Tom Bishop

Witness Systems provides performance optimization software that companies use to capture customer contact data and improve workforce performance. Witness Systems' eQuality suite includes performance analysis, e-learning, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)-based recording and analysis applications that synchronize customer communications across phone and Web channels, enabling companies to offer clients more personalized assistance. Designed for customer contact centers, the company's software can record specific interactions by telephone, Web chat, or e-mail, and sort them according to business-driven criteri

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

BMC Software, Inc. develops enterprise software. It provides BMC helix service and operations management; truesight IT operations and automation; and automated mainframe intelligence. The firm also provides multi-cloud management; security and compliance; and IT optimization. The company was founded by Scott Boulette, John J. Moores, and Dan Cloer in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cesura, Inc. provides intelligent control systems that help the information technology organizations. The company also offers services including consulting, training, and support. Its software enables companies to measure, analyze, and control application resources, including Web, database, and application servers. The company was founded in May 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Second Wave Petroleum, Inc. operates as an oil and gas exploration services. It focuses on organic growth through the drill bit on its existing acreage while continuing a process of adding accretive acquisitions. The company was founded by Donald K. Rae and Michael V. Little in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Univa Corp. engages in the development of enterprise-class workload management and containerization solutions. Its solutions include life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, electronic design, education and research, government, and transportation. The firm's products include Univa Grid Engine; Navops Launch. The company was founded in 2004 by Steve Tuecke, Ian Foster, Rich Miller, and Carl Kesselman and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Symbiot, Inc. provides intelligent security infrastructure management systems. Its products analyze network patterns and allow network administrators to manage firewalls, intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems. The company was co-founded by Michael W. Erwin, William W. Hurley II and Jamie L. Pugh in 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

IronStratus, Inc. provided cloud-based identity and access management services. Its login facilitated users with secure access to own private vault where they can store various items. The company was founded by Roy Kipp in 2007 and was headquartered in Austin, TX.