Stephen Barry

MiaSolé, Inc. manufactures copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels. Its products include flexible solar cell, FLEX-02N & FLEX-09NL and FLEX-02W. The company was founded by Dennis R. Hollars and David B. Pearce in 2001 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Part of StorMedia, Inc., Akashic Memories Corp. makes magnetic media and substrates. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. Akashic Memories was acquired by StorMedia, Inc. from Kubota Corp. on December 31, 1997 for $14 million.