Lance Nakamura

Part of AT&T, Inc., Pacific Bell Telephone Co. provides telephone services. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.

VeriFone, Inc. designs and manufactures transaction automation systems. The company was founded by William Melton on April 14, 1981 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Kabira Technologies provides communications service providers software applications and performance technology elements that accelerate their Pace of Return by reducing time-to-revenue while lowering overall cost of growth. With installations serving over 700 million subscribers for over 100 customers in more than 40 countries, Kabira has established its reputation for delivering highly scalable and highly reliable solutions. Based on Fluency™, Kabira's powerful transaction platform, Kabira's Policy, Fulfillment and Payments Orchestration product suites are designed to provide essential capabilities that enable service providers to launch services in record time, while creating new ways to monetize their investments. Some of Kabira's customers include AT&T Corp., Orange/France Telecom, Visa, VimpelCom, T-Mobile, Hutchison, Saudi Telecom and NTT. Kabira, Orchestration by Kabira, Policy Orchestration, Fulfillment Orchestration, Payments Orchestration, Fluency, Fluency at the Core and the Kabira logo are registered trademarks, registered service marks or trademarks or service marks of Kabira, and its affiliates, in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

PhoneSpots, Inc. designs and develops software for mobile communication services. It provides SMS, MMS, WAP and voice-based services. The firm's customers include mobile travel, entertainment, property and classifieds industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Aryaka Networks, Inc. engages in the development and provision of application and network performance solutions for enterprises. It offers Smart Optimize, SmartCloud, SmartSecure, SmartInsights, SmarConnect, and SmartManage. The company was founded by Ajit Gupta, Rajeev Bharadhwaj and Ashwath Nagaraj in 2008 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Venture Development, Inc. provides mortgage services. It offers services for purchases, refinance, investment property, and commercial loans. The company was founded by John Mazzara in 1995 and is headquartered in Edina, MN.

Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. provides managed network and application delivery services. The company's services include ethernet, yipes financialconnect, managed premium Internet, collocation, and international private line. The firm was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Silicon Valley Plc provides electronic related services.

Opus, Inc. manufactures bird feeders and distributes bird food, as well as home and garden products. The private company is based in Bellingham, MA and has subsidiaries in Canada.

EWI Holdings, Inc. provides payment processing services. The company was founded by Miles Paschini in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Anagran, Inc. provides network flow management products. The company was founded by Lawrence Roberts and Katya Stesin on April 14, 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Voice Signal Technologies, Inc. develops software for mobile handsets. It provides speech solutions for consumer products and mobile devices. The company's solutions offer speech capabilities, including speaker-independent name dialing and contact lookup, vocabulary dictation, email and SMS messaging. VoiceSignal Technologies was founded by Daniel Roth and Thomas Lazay in 1995 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Jentro Technologies GmbH provides navigation software and services for mobile phones. The company was founded by Erno Hempel and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

SoundHound, Inc. develops search and sound recognition technologies. The company was founded by Majid S. Emami, James M. Hom, Keyvan Mohajer and Michal Grabowski in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sigma Networks, Inc. provides network security services.

Nyotron Information Security Ltd. engages in the development of end-point security solutions to protect against unknown exploits, viruses, and trojans. Its product is Paranoid, it provides end-point protection by sending all system calls to the kernel space and analyzing and comparing them against the proprietary behavior patterns map of Nyotron. The company was founded by Amos Malka, Nir Gaist, Adiv Baruch, and Ofer Gaist on July 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

SimplyTapp, Inc. provides mobile payment distribution and authorization services. It also provides solutions for enterprises including financial institutions, big box retailers, fueling stations and quick service merchants. The firm offers open toolkits and SDKs that reduce time to market, enhance existing infrastructure and keep customer's organization flexible for the future. The company was founded by Douglas Yeager and Theodore Fifelski in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

YellowPepper Holding Corp. provides mobile banking and payment solutions to financial institutions. The company is headquartered in Miami, FL.

RW National Holdings LLC is a leading end-to-end single-family rental marketplace and management platform. The company is based in Minnetonka, MN, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company offers a full-service platform for investing and owning single-family rental properties through its operating company, Renters Warehouse. Appreciate, a proprietary online marketplace, and full-service brokerage teams in over 40 markets allow investors to execute with confidence. Investors benefit from a full-service property management platform that addresses all needs from tenant placement to property management to analytics and reporting. Christopher A. Laurence has been the CEO of the company since 2020.