Corp. operates as a supply chain and enterprise asset visibility company. It offers Bee, a portable wireless locator with an array of sensors to monitor goods and assets. The company was by Sanjay Sharma and Vidya Subramanian founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Montalvo Arts Center operates as a non-profit center for the arts. The company is headquartered in Saratoga, CA.

Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology operates as a social enterprise that aims to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology. It offers awards for individuals, community voices, events for organizations, career toolbox, and scholarships for GHC. The company was founded by Anita Borg and Telle Whitney in 1997 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.