Ross A. Buhrdorf

Data General Corp. designs and makes open computer systems including servers and mass storage products. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA

Part of Ask.com, Excite, Inc. operates internet portals. The company is based in Redwood City, CA. The company was founded by Mark Haren, Martin Reinfried, Ryan A. McIntyre.

Salion, Inc. provides customer relationship management software solutions. It offers supplier relationship management solutions with innovative web-based on-demand subscription service that is trusted by some of the largest corporations in the world. The firm's software helps complex manufacturers to improve their revenue and profit by optimizing their sales, pricing, and quoting processes. The company was founded in May 2001 and is located in Austin, TX.

BetweenMarkets, Inc. develops software applications for business to business data quality management. Its services include requirements gathering, modeling, auditing, training, and customer support. The company was founded by Erik Huddleston in October 2000 and is headquartered at Houston, TX.

HomeAway, Inc. operates as an online marketplace for the vacation rental industry. The firm offers vacation rentals are fully furnished, privately owned residential properties, including homes, condominiums, villas and cabins, that property owners and managers rent to the public on a nightly, weekly or monthly basis. Its marketplace brings travelers seeking vacation rentals online with the property owners and managers of vacation rental properties located around the world. The company was founded by Brian H. Sharples and Carl G. Shepherd in February 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Nuve, Inc. develops and delivers asset management and fraud prevention solutions. It offers a Web-based platform, which provides cargo anti-theft and container protection solutions, business rules, construction notification system, and fuel anti-theft system. The firm serves cargo, construction, transportation and logistics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas business sectors worldwide. The company was founded by Elom Tsogbe and Antonio Arocha in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Santa Fe Institute of Science operates as a nonprofit, independent research center. It provides research and education services. The company was founded by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky in May 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, NM.