José Epifânio da Franca

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Southwall Technologies, Inc. operates as a global energy technology company which provides energy conservation and climate management thin-film glass solutions. The firm manufactures and develops films and glass products that improve energy efficiency in architectural and automotive glass applications. It manufactures windows & glass sun-proof, heat-proof & cold-proof - enabling their customers to fine-tune the insulating and solar control performance of glass, reducing the energy consumption for cooling and heating for a comfortable indoor climate. Southwall Technologies was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in St. Louisiana, MO.

Portal Software, Inc. provides accounting services. The firm offers billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media companies. The company provides platform for the end-to-end management of customer revenue across offerings, channels, and geographies. The company was founded by John E. Little in 1985 and is located in Cupertino, CA.

Conformative Systems, Inc. develops and manufactures computer systems. The company was founded by John E Derrick, Ram Ramarao and Arie Brish in 2003 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Aarohi Communications, Inc. develops intelligent data center networking components and data management solutions. It offers FabricStream, the enabling technology for a new generation of intelligent storage networking platforms that will simplify enterprise storage management and enable heterogeneous storage consolidation. The company was founded by Shanti Subbaraman, Ashwini Choudhary, Amar Kapadia, Mukund Chavan, and Sriram Rupanagunta in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SNPS Portugal Unipessoal Lda. develops and supplies electronic devices. The company was founded by José de Albuquerque Epifânio da Franca, Carlos Azeredo Leme and João Vital in February 1997 and is headquartered in Oeiras, Potugal.

Storspeed is a storage solutions company delivering the industry’s first application-aware caching products. Storspeed was founded on the belief that there is a growing imbalance between an application’s appetite for consuming data quickly and the ability of the storage network to deliver it. The evolution of technologies such as distributed computing, multi-core processors, and virtualization continue to push application requirements for data delivery. Similar advances in network storage performance have not been realized, which causes applications to wait for backend storage subsystems to deliver the required data. Today’s way of addressing this imbalance is to over-provision the storage infrastructure – over-deploying capacity to guarantee peak performance – at great expense.

Part of CEVA, Inc., Chicory Systems, Inc. is a company that provides semiconductor intellectual property. The company is based in Austin, TX. Chicory Systems was acquired by Parthus Technologies Plc on May 15, 2001 for $75.47 million.

Part of Russ Bassett Corp., Core Technologies is a company that supplies high-density racking and media storage products. The company is based in Eden Prairie, MN. Core Technologies was acquired by Russ Bassett Corp. on August 22, 2000.

Banco Portugues do Atlantico SA provides banking services. Banco Portugues is a commercial multi-bank holding company which provides a comprehensive & integrated range of lending, depository, finance, real estate, tourism, industry, commerce and related services to individuals and businesses. The company is headquartered in Porto, Portugues

Gilead Connecticut, Inc. manufactures pharmaceuticals and biotechnology chemicals. The firm develops a pipeline of small molecule therapeutics for multiple oncology and immunology-based indications. It focuses on the development of novel kinase inhibitors for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

OpTun, Inc. develops controlled mode interaction devices. It manufactures PLC based components and modules. The company provides semi- custom monolithic integrated optical circuits. OpTun was founded in 2000 by Ilya Vorobeichik and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Symwave, Inc. designs semiconductors and related devices. The firm also develops and markets analog, mixed-signal integrated circuits and system solutions. The company was founded by Christopher Thomas and Jun Ye in 2004 and is headquartered in Laguna Niguel, CA.

Jelastic, Inc. provides software web applications. The firm enables hosting companies to deliver a hosting platform to developers, system integrators, custom developers, design agencies, php and java developers, game and app designers, web developers and designers, and businesses of all sizes. The company was founded in 2011 by Ruslan Synytsky, Constantin Alexandrov, and Alexey Skutin and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Saankhya Labs Pvt Ltd. provides Software Defined Radio (SDR) based integrated circuits (ICs) and modules for video, audio and data communication. It offers products such as demodulator, modulator, multi-standard modems, and reference design kits. The company was founded by Parag Naik, Vishwakumara Kayargadde, and Hemant Mallapur in December 2006 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Probe Test Solutions Ltd. designs and manufactures probe cards. The company is based in Hamilton, UK and has subsidiaries in the United States. The British company was founded in 2009 by Jordan Mackellar, who has been the CEO since 2009.