David A. Perkins

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures and designs micro controllers, processors and semiconductors. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Metrowerks Corp. along with its subsidiaries used to design, develop and market professional computer software development tools. These tools were used by programmers to create software applications for a variety of hardware platforms. The company's line of products were called CodeWarrior. CodeWarior iincludes Integrated Development Environment. CodeWarrior is used to build everything from telecommunications switching systems to hand-held PDA applications to hot game console applications. The company's products were marketed through presentations to large group of end-users, trade show exhibits, conference and advertisements in various software catalogs and magazines. The company was headquartered in Austin, TX.

Lightwaves Systems, Inc. manufactures, develops, and markets chipsets for broadband networking. It focuses on the development of a wireline transmission technology TimeFlux, that embodies UltraWideBand. The firm's patents include TimeFlux, Ubiquitous Location and Location Based Services, Ultra WideBand RFID, Fiber Optic Pulse Encoding, and Data Storage, Distribution and Delivery. The company was founded by Phillip T. Kennedy, David M. Snyder, and Joseph A. Gerke in 2002 and is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA.