Michael J. Byrd

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Celestron LLC designs and manufactures telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and microscopes. It provides logistical support to retailers such as Discovery Channel, The Natural World, Costco, Canadian Tire, American Express, LL Bean, EMS, Amazon.com and B&H Photo. The firm’s products include telescopes, optical tubes, mounts and tripods, astronomy binoculars, solar observing, astroimaging cameras, binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes, solar observing, outdoor electronics, digital, biological and stereo microscopes. The company was founded by Tom Johnson in 1960 and is headquartered in Torrance, CA.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

National Association of Corporate Directors provides online and print information services to directors of public companies. It offers in-boardroom education, evaluation, governance reviews, board composition and succession planning, board recruitment, ongoing advisory, insights, and analytics services. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Santa Fe Institute of Science operates as a nonprofit, independent research center. It provides research and education services. The company was founded by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter A. Carruthers, and Richard Slansky in May 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, NM.

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.

Linear Dimensions Semiconductor, Inc. develops custom and semi-custom system solutions for consumer, industrial and medical products. It offers vertically integrated combination of AMS IC development, plastics, mechanical, embedded system, algorithm and software based upon its PEAL and CardiacLock technology and its proprietary sensors. The company was founded by David Schie in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Orca Systems, Inc. provides integrated radio frequency and modem technology solutions. It offers a wireless transceiver architecture that allows consumers to achieve new benchmarks in solution cost, power consumption, and solution integration and Silicon TV Tuner, integrated universal terrestrial and cable silicon tuner supporting worldwide analog and digital broadcast standards. The company was founded by Guruswami Sridharan and Karthik Sridharan and is headquartered in Poway, CA.

Part of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Jariet Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in packaged RF/microwave transceiver ICs. The company is based in Redondo Beach, CA. The company also provides die-level transceiver products with AIB or SerDes interfaces for use in customer-developed multi-chip modules (MCMs) or system in packages (SiPs). Jariet Technologies works closely with their customers to develop mixed-signal multi-chip modules, leveraging their expertise in advanced, heterogeneous packaging techniques for high-frequency devices. Founded in 2015, the company offers commercially available or customized packaged IC products with integrated ADC/DACs, clocking, calibration, and DSP transceiver chiplets.

Eta Compute, Inc. is engaged in revolutionizing low power consumption for the Internet of Things. The firm provides consulting and design services. It offers a range of licensing models. The company also offers Circuit design, Low voltage standard cell library development, SoC and ASIC design. Eta Compute was founded by Gopal Raghavan, Timothy D. Semones and Paul Washkewicz in 2015 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Seabed VC (Seabed VC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Vijay Ullal. The firm is headquartered in California.

Mission Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of tools for the study of cellular heterogeneity in human health and life science research. It develops research tools that allow high-throughput, single-cell nucleic acid characterization across a variety of research applications, including oncology and immunology. The company was founded by Charlie Silver, Adam Sciambi, Adam Abate, and Dennis Eastburn on June 29, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Focal Systems, Inc. builds computer vision applications for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. The company was founded by Francois Chaubard, Adriano Quiroga and Michael Cantalino and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tewksbury Partner LLC is a private company that provides real estate services. The company is based in Tewksbury. The company was founded by Theodore L. Tewksbury and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Zenith Aerospace, Inc. manufactures aircraft. The company was founded by Raphael Nardari, Yitao Zhuang, and Felix Crevier on October 7, 2016 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Vimaan Robotics, Inc. provides the next-generation of drone technology for industrial indoor environments. The company was founded by S. K. Ganapathi and Marc Mignard in 2017 and is headquartered in San Santa Clara, CA.

Bounce, Inc. develops a software mobile application that helps to leave and retrieve user's goods. The company was founded by Cody Candee and Aleksander Herforth Rendtslev and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AIStorm, Inc. is a company that specializes in AI-in-sensor processing, which eliminates the latency, power, and cost associated with competitive solutions at the edge. AIStorm is headquartered in an undisclosed location, but has offices in multiple locations including Houston, TX; San Jose, CA; Tel Aviv, Israel; Nashua, NH; Bangalore, India; and Shanghai, China. The company was founded by David C. Schie and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Pareto, Inc. provides software automation services. The company is based in Wilmington, DE and has subsidiaries in Canada. The company was founded in 2019 by Phoebe Yao. Phoebe Yao has been the CEO since 2019.

Summer Robotics, Inc. is a company based in Campbell, CA. Schuyler Cullen has been the CEOs since incorporation. Summer Robotics, Inc. was founded by Dirk Smits, Schuyler Cullen.