Peter L. Fiore

CrossComm Corp. develops advanced networking products. The firm provides ATM edge routing and switching products for integrating ATM technology into corporate networks, while preserving legacy LAN environments. It offers complete, scalable LAN switching solutions that can grow as bandwidth. The company was founded by Tadeusz Witkowicz in 1987 and is located in Marlborough, MA.

Ascential Software Corp. used to provide data integration software. It was engaged in designing, developing, marketing and supporting enterprise integration software products and solutions. The company was fouinded in 2005 and is located in Westborough, MA.

Stratus Computer, Inc. designed and serviced computer systems. It was a producer of fault tolerant mainframe computers. Its traditional markets were financial services companies like banks and security exchanges. The firm was located in Maynard, MA.

Ardent Software, Inc. developed software that analyzes traffic on Internet sites operated by retailers. The company was headquartered in Westboro, MA.

Crossbeam Systems, Inc. provides security devices and solutions. The company was founded by Moisey Akerman, Stephen D. Justus and Throop M. Wilder in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Lumigent mitigates business risk, monitors for errors and fraud, and reduces the total cost of compliance. Lumigent’s AppGRC is an off-the-shelf business application optimized for the needs of Finance, Audit/Compliance, and IT that monitors key application controls and data. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts.

Kadient helps companies improve sales performance by arming their salespeople with the content, messages, and strategies proven to win at every stage of the customer's buying cycle. Kadient is the only on-demand sales enablement platform that embeds interactive, situation-specific Sales Playbooks in a CRM system and provides analytics for unique actionable insights to close more business faster. The result is shorter sales cycles, faster ramp up, and increased sales productivity. The company offers InciteKnowledge, which automates and standardizes the creation of personalized sales presentations and selling documents, as well as collects and organizes selling content, and provides sales assistance; and Pragmatech that is used to create proposals and request for proposal (RFP) responses. It also provides RFP Machine for capturing and managing RFP content; RFP Express that is used to answer RFP’s using the library of RFP content; and Proposal Automation Suite, which is used to manage a library of content and create proposal wizards.