John J. Hanlon

BIOVIA, Inc. develops and commercializes scientific informatics software products and services for industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation. Its enterprise platform provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. The company by incorporating its capabilities in applications for modeling and simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow and automation, and data management and informatics, it enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in various ways. BIOVIA was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Synplicity LLC develops software solutions for the design and verification of semiconductors. The company was founded by Alisa Yaffa and Ken McElvain in February 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

MDL Information Systems, Inc. provides technical software solutions. The firm provides solutions such as information research and retrieval services. It is engaged in discovery informatics for the life sciences, chemistry industries and academia. The company is was founded in 1978 and located in San Leandro, CA.

The Carlyle Group LP (Real Assets) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group LP (Corporate Private Equity) founded in 1997 by Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington.

Nanosys, Inc. develops and manufactures inorganic nanostructures and other related products. It offers Ultra HD television. The company was founded by Paul A. Alivisatos, Stephen Empedocles, Peidong Yang, Robert M. Metcalfe, Jim Heath, Paul McEuen, Christoph H. Westphal, Moungi Bawendi, Lawrence A. Bock, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Chunming Niu, Karen Vergura, Hongkun Park, George Pontis and Charles M. Lieber in 2001 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.