Deborah Stapleton

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Soneta, Inc. designs, builds, and manages commerce infrastructure solutions that cover logistics, customer care, supply chain, and order lifecycle management.

Greylock Management Corp (Greylock Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 by Charlie P. Waite and Daniel S. Gregory. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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.

Velio Communications, Inc. develops high-speed switching software and technology. It provides interconnect and switch fabric application specific standard products include high-bandwidth data switch fabric, TDM STS-1 switch fabric and engineering services. The company was founded by Ramin Farjad-Rad, Raju Chekuri and William James Dally in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu America, Inc. is a company that provides IT solutions and services. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

NBASE-T Alliance Inc. provides internet solutions. It offers NBASE-T technology defines a new type of Ethernet signaling that boosts the speed of installed based twisted-pair cabling that enable users to accelerate networks. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Part of Caps Visual Communications LLC, NEC, Inc. is a company that provides printing services for consumer magazine publishers. The company is based in Nashville, TN. NEC was acquired by Group 329 LLC from GROUP360, Inc. on October 18, 2006.

Part of Microchip Technology, Inc., Linfinity Microelectronics, Inc. manufactures standard linear and mixed signal integrated circuits. Linfinity Microelectronics was acquired by Microsemi Corp., a SUB of Microchip Technology, Inc. from Symmetricom, Inc. on April 15, 1999 for $24.13 million.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Linear Technology Pte Ltd. designs, manufactures and markets electronic products. The company is headquartered in Singapore.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Alcatel-Lucent Holdings, Inc. develops and builds communications networks. It provides equipment, software, and related network services for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers. The company supplies broadband Internet access products and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for residential and small business end-users. It is headquartered in Plano, TX.

OVISO Manufacturing manufactures engineered metals parts and components. It produces both proprietary and non-patented products and offers machined components, assemblies & replacement parts for the industrial markets. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Concord, CA.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Candou Ventures LLC (Candou Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Faraj Aalaei and Shahin Hedayat. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras