Jim R. Lussier

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

Amberpoint, Inc. was founded in 2001 with significant venture backing from Norwest and Sutter Hill, it is a fast-growing company with a vision for market requirements and significant customer traction. Its prominent executives and experienced developers bring impressive records of success from such leading software companies as Sun, Forte, IBM, webMethods, Oracle, Ingres and Sybase. Its team has a great deal of experience at pioneering new technologies for distributed systems, databases, development tools and management frameworks. It is now applying that experience to deliver solutions that ensure the health and well-being of composite applications. It has grown quickly to become the industry-leading provider of visibility, management and security software for distributed applications. AmberPoint leads the market in the number of software licenses, paid customers and customers in production. AmberPoint software is used in 63 countries spanning six continents around the globe. And it is closely aligned with the leading platform providers and systems integrators to help organizations worldwide realize the benefits of loosely-coupled applications.

G2 SwitchWorks Corp. provides and develops travel management solutions for travel agencies and suppliers in the United States. It provides TRUEconnect, a distribution network that provides an end-to-end solution with automated suite of interfaces such as content management, shopping, booking, payment processing, fulfillment, customer service and reconciliation services. G2 SwitchWorks was founded in 2004 by Alex D. Zoghlin and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Mercora, Inc. operates a social radio and music network. The company's network includes searchable and listenable music and audio content. Its IM Radio includes twenty thousand channels of commercial-free social networking. Mercora was founded by Srivats Sampath and Shahid Ali in May, 2003 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA

Acta Technology, Inc. provides data integration platform expanding extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) technology beyond its traditional data warehousing role to more effectively integrate business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and eCommerce solutions

Escalate, Inc. offered software solutions. Escalate applications automated supplier management and collaboration, supply chain visibility, supply chain execution and multi-channel customer order management. Escalate was located in Redwood Shores, 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.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

CollabNet, Inc. provides software development solutions for software-driven organizations. The firm’s products include ALM connect, cloudforge, continuum, giteye, scrumworks pro, subversionedge, teamforge, teamforge SCM, versionone editions and versionone. It also offers product consulting and implementation, agile consulting and transformation services. The company was founded by William J. Portelli and Brian Behlendorf in 1999 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.