Glen A. Barton

Vale Inco Ltd. manufactures nickel materials for manufacturing stainless steel and batteries. It also mines and processes copper, gold, cobalt and platinum metals. The company also manufactures flakes and powders for use in catalysts, electronics and paints. Its mining and processing operations are in Canada, Indonesia and the UK. Vale Inco was founded in 1901 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

Absorbent Technologies, Inc. (dba Zeba) develops, manufactures and markets starch-based superabsorbent products and ingredients. It offers ATI offers ingredients for agricultural products under the Zeba brand and industrial uses under the Reon brand. The firm's products are made up of glucose molecules, which are linked together chemically to become a water-insoluble, net-like matrix in the form of a hydrogel that holds and releases water for use by plants as needed. The company was founded by Milan H. Savich and David C. Moffenbeier in 2003 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Firefly Energy was founded in 2003 to develop and market breakthrough technology that takes batteries to new levels of performance. The Microcell foam grid technology developed by Firefly can be incorporated into existing lead acid manufacturing without requiring major investment in new equipment and processes. By incorporating the Microcell technology developed by Firefly, batteries can achieve previously unheard of levels of performance and reliability. The technology is truly revolutionary in that it breaks through long-standing barriers of conventional battery performance with new levels of power, capacity, and life at lower cost and lighter weight. Firefly's business model is based on an efficient direct sales linkage, as a technology supplier, to strategic partners and OEMs for the manufacturing and distribution of the technology into all of the existing major lead acid battery segments. Furthermore, the potential of this technology is such that, with its implementation, it will enable relatively inexpensive batteries to penetrate new markets once thought to be the exclusive domain of much more costly battery

Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd. explores and acquires gold mines. It has operations and holds assets in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, New Zealand and Mexico. It buys stakes in already operating gold, silver and platinum mines & collect royalties. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Tri County Venture Capital (Tri County Venture ) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Heartland Capital Network founded in 2004. The firm is headquartered in Peoria, Illinois.