Walter A. Shephard

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.

ZYGO Corp. designs, manufactures and distributes optical systems and components for metrology and end-user applications. It operates through two segments: Metrology Solutions and Optical Systems. The Metrology Solutions division is comprised of three business units: Precision Positioning Systems, Vision Systems, and Instruments. This division's products employ various optical phase analysis techniques for measuring displacement, surface shape and texture, and film thickness. The Optical Systems division is comprised of two business units: Electro-Optics and Optical Components. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Middlefield, CT.

Wave Systems Corp. develops, produces and markets products for hardware-based digital security. Its products include EMBASSY trust suite, EMBASSY Trusted drive manager, key transfer manager, private information manager, TCG-enabled crypto service provider and TCG-enabled toolkit. The company was founded by Peter J. Sprague on August 12, 1988 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Luminus Devices, Inc. develops and manufactures solid state lighting solutions. Its products include COB arrays, mid power LEDs, XNOVA cube, high brightness white LEDs, color LEDs, color mix LEDs, UV LEDs, IR LEDs and horticulture LEDs. The company was founded by Alexei Erchak and John D. Joannopoulos in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

LoftusGroup LLC provides management and financial consulting services to public and private companies. The company was founded in 1993 by William F. Loftus and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.