Kevin T. Michaels

SouthWest Water Co. is a company that owns and operates regulated water and wastewater systems in seven states in the United States, serving over half a million residential and business customers. The company provides a broad range of operations, maintenance, and management services, including water production, treatment, and distribution, wastewater collection and treatment, customer service, and utility infrastructure construction management. The company has subsidiaries in the United States, including Hornsby Bend Utility Company, Midway Water Utilities, Inc., and more. The company takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable service to its customers. The company was founded in 1891 as Land & Water Company and is headquartered in Sugar Land, TX, with around 500 employees. The CEO is Robert MacLean.

SRS Labs, Inc. develops and provides audio and voice technology solutions for consumer electronics. It focuses on developing and licensing technology solutions to the OEMs, ODMs, semiconductor manufacturers, and software providers in the home entertainment, personal computers, personal telecommunications, automotive, portable media devices and broadcast markets and limited sales and marketing of standalone software and hardware products through the Internet. The company was founded on June 23, 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

Endace Ltd. engages in the research, design and development, manufacture, sales and marketing of network measurement, monitoring, management, security and surveillance solutions. It operates through three main business segments: North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The North America segment comprises sales and distribution of systems and DAG cards and, support operations in Chantilly, Virginia, USA; servicing customers throughout the Americas. The Europe, Middle East, Africa segment comprises sales and distribution of systems and DAG cards and support operations in Reading, UK; servicing customers throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. The Asia Pacific segment comprises sales and distribution of systems and DAG cards and support operations in New Zealand and Singapore; servicing customers throughout the Asia Pacific region. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

Needham Capital Partners (Needham Capital Partner) is a private equity subsidiary of Needham Investment Management LLC. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. provides marketing services for consumer electronics, information systems and home appliance products. It delivers digital consumer electronics, mobile products and wearables, wireless infrastructure, information technoogy and home appliance products. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ.

Part of Xperi, Inc., ValenceTech Ltd. designs and manufactures integrated circuit development for analog, digital, and mixed signal standard circuits. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

PrimeGen Biotech LLC provides research and discovery of practical therapeutic uses for stem cells. It offers cell processing, cell culture, molecular biology, flow cytometry, and histology. The company was founded by Thomas C. K. Yuen in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, CA.

Part of ULURU, Inc., ULURU Delaware, Inc. develops drug delivery systems. The company is based in Virginia Beach, VA. The CEO of the company is R. Stephen Stagner.

Palagon Partners LLC provides business consulting and teaching services. The private company is based in Irvine, CA. Bruce C. Edwards has been the CEO of the company since 2007.

PrimeCell Therapeutics LLC provides stem cells research services. It focuses solely on adult stem cell reprogramming, and preparing primecell for therapeutic development and application. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.