Emiko Higashi

Gilo Ventures LLC (Gilo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Emiko Higashi and Davidi Gilo. Gilo Ventures LLC is headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Zeptor Corp. specialized in battery technologies. The firm manufactures and produces lithium ion batteries. It is a nano-scale manufacturing firm dedicated to bringing the systems and techniques forged in the semiconductor industry and honed over decades to the nascent clean energy industry. The firm's goal is to develop and manufacture light-weight electrodes for use in lithium batteries, fuel cells and capacitors. The company was founded by Venkatasubramani Balu, Tatsunori Suzuki and Charles Consorte in July 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.