William J. Sims

The Black & Decker Corp. manufactures power tools, electric lawn and garden tools, hardware and home improvement products. The firm has been setting the standard for innovation and design of power tools, accessories, outdoor yard care equipment, home cleaning products, automotive and lighting products, hardware and other home improvement products. The company was founded by S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker Sr. in 1910 and is headquartered in Towson, MD.

Lenovo EMC Ltd. engages in the provision of server message block storage services. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Juno Lighting, Inc. manufactures lighting fixtures and related products for residential, commercial, and institutional users. The firm serves electrical distributors, lighting showrooms, contractors, architects, engineers, lighting designers and commercial enterprises. Its brands include Juno, Indy, AccuLite, Aculux, NaviLite, and DanaLite. The company was founded by Robert S. Fremont in 1976 and is headquartered in Des Plaines, IL.

ABB Installation Products, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets electrical lighting and wiring equipment used to manage the connection, distribution, transmission and reliability of electrical power in industrial, construction and utility applications. The company also produces commercial heating and ventilation units used in commercial and industrial buildings and highly engineered steel structures used for utility transmission. The company was founded by Robert M. Thomas and Hobart D. Betts in 1898 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Calera Capital Advisors LP (Calera Capital Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 1991 by Robert Jaunich. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology, Inc. operates as a development stage company. It designs, develops and build integrated optic devices in the form of compact hybrid glass circuits on silicon chips through its LILT Canada, Inc. Lumenon focuses its strategy from one of providing only simple passive components to one of offering a mix of products and services ranging from optical chips to integrated photonic solutions. The company was founded in March 1998 and is headquartered in Saint-Laurent, Canada.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Bridgelux, Inc. develops and manufactures solid-state lighting and light-emitting diode components for use in diverse exterior and interior lighting applications. Its products include LED sub-systems are integrated products that deliver world class performance and leading cost while additionally reducing time to market, and LED chips, provides light emitting diode solutions. The firm serves the retail and hospitality, warehouse, exterior, industrial and eco system partners. Bridgelux was founded by Heng Liu in 2002 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Semprius, Inc. develops transfer printing technology for manufacturing semiconductor devices. Its products include photovoltaic solar modules. The company was founded by George M. Whitesides, Etienne Menard, Ralph G. Nuzzo and John A. Rogers in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Siluria Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a direct chemical process for plastics and fuels from natural gas. Its second process technology can convert ethylene to liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. The firm’s revolutionary catalyst technologies uniquely combine nanomaterials, biotechnology and chemical engineering, to convert an abundant, ubiquitous, and inexpensive feedstock into high value, drop-in fuels and chemicals using processes that can be seamlessly integrated into existing industry infrastructure. The company was founded by Clinton Whitewood Bybee and Alexander Tkachenko in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

View Operating Corp. engages in the design and manufacture of architectural glass. It offers smart windows and smart building. The company was founded by Paul Nguyen in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

IPS Corp. manufactures adhesives, solvent cements, and components. It supplies for the plumbing, construction, and plastic fabrication industries. The firm provides services to specifiers, contractors, pipe-fitter, plumbers, and fabricators. Its brands include Weld-On, Water-Tite, Test-Tite, Guy Gray, Truebro, and Studor. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Compton, CA.

Innovalight, Inc. manufactures crystalline silicon solar cells and licenses a proprietary process technology to solar cell manufacturing companies. The company was founded by Conard Burke in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Generation Brands LLC provides decorative lighting systems. The firm has a portfolio of fashionable and functional lighting fixtures, ceiling fans, and decorative products that provide value and growth for their customers and end-users. The company was founded on June, 2006 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

Philips Lumileds Lighting Co. manufactures electrical products. It also manufactures LED dice, packaged LEDs, and LEDs designed for integration into general lighting products. The company markets LED solutions designed for automotive applications, LCD displays, general lighting, portable applications, signage, and traffic signals. Philips Lumileds Lighting was founded in November 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Quanlight, Inc. is an American company that is currently selling their domain name, Quanlight.com. The private company's description is focused on the advantages of owning a premium .com domain, such as increased traffic, search engine ranking, brand recognition, immediate presence, and higher profits.

The American Physical Society is an organization that offers information on various prizes, awards, fellowships, scholarships, and grants related to physics. The non-profit company is based in College Park, MD. The company also provides programs that aim to improve physics education, impact policy makers, increase diversity, and inform the public.

Part of International Business Machines Corp., IBM Watson Research Center provides business analytics technology that works across the health landscape, from payers and providers to government & life science. The company is based in Yorktown Heights, NY.

The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer, Inc. provides advancing technology for electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. The non-profit company is based in the United States and has subsidiaries in various locations.

Philips Lighting BV manufactures and distributes lighting equipment. The company is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Weld-On Adhesives, Inc. manufactures adhesives, solvent cements and plumbing products. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Compton, CA.