Bob W. Rees

Tenneco, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, market and sale of innovative clean air, powertrain and ride performance products and systems. It operates through the following segments: Motorparts, Performance Solutions, Clean Air, and Powertrain. The Motorparts segment consists of a portfolio of brand-name products in the global vehicle aftermarket within seven product categories including shocks and struts, steering and suspension, braking, sealing, engine, emissions, and maintenance. The Performance Solutions segment designs a variety of products and systems designed to optimize the ride experience of the global customer base, including noise, vibration, and harshness performance materials, advanced suspension technologies, ride control, braking, and systems protection. The Clean Air segment offers products and systems designed to reduce pollution and optimize engine performance, acoustic tuning, and weight on a vehicle for light vehicles, commercial trucks, and off-highway original equipment customers. The Powertrain segment focuses on original equipment powertrain products for automotive, heavy duty, and industrial applications. The company was founded on April 1, 1940 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

NTT Security AppSec Solutions, Inc. provides website security services. Its products include dynamic application security assessment, static application security assessment, mobile application security testing and computer-based training. The firm enables business to deploy a scalable application security program across the entire software development lifecycle. The company was founded by Jeremiah Grossman, Llana Grossman and Lex Arquette in August 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Switchfly LLC operates an ecommerce platform that provides a one-stop travel solutions for airlines, financial services companies, hotels, and other travel brands. It offers Switchfly packaging and Switchfly loyalty products to help firms grow revenue and increase customer loyalty. The company was founded by Heidi Vavul and Tina Fitch in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based market data cloud solutions. Its products include XigniteGlobalMaster, XigniteBondMaster, XigniteSuperQuotes, XigniteAnalysts, XigniteEstimates and XigniteGlobalOptions. The firm offers on-demand financial market data and on-demand data distribution solutions. It provides real-time, historical, and reference data for global equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, mutual funds, derivatives, and OTC instruments. The company was founded in 2000 by Stephane Dubois and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Connectbeam's architecture and core application (Spotlight) were designed to help people in any role, across the enterprise, connect with both the growing pool of information and colleagues with the expertise and experience to help them get their jobs done more intelligently and more quickly. The company enables this by aggregating the social metadata that is generated naturally by using the web into a single repository that everyone in the company can access and use. Connectbeam is the first company to integrate concepts of social bookmarking and tagging with those of social networking. Connectbeam brings the 'Web 2.0' information-sharing, collaboration, and ease of use of sites like MySpace and del.icio.us to the daily work-flow of enterprise employees. It helps companies boost innovation, improve decisions, intensify collaboration, and build critical stakeholder relationships. To see what others think please search for the many positive reviews Connectbeam has received from the press, such as The Wall Street Journal; Blogs, such as TechCrunch; and analyst firms such as Gartner. Connectbeam was founded by experienced entrepreneurs with decades of experience in the enterprise software market. The company is venture backed and privately held.

Access Venture Partners LLC (Access Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by John E. Campion, Frank Mendicino II and Frank Mendicino III. The firm is headquartered in Westminster, Colorado.

Productionquest, Inc. provides engineering services. The company was founded on March 31, 1997 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Woodside Fund Corp. is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded by Vince M. Occhipinti and Bob E. Larson in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.