Alan F. Shugart

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a broad range of high-performance solutions for embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer devices. Its programmable systems-on-chip, general-purpose microcontrollers, analog ICs, wireless and USB-C based connectivity solutions and memories help engineers design differentiated products. The firm operates through the following segments: The Microcontroller and Connectivity Division (MCD), and the Memory Products Division (MPD). The company was founded by Thurman John Rodgers in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Valence Technology, Inc. manufactured and developed advanced energy storage systems. Its solutions included material handling, medical, motive, marine, industrial, energy storage and robots. The firm’s products included 12V-48V lithium ion batteries, U-Charge XP series, u-charge RT battery modules, U1-12BMS, P40-24 24 volt power modules and other accessories. The company was founded by William J. Masuda and Carl E. Berg in 1989 and was headquartered in Austin, TX.

SanDisk LLC designs, develops and markets flash memory data storage products. The company was founded by Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra on June 01, 1988 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Seagate Technology LLC engages in the development and manufacture of data storage solutions. It products include network-attached storage hard drive, solid state drives, hybrid cloud backup solutions, and express recovery appliances. The company was founded by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner in 1978 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

Blue Sky Research, Inc. engages in the development and manufacturing of semiconductor laser products and solutions. It offers fiber coupled lasers and systems, laser diode modules, OEM lasers and components, prototyping and engineering products. The company was founded by Ronald E. Grubman in 1989 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

BlackBall, Inc. develops unstructured data management software services. digital asset, document, content and storage management, content delivery, search & retrieval and databases are all being stretched with unstructured rich media content. It also offers services such as consulting, support and training. The company was founded by Patricia Brown in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Founded in 1998, Al Shugart International (ASI) is a venture capital company located in Santa Cruz, California.