Bill Messer

Riverbed Technology, Inc. develops applications, websites, networks, data centers, the cloud, and remote offices. It offers visibility, intelligent optimization, and simplified control for all applications. The firm's solutions include application performance monitoring, network performance monitoring, end-to-end performance management, hyper-converge branch, wide area network optimization and hybrid wide area network. The company was founded by Jerry M. Kennelly and Steven McCanne in May 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Reactivity, Inc. develops software for XML-based web services. Its products enable businesses to securely operate & accelerate web services effectively in order to expedite services, time-to-market and gain competitive advantage. The company was co-founded by Michael Hanson & Brian Roddy in 2001 and is located in Redwood City, CA.