Jason W. Schouw

RPO, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware and has headquarters in San Jose. The core technologies have been developed at its research and development facilities in Canberra and Sydney, Australia. It has received venture funding from existing investors including Australian funds managed by Jolimont Capital, by Allen & Buckeridge and by Neo Technology Ventures; and from BASF Venture Capital and from Jafco. Since mid-2003 RPO's focus has been turned to applying its waveguide technology to solutions for consumer electronics markets and developing a high-volume manufacturing process. They are a technology focused company, with over 90% of its staff engaged in waveguide technology development, technical marketing, product development, design, and manufacturing. Die design, layout and footprint is customized to suit customers' cost, performance, assembly and packaging requirements. RPO supplies the key component to its touch screen customers the polymer optical waveguides for integration during the final product's assembly process.

Aureal Semiconductor, Inc. makes multimedia computing products. The private company is based in Fremont, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States.

SCM Microsystems, Inc. provides security and identity solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange. For organizations and individuals that need to secure their digital assets, electronic transactions and facilities, SCM provides solutions that cut costs and reduce risk and liabilities. Instead of providing only a piece of the puzzle, SCM's offerings are broad & integrated, enabling complete solutions that allow customers to turn to a single source to meet all their security and identity management challenges. The company is founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Ismaning, Germany.

Agere Systems, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures integrated circuits used in communications networks and computer equipment

Bay Microsystems, Inc. develops telecommunications systems and software. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.