Christopher Mark Melliar-Smith

Pulse Electronics Corp. manufactures and sells electronic components and modules. It serves manufacturers in the wireless and wire line communications, power management, military/aerospace and automotive industries. The firm operates through three business segments: Network, Power and Wireless Product Group. The company was founded on April 10, 1947 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SEMATECH, Inc. provides research and development services in semiconductor manufacturing technology. It offers research in design, lithography, interconnect, and other facets of chip manufacturing. The company was established in 1986 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Power-One, Inc. designs and manufactures power supply products for a variety of industries, including renewable energy, servers, storage, networking, industrials and network power systems. It operates through two business segments: Renewable Energy Solutions and Power Solutions. The Renewable Energy Solutions segment offers inverters and accessories for the photovoltaic, solar and wind markets. The Power Solutions segment represents the company's products for AC/DC, DC/DC and digital power conversion, including power conversion products for data centers, such as servers, storage, networking, as well as telecom and industrial power conversion products. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Agere Systems, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures integrated circuits used in communications networks and computer equipment

Molecular Imprints, Inc. designs and manufactures imprint lithography systems. Its nanoimprint lithography systems are based on its core technology, Jet and Flash Imprint Lithography (J-FIL). The firm provides super-high-resolution contact lithography systems to the nano-technology industry. The company was founded in February 2001 by S. V. Sreenivasan and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Metrosol, Inc. provides thin film measurement services. It develops, manufactures, and markets patented short wavelength optical metrology systems that extend traditional optical tools by collecting reflectance data in the VUV wavelength. The firm's products include S-WaveTM and L-WaveTM. The company was founded by William Stueve and Dale Harrison in July 22, 2002 and is headquartered in Austin, TX

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

AVP Management Services, Inc. (AVP Management Services) is a private equity/venture capital firm firm founded in 1979 by Joseph Charles Aragona, Ken Paul DeAngelis and Jeff C. Garvey. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.