Thomas B. Ayers

Tropos Networks, Inc. is providing the most reliable and flexible wireless communications networks for utilities to build and control the smart grid. The company has customers around the world in different countries. Tropos was founded in 2000 and got its start selling its standards-based, secure wireless networks to cities as a foundation for multiple municipal services including public safety, intelligent transportation systems, mobile worker automation, and utilities (water, power, gas). Over the past few years, with the emergence of the smart grid, Tropos discovered the value its solutions could bring towards the development of this mission-critical infrastructure with its field-proven products and services. Tropos' GridCom network architecture for smart grids blends high performance network technologies with unified network management providing utilities with the most economical and completes communications for deploying a wide range of mission-critical applications.

N-Dimension Solutions, Inc. provides cyber-security protection for infrastructure assets. Its solutions protect enterprise and operational technology from cyber-attacks.The company was founded by Doug Westland and Sing Tung in 2002 and is headquartered in Richmond Hill, Canada.

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., Amdahl Corp. is a private company that operates an electronic computer manufacturing company. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Raymond A. Williams. Amdahl was acquired by Fujitsu Ltd. on September 19, 1997 for $834.03 million.

Part of Telkom SA SOC Ltd., Sequent Computer Systems is a Belgian company that provides computer programming services. Sequent Computer Systems was acquired by Comparex Holdings Ltd. on January 01, 1999.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.