Joseph Rodney Canion

BlueArc Corp. develops and sells clustered network-attached storage systems for storing and managing digital content and unstructured file-based data. The company’s products use a scalable file system that allows for multiple storage appliances (nodes) to be managed as a single pool. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Compaq Computer Corp. develops and manufactures a wide range of personal computing products. The company was located in Houston, TX.

Insource Technology Corp. provides Internet and information systems technology services to industries such as energy and chemicals, real estate, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, financial services and manufacturing. The company was founded by Jim Harris and Rod Canion in 1992 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Sternhill Partners (Sternhill Parntners) is an Venture Capital firm founded in 1999 by Bob W. Stearns and Marc Geller. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Physicians Capital, Inc. provides financial services to current and prospective physicians partners. It offers financing for multiple physician and center needs including partnership or membership equity transactions, relocation or expansion of ASCs, and financing for acquisitions and new equipment purchases. The company was founded by Shannon D. LeRoy and Douglas B. Lewis on August 10, 2007 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

ChaCha Search, Inc. provides search engine services. The firm owns and operates a natural language question and answer database and allows users to ask questions from via online, smartphone applications, text, voice, and social networks. It offers real-time information and answers in the areas of galleries, quizzes, business, culture, entertainment, health, lifestyle, lookup, politics, science and technology, sports, and travel. The company was founded by Brad A. Bostic and Scott A. Jones on December 1, 2005 and is headquartered in Carmel, IN.

Technology & Entrepreneurship Center of Houston operates as a non-profit organization created to accelerate the growth of Houston’s innovation ecosystem. It aligns ecosystem support around strategic initiatives that are connecting, attracting, and promoting startups, investors, corporations, government, and universities. The company was founded in October 2017 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Questia Media America, Inc. operates online digital library. It offers Questia, an online research and paper writing resource that includes scholarly books, articles, academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as provides resources needed to complete college-level and core-curriculum course assignments. The company was founded by Troy Williams in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.