Susan Villare

MatrixOne, Inc. provides collaborative product lifecycle management solutions to design, development and manufacturing processes. Its eMatrix(TM) product collaboration platform and out-of-the-box Value Chain Portfolio(TM) applications enable online collaboration across global value chains and secure access to independent trading communities in private and public marketplaces. The company is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Sonus, Inc. provides networked solutions for communications service providers and enterprises to help them advance, protect, and unify their communications and improve collaboration. Its products include session border controllers, policy/routing servers, media and signalling gateways and network analytics tools. The company's solutions address the need for communications service providers and enterprises to seamlessly link and leverage multivendor, multiprotocol communications systems and applications across their networks, around the world and in a rapidly changing ecosystem of IP-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. Sonus was founded in August 1997 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Burst Media Corp. Plc provides comprehensive Internet advertising solutions focused on supporting the interests of specialty content web publishers and advertisers. It delivers advertising campaigns for its customers through a network of specialty content web sites. The company was founded by Jarvis Coffin and David Stein in October 1995 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

BigBand Networks, Inc. provides broadband services. It develops, markets and sells network-based platforms, that enable cable multiple system operators (MSOs) and telecommunications companies (collectively, service providers) to offer video services over coaxial, fiber and copper networks. It offers its customers Broadcast Video, TelcoTV, Switched Digital Video and IPTV (Personalized Video) solutions that are comprised of a combination of software and programmable hardware platforms. The company was founded by Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz on December 3, 1998 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.