Michael J. Riccio

Lycos, Inc. provides search-based Internet properties and services. The firm operates through the following divisions: LYCOS Media, LYCOS Advertising, and LYCOS Life. Its products and services include tools for blogging, web publishing and hosting, online games, e-mail, and search. It operates a network of sites and services including Lycos.com, Tripod, Angelfire, HotBot, Gamesville, WhoWhere, and LYCOS Mail. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Go2Net, Inc. offers a network of technology and community driven web sites in the fields of personal, finance, commerce and games. The company also develops web related software

Summit Partners LP (Summit Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Gregory Avis, Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Farecast, Inc. operates an airfare prediction website. It provides information in the areas of flight and airfare, hotel and hotel rates as well as offers trip planning tools. It also provides airfare prediction services. The company was founded by Oren Etzioni and Hugh Crean in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA

NextPlane, Inc. provides enterprise-class federation solutions for unified communication (UC) platforms. It offers NextPlane UC Federation Cloud, a hosted UC federation service that allows companies to establish internal or external federation in corporate and network boundaries. The firm also provides NextPlane Federation Server, a solution for enterprise level connectivity between disparate UC platforms enabling users from various organizations to collaborate. The company offers its solutions as a software-as-a-service solution; and as an on-premises federation server. NextPlane was founded by Farzin Shahidi and Sanjay Pujare in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP engages in the provision of legal services. It specializes in antitrust and competition, asset management, business reorganization and restructuring, communications and media, corporate and financial services, cybersecurity and privacy, energy, and executive compensation and employee benefits practice areas. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, NY.