Thomas L. Marcus

Purple Communications, Inc. provides communications solutions and services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals and businesses. Its products and services include video and text relay, captioning, and video remote interpreting and on-site interpreting. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Rocklin, CA.

PremiTech was acquired by CapaSystems in November 2008. As a part of the CapaSystems group of companies PremiTech is one of the cornerstones in CapaSystems vision to enable systems management from the end user perspective. PremiTech's Performance Guard™ solution is the only solution of its kind to deliver real-time data on information technology performance based on the critical end-users' perspective. This actual performance information allows an organization's help-desk and information technology departments to provide proactive service before problems occur, and to quickly determine the root cause of a problem when it does occur. In addition to these immediate benefits, Performance Guard™ delivers the information foundation for end-to-end performance monitoring and documentation as well as real-time capacity planning across servers, networks and end-user devices. Premitech's Performance Guard™ is installed at more than 2,000 locations in more than 100 countries, including customers such as HSBC, GE, CIBC, eTrade, American Diabetes Association, Mary Kay Cosmetics, TDC, Dong Energy and is recognized for its leadership by strategic partners like HP, Computer Associates, BMC, VMWare, IBM, Microsoft, and others. PremiTech is widely recognized as a marked leader and was named InfoWorld Technology of the Year in Systems Management in 2007 and to the Red Herring 100 list of the most promising privately held companies in May 2006. Performance Guard was rated 'Excellent' in a January 2006 product review by InfoWorld. Forrester Research, a leading research institution, has named end-user based IT management a new 3rd generation of management solutions. PremiTech has filed international patent applications protecting core parts of the PremiTech technology.

Velocity Corp. provides business support services. The private company is based in Napa, CA.

University of the Pacific is a nationally ranked university with a long tradition of dedicated teaching, small class sizes, practical experience and vibrant residential life. The breathtaking main campus in Stockton, California is home to seven schools and colleges, with more than 80 majors and programs of study. Pacific also has the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in San Francisco. Total university enrollment is nearly 7,000, with 3,757 undergraduates in an average class size of 19 and a student/faculty ratio of 14:1. It is located in Stockton, California.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Personic, Inc. provides human capital management software. It offers software for staffing firms, corporate HR professionals, and public sector organizations. The company was founded by by Ankesh Kumar, Sachi Yokota, and Joe David in 1994 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Rogue Wave Software, Inc. operates as a provider of cross-platform software development tools and embedded components. It offers open source support, static code & predictive analytics, application security, open source auditing, code refactoring, open source management, code building blocks, web development and deployment services. The company was founded by Thomas W. Keffer in 1989 and is headquartered in Louisville, CO.

GlobalEnglish Corp. provides online English learning and support services. It offers on-demand business English communication solutions, just-in-time business English learning, and business English learning program management. The company was founded by Maurice J. Duca, Stephen Patrick and Martin Rice in 1997 and is headquartered in Brisbane, CA.

Broadcaster, Inc. provides media and networking services. It offers movies, music, television shows, viral videos, mobile media, games, sports and other entertainment services. The company was founded in May 2007 and is headquartered in Chatsworth, CA.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Part of Riverdeep Group Plc, Broderbund Software, Inc. is a software company based in Novato, CA. The company offers a wide range of software products that can make things easier and help improve one's life. The company's products include software for making greeting cards, learning typing, creating newsletters, scrapbooks, and more. The company also offers a complete premium art collection with over 12,500 royalty-free images suitable for personal and business use. Broderbund Software was acquired by The Learning Co., Inc. on August 31, 1998 for $374.65 million.