Richard Faubert

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. supplies laser-based manufacturing solutions for the microtechnology industry. Its products include Flexvia Drlling, WaperMaking, Water Trimming and Stent. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

GenRad, Inc. manufactures and sells electronic automatic test equipment and related software for contract and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) of handheld, wireless devices, PC's, business servers, DSL and broadband switching and routing technologies. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Novellus Systems, Inc. manufactures and services advanced automated wafer fabrication systems. The company was founded by Brad Mattson on April 11, 1984 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Tektronix, Inc. provides test, measurement and monitoring solutions. It provides services for the communications, computer, semiconductor industries, as well as for the military, aerospace, consumer electronics and education sectors. The firm also assists its clients in designing, building, deploying and managing global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. The company was founded by Melvin Jack Murdock, Glenn Leland, Miles Tippery and Charles Howard Vollum in 1946 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

RadiSys Corp. engages in the provision of embedded wireless infrastructure solutions for telecom, aerospace, defense and public safety applications. It offers FlowEngine, MediaEngine, MobilityEngine, DCEngine and embedded products. The company was founded by Glenford J. Myers, David L. Budde and Robert Arthur Patterson on March 18, 1987 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, OR.

SpeedFam-IPEC, Inc. designs and manufactures chemical technology used in fabricating semiconductors. Its processing systems are used in the thin film memory disk media, silicon wafer, and general industrial components markets. The company was founded on May 14, 1971 and is headquartered in Ayase-shi, Japan.

AmberWave Systems Corporation was founded in 1998 to answer the market demand for a technology development organization that could commercialize Silicon Germanium-graded buffer technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning, AmberWave Systems has been focused on building bridges between advanced materials science developed at leading universities and industrial applications. AmberWave Systems continues to develop industry partnerships to explore applications of its innovations. These relationships have led, for instance, to the development of Strained Silicon, a technology that is now used at the heart of advanced microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption. AmberWave Systems has expanded the number of both its university partnerships and its industry partners. The company's current materials platforms encompass applications as diverse as next-generation semiconductor memory, solar energy and advanced battery technologies. From the success of the commercialization of Strained Silicon in the CMOS semiconductor industry, to current work on advanced materials for the 21st Century, AmberWave Systems is leading the way in materials science and applications. At AmberWave Systems, using an intellectual property business model of innovation, patenting, licensing and tech transfer was recognized early on as the best way to achieve efficiency in bringing new materials to users. This IP model has been successful at bringing the company's first technology platform SiGe for strained silicon to the consumer; it is dedicated to the continued effective use of this model.

AmberWave, Inc. provides research, development and licensing of technologies for semiconductor manufacturing industries. Its technology Ultra-Thin Silicon (UTSi) enables lightweight, robust glass free modules. The company was founded by Anthony J. Lochtefeld and is headquartered in Salem, NH.