Leo T. McCarthy

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Integrated Sensor Solutions, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets sensor products. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Donald E. Paulus, Steven Saeed Nasiri. Integrated Sensor Solutions was acquired by Texas Instruments Incorporated on August 16, 1999 for $62.09 million.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Zilker Labs LLC develops mixed-signal power management and conversion Integrated Circuit solutions. The company was founded by Bob Bridge in 2003 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Open-Silicon, Inc. provides application integrated circuit solutions. It offers prototyping, software and validation, virtual prototyping, design, analog ICS and production handoffs solutions. The company was founded by Satya Gupta, Naveed Sherwani and Scott Houghton in 2003 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Triad Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of mixed signal application-specifique integrated circuit. Its products include engagement model, mixed signal design software, and Via-Configurable Array technology. The company was founded by Dan Wrappe and James C. Kerling in August 2002 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

SynapSense Corp. provides data center infrastructure management solutions. It offers data center optimization platform, environmental monitoring systems, power usage monitoring, active cooling control, data center assessment and thermal mapping and humidity mapping systems. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Folsom, CA.

Guerrilla RF, Inc. provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits for the wireless infrastructure market. Its products include broadband low noise amplifiers and linear drivers, WLAN LNAs, and broadband LNAs and gain blocks. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as wireless backhaul, cellular repeaters and signal boosters, enterprise and carrier-class Wi-Fi access points, small cells, and base stations and distributed antenna systems. Guerrilla RF was founded by Ryan Michael Pratt in 2013 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

Sensory, Inc. provides speech recognition solutions. It offers small vocabulary command and control, multi-biometric authentication, NLP-5x toolKits, RSC-4x Series, BlueGenie, Applock, and VoiceDial. The company was founded by Todd F. Mozer in 1994 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Storm Ventures LLC (Storm Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Dick Moley, Alex Mendez, Ryan Floyd, Tae Hea Nahm and Sanjay Subhedar. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Intersil Communications, Inc. manufactures semiconductors and related devices. The firm's products include amplifiers, analog front ends, communication interfaces, data converters, digital potentiometers, optical storage products, power management products, power sequencers, real time clocks, smart batteries, switches or MUX's, and integrated circuits for military, space and rad-hard applications. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

VantagePoint Management, Inc. (VantagePoint) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Alan Edward Salzman, James D. Marver. The firm is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with additional office in Beijing, China.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Crosslink Capital, Inc. (Venture Capital) is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Crosslink Capital, Inc. founded in 1989 by Sy F. Kaufman and Michael Joseph Stark. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce operates as a chamber of commerce. It advocates at the local, state and federal levels of government. The company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Global Semiconductor Alliance provides information on and organizes events for the semiconductor industry in order to ensure growth and profitability of the industry. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company was founded by Jodi L. Shelton. Jodi L. Shelton has been the CEO since incorporation.

Semiconductor Industry Association operates association for the semiconductor industry. The company was founded in 1977 by Wilfred Corrigan, Robert Norton Noyce, Jerry Sanders, Charles Sporck and John Welty and is headquartered in John Welty, DC.

The Free Industrial Zone Penang Companies Association operates as a business association. The private company is based in Penang, Malaysia.

Actev Motors, Inc. designs and manufactures electric drivetrains for robots. Bell. David B. The American company was founded in 2014 by David B. Bell has been the CEO since 2014.

RKT Rodinger Kunststoff Technik GmbH develops plastic components for medical technology. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Roding, Germany.