Raj Gollamudi

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

SAP Fieldglass provides human capital management software technology and services. It offers SaaS platform to procure and manage contingent workers, services such as Statement of Work projects, independent contractors, and specialized talent pools. The company was founded by Jai Shekhawat in November 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wakesoft, Inc. provides software architecture solution. It used to provide software for building service-based Java applications. Its customers used to be The Hartford Financial Services Group, Fisher Scientific, American Financial Group, Great American Insurance Co. and Mitchell International. It was founded in the year 2000 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Invio Software, Inc. used to provide process-centric software that provided data management services. Its solutions were designed for the process of storage management, automate and control storage operations and workflow. The company was headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Gearworks, Inc. develops and provides mobile workforce management software. It designs, develops and markets wireless software products that allow mobile workers to access corporate applications and to create reports. It offers consulting, maintenance, training and support services. The firm's customers include financial services, manufacturing, transportation, health care and retail industries. The company was founded by Keith Lauver and Robert M. Juncker in 1999 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Ounce Labs, Inc. provided risk management software solutions. It delivered technology that allowed customers to manage their software risk across the organization and throughout the software development lifecycle. The company was founded by Ryan Berg and Jack Danahy in 2002 and was headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Surgient, Inc. is enggaed in the provision of cloud automation solutions to software vendors. It offers Virtual Automation Platform, a software automation and management platform that helps enterprise IT organizations to provide self-service computing resources to users. The company was founded by Dave McCrory in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

PANTA Systems, Inc. builds data warehouse appliances. It offers PANTA data warehouse appliance with Oracle, which provides the ability to utilize data warehouse applications from star-schema data marts to large-scale enterprise data warehouses to operational data stores. The company was founded by Tung Nguyen in June, 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Founded in 1998, Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) is a broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Boston, Denver, Colorado and Palo Alto, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWPG), a San Francisco-based investment banking firm. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). TWP's investment banking, brokerage and equity research divisions serve emerging growth companies and institutional investors around the world. They are a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. TWP specializes in the growth sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the consumer, energy, healthcare, Internet, media/telecommunications, metals/mining and technology sectors. Within the consumer sector, the firm focuses on: financial products, gaming/lodging, interactive market services, lifestyles/sports retailers, restaurants and hardlines and softlines retailing. TWP's global energy research is provided by analysts in three countries and covers the following trends: (1) fast-growing oil and natural gas producers in North America and worldwide (2) domestic and international energy service companies and (3) alternative energy technology and resource developers. Within the healthcare sector, TWP focuses on: biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare information technology, pharmaceutical services, life science technology, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals. The firm's interest in the Internet, media and telecommunications sector include: Internet services, media, broadcasting and telecommunications services. Their focus within the metals and mining sector include: base metals, gold, precious metals and uranium. TWP's technology research focuses on: (1) applied technologies (2) communications components (3) core and wireless communications equipment (4) IP networking communications equipment (5) electronic supply chain (6) enterprise hardware (7) information and financial technology services (8) semiconductor capital equipment (9) broadline and specialty semiconductors (10) applications and communications software and (11) infrastructure software. TWP also provides value-added equities analysis across a variety of sectors including: industrials, financials, consumer, technology and healthcare.