John P. Livingston

Cortina Systems, Inc. provided communications semiconductor solutions. The company was founded by Amir Nayyerhabibi, Zeineddine Chair, and Hojjat Salemi in 2001 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Auspex Systems, Inc. develops, manufactures, distributes and supports a line of multi-protocol (NFS(1), CIFS(2) and FTP(3)) Network Attached Storage (“NAS”) devices also referred to as network file servers, network filers, NAS Gateways and NAS Heads (Network Attached Storage Gateways which utilize any storage connected to the SAN fabric). The products are predominantly based on internally developed software and are portable to standard industry processor boards, which can be deployed in a variety of packaging

Electroglas, Inc. is a supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and software to the global semiconductor industry. The Company’s primary product line is automated wafer probing equipment and related network software to manage information from that equipment. The company operates under three segments: prober products, inspection products and Egsoft software products. The Inspection product line includes the Quicksilver series, which are designed for automated inspection of the wafers after the completion of the manufacturing process. It was founded in1960 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Maxtor Corp. makes hard disk drives used in PCs used by manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM. Its drives are also used in servers and consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Luminous Networks, Inc. was an access network equipment company. It was a privately funded access communications equipment company enabling service providers to provide information, communications and entertainment services to their customers. The firm was located in Cupertino, CA.