John Hannon

Mangrove Systems, Inc. develops networking equipment for the telecommunications industry. It develops MetroMPLS access and switching platforms that bridge the difference between TDM-based access and metro network and the evolving MPLS core. The company was founded by John Hannon and Jonathan Reeves in 2002 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

ACME Communications, Inc. engages in the operation of broadcast television stations. Its services include Fiber Internet, Fiber Data Networking, Digital Telephone Service, and Digital TV Service. The company was founded by Thomas D. Allen, Douglas Gealy, and Jamie Kellner in 1997 and is headquartered in Michigan, IN.

Rowell Chemical Corp. supplies inorganic acid and alkali compounds. It distributes inorganic compounds, including acids, alkalis, bleaching agents, chelating agents and polymers, phosphates, potassium salts, sodium salts, surfactants and water treatment chemicals. The firm also offers custom compounding, repackaging, chemical manufacturing services and it operates a fleet of distribution trucks, trailers and tanks. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Hinsdale, IL.

Honeywell Canada Ltd. makes technological products. The company manufactures aerospace products, control technologies, automotive products, power generation systems, specialty chemicals, fibers, plastics and electronic advanced materials. The company was founded in 1930 and is located in North York, Canada.

ADC is a global leader in providing network infrastructure products and services that enable the profitable delivery of high-speed Internet, video, data, and voice services to residential, business and mobile subscribers worldwide. Their innovative, high-performance fiber connectivity and wireless coverage and capacity solutions support a broad range of network applications that help their customers provide new and advanced services to meet their own customers' unrelenting demand for bandwidth. Founded 75 years ago, ADC continues to build on a strong heritage of providing solutions and services that support its customers' migration to next-generation networks in many countries across the globe. As the leading service providers and enterprises worldwide invest in infrastructure that delivers broadband services to business, residential and mobile subscribers, ADC's breadth of solutions and experience, together with its strong financial position, make the company a reliable partner in addressing today's network realities and preparing for tomorrow's communications demands.

Sahara, developed ATM-based broadband access concentrators. BVP's Felda Hardymon invested in the company's first round. In 1997, Sahara was bought by BVP-backed Cascade Communications (NASDAQ: CSCC), a few months later by Ascend (NASDAQ:ASND), and finally by Lucent (NYSE:LU).

Ascend Communications Inc. develops, manufactures, sells and services wide area networking solutions for telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and corporate customers worldwide. Lucent Technologies has acquired Ascend Communications, Inc.

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks.