James McNicholas

VSS Monitoring, Inc. provided network traffic capture devices. The company was headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Siva Power, Inc. develops solar factory for gigawatt era that will produce solar panels at unprecedented scale. It offers semiconductor, flat panel display, and solar. The company was founded by Damoder Reddy in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.

Nanosolar, Inc. designs, engineers and manufactures thin film solar cells and panels. It utilizes Print2Power platform that enables higher conversion efficiency and superior thermal stability. The firm offers through its locations in Germany, Switzerland & the United States. The company was founded in May 2002 by Martin R. Roscheisen and Brian Sager and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.