David F. Petroni

Activant Solutions, Inc. provides business management solutions serving mid-market retailing and distributor. The company provides customers with industry-specific software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity and analytics. It specializes in the automotive aftermarket, hard goods retailers, lumber and building materials dealers, industrial, electrical and plumbing supply houses. Activant Solutions was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Open Text Corp., General Electric Information Services is a diversified manufacturer of high-tech products. The company is based in Fairfield, CT.

Vignette Corporation provides web content management, portal and collaboration solutions. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

PeopleSoft, Inc. provides enterprise software that ties together back-office applications and databases. Its software addresses such tasks as accounting, human resources management and supply chain management. PeopleSoft has expanded its product lines to include vertical applications for manufacturing firms and government agencies. In late 2003 Oracle launched a hostile attempt to purchase PeopleSoft, which ultimately agreed to be purchased for $10.3 billion in December 2004. Oracle completed the acquisition of the company in January 2005. PeopleSoft is located in Redwood Shores, CA.

Valchemy, Inc. used to provide software solutions for mergers and acquisitions. It used to offers an online application that enables deal participants to track and share merger and acquisition activities and documents. The company served semiconductor, software, aerospace, finance, manufacturing, medical products and consumer products industries. Valchemy was founded by Eric Fleischman in 2001 and was headquartered in San Mateo, CA