Bill Franciscovich

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.

Zilog, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets micrologic semiconductor products for embedded control and communication applications worldwide. It provides semiconductor devices that its customers design into their end products. Its devices combine a microprocessor memory and input and output functions on a single device. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc. designs and develops application specific circuits. It also manufactures silicon timing devices for communications, networking, computing, and digital consumer applications. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Norristown, PA.

Peak International Ltd. engages in the manufacture of engineered plastics and packaging. Its services include plastics and packaging formulations, prototyping, tooling and production, and supply chain. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Hi/fn, Inc. provides network and storage security and data reduction products to network and storage equipment. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, CA.

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

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.

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance processors and high-speed integrated circuits that help accelerate the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia content for advanced enterprise, datacenter, communications, and mobile wireless networks. Its product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, high-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GE) physical layer (PHY) devices, network search engines, and ultra low-power embedded processors. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, access aggregation, radio network controllers, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded by Varadarajan Srinivasan and Norman Godinho in 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

MagnaLynx, Inc. develops serial chip-to-chip interfaces. The company was founded by Scott Irwin in 2003 and is headquartered in Ames, IA.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Centaur Technology, Inc. designs and develops microprocessors. Its products are used in mobile personal computers and other portable electronics. The company was founded by Glenn Henry, Terry Parks, Darius Gaskins and Al Sato in April, 1995 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Innovium, Inc. develops disruptive semiconductor based solutions. It offers Innovium TERALYNX The company was founded by Rajiv Khemani, Puneet Agarwal, and Mohammad Issa in December 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Optimal Corp. Provides high signal integrity electronic design automation software. It offers 3D power, signal, and thermal integrity analysis for IC package, system-in-package, and PCB design. The firm's product PakSi-E, PakSi, and PowerGrid. It has offices in Japan, Taiwan, and the US. The company was founded in 1995 by An-Yu Kuo and Jay Gillis and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

AsiaTech Management LLC (AsiaTech Management) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Katherine Jen. The firm is headquartered in Saratoga, California.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Secure Communication Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures rugged computers and peripherals. Its products include tablet personal computers, displays, workstations, servers, networking, accessories, wearable personal computers, aviation central processing units and communication systems. It also provides RF solutions, electronic manufacturing services and digital audio, video instrumentation solutions. The firm serves military, defense, commercial aviation, industrial, oil and gas, transportation and telecommunication sectors. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

Movella, Inc. engages in the provision of micro-electromechanical sensors. It offers accelerometer, magnetometer, and iGyro hardware and software solutions. The firm provides single-chip motion sensors that are utilized by consumer electronics companies to improve user interactivity and enable new motion-based applications. The company was founded by Charles Yang in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.