Robert B. MacKnight

Eaton Corp. engages in the provision of energy-efficient solutions. The company was founded by Viggo V. Torbensen and Joseph O. Eaton on August 28, 1916 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Mattson Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and supports semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) worldwide. The firm supplies dry strip and rapid thermal processing equipment to the global semiconductor industry. The company was founded by Brad Mattson in 1988 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Cymer, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of light sources for the manufacturers of photolithography tools in the semiconductor equipment industry. It provides chip making process, light source, onpluse and data products and services. The company was founded by Robert P. Akins and Richard L. Sandstrom in 1986 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Astute Networks, Inc. develops and manufactures virtualization acceleration appliances. It provides performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments that increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower IT costs. The company was founded by Keith Klarer, Roger Moyer and Osman Fazil on August 7, 2006 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Crossing Automation, Inc. manufactured wafer automation equipment and services. The company was founded by Larry Dulmage, Jed Keller and J. B. Price in 2003 and was headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Global Equipment Services & Manufacturing, Inc. provides outsourced service solutions to the high tech equipment markets. The firm’s services include design engineering, contract manufacturing, field service, software, and after market service. It also offers worldwide design, engineering field support, and manufacturing services to the semiconductor, solar, FPD production equipment, and semiconductor manufacturing industries. The company was founded by Don V. Tran in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Cbrite, Inc. develops and researches diode switches for display applications. Its technology includes amoled backplane challenges, transistor technology, flexible displays, hemispherical array and detector for imaging. It is a flat panel backplane technology and has developed a remarkable new transistor technology for driving high performance LCDs and amoled displays. The firm has locations in Goleta, Hsinchu and Santa Barbara. The company was founded by Gang Yu, Boo Jorgen-Lars Nilsson and Alan J. Heeger in 2000 and is headquartered in Goleta, CA.

Persimmon Technologies Corp. provides vacuum robotics and hybrid-field motor technology. The firm offers its products, modules and automation systems to the semiconductor, data storage, LED, OLED, solar and flat panel display equipment markets. The company was founded by Michael W. Pippins and Martin Hosek in 2010 and is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.