Farhad Hayat

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Cyrix Corp is a company that makes personal computer microprocessors. The company is based in Richardson, TX. Cyrix was acquired by National Semiconductor Corp., part of Texas Instruments Incorporated from September 23, 2011 on November 17, 1997 for $525.70 million.

Photon Dynamics, Inc. manufactures test inspection and repair systems for the flat panel display industry. The company was founded on May 12, 1986 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Silvaco, Inc. provides electronic design automation software solutions. It offers technology computer aided design products such as process simulation, stress simulation and virtual wafer fab and interactive tools. The company was founded by Ivan Pesic and Kathy Pesic in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Upchain, Inc. develops and operates customized and automated workflows for data processing. It offers cloud PLM, cloud product data management, and workflows and integrations. The company was founded by John Laslavic in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

First Ascent Ventures Management Inc (First Ascent Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Richard C. Black and Tony van Markenthey. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in California.

Scribble Technologies, Inc. provides end-to-end content engagement platform. The firm’s products include visually, ion interactive, engage, TrendHub and integrations. It also offers solutions like account-based marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, content marketing, live events, employee engagement, fan engagement and brand experiences. The company was founded by Jonathan Keebler and Michael De Monte in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

RBC Capital Partners Ltd. is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. founded in 1900. RBC Capital Partners Ltd. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices across the globe.

ENBALA Power Networks, Inc. provides smart grid technology solutions. Its solutions include virtual power plants, distributed energy resource management systems and analysis and planning. The company was founded by Malcolm Metcalfe and Richard C. Black in 2003 and is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada.

Fung Academy provides talent development, accelerated learning, and future capability development services to companies. The private company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Evant, Inc. develops and implements business software. It provides merchandising, replenishment, and enterprise platform solutions. Evant is the subsidiary of Manhattan Associates. The company was co-founded in 1993 by Kenneth D. Palmer, Homer Dunn, and Hau Leung Lee and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Decisionnext, Inc. provides cloud based predictive analytics platform for commodities driven businesses. The company was founded by Mike Neal, Robert Pierce and Graeme Stanway and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

Esquel Enterprises Ltd. is a textile and Chinese apparel company that provides total solutions and curates industrial knowledge and technology. The private company is based in Hong Kong, HK and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The company also builds direct consumer brands.

SCM World Ltd. provides information technology, research, and consulting services. It specializes in supply chain management. The company was founded by Oliver Sloane and Jonathan Bennett in 2009 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Walsingham Growth Partners (Walsingham Growth Partner) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2003 by Richard C. Black. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, 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.