Franklin P. Weigold

Enpirion, Inc. operates as an analog semiconductor company, which offers integrated power management solutions. It develops power systems-on-a-chip DC-DC converters featuring integrated inductors, that enables the combination of efficiency, footprint and low-noise performance. The company was founded by Robert Filas, Trifon Liakopolous, Ashraf Lotfi, Troutman William and Jain Tan in 2001 and is headquartered in Hampton, NJ.

Hittite Microwave LLC designs and manufactures performance integrated circuits, or ICs, modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding digital, RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications covering DC to 110 GHz. The company's standard and custom products apply analog, digital and mixed-signal semiconductor technologies, which are used in a wide variety of wireless & wired communication and sensor applications for the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, fiber optic, microwave & millimeterwave communications, military, space and test & measurement markets. It operates design centers and has sales and technical support staff in Canada, Colorado, Egypt, Norway, Turkey and Virginia, and has sales offices in China, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The company was founded by Yalcin Ayasli in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

Echelon Ventures (Echelon Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Woody S Woodworth and Scott C McCabe. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Unitrode Corp. is a company that makes and sells analog/linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications. The company is based in Merrimack, NH. Unitrode was founded in 1960 and was acquired by Texas Instruments Incorporated on October 15, 1999 for $1,238.64 million.

Siimpel Corporation has been in the business of innovation since its original founding in 2000 as SiWave. With a heritage from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a background in high-precision navigation grade MEMS sensors, the company has maintained a leadership in technology. In its short history, Siimpel Corporation created the smallest high port count optical switches in the world, packaged MEMS components for NASA's Mars rovers, developed the world's first MEMS horizon sensor, developed the highest precision laser ranging system, and created the world's smallest stages using MEMS technology. A recipient of the ATP (advanced technology program) award from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Siimpel is proud of its history of ground breaking innovation. Since 2004, Siimpel has been applying the high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the drastic reduction in size of high performance digital cameras. Siimpel's innovative products set new standards for the size and performance of digital cameras in mobile platforms.