J. Jeff Farthing

BioIQ, Inc. develops and markets health screening and medical diagnostic platforms. It offers health improvement technologies, with focus on optimizing investments in corporate health and wellness programs. The firm's technology platform features the Dimensions, Axis, Ecosystem and Advisor components, serving as foundation for outcome-based wellness, performance measurement, population stratification and assignment of targeted health-improvement solutions based on each participant's actual risk. The company was founded by Justin J. Bellante and Raja Jindal in 2005 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Quintessent Inc. engages in the manufacture of optical engines. It commercializes quantum dot-based lasers and photonic integrated circuits. The company was founded by Alan Young Liu and John Bowers in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

The Optical Society of America provides publications, meetings, and membership programs in optics and photonics. The private company is based in Washington. The CEO of the American company is Elizabeth Rogan.

The American Physical Society is an organization that offers information on various prizes, awards, fellowships, scholarships, and grants related to physics. The non-profit company is based in College Park, MD. The company also provides programs that aim to improve physics education, impact policy makers, increase diversity, and inform the public.

Teledyne FLIR EOC LLC manufactures and supplies electro-optical devices and sub-systems. Its products include laser illuminations, rangefinders, and pointers, focal plane arrays, and video tracker systems. The company also provides vertical-cavity laser design software solutions. FLIR EOC was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

ThinGap LLC designs and manufactures electric motors and generators. The firm specializes in the development and production of custom high performance brushless DC and synchronous permanent magnet motors and generators. The firm serves the medical devices and technologies, aerospace and defense, unmanned systems, robotics and industrial automation and green technology industries. The company was founded in 1997 by Greg Graham, R. Michael Crill and Jerry Yankie and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Aurrion, Inc. develops and manufactures silicon photonic integrated circuits. The firms platform enables all the elements of photonics systems, including active components such as lasers, modulators and amplifiers, to be fabricated on the wafer scale with the performance of traditional III-V materials and the control and cost-structure of silicon foundries. The company was founded by Alexander W. Fang and John E. Bowers in 2007 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

The Kavli Foundation engages in the provision of support for the advancement of science, increase of public understanding, and support for scientists. The company was founded by Fred Kavli in December 2000 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and operates technical professional association. It provides membership and services, societies and communities support, publication services, and conferences and events. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

CALIENT Technologies, Inc. manufactures photonic optical circuit switching systems. Its systems enable dynamic optical layer optimization in next generation datacenters and software defined networks. The firm designs and fabricates its systems using state of the art MEMS equipment in its own fabrication facility. The company was founded by Daniel Blumenthal, Charles M. Corbalis and John E. Bowers in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Inlustra Technologies LLC manufactures nonpolar and semipolar Gallium Nitride. It offers gallium nitride substrates for optoelectronic devices to laser, LED, and academic customers. The company was founded by Benjamin A. Haskell and Paul T. Fini in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Part of Ciena Corp., Terabit Technology, Inc. is a developer of advanced photo detectors. The company is based in Santa Barbara, CA. The company was founded by John E. Bowers. Terabit Technology was acquired by Ciena Corp. on April 22, 1998 for $7.58 million.