John Birkner

Blum Capital Partners LP (Blum Capital) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Richard C. Blum in 1975. Blum Capital provides investment management services to various private, pooled investment funds. Investors in the funds include corporate and state/local pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations and estates, corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, banks and thrift institutions, and high net-worth individuals.

Calypto Design Systems, Inc. provides power optimization and functional verification products. Its products include powerpro, catapult and SLEC. The firm also offers electronic system level hardware design. The company was founded by Devadas Varma, Gagan Hasteer, Venkat Krishnaswamy, Anmol Mathur and Sumit Roy in 2002 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Pixim, Inc. develops chipsets and digital imaging technology for enterprise security cameras. It offers products for financial, retail, industrial, gaming, school/campus, correctional facility, perimeter, airport, port, train, light rail, and bus security applications worldwide. The company was founded by Abbas El Gamal in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Alphion Corp. provides broadband solutions. It develops, manufactures and markets access systems, subsystems and integrated photonic devices. The firm's products include the AOLT-4000 GPON Optical Line Terminal, the AONT family of GPON Optical Network Terminals, PON Extenders, AEMS Element Management System and a wide selection of active and passive hardware components for power and fiber management, passive splitters and distribution frames for central office, outside plant, customer premise and network management. The company was founded by Bharat P. Dave in July 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton Junction, NJ.

Tabula, Inc. manufactures semiconductors. The company was founded by Steven L. Teig in 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, Inc. designs, develops and supplies power semiconductor products. It offers portable computers, flat panel televisions, smart phones, battery packs, consumer and industrial motor controls and power supplies for computers, servers and telecommunications equipment. The firm's major products include power discrete and integrated circuits. Alpha & Omega Semiconductor was founded in 2000 by Mike F. Chang, Yueh-Se Ho and Anup Bhalla and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

eTime Capital, Inc. provides a real-time system that integrates information across the seller, buyer, transportation services provider, and financial institution using the internet. The private company is based in Sunnyvale, CA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Mat Glauninger.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Mayfield Fund LLC (Mayfield Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 1969 by Mark Jay Levin. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Tallwood Venture Capital (Tallwood Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Diosdado P. Banatao. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Abound Logic, Inc. designs and develops software products. The company was founded by Frederic Reblewski and Olivier Lepape in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Bayshore Global Management LLC provides real estate and construction services. The firm operates Passerelle Investment, a real estate company and Brin Wojcicki Foundation, which disburses charitable donations and supports human rights. The company was founded by Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Efinix, Inc. engages in the development of a programmable logic cores. It offers OPM programmable devices and EFabric cores. It offers Trion FPGA, a wide range of applications from easy-to-use consumer products to I/O intensive interfaces to complete system solutions. The company was founded by Sammy Cheung and Tony Ngai in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

MapLight Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of novel therapeutics for brain disorders. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Flip Electronics LLC provides customers with select inventory that fulfills the most challenging needs of the supply chain. Its products include capacitors, connectors, crystals oscillators, displays, fans, filters, microcontrollers, transformers, transistors and voltage regulators. The company was founded by Kasey Murphy and is headquartered in Roswell, GA.