Enrico Pesatori

Read Rite Corp. is one of the three major independent suppliers of magnetic recording heads for the hard disk drive and tape drive markets. The Company designs, manufactures and markets magnetic recording heads as head gimbal assemblies and incorporate multiple head gimbal assemblies into head stack assemblies. The Company is a market leader in providing magnetoresistive and inductive tape heads to the entry level through mid-range tape drive markets. The Company operates in an industry with limited visibility. It is located in Fremont, CA.

Solectron Corp. was a provider of electronics manufacturing and supply-chain management services. It offerings included new-product design and introduction services, materials management, high-tech product manufacturing, and product warranty and end-of-life support. The firm was acquired by Flextronics International Ltd. The company was founded in 1977 and was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

SMART Worldwide Holdings, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies memory and embedded storage products. It offers flash memory cards, solid-state drives (SSDs), and DRAM modules for OEMs in the computer, defense, gaming, networking, and telecommunication sectors. The company was founded by Ajay B. Shah and Mukesh D. Patel on March 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Lumentum Technology UK Ltd. designs and manufactures optical components, modules, and subsystems for fiber optic communication. The firm offers transceivers, transmitters and network lasers, receivers, amplifiers, pumps, LED, and laser illumination products. It offers services to the telecommunications, aerospace, industrial, semiconductor, and defense markets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Towcester, the United Kingdom.

Part of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., Smart Modular Technologies (Europe) Ltd. is a leader in specialty memory solutions such as DRAM memory modules, solid-state drives, and flash-based removable and embedded memory. The company, based in London, UK, delivers solutions to a broad customer base, including OEMs that compete in the computing, networking, communications, storage, mobile, and industrial markets. Smart Modular offers a variety of memory and storage solutions for point-of-sales and mission-critical industrial applications requiring a durable system with reliable computing to handle intensive workloads while having a long operating life that withstands a variety of environmental conditions. The British company prides itself on its strong, longstanding relationships with its industry partners, assuring customers that every product they sell is built with the highest quality components available and backed with the ironclad reputation of industry leaders.

Siemens Corp. manufactures electrical hardware and software for the communication, power, medical and other industries. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

MSLGroup provides specialty communications, public relations, and events management services. It helps customers to engage with their audiences 24/7. The firm is specializes in areas including consumer, corporate & brand citizenship, digital & social media, employee practice, events and experiential, financial communications, healthcare, public affairs, reputation management & corporate communications and technology. It provides services to the automotive, consumer, defense, energy, entertainment, food & beverage, sports, technology and travel & tourism sectors. The company was founded in 2009 and is in headquarters in New York, NY.

APL Logistics Ltd. provides international logistics services. Its services include supply chain management, consolidation, vendor services, warehousing & distribution, global freight management and manufacturing support. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Cygnus Solutions, Inc. develops software development platforms based on an open source model. The company was founded by Michael Tiemann, David Henkel-Wallace and John Gilmore and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Oracle Corp., Star Division Corp is a company that develops word-processing and spreadsheet software. The company is based in Fremont, CA. Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems, Inc. on August 30, 1999 for $59.50 million.

Ignis Optics, Inc. provides optical modules for communications networks. It designs and manufactures small form factor pluggable single mode optical transceivers for current and next generation optical datacom and telecom networks. The company was founded by Michael S. Lebby in 2001 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Mirion Technologies (US), Inc. engages in the provision of nuclear measurement and detection systems. It offers measurement and enterprise, calibration, customer training programs, installation, product support and repairs, consulting, and instadose dosimetry services. The company was founded in December 2005 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.

Innovative Interfaces, Inc. manage and provide access to library collections. Its products include sierra, virtua, Polaris, millennium ILS, resource sharing, digital, meta data management, patron mobile app products. It offers customer support, hosting, and training and continuing education services. The firm’s provides services to law schools, and public, digital and special libraries. The company was founded by Jerry Kline in 1978 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Part of SMART Global Holdings, Inc., SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. has been designing and developing specialty memory solutions for over 30 years. The company is based in Newark, CA, and was founded in 1988 by Ajay B. Shah. The company offers a robust portfolio of standard, ruggedized, and custom memory and storage solutions that cater to diverse applications in high-growth markets. SMART Modular Technologies collaborates closely with its OEM customers to create solutions for demanding applications with differentiated requirements. The company is a pioneer in secure, ruggedized solid-state drives (SSDs) and delivers solutions to a broad customer base, including OEMs that compete in the computing, networking, communications, storage, mobile, and industrial markets.

Smart Memory Solutions LLC manufactures semiconductors.