Michael T. Grimes

Applied MicroStructures, Inc. designs and manufactures molecular vapor deposition tools. It offers anti-stiction films, self-assembled monolayers, hydrophobic films, conformal coatings, moisture barrier films, hydrophilic films, bio-compatible or reactive coatings and compatible substrates. The company was founded by Richard C. Yi, Romek Nowak, Jeffrey D. Chinn, Richard S. Payne and Boris Kobrin in January 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

ALZA Corp. provides drug delivery solutions and develops pharmaceutical products. The company applies its delivery technologies to develop pharmaceutical products with enhanced therapeutic value for its own portfolio and for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Martin Gerstel and Alejandro Zaffaroni in 1968 and is headquartered in Vacaville, CA.

Dionex Corp. develops, manufactures, sells, and services chromatography and extraction systems for separating, isolating, and identifying the components of chemical mixtures. The firm's products are used extensively by the environmental, life science, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemicals, electronics and power industries. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.