Ronald Ranauro

Data General Corp. designs and makes open computer systems including servers and mass storage products. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Westborough, MA

Viewlogic Systems, Inc. was a worldwide supplier of electronic design automation software. The company's design tools enabled electrical engineers to design state-of-the-art electronic products more efficiently, while reducing both development costs and time to market. The company offered software for both UNIX and Windows-based computing platforms, along with a broad range of support services.

Gene-IT, Inc. (GenomeQuest, Inc.) provides software solutions to life-science research organizations. It makes sequence information available to all end-users in life sciences. The firm identifies new applications and adapts sequence search technology to serve life science end-users. The company was founded by Dr. Jean-Jacques Codani and Eric Glémet in 1998 and is located in Westborough, MA.

GQ Life Sciences, Inc. provides software solutions to life science research organizations. It offers LifeQuest, a patent search platform specific for the life sciences that provides a solution for semantic keyword and life science ontology searching; and GenomeQuest that integrates full-text search and sequence search in the intellectual property domain. The company was founded by Eric Glemet in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Part of Siemens AG, Exemplar Logic Corp is a business software tools company. The company is based in Berkeley, CA. Exemplar Logic was acquired by Mentor Graphics Corp. on June 09, 1995 for $25 million.

Part of Quvis Technologies, Inc., NEXTWAVE Silicon develops highly integrated silicon solutions. The company is based in Knoxville, TN. NEXTWAVE Silicon was acquired by QuVis, Inc. on October 31, 2000.