Timothy W. Lester

Chordiant Software Inc. solutions automate and manage operational business processes for leading service-driven global organizations in retail finance, telecommunications and consumer direct industries. Chordiant orchestrates the unique processes of an organization from the point of customer interaction, through the front and back offices to multiple transactional systems, corporate applications and data stores

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. engages in the design, development, and sale of integrated circuits. The company offers System-on-a-Chip devices, which leverages technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing, and embedded and standalone integrated circuits. It also develops integrated hardware platforms along with software that incorporates digital computing technologies designed and configured to provide an optimized computing solution. The company was founded by Sehat Sutardja, Weili Dai and Pantas Sutardja in January 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Seagate Technology LLC engages in the development and manufacture of data storage solutions. It products include network-attached storage hard drive, solid state drives, hybrid cloud backup solutions, and express recovery appliances. The company was founded by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner in 1978 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Vendavo, Inc. provides margin and profit optimization solutions. It offers Profit Analyzer to analyze transaction data for pinpointing leaking margins; Power and Risk that provides data-driven optimal prices for salespeople to negotiate and grow revenue; Price Manager to manage price lists and set policies for deal negotiations; Deal Manager that provides deal guidance and targets for profitable deal execution to sales teams; and Deal Guide to expedite deal cycle time and equip sales force to negotiate profitable deals. The company was founded by Jamie Rappperport and Joshua W. Sommer in November 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc. provides water management solutions. Its solutions include communities, commercial properties, government, education, architects, designers, landscape and irrigation professionals. The company was founded by Christopher Spain, Chris Manchuck and Peter Carlson in 2002 and is headquartered in Petaluma, CA.

Pluribus Networks, Inc. provides software-defined networking as an open application platform. Its products include built on the pluribus virtualization-centric fabric (VCF) architecture, dell switch OS, open netvisor, leaf and spine switches. The company was founded in April 2010 by Sunay Tripathi, Robert Drost, and Chih-Kong Ken Yang and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. develops medical devices that focus on improving the accuracy of diagnostic blood culture tests. The company was founded by Gregory J. Bullington and Richard G. Patton and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Axine Water Technologies, Inc. provides chemical-free solutions for treating concentrations of toxic organics and ammonia. The firm develops solutions to avoid production bottlenecks, high treatment, disposal costs and water reuse limitations. The company was founded by Colleen Freda Legzdins in 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Pica8, Inc. provides open switching systems. Its open switches transform the data center by decoupling hardware from software. The company was founded in 2009 by Chunyi Liao and Lin Du and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Upgrade, Inc. operates as an online lending platform that combines personal loans with free credit monitoring. It has offices in Phoenix and San Francisco. The company was founded by Renaud Laplanche, Jeff Bogan, Tim Bogan, Matt Wierman, Visar Nimani, Adelina Grozdanova and Soul Htite and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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 Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

A.T. Kearney, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. Its services include strategic, operational and technology consulting executive search services. The company was founded by Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

H2scan Corp. provides hydrogen sensing technology solutions. It offers hydrogen leak detection and process gas measurement solutions to detect hydrogen against virtually various background gases and fixed area monitor to respond to a range of hydrogen gas. The firm products include HY-OPTIMA process analyzers, HY-ALERTA safety systems and OEM sub-systems. The company was founded by Dennis Reid on September 18, 2002 and is headquartered in Valencia, CA.

Aeroprise, Inc. is the world's most-deployed software for mobilizing BMC Remedy IT service management applications. Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses and public institutions use Aeroprise to extend service desk, asset management and change management functionality to BlackBerry and other mobile devices. Aeroprise lowers IT support costs, improves customer satisfaction and reduces critical asset downtime. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with operations in Bangalore, Aeroprise is a privately held company.

Chrysalix Energy Management, Inc. (Chrysalix Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by Michael J. Brown and Wal van Lierop. The firm is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Part of Wolfspeed, Inc., Cree Dulles, Inc. is a company that manufactures insulating and conductive silicon carbide wafers. The company is based in Sterling, VA. Cree Dulles was acquired by Wolfspeed, Inc. on July 10, 2006 for $46 million.

Doll Capital Management Inc (DCM Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in the year 1996 by David Katsujin Chao, Rudy Rehm and Dixon R. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, additional offices in Beijing & Tokyo.

Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. manufactures electrical products. It also manufactures LED dice, packaged LEDs, and LEDs designed for integration into general lighting products. The company markets LED solutions designed for automotive applications, LCD displays, general lighting, portable applications, signage, and traffic signals. Philips Lumileds Lighting was founded in November 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Q6 Capital LLC (Q6 Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Brad Bullington and David Connors. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Silicon Valley Leadership Group operates as an advocacy organization to influence public policy relating to the valley. The non-profit company is based in San Jose, CA.

Financial Executives International enhances member professional development through peer networking, career planning services, conferences, publications and special reports, and research. Its members include Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance, Treasurers, and Controllers. The company was founded in December 1931 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

EDV Management Co (El Dorado Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Kalbach. The firm is headquartered in in Menlo Park, California.

New Ventures BC is a private company that provides education, tools, networking, and funding to help BC tech startups succeed. New Ventures Bc is currently hosting a weekly startup seminar series as part of the 2023 New Ventures BC competition presented by Innovate BC. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian company relies on the support of government, corporate, and volunteer mentors and jurors to offer their programs.

Svante, Inc. produces technologies for the energy and process industries. It offers technology services for capturing post-combustion carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas streams for use in CO2 enhanced oil recovery and carbon capture and storage. The company was founded by Andre Boulet, Darryl Wolanski, Brett Henkel and Soheil Khiavi in 2007 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

General Fusion, Inc. develops fusion power based on magnetized target fusion. Its technology transforms energy supply by developing path to commercial fusion power. The company was founded by Michel G. Laberge and Douglas Richardson in 2002 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

SET Management BV (SET Ventures) is the venture capital subsidiary of SET Holding Powered By Chrysalix & Robeco BV founded in 2007 by Rene Savelsberg, Wouter Jonk and Wal van Lierop. SET Management BV is headquartered in Amsterdam.

Montalvo Arts Center operates as a non-profit center for the arts. The company is headquartered in Saratoga, CA.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc. provides wireless communication solutions. The firm designs and supplies advanced 4G LTE and 5G semiconductor solutions. GCT’s market-proven LTE solutions, commercially available since 2010, have enabled fast and reliable LTE connectivity to numerous commercial devices such as smartphones, tablets, hotspots, CPEs, USB dongles, routers, M2M applications, and more, to the world’s top LTE carriers. It's system-on-chip solutions integrate radio frequency, baseband modem and digital signal processing functions into a single die, therefore offering complete 4G platform solutions with small form factors, low power consumption, high performance, high reliability and cost effectiveness. The company was founded by Kyeong-Ho H. Lee and Ki-Sub Lee in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ENBALA Power Networks, Inc. provides smart grid technology solutions. Its solutions include virtual power plants, distributed energy resource management systems and analysis and planning. The company was founded by Malcolm Metcalfe and Richard C. Black in 2003 and is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada.