Joseph Balardeta

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Luxtera, Inc. engages in the development and delivery of silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) photonics. Its CMOS technology provides bandwidth for applications ranging from local area network to chip-to-chip interconnect. The company was founded by Alex Dickinson, Axel Scherer, Eli Yablonovitch and Lawrence Cary Gunn III in 2001 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Part of Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., uPlay LLC is a company that develops and markets technically superior consumer electronics devices. The company is based in Carlsbad, CA. The company was founded by Joseph Balardeta. uPlay was acquired by Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. on December 31, 2008 for $10.10 million.