Robert Walts

Solectron Corp. was a provider of electronics manufacturing and supply-chain management services. It offerings included new-product design and introduction services, materials management, high-tech product manufacturing, and product warranty and end-of-life support. The firm was acquired by Flextronics International Ltd. The company was founded in 1977 and was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. has been designing and developing specialty memory solutions for over 30 years. The company is based in Newark, CA, and was founded in 1988 by Ajay B. Shah. The company offers a robust portfolio of standard, ruggedized, and custom memory and storage solutions that cater to diverse applications in high-growth markets. SMART Modular Technologies collaborates closely with its OEM customers to create solutions for demanding applications with differentiated requirements. The company is a pioneer in secure, ruggedized solid-state drives (SSDs) and delivers solutions to a broad customer base, including OEMs that compete in the computing, networking, communications, storage, mobile, and industrial markets.

Siemens Industry Software, Inc. engages in the development and provision of product lifecycle management software solutions. Its products include mechanical design, electrical and electronics development, software engineering, simulation and test, manufacturing planning, factory automation, manufacturing operations, and performance analytics. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Silver Lake Management Co. LLC (Silver Lake Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Silver Lake Group LLC founded in 1999 by Jim Davidson and David Roux. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Penguin Computing, Inc. provides computer, cluster management software and technical services. It offers an end-to-end portfolio of products that range from Linux servers and workstations to integrated, turn-key HPC clusters and cluster management software. The company was founded by Sam Ockman in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Smart Memory Solutions LLC manufactures semiconductors.

Part of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., Smart Modular Technologies (Europe) Ltd. is a leader in specialty memory solutions such as DRAM memory modules, solid-state drives, and flash-based removable and embedded memory. The company, based in London, UK, delivers solutions to a broad customer base, including OEMs that compete in the computing, networking, communications, storage, mobile, and industrial markets. Smart Modular offers a variety of memory and storage solutions for point-of-sales and mission-critical industrial applications requiring a durable system with reliable computing to handle intensive workloads while having a long operating life that withstands a variety of environmental conditions. The British company prides itself on its strong, longstanding relationships with its industry partners, assuring customers that every product they sell is built with the highest quality components available and backed with the ironclad reputation of industry leaders.

Mirion Technologies (US), Inc. engages in the provision of nuclear measurement and detection systems. It offers measurement and enterprise, calibration, customer training programs, installation, product support and repairs, consulting, and instadose dosimetry services. The company was founded in December 2005 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Lumentum Technology UK Ltd. designs and manufactures optical components, modules, and subsystems for fiber optic communication. The firm offers transceivers, transmitters and network lasers, receivers, amplifiers, pumps, LED, and laser illumination products. It offers services to the telecommunications, aerospace, industrial, semiconductor, and defense markets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Towcester, the United Kingdom.

Ignis Optics, Inc. provides optical modules for communications networks. It designs and manufactures small form factor pluggable single mode optical transceivers for current and next generation optical datacom and telecom networks. The company was founded by Michael S. Lebby in 2001 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Part of Dürr AG, Schenck USA Corp. is a company that specializes in balancing machines and parts portal. The company is based in Deer Park, NY. The company offers balancing machines by Schenck.

Part of Quantum Corp., Certance Holdings Corp. is an American company that designs and manufactures computer storage devices. The company is based in CA.

Rochester Institute of Technology is a privately endowed, coeducational university with ten colleges emphasizing career education and experiential learning. It was founded in 1829 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Part of Intel Corp., Sparkolor Corp. is a company that develops optical networking components. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Mukesh A. Patel. Sparkolor was acquired by Intel Corp. on September 17, 2002.

Invati Capital LLC provides investment services. It focuses in small and medium size manufacturing businesses in the technology sector The company was founded by Mukesh Patel in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Loadstar Sensors, Inc. designs and manufactures capacitive sensors for automotive, aerospace, medical device and industrial applications. It offers capacitive and resistive load cells and interfaces, accessories, such as load cell caster wheels, pedal platforms, leveling feet, eye bolts, load cell rod ends, universal adapters, and load buttons, load cell kits and single and multi channel load cell software. The company was founded by Divyasimha Harish, John J. Schultz and William D. Dallenbach in 2004 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Part of Globaltech Holdings, Inc., Allied Micro Corp is a company that manufactures computer memory technology. The company is based in Irvine, CA. Allied Micro was acquired by Globaltech Holdings, Inc. on July 03, 1997.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. provides marketing services for consumer electronics, information systems and home appliance products. It delivers digital consumer electronics, mobile products and wearables, wireless infrastructure, information technoogy and home appliance products. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ.

Part of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., SMART Modular Techs Ind de Componentes Eletrônicos Ltda. is a company based in Atibaia, Brazil that manufactures and supplies flash memory products and storage devices.

Universal Tennis LLC engages in the development of application in relation to the sport of tennis. It connects players globally through level-based play, events, and digital marketplace. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Silver Lake Waterman Fund III-L LP operates as a private equity fund. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

ServiceMax, Inc. provides enterprise field service solutions. The firm?s products include mobile field service management, field service metrics, installed base, field service scheduling, parts and returns management, and reporting and dashboards. It serves the oil and gas, mining, power and utilities, building, construction equipment. life sciences and medical equipment. The company was founded by Athani Krishnaprasad, Sam Mukherjee and Hari Subramanian in 2007 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

SMART Storage Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and deploys enterprise memory modules and solid-state storage products. It offers enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), such as Optimus SSDs and Optimus Ultra SSDs for mission-critical enterprise storage applications; XceedIOPS SSDs for enterprise computing applications; CloudSpeed 500 SSD for mixed workload applications in enterprise server and cloud computing environments; and XceedStor 500S SSD for the server and cloud computing market. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of Silver Lake Group LLC, Silver Lake Europe Holdings Ltd. is a holding British company that provides investment advisory services. The company is based in London, UK. Founded in 2007.