John C. Adler

Alcatel-Lucent Holdings, Inc. develops and builds communications networks. It provides equipment, software, and related network services for carriers, service providers, and enterprise customers. The company supplies broadband Internet access products and digital subscriber line (DSL) technology for residential and small business end-users. It is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Pivot3, Inc. provides data storage solutions. It offers failover-protected virtual machines, including vBank, a scale-out SSD/disk storage appliance and multiple VM that delivers compute and storage resources, and supports various virtual servers and solid state disk drives to extend storage performance across general business applications and bundles; VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments; and vSTAC unified storage and compute appliances. The firm also provides Storage And Compute Stack for capacity-intensive environments that provide Direct Drive Access for virtual machines and federate hardware resources across Pivot3 appliances; CloudBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance and single VM; and DataBank, a scale-out disk storage appliance. The company was founded by William C. Galloway, Alan Skidmore, Ryan Callison and Lee Caswell in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Monterey Networks, Inc. makes equipment that enables telecommunications companies to increase their network capacity. The company is based in Richardson, TX. Monterey Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. on September 29, 1999 for $500.96 million.

InterWest Partners LLC (InterWest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1979 by Wally Hawley, Scott Hedrick and Gene Barth. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Covaro Networks, Inc. develops equipment for carriers to enable delivery of intelligent Ethernet services for small and medium businesses. Its products enable carriers to offer intelligent Ethernet services profitably over any facility copper, fiber, sonet and DS3/DS1. Using its unique etherjack demarcation technology, carriers can offer carrier-grade service definition, monitoring and diagnostics for Ethernet-based services. The company was founded in January 2002 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.

OneSpot, Inc. provides software platform that delivers the most relevant web media content. The firm offers content marketing with the power, data intelligence, and infrastructure of online advertising. It offers a platform that enables users to make content personalization and repeat engagement work across various channels. The company was founded by Nathan Matthew Cohen in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Nimbix, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. It offers Nimbix Cloud for Supercomputig, JARVICE XE enterprise software, and HyperHub for ISVs. The company was founded by John Joseph Ciavarra, Jr., Stephen M. Hebert, and Robert Sherrard in 2010 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.