Charles W. Richard

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets nonvolatile memory solutions. It supplies flash memory semiconductor devices for the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and the Internet computing markets. The firm produces and sells semiconductor products, including flash controllers and controller-based modules, smart card integrated circuits and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency devices and modules. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Trellis Bioscience, Inc. is discovers and develops novel human antibody therapeutics. It provides the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies from human B cells. The firm develops the CellSpot antibody discovery platform, which enables the identification of antibodies directly from human blood. The company was founded by Lawrence Kauvar and Stote Ellsworth in 1998 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Sensor Platforms, Inc. develops algorithms and software platforms that enable smart phone and tablet apps to understand user contexts and intents. Its FreeMotion Library makes sensor fusion and user context awareness available in smartphones and tablets to combine and process data from installed sensors and microprocessors to better interpret users movements and situations and infer their intents. The company was founded by David M. Traversi, George Hsu and Herbert M. Dwight Jr. in 2004 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ProterixBio, Inc. supplies novel protein measurement technology. It manufactures and markets the ViBE platform, enabling highly sensitive, automated acoustic immunoassays to accelerate drug discovery, development and production of biological and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Edward F. Crawley and Mark Lundstrom in 2002 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Xoft, Inc. develops Electronic Brachytherapy systems for radiation therapy applications. Its products include the Axxent Controller, which utilizes a miniaturized high dose rate (HDR) X-ray source to apply radiation directly to the cancerous tumor bed; Axxent HDR X-ray Source, a low energy radiation treatment without the use of radioactive isotopes; Axxent Applicators, which provides a channel for the Axxent X-ray Source to deliver high dose rate, low energy radiation directly to the targeted area; and Axxent Accessories, an accessory product line designed to support and aid a physician during a procedure or treatment of cancer radiation. The company was founded by Michael Forman in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

BioVex, Inc. develops vaccines for the treatment of cancer and the prevention of chronic infectious diseases. Its products include OncoVEX oncolytic and ImmunoVEX technology. The company was founded in 1999 by Dr. Robert Coffin and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

K2M, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices. It offers deformity correction systems, spinal stabilization systems, lateral access systems, minimally invasive systems, and, constrained and translational cervical plates. The company was founded by John Philip Kostuik and Eric Major in January 2004 and is headquartered in Leesburg, VA.

BioVex Group, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It focuses on the development and commercialization of targeted treatments for cancer and the prevention of infectious disease. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Achronix Semiconductor Corp. offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted field programmable gate arrays. Its products include Speedster22i HD, Speedster22i HP, ACE, Boards, Documentation and Video Demos. The firm also offers the Achronix CAD environment (ACE), an easy-to-use, mature, robust design-tool suite for its customers and ACE includes integrated support for industry-standard synthesis tools Synplify Pro and Precision Synthesis. The company was founded by John Lofton Holt, Rajit Manohar, Virantha N. Ekanayake, and Clinton W. Kelly VI in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Vorago Technologies, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company. Its products include RH 8Mb Dual Port SRAM, HT 8Mb Dual Port SRAM, RH 16Mb Asynchronous SRAM and RH 18Mb Sync Burst SRAM. The firm provides radiation and temperature-hardened IC components for the Hi-Reliability marketplace. The company designs and develops high density SRAMs and logic ICs using its patented HardSIL technologies The company was founded by Wesley Harold Morris in 2004 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Svelte Medical Systems, Inc. develops balloon expandable stents. It offers balloon control band technologies, hybrid stent design and integrated delivery systems. The firm has locations in Brussels, New Providence and Sao Paulo. The company was founded by Robert E. Fischell, David R. Fischell and Tim A. Fischell in 2007 and is headquartered in New Providence, NJ.

Lightwire, Inc. manufactures optical networking equipment. Its products include optical transceiver modules and ethernet optoelectronic interconnects. The company was founded by Kalpendu Shastri in 2002 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.

Ferric, Inc. develops integrated circuits and integrated inductors in CMOS technology for use in on-chip voltage regulators. Its products include chips and circuit IP, power management IC, packaged integrated voltage regulators and stack integrated voltage regulators. The firm offers power converters utilizing inductors. Its technology can be applies across a broad spectrum of power electronics ranging from full scale servers to the chip level. The company was founded in 2011 by Noah Sturcken, Maurizio Arienzo and Kenneth Shepard and is headquartered in New York, NY.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cato Research LLC operates as an international regulatory and clinical contract research organization. It offers clinical strategy, clinical trial services, data management and biostatistics, medical and pharmacovigilance, medical writing, pharmacokinetics, preclinical/nonclinical services, project management, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. The company was founded by Allen Cato and Lynda Sutton in 1988 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

