Barbara M. Grant

Triformix, Inc. manufactures and develops precision polymer optics and optical assemblies. Its products include fiber optics, computer peripherals, medical devices and instrumentation. The company was founded by Tim March, Russ Stiles and David W. Whitney in 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

Integrated Materials, Inc. was manufactured poly silicon furnaceware products. The company was founded by Raanan Y. Zehavi in 1998 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Cody Resources, Inc. provides petroleum refining services. It refines crude petroleum and produces natural gas & other petroleum related products. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Siros Technologies, Inc. manufactures optical storage products.

American River Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2001 by John Kunhart and Harry Laswell. The firm is headquartered in Roseville, California.

Xponent Photonics, a subsidiary of HOYA Corp. USA, designs and manufactures optical devices. Their products include a range of triplexers and diplexers for single-fiber applications including passive optical network, point-to-point and bidirectional radio frequency systems. Their target customers include optical systems vendors, transceiver suppliers and optical subsystem suppliers. The company was founded by Kerry Vahala and Pete Spercel in 2001 and is headquartered in Monrovia, CA.

Agoura was founded to help solve the rapidly growing power consumption problem of all LCD displays. LCD displays are ubiquitous in its lives and are becoming larger in virtually every application. With this size increase, comes increased power consumption. All of the major industrial economies are taking measures to regulate TV energy consumption, with an eye towards improving the energy efficiency of TV's. In the United States, both the EPA, with their Energy Star program, and the California Energy Commission are introducing regulation to drive greater LCD TV efficiency in the United States. The company has innovated an ability to manufacture a reflective, light recycling, polarizer on polymer film. The company's PolarBrite polarizer technology reclaims and recycles lost light and enables polarization with 75% efficiency instead of 50% efficiency. This 50% efficiency improvement results in a significant energy savings and enables a 30% energy savings in every LCD display. The PolarBrite technology will be offered at the same price as the current energy absorptive polarizer and will thus enable overall cost savings with lower lighting costs and power supplies. In addition, the PolarBrite technology offers a better viewing angle, offering a further improvement in one of the well noted shortcomings of LCDs. It will enable the LCD industry to make a big step forward in energy efficiency, improved margins, and improved performance.