Guy William LaRosa

IRIS International, Inc. engages in the manufacture of surgical and medical instruments. Its products include in vitro diagnostic systems. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Brea, CA.

Kratos Technology & Training Solutions, Inc. provides information technology wireless communications, solutions, and consulting services. It offers interoperable communications software, sensors, digital video broadcast and surveillance technologies, and Net-centric technologies. The company was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

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.

Sansum Clinic operates as a healthcare company. The firm offers urgent care, primary care, distinguished specialty centers, specialty care and support services. The company was founded by William David Sansum in 1921 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Spectrum Effect, Inc. is a private company that provides a revolutionary solution called Spectrum-Net, which helps operators optimize their networks for future sharing opportunities by identifying and mitigating sources of external RF interference. The company is based in Kirkland, WA. The solution delivers valuable AI insights that enable operators to quickly solve complex problems and unlock the full potential of their network. Spectrum-Net provides innovative RF interference mitigation capabilities, enabling mobile operators to rapidly resolve interference issues. The company was founded in 2015 by Charles Immendorf, Charles James Judso. Charles Immendorf has been the CEO since 2015.

NextWeb, Inc. provides fixed wireless internet services for business operating in California, Nevada and Illinois. The company utilizes licensed and unlicensed wireless technology to bypass the local telco infrastructure to deliver cost-effective, T1-class broadband service that can be installed in days, rather than weeks. It was founded in 1999 by Graham R. Barnes, Mike Gresham, Matt Prudhon and Jim Kirchner. It is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Ltd. is a British company that engages in the prevention, treatment, causes, and cure for diabetes. The CEO of the non-profit company is Karen Addington.

Optimum Energy LLC develops networked building control applications and products to reduce energy consumption in commercial buildings. It offers software solutions, OptimumMVM, OptimumLOOP, and OptimumVAV. The firm’s services include preliminary site assessment, analysis and design, architecture proposal, implementation, and commissioning. The company was founded by Nathan F. Rothman and Jim Hanna in 2005 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

World Wide Packets, Inc. provides Ethernet broadband services. Its services include telephony, business and entertainment video, broadband data and internet access services. World Wide Packets was founded in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, NJ.

UltraCell Corporation (Livermore, CA) was founded in 2002 to commercialize an advanced Reformed Methanol Micro Fuel Cell (RMFC) technology invented at the U. S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This technology enables a breakthrough in micro fuel cell performance. UltraCell is the first to commercialize RMFC technology to provide clean renewable energy to power portable electronics. UltraCell's XX25™ micro fuel cell system is leading the industry with its ultra-compact size and light weight. The XX25 is the only system in its class to have undergone extensive Military Specification qualification testing and field trials. UltraCell¹s team has extensive experience in all aspects of fuel cells, including research, product development, manufacturing and customer applications. The company has developed new technologies and intellectual property in the field of methanol-based fuel cells and continues to innovate in this rapidly emerging field. UltraCell has an exclusive license with LLNL for micro fuel cell technology based upon reforming methanol into hydrogen reformate using proprietary technology in the fuel reformer and hydrogen fuel cell stack. With the July, 2007 opening of the UltraCell manufacturing plant in Vandalia, Ohio, UltraCell now offers the first volume-production micro fuel cell facility in North America. This plant applies advanced manufacturing techniques while leveraging the extensive local area supply chain and automotive quality methods to enable rapid response to growing customer needs. Its location at the Dayton International Airport free trade zone enables the company¹s products to be readily available to customers worldwide. With it¹s two U.S. locations, and partners in Asia and Europe, UltraCell is prepared to support customer¹s needs around the world.

Blackberry RF, Inc. designs and manufactures radio frequency front-end component solutions for mobile wireless applications. The company was founded by Louise C. Sengupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Nashua, NH.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Tessera Technologies, Inc. develops and licenses innovative semiconductor, interconnect and imaging technologies. The company offers mobile computing and communications, memory and data storage and 3-D Integrated Circuit technologies. Tessera Technologies was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 27 patents issued and over 30 pending. The company has been funded by leading ventures funds including Formative Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, Lucas Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.