Bill A. Frezza

AmberWave Systems Corporation was founded in 1998 to answer the market demand for a technology development organization that could commercialize Silicon Germanium-graded buffer technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning, AmberWave Systems has been focused on building bridges between advanced materials science developed at leading universities and industrial applications. AmberWave Systems continues to develop industry partnerships to explore applications of its innovations. These relationships have led, for instance, to the development of Strained Silicon, a technology that is now used at the heart of advanced microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption. AmberWave Systems has expanded the number of both its university partnerships and its industry partners. The company's current materials platforms encompass applications as diverse as next-generation semiconductor memory, solar energy and advanced battery technologies. From the success of the commercialization of Strained Silicon in the CMOS semiconductor industry, to current work on advanced materials for the 21st Century, AmberWave Systems is leading the way in materials science and applications. At AmberWave Systems, using an intellectual property business model of innovation, patenting, licensing and tech transfer was recognized early on as the best way to achieve efficiency in bringing new materials to users. This IP model has been successful at bringing the company's first technology platform SiGe for strained silicon to the consumer; it is dedicated to the continued effective use of this model.

BrightScale, Inc. develops video processing technology for digital television and multimedia products. The firm also provides fables semiconductors. Its partners include MIPS, MontaVista, Tata, Rebaca, Virage Logic, and Denali. The company was founded by Gheorghe Stefan in April 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Optellios Inc. manufactures fiber-optic based advanced technology solutions. Its products include fence, multi-zone intrusion detection, data links and pipelines. The company was founded by Jay S. Patel in August 2000 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

BioLeap, Inc. discovers, designs and develops drug pharmaceutical products. Its process creates novel compounds with intellectual property protection, enhances the intellectual property estate around existing compounds, avoids obstructive patents and generates fast-follower compounds. The company was founded by Gerald H. Evans and John L. Kulp in 2004 and is headquartered in Pennington, NJ.

LiquidPiston, Inc. develops rotary internal combustion engines. The firm's technology has applicability in various markets and applications, and can be designed to run on various fuel types, including ethanol, bio-diesel, and hydrogen. The company was founded by Alexander C. Shkolnik and Nikolay Shkolnik in 2003 and is headquartered in Bloomfield, CT.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

VBrick Systems, Inc. provides enterprise video platforms. The firm offers codex, video encoding and editing. Its solutions include HR and training, marketing, sales, and information technology. The company was founded by Richard Mavrogeanes in 1997 and is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

Ericsson, Inc. develops and markets wireless infrastructure equipment. Its products include antennas, transmitters, switching systems and other gears used to build wireless networks. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Plano, TX.