Mary L. Dotz

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Avid Systems, Inc. provides digital media creation, storage and play-back solutions. The company's products include pinnacle PCTV, dazzle, pinnacle show center, pinnacle mobile media and pinnacle studio. Its solutions are used in broadcast, video & audio editing, DVD & CDR authoring and on Internet. Avid Systems was founded in 1986 by Ajay Chopra and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Beceem Communications, Inc. manufactured semiconductors for the wireless broadband market. It specialized in the emerging 4G-WiMAX marketplace. The company was founded in October 2003 by Surendra Babu Mandava and Arogyaswami J. Paulraj and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Anatomage, Inc. develops surgical instruments for medical and dental applications. Its products include InVivoDental, AnatoCeph and AnatoModel. The firm specializes in 3D imaging software, dental implant surgical guides and virtual dissection table. The company was founded in 2004 by Jack Choi and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a machine safeguarding private company based in Batavia, IL. The company designs, manufactures, and services a variety of machine safeguarding devices used for fulfilling the machine guarding and control needs of industrial manufacturers. The company's safety controls are used to interface the specific guarding device(s) to the machine control in a mandated control reliable fashion. Pinnacle Systems' products have been time tested to be extremely dependable, feature intensive, and provide a cost-effective solution for solving complex machine safeguarding projects while protecting the employee. The company's safety devices include safety light curtains, safety mats, ergonomic palm buttons, safety relays, safety controls, and much more. The company is driven by creating machine safeguarding products that comply with or exceed OSHA and ANSI safety and control requirements. In addition, compliance with international machine guarding bodies such as ISO, CSA, and CE are recognized within their machine safeguarding designs of products.