Sergey S. Polikarpov

Interros Holding Co. CJSC (IH) is the industrial holding and investment subsidiary of Vladimir Potanin's Cyprus-based Interros International Investments Ltd. The group's companies operate as independent business entities throughout Russia, Europe, Asia and North America. Based in Moscow, IH specializes in private equity investing, and provides strategic planning and management consulting services. The firm originated as a foreign trade association in 1990 when the state monopoly on foreign trade ended. As foreign trade developed, several related structures were established, in particular MFK (International Financial Company) in 1992 and the Unexim Bank in 1993. By 1994 the Interros group was actively acquiring and reorganizing industrial companies. In 1998 the group was restructured and in 2000 began private equity investing. Between 2003 and 2007 the firm had established a strategic alliance with the US-based insurance group AIG-American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), focusing on private equity investments.

Rusnano Projects is a private equity and venture capital operating division of the State-owned Rusnano OJSC. The firm was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

NeoPhotonics Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive communications networks. Its product portfolio includes high speed products and network products and solutions. The company was founded on October 31, 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Beneq Oy supplies atomic layer deposition equipment and thin film coating services. It also manufactures thin film electroluminescent displays that include transparent electroluminescent displays, in-glass laminated displays and custom displays which are used in transportation, maritime, aeronautics and defense markets. The firm’s thin film equipment is used for creating optical coatings, protective barriers, passivation layers and anti-corrosion solutions in spaces where other coating methods cannot be applied. The company’s atomic layer deposition products and services include wafer processing ALD, batch processing ALD, ALD research equipment, development and coating services which are used in moisture barriers, optical coatings, anti-tarnish coatings, anti-corrosion coatings and decorative coatings of optics, photovoltaics, displays, glass and electronics industries. Beneq was founded in May 2005 by Sampo Ahonen, Jari-Pekka Tiesmäki and Tommi Vainio and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc. develops biosensor for detection of bacteria and viruses. Its product 404pi offers scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of bio-molecular interactions an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument. The company was founded by Misha Plam, Slava Petropavlovskikh and Oyvind Nilsen in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Aquantia Corp. engages in design, development, and marketing of communications integrated circuits for ethernet connectivity in the data center, enterprise infrastructure, and access markets. Its products include Aquantia AQrate PHYs, Multi-Gig Phys, and AQtion AQC107. The company was founded by Ramin Shirani, Phillippe Delansay and Ramin Farjad-Rad on January 27, 2004 and is headquartered in San Jones, CA.