Aprimo provides Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) solutions.

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Privately Held

Placements: Two Board Members

Atheros is a developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless and other networking products.

Location: Santa Clara, CA

NASDAQ: ATHR

Placements: VP Marketing, VP Sales, VP Global Human Resources

Benefitfocus is the leader in software and services for the healthcare benefits market.

Location: Charleston, SC

Privately Held

Placements: CFO

BitWave Semiconductor, Incorporated, is a fabless semiconductor company and developer of the Softransceiver RFIC.

Location: Lowell, MA

Privately Held

Placements: CEO

Cirrus Logic is a fabless semiconductor supplier specializing in analog, mixed-signal, and DSP chips.

Location: Austin, TX

NASDAQ: CRUS

Placements: VP Worldwide Sales, Senior VP & General Manager, Audio Division

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions.

Location: San Jose, CA

NYSE: CY

Placements: VP Strategic Accounts, VP Sales, North America

Foveon Inc. is a world innovator in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems for a wide range of digital capture products.

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Privately Held

Placements: Chairman and CEO

Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest global investment banks.

Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY

NYSE: GS

Placements: VP PIA Enterprise Software

Infoblox provides Secure Network Identity Solutions.

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Privately Held

Placements: Two VPs of Engineering

InterWest Partners provides venture capital to development-stage information technology and life sciences companies.

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Privately Held

Placements: Partner

Inxight Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Privately Held, acquired by Business Objects July, 2007

Placements: CEO

Kazeon revolutionizes the way companies perform eDiscovery by using the Kazeon Information Access Platform to intelligently search, classify and act on electronically stored information.

Location: Mountain View, CA

Privately Held

Placements: Senior VP Sales, VP Engineering

Morganthaler Investment focuses on early-stage ventures and "middle market" management-led buyouts involving information technology, health care, or industrial technology.

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Privately Held

Placements: General Partner

Narus solutions enable IP service providers to implement and manage new services and business models and profitably.

Location: Mountain View, CA

Privately Held

Placements: VP Engineering

Openwave Systems, Inc. is an independent provider of software products and services for the communications industry.

Location: Redwood City, CA

NASDAQ: OPWV

Placements: Senior VP Worldwide Sales, CFO, VP Quality Assurance

Polycom, Inc. is the world's leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions.

Location: Pleasanton, CA

NASDAQ: PLCM

Placements: Senior VP Worldwide Sales

PortalPlayer is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware, and software for personal media players.

Location: Santa Clara, CA

NASDAQ: PLAY (acquired by Nvidia in January, 2007)

Placements: CEO, CFO

SGI is a leader in high-performance computing.

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

NASDAQ: SGIC

Placements: CEO

Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. is a provider of wireless communications services, offering prepaid, or pay-as-you-go, services targeted at the youth market.

Location: Walnut Creek, CA, Warren, NJ

NYSE: VM

Placements: CEO

Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.

Location: San Jose, CA

NASDAQ (GS): XLNX

Placements: President & CEO

Yipes is the leading provider of managed Ethernet and application delivery services for the global enterprise.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Privately Held

Placements: President & CEO, VP Network Architecture

Zilog, Inc. is a global supplier of 8, 16 and 32-bit microcontroller and microprocessor "system-on-a-chip" (SoC) solutions.

Location: San Jose, CA

NASDAQ: ZILG

Placements: CEO, VP Worldwide Sales

Selected Private Equity & Venture Clients

Accel Partners is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm with over $4 billion under management.

Locations: Silicon Valley, London, China

Privately Held

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses.

Locations: San Francisco, London

Privately Held

Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest global investment banks.

Location: San Francisco, New York

NYSE: GS

Invesco Ltd. is a leading independent global investment management company.

Locations: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Internationally

NYSE: IVZ

Investcorp is a leading global provider and manager of alternative investment products

Locations: New York, London, Bahrain

Privately Held

NEA, New Enterprise Associates, Investment focuses principally on early-stage companies in information technology, medical, and life sciences.

Locations: Menlo Park, Chevy Chase, Baltimore, Beijing, India

Privately Held

Sequoia Capital provides start-up venture capital funding for seed stage, early stage, and growth companies.

Locations: Menlo Park, China, India, Israel

Privately Held

U.S. Venture Partners provides venture capital management services to a broad spectrum of institutional, corporate and individual investors, both domestic and foreign.

Location: Menlo Park

Privately Held