Peter F. Bordui

Photonic Materials Ltd. develops and manufactures single crystal components. Its products are used in fiber optic components, medical imaging scanners, and lasers. The company was founded by Dr. John Nicholls and Jean-Luc Lefaucheur in 1999 and is headquartered in Bellshill, UK.

Media Lario Technologies SRL supplies cost effective reflective optical components and systems for a variety of applications in Semiconductor Lithography, Semiconductor Processing Capital Equipment, Space and Terrestrial Science and Medical and Life Science Devices, thereby serving the radiation spectrum from X-ray to millimeter waves. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Bosisio Parini, Italy.

Media Lario International SA manufactures and supplies reflective optical components and subsystems. The company was founded by Arnoldo Valenzuela and Jeffey Charles Lyons on December 12, 2003 and is headquartered in Luxembourg.

M Squared Lasers Ltd. develops and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments. The firm’s products include SolsTiS, Lasers, Firefly-IR, and -THz laser. The company was founded by Graeme Malcolm Peter Alexander and Gareth Maker Thomas on May 2, 2006 and is headquartered in Glasgow, the United Kingdom.

Polytech Advisors SA (Polytech Advisors) is an independent Swiss venture capital firm which was established in 2008 by the Ecoles Polytechniques fédérales de Lausanne (EPFL), the EPFL Plus Foundation, the Parc Scientifique Ecublens, the Foundation of Technology Innovation and the Sandoz Family Foundation to manage the Polytech Ventures & Cie SPC fund. Based in the Parc Scientifique EPFL in Lausanne, the firm aims to increase the emergence of successful entrepreneurial ventures in Western Switzerland by investing through the Polytech Ventures seed fund in early-stage technology companies. The fund is backed by qualified investors including companies, high net-worth individuals and the Canton of Vaud.

Bookham, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and provider of optical solutions for telecommunication optical networks. It designs, manufactures and markets optical components, modules and subsystems such as transmitters, network lasers and transceivers and has facilities in United Kingdom, two in the United States, one in Canada and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The company was founded in 1988 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Lumentum Technology UK Ltd. designs and manufactures optical components, modules, and subsystems for fiber optic communication. The firm offers transceivers, transmitters and network lasers, receivers, amplifiers, pumps, LED, and laser illumination products. It offers services to the telecommunications, aerospace, industrial, semiconductor, and defense markets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Towcester, the United Kingdom.

Oclaro Photonics, Inc. manufactures and markets fiber-optic products. The firm develops photonics solutions for commercial and research applications. Its products include optical posts and rods, linear translation stages, mirror mounts, motorized linear stages, rail systems, motorized actuators, high speed photo receivers, general purpose detectors, tunable diode lasers, specialty optical mounts, and beam position detectors. The company was founded by Milton Chang, Timothy Day, Robert Marsland and Frank Luecke in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.