Jeffrey Smith

Office Depot LLC engages in the provision of office products, services, supplies, and technology solutions. It operates through the following segments: Retail, Business Solutions, and CompuCom. The Retail segment involves in selling merchandise through chain of office supply stores and offers products and services in the categories of supplies, technology, and furniture and other. The Business Solutions segment trades branded and private branded products and services and provides copy and print services. The CompuCom segment comprises procurement, installation, and managing the life cycle of hardware and software businesses; and offers information technology (IT) support services including remote help desk, data centers, and on-site IT professionals. The company was founded by F. Patrick Sher, Stephen Dougherty, and Jack Kopkin in March 1986 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Microsemi SoC Corp. engages in manufacturing embedded processors. The company was founded by Abbas El Gamal and Hamdy Esmatz in 1985 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

DSM Biomedical, Inc. manufactures and designs medical device materials. The firm's products include bioceramics, polyurethanes, device development, hydrophilic coating solutions, polyethylenes, collagen, and extracellular matrix and drug delivery materials. The company was founded by Kenneth R. Kensey and John E. Nash in 1984 and is headquartered in Exton, PA.

Zoran Corp. provides digital solutions in the digital entertainment and imaging market worldwide. It develops and markets integrated circuits (IC), IC cores, and embedded software for digital versatile disc (DVD) players and recorders, digital cameras, broadband receivers, professional and consumer video editing systems, digital speakers and audio systems, and applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television. The company was founded by Levy Gerzberg in 1981 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Yahoo!, Inc. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc. is an industrial auctioneer, which engages in the sale of equipment to on-site and online bidders. It operates through the following segments: Auctions and Marketplaces, Ritchie Bros. Financial Services and Mascus. The Auctions and Marketplaces segment consists of live on site auctions, online auctions and marketplaces, and brokerage service. The Ritchie Bros. Financial Services segment refers to the financial brokerage service. The Mascus segment includes an online listing service. The company was founded by David Edward Ritchie in 1958 and is headquartered in Westchester, IL.

S1 Corp. provides customer interaction software solutions. It offers payments solutions for ATM and retail point-of-sale driving, card management and merchant acquiring, financial services solutions for consumer, small business and corporate online banking, trade finance, mobile banking, voice banking, branch and call center banking. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Register.com, Inc. provides Internet domain registration services for businesses and consumers to have a branded identity on the Internet. The firm directly registers domain names across the generic top level domains like .com, .net, and .org. It offers its services to small and medium sized businesses, large corporations, and individual consumers. The company was founded by Peter A. Forman and Dan B. Levine in 1994 and is located in New York, NY.

Cowen Investment Management LLC (Cowen Investment Management) is a venture capital subsidiary of Cowen, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Starboard Principal Co. LP, Starboard Value GP LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Jeffrey Chad Smith.

Part of Imprivata, Inc., Jotter Technologies, Inc. develops software for the Internet. The private company is based in Sacramento, CA. Jotter Technologies was acquired by SAFLINK Corp. on December 15, 2000 for $5.05 million.

Empire Education Group, Inc. operates post-secondary cosmetology schools. It prepares students for successful careers in cosmetology (hair care, skin care, nail care and massage). The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Pottsville, PA

Starboard Value LP is a SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Smith and Peter Feld in 2011 when Ramius LLC's activist value and opportunity business was spun-off as an independent firm. Ramius LLC maintains a significant minority interest in the firm. They are a subsidiary of Starboard Principal Co. LP. Starboard Value provides discretionary investment management services to private investment partnerships and offshore investment funds that are offered to investors on a private placement basis.

InFocus Capital Partners (InFocus Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Rob Rothman and Ron Weiss. The firm is headquartered in Jericho, New York.

Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company. It is formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.