Timothy Richardson

Micro Linear Corp. provided integrated circuit solutions. The company was founded in 1983 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

IXYS LLC engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of power semiconductors and mixed-signal integrated circuits. It also offers microcontrollers, green energy products, and radio frequency power and systems. The company was founded by Nathan Zommer in 1983 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Sirenza Microdevices, an ISO 9001:2000-certified supplier (registered by QMI), is a designer and supplier of high-performance RF components for wireless and wireline communications equipment manufacturers. Their product lines include amplifiers, power amplifiers, discrete devices, RF signal processing components, and signal source products, mil/aero components, and high-performance multi-component modules (MCMs) for transmit and receive applications.

Samplify Systems, Inc. is a provider of intellectual property solutions which solve data acquisition and data processing bottlenecks. Its Prism Compression addresses data acquisition bottlenecks in industrial, scientific, medical markets, while its APAX technology accelerates software applications which are performance-limited by I/O, storage, or memory bandwidth bottlenecks in the computing, consumer, and mobile device markets. It is a private company based in Silicon Valley, with backing from leading venture capitalists, Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures and strategic partners Schlumberger, IDT, and Cosmo.

Liquid Robotics, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of autonomous ocean robots for ocean monitoring and operations. It offers the Wave Glider that capture live ocean data close to where lava is flowing into the ocean. The company was founded by Graham Hine, Joseph D. Rizzi, and Roger Hine in 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Paladin Capital Group (Paladin Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Penn Ave Investments LLC founded by Mark Maloney and Michael Steed in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London and Luxembourg.

Bandwidth9, Inc. designs and manufactures tunable fiber optic components and modules for telecommunications and metro optical network systems. The company was founded in November 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Part of Bandwidth, Inc., VeriFiber Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures fiber-optic and electronic modules. The private company is based in Atlanta, GA. VeriFiber Technologies was acquired by Bandwidth, Inc. on August 24, 2000 for $5.90 million. The company was founded by Timothy A. Richardson.

The Jupiter Research Foundation provides research on whales. The firm operates as a non profit organization which develops and applies new technologies for monitoring and understanding the natural world, and sharing them with the public and the academic community. The company was founded by Joseph D. Rizzi, William Stutz, Kurt Kiesow, Bruce Kamolnick and Tim Richardson in 2003 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.