John Midgley

RPO, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware and has headquarters in San Jose. The core technologies have been developed at its research and development facilities in Canberra and Sydney, Australia. It has received venture funding from existing investors including Australian funds managed by Jolimont Capital, by Allen & Buckeridge and by Neo Technology Ventures; and from BASF Venture Capital and from Jafco. Since mid-2003 RPO's focus has been turned to applying its waveguide technology to solutions for consumer electronics markets and developing a high-volume manufacturing process. They are a technology focused company, with over 90% of its staff engaged in waveguide technology development, technical marketing, product development, design, and manufacturing. Die design, layout and footprint is customized to suit customers' cost, performance, assembly and packaging requirements. RPO supplies the key component to its touch screen customers the polymer optical waveguides for integration during the final product's assembly process.

OmniPV, Inc. develops optical communication infrastructure technology. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Part of Lumentum Holdings, Inc., Lightwave Microsystems Corp develops components used in fiber-optic equipment. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The company was founded by Andrew Lanza. Lightwave Microsystems was acquired by NeoPhotonics Corp., part of Lumentum Holdings, Inc. from August 03, 2022 on March 03, 2003.

D-Wave Systems, Inc. designs and develops quantum computer systems. The firm designs and produces quantum computing systems, customer support, site preparation, installation and other related services. The company was founded by Eric Ladizinsky and Geordie Rose in 1999 and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

OmniPV, Inc. engages in the generation of solar energy using non-silicon materials. The company was founded by Rajat Rakkhit and Christine Gulbranson in 2000 and is headquartered in Belmont, CA.