James B. McCarthy

JMAR Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures, and supports advanced laser, sensor, detection, and custom systems for a wide variety of applications in military, commercial and industrial markets. The company establishes its innovative legacy as the originator of Collimated Plasma Lithography, a next generation lithography alternative designed to deliver sub-100 nanometer chips to the semiconductor industry. JMAR Technologies was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Protein Polymer Technologies, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company, which engages in the research, development, and production of bio-active devices to improve medical and surgical outcomes. Its technology produces proteins of design, biological and physical product components for optimized clinical performance. The company was founded on July 6, 1988 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Gemini Consulting Group, Inc. provides management consulting services. Its services range from management consulting, to the development of day surgery centers and hospitals. The company was founded by James B. McCarthy and is headquartered in Oak Brook, IL.

StemCyte, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that collects, banks and distributes cord blood stem cell transfusion units. It focuses on stem cell transplantation, therapy, applications, diagnostics, and genomic research. The firm uses insulated containers to keep your baby's cord blood cool throughout transport. The company was founded by Denis Rodgerson and Robert Chow in 1997 and is headquartered in Covina, CA.

Accellent, Inc. provides outsourced precision manufacturing and engineering services for the medical device industry. It offers services to the cardiology, endoscopy, and orthopaedic markets. The company is headquartered in Collegeville, PA.

Hinsdale Bank & Trust Co. operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It offers deposit, loan, checking, savings, certificates of deposit, credit cards, money smart, platinum adventures club, online, reorder personal checks, safe deposit boxes, telebank, and international business services. The company is headquartered in Hinsdale, IL.

British-American Business Council of the Pacific Northwest is a non-profit organization. It is focused in connecting people, companies and organizations engaged in business, trade and transatlantic interests through networking, business and social programming, relationship development, information, education resources and cultural promotion. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen's amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence™ (HSF™) detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. The company's versatile and HSF™ technology simplifies sample processing and instrumentation requirements in both immunodiagnostic and nucleic acid based applications, and facilitates high volume screening in theradiagnostics and other personal care applications. Its platform agnostic, enabling technology represents a quantum leap in detection capabilities, amplifying the sensitivity of a wide range of existing instrumentation and detection platforms by up to 100 fold. The company's technology is applicable to a diverse cross section of the biomedical industry including the $6billion drug discovery industry which can use it to test the efficacy of new drugs, the $12billion life sciences industry which can use Sirigen to develop new detection platforms, and the $35billion diagnostics industry, which can work with the company to optimise existing diagnostic techniques and to develop the next generation of diagnostic tools. Indeed the potential to deliver real time testing on miniaturised monitoring devices is close to reality.