Lowell B. Trangsrud

Ditech Networks, Inc. develops, produces and sells voice quality enhancement and voice applications solutions to telecommunication service providers worldwide. The firm's products include phonetag voice-to-text, ethernet voice processor, packet voice processor, broadband voice processor, quad voice processor, quad 2 echo canceller and open source voip echo cancellers. The company was founded in July 1983 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.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.