Alan Hulme

Affymetrix, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells products and services for genetic analysis. The company was founded by Stephen P. A. Fodor in 1992 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Quiatech AB develops and manufactures drugs. It is a research based company that develops enabling technologies for genetic analysis, molecular diagnostics, and gene-based therapeutics in the expanding market of DNA technologies that offer significant improvements in the quality of DNA microarray and other DNA oligonucleotide data. It has also developed a new modified RNA chemistry (Qt RNA Technology) utilizing a novel 2 protecting group on the RNA amidites, this development greatly improves the synthesis conditions, producing fully functional RNA at high yields. It is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.

Mesophotonics Ltd. develops photonic crystal devices and circuits. Its devices allows light to be bent, routed and processed at sub-millimeter scale. It offers multiple optical functions and systems to be implemented on a single silicon chip for production of integrated optical devices. The company was founded by Caterina Netti, Majd Zoorob, Simon Cox, James Wilkinson, Greg Parker, Martin Charlton and Jeremy Baumberg in July 2001 and is headquartered in Southampton, UK.

OLIGOvation AB develops enabling technologies for genetic analysis, molecular diagnostics and gene-based therapeutics. It offers services in the market of DNA technologies that offer improvements in the quality of DNA microarray and other DNA oligonucleotide data. The company was founded in February, 2000 and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.

Techgen International Ltd. provides financial advisory services. The private company is based in London, UK.