Jay Kidd

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. NetApp® storage solutions include specialized hardware, software, and services, providing seamless storage management for open network environments. Major corporations and service providers, including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments, and Yahoo!, utilize NetApp global data management solutions

Brocade Communications Systems LLC provides semiconductor connectivity solutions. It offers switches, storage networking, routers, software networking, automation, network visibility, mobile networking, transceivers, network management, and professional and residency. The company was founded by Paul R. Bonderson, Jr., Kumar Malavalli, and Seth D. Nieman in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Omneon, Inc. is a provider of digital content storage and processing systems used by media companies to enable efficient production and distribution of quality digital video and audio. The company develops, markets and sells a range of video servers, active storage systems and related software applications that media companies use to simultaneously ingest, process, store, manage and deliver digital media content formats. It changed its name from Omneon Video Networks, Inc. in December 2007. The company was founded in May 1998 by Lawrence R. Kaplan and Donald M. Craig and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Part of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. is a software concern. The private company is based in Islandia, NY. MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. (New York) was acquired by Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. on December 15, 1994.

ProStor Systems, Inc. manufactured systems for the storage of digital information. The firm offered InfiniVault, a storage system for fixed digital assets, such as videos, images, documents and static data files. The company was founded by Steven P. Georgis and Chris Alaimo in May 2004 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Wing Venture Management LLC (Wing Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Gaurav Garg and Peter Wagner. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.