Benjamin Goux

Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engaged in the development of drugs for the treatment of cancer and related therapies. Its primary product TOCOSOL Paclitaxel, was an injectable paclitaxel emulsion for nonsmall cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer and bladder cancer. Sonus Pharmaceuticals was incorporated in 1991 and was headquartered in Bothell, WA.

Avalara, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud-based solutions. The firm focuses on taxability, identifying applicable tax rates, determining and collecting taxes, preparing and filing returns, remitting taxes, maintaining tax records, and managing compliance documents. Its products include AvaTax excise, AvaTax communications, Returns excise, TrustFile, CertCapture, and Avalara licensing. The company was founded by Rory Rawlings, Scott McFarlane, and Jared R. Vogt in August 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements.

Broadstream Communications, Inc. provides broadband telecommunications services. The company operates the industry's first all digital (IP) virtual head-end network and service offering that enables service providers to create an efficient, cost-effective video service offering that breaks economic and performance barriers imposed by self-built head-end systems. Broadstream offers IP Video network in the world, and also offers the video solution in the industry. Broadstream is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Powerit Solutions LLC provides automated energy management solutions and web-based management tools. Its solutions include SPARA demand control, SPARA demand response, SPARA dynamic pricing, and SPARA microgrid control. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Stellar Holdings, Inc. is a real estate firm. The company is a value-added developer and investor and it focuses on niche opportunities and creative partnerships. It was founded by Lars H. Jonsson and Laurie McDonald Jonsson in 1989 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Pioneer Venture Partners (Pioneer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Pete Bryant and Kirby Mcdonald. The firm is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.