John Foster

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Part of Microsoft Corp., Microsoft EMEA is a British company that provides software services.

Vectra Ai, Inc. develops automated threat management solution. It monitors internal network traffic to detect in real time active attacks inside network. The company was founded by Mark Abene and James P. Harlacher is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Comviva Technologies Ltd. provides value added services and solutions to mobile operators, wireless, and wire line carriers. Its products include mobile financial solutions, internet and broadband solutions, customer value management, digital lifestyle solutions, business solutions, messaging solutions and learning. The firm also offers managed services such as managed customer experience, managed cloud services, managed financial services, and rapid detection and auto recovery-radar. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Ubimax GmbH engages in the provision of wearable computing technologies. It also focuses on integrated industrial augmented reality solutions. The company was founded by Hendrik Witt, Jan Junker, and Percy Stocker in 2014 and is headquartered in Bremen, Germany.

Striim, Inc. develops big data and real-time analytics software. It offers end-to-end streaming integration platform that specializes in multi-stream data integration and real-time change data capture. The firm?s solutions include streaming integration and streaming intelligence. The company was founded by Ali R. Kutay, Alok Pareek, Steve Wilkes, and Sami Akbay in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

HyperGrid, Inc. engages in the development of a cloud management platform. It offers cloud infrastructure migration, cloud application migration, disaster recovery planning, cloud cost management, and cloud governance solutions. The company was founded by Kelly Murphy, Antoni Sawicki, and Tomasz Nowak in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

GeoVector Corp. provides pointing-based mobile local search and augmented reality solutions. It engages in research and development in the fields of directional search, augmented reality, operation of spatially aware devices, and other aspects of spatially aware computing and photography. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ellenby and John Ellenby in 1993 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PolarLake’s Financial and Reference Data Management Platform enables some of the largest firms in Financial Services to acquire, manage and distribute Reference Data with speed, agility, control with embedded Security not seen before in the Reference Data Management Market. A number of leading Financial Services firms are using PolarLake to load data up to 11x faster, query securities from the store 17x faster and onboard new data feeds 20x faster than their legacy Data Management Platforms. PolarLake have implemented a truly disruptive technology based on a unique combination of XML streaming, storage and semantic web technologies. PolarLake's Data Management Platform is a post relational database solution, enabling firms to utilize semantic web technology to solve problems that relational data models were never designed to solve. The Platform also has the leading Reference Data Distribution capability in the market. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries' quadrant.

AVTEC Ltd. manufactures powertrain and precision-engineered products. It offers precision components like cylinder heads, cylinder blocks, crank shafts, cam shafts, cam rods and transmission gears for automotive, off-highway, agriculture, and railway industry in areas of both propriety products and contract manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.