Matthew J. Rubins

TAC Partners Inc (TAC Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by James F. Wade and David D. Croll. The firm is headquartered in Boston, California.

The integrated suite of solutions for Predictive IT Management from Hyperformix enables IT organizations to make informed business decisions to predictably, efficiently, and dependably deliver good business outcomes, productivity and growth. When planning for budgets, virtualization, service levels, and successful IT rollouts, there is no substitute for predictable and accurate insights into future performance. Hyperformix is a US-based, venture-backed independent software company delivering software, solutions and services that help CIO's make informed decisions about IT. Hyperformix offers products and solutions for capacity planning and management at progressive levels of sophistication and automation. Depending on customer needs, Hyperformix provides software and services for application profiling, IT decision support and detailed performance operations. Application Profiling: A profile of existing applications and infrastructure to determine current performance and capacity, identify risks to committed business service levels, and predict 'time to live' for key applications and business functions. IT Decision Support: Solutions to quickly identify the costs and risks inherent in IT projects, to accurately plan IT budgets in support of business goals, and to simulate alternative IT cost scenarios to support business planning. Detailed Performance Operations: Sophisticated capabilities for comparing virtual IT scenarios, optimizing resources and identifying bottlenecks in systems and applications. Detailed Performance Operations solutions from Hyperformix prescribe architecture and configurations that allow IT to guarantee service levels. These solutions are delivered through an integrated suite of software products designed to automate IT capacity projects and make predictive capacity planning accessible to every IT organization. Hyperformix customers have consistently realized infrastructure cost savings of over 17% and improved responsiveness of key applications leading to 21% higher end-user satisfaction. As IT organizations struggle with the complexity and cost of virtualizing servers, major application upgrades, consolidations and power costs, the ability to accurately predict budget and capacity requirements is indispensable. Hyperformix solutions have been proven and battle tested with hundreds of blue chip customers including Wells Fargo, Aetna, Cemex, McKesson, and many others.

IntelliReach Corp. provides policy based software that integrates archiving, compliance, discovery, filtering and secure messaging thereby enabling IT professionals to manage their messaging systems with a single solution. It was founded in 1998. The company is located in Dedham, MA

SpeechCycle, Inc. provided speech self-service solutions. The company was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Vertical Communications, Inc. engages in the provision of communication platforms and applications. It offers Vertical, Mitel, and 8X8 products. It serves retail, automotive, healthcare, and hospitality indsutry. The company was founded by William Y. Tauscher and Peter H. Bailey in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Part of Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Ltd. is a commercial banking services provider. The company is based in London, UK. Founded in 1971, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group offers a range of commercial banking services.

SM RPK, Inc. provides digital media software. The company was founded by Gary Ambrosin and Jack Oswald in 1996 and is headquartered in Natick, MA.

Viola Networks, Inc. provides voice over internet network management solutions to enterprises, integrators, and service providers. The company was founded by Israel Cidon in 1998 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.