Barbara Lewis

Altiscale, Inc. provides hadoop as a service for data science. It addresses issues that customers run into in production, such as job failures, resource contention, performance optimization and infrastructure upgrades. The firm eliminates the time-consuming steps of procuring and provisioning hardware, installing and configuring hadoop, and managing hadoop clusters in production. The company was founded by Raymie Stata in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Siebel Systems, Inc. develops customer relationship management software that automates sales and customer-service operations of large corporations. It products enable companies to distribute customer information to call centers, direct sales teams, resellers, retailers and web-based sales forces. The company was founded in 1993 by Thomas M. Siebel & Patricia A. House and is located in San Mateo, 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.

TalkPlus, Inc. provides telecommunication & wireless networking services. It offers various services including ring multiple phones, mirror numbers, visual voicemail, voicemail screening, call screening, call transfer, conference calling, international calling, and international numbers. The company was founded by Jeffery Black in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Birst, Inc. provides enterprise-class analysis and reporting services. The firm’s products include user data tier, adaptive user experience and multi-tenant cloud architecture. It offers sales, marketing, supply chain, services and operations, finance, enterprise, data discovery, legacy, big data and embedded analytics solutions. The firm also provides software-as-a-service analytical solutions, which is designed to support customers from individuals to groups and companies. The company was founded by Brad Peters and Paul H. Staelin in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.