Reba L. McDermott

Silicon Laboratories Norway AS is a global provider of energy friendly microcontrollers and RF transceivers based on the ARM Cortex processor core. Consuming a quarter of the energy of competing products, the company's ultra low power EFM32 Gecko MCUs and EFR4 Draco radios target energy sensitive applications, including smart metering, building automation, security systems and portable heath and fitness equipment.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Silicon Laboratories Finland Oy provides short-range wireless connectivity solutions and software for the Internet of Things. It offers wireless modules, software stacks, development tools, and software development kits for applications in the industrial automation, consumer electronics, audio, automotive, retail, residential, health, and fitness markets. The company was founded by Tom Nordman and Hans Holmberg in 2000 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

IBM Tivoli Systems, Inc. provides service management software. It offers cloud and virtualization management solutions, such as cloud management, cloud storage, virtualization management, systems automation, IT service management solutions, including application performance management, network management, business service management, storage management, and IT service management and assets and facilities management solutions, which include enterprise asset management and facilities management. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Convio, Inc. provides internet software and services. The company was founded by Vinay Bhagat and David Crooke in April 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Myriad RBM, Inc. provides protein biomarker products and services. Its biomarker testing service provides pre-clinical and clinical researchers with reproducible, quantitative, multiplexed immunoassay data for hundreds of proteins in a cost-effective manner, from a small sample volume and from multiple species. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Mirage Networks, Inc. operates as a network security company. It focuses on offering network access control (NAC) solutions. The firm offers Mirage NAC that controls access based on user identity, endpoint compliance, and behavioral policies. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

UnboundID Corp. provides customer identity and access management software. It offers UnboundID Platform, an enterprise software for identity and preference management, deployed on premises or in the cloud. The firm also offers modernize legacy identity, transition to customer, and customer engagement management, and identity and preference brokering. The company was founded by Steve Shoaff, Don Bowen, David Ely, and Neil Wilson in December 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas connects high-impact companies in Central Texas with high-impact causes around the world. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Worksoft, Inc. develops and provides platform for automated business process validation. It offers service providers, software integrations, and machine learning solutions to enable automated testing of mission-critical business applications. The firm also provides managed, enablement, and delivery services. The company was founded by G. Linda Hayes, A. Randall Hayes, L. Ron Hayes, R. Gene Jones, F. Daniel Burger, Peter J. Hayes, and Barron Rex Cumming in 1998 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

Spiceworks, Inc. develops and provides software solutions to help businesses manage their information technology (IT) networks and resources. It also runs an online community where IT professionals can share ideas and provide technical support. The company was founded by Scott R. Abel, Jay Hallberg, Francis Sullivan and Greg Kattawar in 2006, and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Zenoss, Inc. provides information technology monitoring and management solutions. It offers cloud, server, virtualization, application, storage, converged infrastructure, unified communications and network monitoring. The firm serves federal, financial, technology, and services provider industries. The company was founded by William G. Karpovich and Erik Dahl in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

CenterPoint Ventures Co. LLC (CenterPoint Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Robert J. Paluck and Kent A. Fuka. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Nitero, Inc. designs and develops fabless semiconductors. It offers 60GHz support for 4K wireless displays at near-zero latency and supports content sharing at unprecedented speeds. The firm also offers NT4600 60GHz wireless LAN transceiver for short-range multi-gigabit per second connection of mobile devices. The company was founded by Neil Patrick Kelly and Efstratios Skafidas in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Rocket Software, Inc. engages in the development of software products for corporations, government agencies, and other organizations. It offers Rocket Aldon, Rocket BlueZone ,Rocket LegaSuite, Rocket MultiValue Integration Server, Rocket TRUfusion Enterprise, Rocket UniVErse, Rocket API, Rocket D3, Rocket iCluster, Rocket Servergraph, Rocket UniData, and Rocket z/Trim. The company was founded by Andrew J. Youniss on April 16, 1990 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

GENBAND, Inc. provides smart networking solutions for service providers and enterprises. Its products include application and client platforms, session border controllers, call controllers, media gateways, wireless access gateways, cloud services and management. The company also provide customer support, EDGE training, education, FLEX deployment services. GENBAND was founded by Anthony John Paul Carew, Brendon W. Mills, Ronald D. Lutz and Steven Raich in 1999 and is headquartered in Frisco, TX.

Silicon Labs Ember, Inc. provides wireless sensor and control network technologies. The firm develops wireless mesh networking technology chips, software, tools for Smart Energy, connected homes, as well as many other monitoring and control applications. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Silicon Labs Spectra, Inc. manufactures semiconductors and related devices. The firm provides silicon, software and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.