Joel Pollack

Excel Technology, Inc. designs, develops, and markets laser systems and electro optical components. The firm's products are used for industrial, commercial, and scientific applications. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

Censtor Corp. engages in license contact, pseudo-contact and suspension recording technologies to disk drive manufacturers. It owns fundamental patents pertaining to micro-miniature, low-cost read/write heads and special surface treatments for disk media that allow continuous head/disk contact during operation without excessive wear. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. engages in the design, development and sale of semiconductor products. Its products are used in communication, computing, industrial automation, consumer and automotive applications. It offers serial and parallel Flash/electrically erasable programmable read only memories (EEPROM), programmable micro-controller supervisory and voltage reference circuits and mixed signal devices. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

ELIX Wireless Charging Systems, Inc. provides electrical wireless power transfer to charging electric vehicles. It presently offering customers the following products (charging power): E1K (1 kW), E8K (7.7 kW), E10K (10 kW), E40K (40 kW). The company was founded by Frank Christiaens in 2013 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

ZoMazz, Inc. operates as an engineering solutions company. It provides world-class product design and engineering services focused on design for manufacturing of molded consumer products. The firm also offers comprehensive supply chain management for the manufacturing of compression molded, liquid injection silicone molded, compression-injection molded and injection molded with and without Digital In-Mold Decoration for consumer products. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Monterey, CA.

daVinci Capital Group operates as a financial investment firm. The private company is based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Oleg Viktorovich Jelezko.

Efficient Drivetrains, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of automobile components. It offers controllers and control software, clutching systems, drivetrain components, continuously variable transmissions, battery modules, technical services, patent licensing, and utility and telecom solutions. The company was founded by Joerg Ferchau, Andrew Alfonso Frank, and Stuart Kaler in April 2006 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Merck Ventures BV (Merck Ventures) is a venture capital arm of Merck KGaA founded in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

NantWorks LLC develops technology based semiconductor and advanced networks for healthcare improvements. Its solution is for life threatening diseases such as cancer, infectious diseases and Alzheimer’s. The company was founded by Patrick Soon-Shiong in September 2011 and is headquartered in Culver City, CA.

Morrison & Foerster LLP is a law firm that provides legal services on various industries, which include: litigation, financial services, intellectual property and technology, and transactional work, such as corporate, capital markets and real estate finance representations. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Longtop Group engages in the providing of software applications and solutions to information technology and financial institutions. It develops & delivers a comprehensive range of software applications & solutions with a focus on meeting the rapidly growing Information Technology needs of the financial services institutions. Longtop customers include commercial banks, China postal savings bank, life insurance companies and agricultural banks. The company was founded by Weizhou Lian and Jia Xiao Gong in June, 1996 and is headquartered in Xiamen, China.

Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. is engaged in software development & solutions provider. The company develops and delivers a comprehensive range of software applications and solutions on increasing IT needs of financial services institutions in China. It has six solution delivery centers, three research and development centers, and 84 ATM service centers located in 27 out of 31 provinces in China. The company have sales offices in Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Longtop Financial Technologies was founded by Xiaogong Jia and Weizhou Lian on June, 1996 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.