Alanghat G. Karunakaran

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of HCL Technologies Ltd., HCL Technologies America, Inc. is a technology company that employs over 225,000 people in 60 countries. HCL Technologies America is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company's focus is on supercharging progress for top enterprises by combining technology with their skilled workforce.

OptiSoft, Inc. designs and manufactures traffic and pedestrian signal platforms which reduce energy costs by 95% and has embedded video cameras that provide 4-way intersection monitoring, and a number of upgradeable traffic safety improvements and homeland security features that increase public safety. The company was founded by Michael Hutchison in 1997 and is located in Richardson, TX.

GDA Technologies, Inc. provided electronic design services and silicon intellectual property solutions. The company was founded on May 15, 1996 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech LLC engages in the provision of information technology support services and solutions. The firm provides its services and solutions to banking, financial, insurance, energy, petrochemicals, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecom-product engineering and other emerging vertical industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Edison, NJ.

Pratham USA provides contributions and support services. It focuses on innovative interventions to address gaps in the education system. The firm is a volunteer-driven organization with 14 chapters across the United States that raises awareness and mobilize financial resources for work on the ground. The company was founded by Vijay Goradia, Farida Lambay and Madhav Chavan in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

TiE Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs and executives of South Asian origin. The non-profit company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking, education, incubating, and funding programs and activities. TiE events bring together the entrepreneurial community to learn from leaders and each other. The economic value enabled through TiE's entrepreneurial endeavors is estimated to exceed over time.