Bob Patel

Hawkeye Hotels, Inc. owns and operates hotels. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Coralville, IA.

Amberpoint, Inc. was founded in 2001 with significant venture backing from Norwest and Sutter Hill, it is a fast-growing company with a vision for market requirements and significant customer traction. Its prominent executives and experienced developers bring impressive records of success from such leading software companies as Sun, Forte, IBM, webMethods, Oracle, Ingres and Sybase. Its team has a great deal of experience at pioneering new technologies for distributed systems, databases, development tools and management frameworks. It is now applying that experience to deliver solutions that ensure the health and well-being of composite applications. It has grown quickly to become the industry-leading provider of visibility, management and security software for distributed applications. AmberPoint leads the market in the number of software licenses, paid customers and customers in production. AmberPoint software is used in 63 countries spanning six continents around the globe. And it is closely aligned with the leading platform providers and systems integrators to help organizations worldwide realize the benefits of loosely-coupled applications.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Metricly, Inc. engages in the development of a software platform that provides tools and coaching for cloud users. It offers cloud cost management focusing on administration, billing analysis, idle resources, right sizing, reservations and capacity monitoring. The company was founded by Robert J. Jannarone, Babak Farzami, and Jason Sampson and is headquartered in Reston, VA.