Charles Giancarlo

Avaya, Inc. provides real-time business collaboration and communications solutions. The company offers customer engagement, team engagement, networking, cloud, and real-time communication solutions. It offers professional, support, enterprise cloud and managed services. The company was founded on February 16, 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, CA.

Accenture Ltd. provides services to management consulting, technology services and outsourcing organizations. It provides management consulting, technology, systems integration and outsourcing services and solutions to the communications, electronics, high technology, media and entertainment industries. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Mercury Payment Systems LLC provides payment processing solutions. It operates as an integrated transaction processing company created to enhance point-of-sale systems by offering credit, debit, check, gift card, and loyalty processing solutions. The firm offers payment solutions, transaction reporting, health care management and pharmacy solutions. The company was founded by Jeffrey B. Katz and Marc I. Katz in 2001 and is headquartered in Durango, CO.

Soraa, Inc. develops gallium nitride chip-based laser diodes. Its products can be used in consumer, biomedical, defense and industrial applications. Its products include VIVID 2 LED MR16 lamps, premium LED MR16 lamps, outdoor LED MR16 lamps and snap system LED MR16 lamps and accessory solutions. The company was founded by Shuji Nakamura, Steven Denbaars, and James Speck in 2008 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

ItsOn, Inc. provides a platform for smart mobile services. The firm's cloud-based platform offers real-time service customization features for both mobile operators and service providers. It offers 3G and 4G wireless consumers and enterprise business managers with complete, real-time visibility and control over their voice, text and data usage. The firm also provides telecommunications services via telephone, satellite, and wireless devices. The company was founded by Gregory Gene Raleigh and Charles H. Giancarlo in 2008 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Mercury Payment Systems, Inc. operated as a holding company with interest in payment processing solutions. The company was founded on December 3, 2013 and was headquartered in Durango, CO.

Kalpana, Inc. was a manufacturer of LAN switching products. The company's product line included modular and stackable platforms which extend the usability and data capacity of existing Ethernet LANs. The company used to design and manufacture internetworking products that increase the throughput of Ethernet networks. This technology enables the company's Ethernet switching products to significantly extend the usability and data-carrying capacity of existing Ethernet local area networks. The company was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA

Linksys Group, Inc. develops wireless, broadband and LAN networking solutions. The firm provides VoIP, wireless and Ethernet networking for home, small office, home office and small business users. It specializes in products and solutions that provide economical sharing of broadband internet connections, files, printers, digital music, videos, photos and gaming over a wired and wireless network. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Imperva, Inc. engages in the provision of cybersecurity solutions that protect business critical data and applications. Its products include web application security, breach prevention, attack analytics, cloud data security, data protection, and vulnerability discovery. The company was founded by Shlomo Kramer, Amichai Shulman, and Michael Boodaei in 2002 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Cisco Consumer Products LLC provides broadband and wireless networking solutions. Its products include adapters, modems, switches and storage devices. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Skype Technologies SA provides communications services via the Internet. The company’s Skype software serves individuals and businesses to make free video & voice calls, send instant messages, and share files with others. It also enables them to make calls to landlines and mobiles internationally. The company also provides headsets, webcams, and phones through its online shop. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. provides membership network for learning and expertise. The firm promotes knowledge exchange through conversations, small group convenings, mentorships, surveys, and other interactions with its network of experts. The company was founded by Alexander Saint-Amand, Thomas D. Lehrman, and Mark Gerson in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Avaya Holdings Corp. engages in the provision of digital communication products, solutions, and services for businesses. It operates through the Products and Solutions, and Services segments. The Products and Solutions segment is involved in unified communication and collaboration, and contact center software platforms, applications, and devices. The Services segment refers to solution upgrades and provides new technology through its Avaya OneCloud subscription offerings. The company was founded on June 1, 2007 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Avaya Belgium manufactures and designs communication systems, applications, and services. The firms products include unified communications and collaboration, networking, customer experience management, and cloud. The company is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Adaptive Corp. develops virtual simulation software for product design solutions. Its solutions include product life cycle management solutions, adaptive addresses virtual product design, product data intelligence and enterprise collaboration. The firm’s services include PLM, engineering, simulation, inspection & metrology and training services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Hudson, OH.

Silver Lake Management Co. LLC (Silver Lake Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Silver Lake Group LLC founded in 1999 by Jim Davidson and David Roux. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Skype SARL provides communication services via the Internet. Its software-based communications platform offers tools for consumers and businesses to communicate and collaborate globally through voice, video and text conversations. The company was founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis in August 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

Blue Jeans Network, Inc. provides cloud-based video conferencing services. It offers BlueJeans Meeting, BlueJeans Rooms, and BlueJeans Events. The company was founded by Krish Ramakrishnan and Alagu Periyannan in November 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Skype Ltd. designs and develops communications software. It provides video and voice calling, instant messenger, and short message services. The company was founded by Morten Lund and Niklas Marten Zennstrom on February 12, 2004 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Vectra Ai, Inc. develops automated threat management solution. It monitors internal network traffic to detect in real time active attacks inside network. The company was founded by Mark Abene and James P. Harlacher is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

US Startups & Inventors For Jobs operates as an organization of inventors, startup companies, venture capitalists, incubators, and research institutions. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

Arista Corp. operates as a designer and manufacturer of audio and video signal distribution and switching products. It provides off-the-shelf, turnkey integration services, and custom original design manufacturing and original equipment manufacturing design and development services. Its products include Industrial Displays, Industrial Panel PCs, Embedded Computers and Box PCs, Industrial Thin Clients, Industrial CPU Boards, and Professional AudioVisual products. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Attivo Networks, Inc. provides deception platform for cyber security defence. Its products include deception-based threat detection and continuous response platform, BOT sink deception, threat strike end-point deception, threat path assessment, and threat ops for threat handling. The company was founded by Marc Feghali, Mano Murthy and B. J. Shanker in 2011 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.