Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico

Lessac Technologies, Inc. produces and develops text-to-speech systems and software solutions. The firm's automated narrator system parses plain text as words, sentences, and paragraphs to be spoken expressively with meaning which consistently recognizable as speech from the same person. The company was founded by H. Donald Wilson and Gary A. Marple in 2000 and is headquartered in West Newton, MA.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Fonix Corp. provides integrated telecommunication services, value added speech enabling technologies, speech interface development tools, speech solutions and applications including automated speech recognition and text to speech that empower consumers to interact conversationally with information systems and devices. Fonix Speech offers its speech enabling technologies to markets for personal software for consumer applications including, video games, e.Dictionaries and mobile navigation devices with GPS, wirless, mobile devices, computer telephony, and server solutions. The company was founded by Roger D. Dudley in 1994 and is headquartered in Lindon, UT.