Paul McCloskey

Fortisphere is a Virtual Service Management software company. The company arm their customers with the management solutions they need to confidently exploit virtualization to the delight of business users. Their flagship product, Virtual Essentials™ Service Manager™, enables administrators, application owners and IT executives to inventory, visualize and manage virtualized resources from an intuitive, role-based console. As a result, they are able to lower IT costs, improve service, and get the best possible value from their multi-platform virtualized environments, a critical step in the evolution to cloud computing. Fortisphere is a privately-held company, headquartered in Reston, VA.

WKD Solutions Ltd. (dba Categoric Software) provides supply chain event management and business activity monitoring solutions for businesses in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers Xalerts, an alerting technology that delivers business critical alerts and notifications, as well as provides business process monitoring & automation, exception reporting, EDI transformation, systems integration & monitoring, intelligent message routing, and HTML scraping. The company's product Accord, allows creating and implementing various rules for financial and non-financial governance needs. In addition, it offers training, consultancy, controls/rules development, and managed services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Horley, United Kingdom

SupportSoft, Inc. provides solutions that ensure business processes and related technology critical to real-time enterprises — as well as the digital services consumers have come to rely upon — work as planned.

Primavera Systems, Inc. provides project portfolio management solutions. It offers software solutions to serve the companies working on projects in industries such as aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, financial services, government, utilities, oil & gas, chemicals, high technology and professional service engagements. The customers of the company include AFLAC, Alcatel, AIG, Army Corps of Engineers, Bechtel Group, Bovis Lend Lease, ChevronTexaco, Citicorp, ConocoPhillips, EDS, Ericsson, ExxonMobil, Federal Express, Fluor, Ford-Jaguar, General Motors, Guardian Life Insurance, Honeywell IAC, Hutchison 3G, Intel and Johnson & Johnson. Primavera Systems was co-founded by Joel M. Koppelman & Richard Faris in May, 1983 and is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA.

Baan Co. NV engages in the provision of software and computer services. It specializes in publishing integrated software management packages that manage both front-office and back-office operations. The company was founded on May 1978 and is headquartered in Barneveld, Netherlands.

NetIQ Corp. offers software solutions. It provides identity and access management, security management, IT operation management, disaster recovery, workload migration, and unified communications and VoIP. The company was founded on February 11, 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.