Michael Johnson

Baron Data Systems, Inc. operates as a privately-held software publishing company. The company was founded by Jiggs Davis in 1995 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Amber Networks develops first fault tolerant routing platforms used in communication network infrastructure.

Trapeze Networks, Inc. provides wireless local area network and mobile applications. The firm's products include RingMaster appliances, SmartPass software, mobility exchanges and system software, and location appliances. The company was founded by William Miskovetz, Dan Simone and Ward Harriman, James Vogt in 2002 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Innovalight, Inc. manufactures crystalline silicon solar cells and licenses a proprietary process technology to solar cell manufacturing companies. The company was founded by Conard Burke in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.