Charles A. Haggerty

Beckman Coulter, Inc. manufactures and distributes biomedical testing instrument systems and general biomedical research products. It develops and markets products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing. The firm’s systems operate in both diagnostics and life sciences laboratories on seven continents. Its products improve the productivity of medical professionals and scientists, supplying critical information for improving patient health and delivering trusted solutions for research and discovery. The company was founded in 1935 by Arnold O. Beckman and is headquartered in Brea, CA.

Pentair, Inc. manufactures water treatment systems. The company's products include water & wastewater pumps, filtration & purification, components & systems, storage tanks & pressure vessels and pool. Its applications include industrial machinery, data communications, networking, telecommunications, test and measurement, automotive, medical, security, defense and general electronics. The company was founded on August 31, 1966 by Murray Harpole, Vern Stone, Vincent Follmer, Leroy Nelson and Gary Ostrand and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Vixel Corp. provides storage networking technologies. The company provides storage switches for storage area networks. It provides services to Avid Technologies, BlueArc, Compaq, Fujitsu Softek, IBM, Lucent, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. The company founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Bothell, WA.

Engenio Information Technologies, Inc. used to provide data storage services. The company designed and manufactured storage systems, storage controllers/modules and storage management software. Its storage technology supported all open operating systems and was compatible with storage software & infrastructure components from industry vendors. Engenio Information Technologies was located in Milpitas, CA.