William R. Atkinson

StoneFly Networks, Inc., based in San Diego, is the innovator of powerful, cost-effective data protection and management for departments, workgroups and mid-tier organizations through the StoneFly Business Advantage™ solutions suite. StoneFly Backup Advantage™ provides advanced data protection with a turnkey solution for disk-to-disk backup. StoneFly Replicator™ and StoneFly Reflection™ provide advanced disaster recovery with remote asynchronous and synchronous mirroring. The heart of StoneFly Business Advantage is an IP SAN powered by the StoneFusion™ Intelligent Network Platform

Astute Networks, Inc. develops and manufactures virtualization acceleration appliances. It provides performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments that increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower IT costs. The company was founded by Keith Klarer, Roger Moyer and Osman Fazil on August 7, 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

XLNT Designs, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets high performance networking solutions include LAN switches, FDDI integration products and software solutions to speed the design of embedded products. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corp. XLNT Designs was found in 1989 by Fazil Osman and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

eWave Ltd. is a leading provider of software and integration solutions for organizations in the areas of Omnichannel, digital, information technology (IT), and human resources (HR). The private company is based in Israel, specifically in Kibbutz Glil-Yam, and has subsidiaries in the country. The Israeli company develops web systems and mobile applications for self-service, e-commerce, and content management, using diverse infrastructures, open source tools, and technologies from leading software manufacturers worldwide, including Microsoft. The company was founded in 1999 by Oren Shuster, and Tiran Hay has been the CEO of the company since 2005.