John J. Ehren

Planar Systems, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing and marketing electronic display products and systems. Its products include LCD video walls, rear projection video walls, large format displays, desktop and touch screen monitors, transparent displays, touch displays, processing and players, open frame and custom displays, accessories and home theater products-and home theater projection systems. The company was founded by Jim Hurd, Christopher N. King and John Laney on April 27, 1983 and is headquartered in Beaverton, OR.

Key Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells process automation systems for food industry. Its products include optical inspection systems, vibratory conveying systems, and process and preparation systems. The firm serves the nuts, potato, dried fruit, fruit and berries, snacks, pharmaceutical, meat, poultry, seafood, and cheese industries. The company was founded by Claude Key in 1948 and is headquartered in Walla Walla, WA.

Visys NV provides digital automated sorting solutions to the global food and non-food processing industry. It offers optical sorting systems and machinery, and digital laser sorters, non-food products by detecting and removing foreign bodies. The company was founded by Frank L. A. Zwerts and Bert Peelaers in 2004 and is headquartered in Hasselt, Belgium.