TherOx, Inc. operates as a medical device company which focuses on developing and commercializing therapies to treat ischemic and oxygen deprived tissue. Its SSO2 therapy consists of TherOx DownStream system, a mobile hardware device that interfaces with the TherOx DownStream Cartridge that controls cartridge operation wherein SSO2 solution is created and mixed with the patient's blood to create superoxygenated blood for delivery to the coronary arteries. The company was founded by David B. Musket, Paul J. Zalesky and J. Richard Spears in 1994 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Healthcare Products BV is a Dutch company that manufactures and distributes pharmaceuticals. The company is based in Weesp, Netherlands.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Part of DSM-Firmenich AG, DSM Biologics Holding, Inc. is a Canadian company that manufactures biological and pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Montréal, Canada. The company was founded by Jos van Weperen. DSM Biologics Holding was acquired by DSM Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of DSM-Firmenich AG from Province of Québec on July 13, 2005.

New Science Ventures LLC (New Science Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Somasundaram Subramaniam and Tom J A Lavin. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional office in London.

PharmaCell BV manufactures cell therapy and regenerative medicine. The firm engages in human cell line development and manufacturing of bio pharmaceuticals. Its services include process research and development, project management, incoming logistics, incoming goods, manufacturing auto logous and allogeneic products, quality control, final formulation, release and outgoing logistics. The company was founded by René Lardenoije and Jan Thio in 2005 and is headquartered in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Juventas Therapeutics, Inc. provides regenerative therapies for cardiovascular disease. It is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of factor-based regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases. The company's product has been shown to protect and repair tissue following ischemic injury by recruiting the body's own stem cells to the damaged tissue. The company was founded by Rahul A. Aras and Marc S. Penn in 2007 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Dali Wireless, Inc. provides wireless coverage and capacity solutions. Its products include cellular, public safety, and software. It offers all digital distributed antenna system, dynamic capacity allocation, coverage extension, and radio access network virtualization solutions. The company was founded by Leo K. Wong, Albert S. Lee and Dali Yang in 2006 and is headquartered Menlo Park, CA.

Resolve Therapeutics LLC operates as a biotechnology company. It engages in the development of biotechnology drugs. The firm specializes in treatment of debilitating autoimmune diseases such as Systemic Lupus Erythematous and Sjogren’s syndrome. The company was founded by James Posada in 2010 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Tigerconnect, Inc. provides secure mobile messaging services. It offers secure, real-time mobile messaging for the enterprise, empowering organizations to work more securely. The company serves healthcare, enterprise, personal and developers. The company was founded by Jeffrey Albert Evans, Andrew A. Brooks and Brad Brooks in 2010 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Cambridge Epigenetix Ltd. provides epigenetic tools. Its TrueMethyl oxidative bisulfite sequencing, a novel technology that pioneers single-base resolution sequencing of the modified bases hydroxymethyl cytosine and methylcytosine. The firm's TrueMethyl enables analysis of the DNA methylome offers basic research, pharmaceutical discovery and diagnostics and TrueMethyl can be used with methylation arrays and targeted assays. The company was founded by Shankar Balasubramanian, Michael Booth and Bobby Yerramilli-Rao in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

zeotap GmbH offers a solution for telecom operators. It provides a technology platform that transmits data securely and in a privacy-compliant way for businesses and consumers. The company was founded by Daniel Heer, Stephan Schwebe and Projjol Banerjea and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

NorthSea Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company. It develops oral, structurally engineered fatty acid therapeutics. The company was founded by Hilde H. Steineger and David A. Fraser and is headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands.

Paragraf Ltd. operates as a graphene technology development firm. Its products include graphene layers, heterostructures, thin film material heterostructures, and graphene devices as well as novel 2D materials. The company was founded on November 25, 2015 and is headquartered in , the Cambridgeshire,United Kingdom.

Pakal Technologies, Inc. provides and designs next generation of IGTO power devices. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

DegenRx BV is a Dutch biotech company that is focused on developing AAV-mediated gene therapy for the treatment of CNS diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The company is based in Tilburg, Netherlands. The company aims to address the lack of drugs available to stop or slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease, which affects about two-thirds of the 50 million people reported to suffer from dementia worldwide. One of the approaches most advanced in clinical studies is immunotherapy against amyloid beta, which DegenRx is working on. Inez de Greef-van der Sand has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Synerkine Pharma BV focuses on developing novel fusion proteins for the treatment of inflammatory, neuropathic and osteoarthritic pain. The company was founded by Hans Preusting in 2018 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

NewAmsterdam Pharma BV develops novel drugs to treat dyslipidemia. It operates as a biotechnology company and develops anti-dyslipidemic compounds in cardiovascular disease indications. The firm's product DEZ-001 develops a potent cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor that has shown a decrease of low-density lipoprotein levels, and an increase of high-density lipoprotein levels. The company was founded by John J. P. Kastelein in 2012 and is headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands.