Ann Ruckstuhl

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

LiveOps, Inc. provides cloud contact center and customer service solutions. It offers various call types and channels, including customer service call center, outbound services interactions, inbound sales interactions, lead generation interactions, and self-service interactive voice response capabilities. The firm also provides cloud contact center solutions such as LiveOps Engage, LiveOps Voice and LiveOps Insight. LiveOps serves the financial, health, insurance, retail, marketing and media industries. The company was founded by William J. Trenchard in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Zmanda, Inc. provides open source backup and recovery solutions for small to medium businesses. Its innovations include technology to backup data from live applications and databases directly to a storage cloud. The company was founded by Chander Kant, K. K. George and Paddy Sreenivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SOASTA, Inc. provides test automation solutions for web applications and services. The firm’s products include mPulse, CloudTest, TouchTest, DOC and Pricing. Its solutions include web performance testing, real user monitoring, mobile performance testing and mobile test automation. The company was founded by Kenneth C. Gardner, Lisa Bergamo, Mike Hemmert, Craig Powers, Kenneth Holcomb, Kendall Cosby and Tom Lounibos in February 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

The Content Group Ltd. provides content collection technology and consultancy services. Its solutions include Cube, Sphere, outsourcing, and model office. The company was founded by Ben Richmond in 1998 and is headquartered in Godalming, the United Kingdom.