John J. DiGirolamo

Pittsburgh Simulation Corp. designs and manufactures electronic equipment. Its products include design tools, simulation tools, verification tools for semiconductors and other large electronics. The company was founded by Paul J. Carnaggio & Thomas V. Carnaggio in August, 2000 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, PA.

Valid Logic Systems, Inc. manufactures printed circuit board tools. The private company is based in San Jose, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Thomas M. McWilliams, L. Curtis Widdoes.

BMI Group LLC provides agricultural advisory and merchant banking services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Credence Systems Corporation is the industry provider of design-to-test solutions for the global semiconductor industry. By applying leading-edge technology to lower the overall cost-of-test, Credence delivers competitive cost and performance advantages to integrated device manufacturers, wafer foundries, outsource assembly and test suppliers and fabless chip companies worldwide. Credence was founded in 1978 and is publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol CMOS. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, Credence maintains a worldwide presence in twenty countries.

GenRad, Inc. manufactures and sells electronic automatic test equipment and related software for contract and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) of handheld, wireless devices, PC's, business servers, DSL and broadband switching and routing technologies. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Westford, MA.

Part of Cohu, Inc., Fluence Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells and services automatic test equipment for semiconductor circuits. The company is based in Fremont, CA.