Todd Swanson

Ariens Co. manufactures outdoor power equipment for consumer and commercial use. Its products include snow removal, residential mowing, commercial mowing, chore equipment, and parts and accessories. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Brillion, WI.

Finisar Corp. operates as an optical communications company. The firm provides components and subsystems to networking equipment manufacturers, data center operators, telecom service providers, consumer electronics and automotive companies. Its products include optical transceivers, active optical cable, optical engines, communication components, sensing components, and optical instrumentation. The company was founded by Frank H. Levinson and Jerry S. Rawls in April 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Aegis Lightwave, Inc. builds solutions for optical networks that are used for video, data communications, telecommunications and other fast growing markets. Aegis delivers channel-monitoring products to an international customer base of optical networking systems manufacturers that enable service providers to deploy high bandwidth video services such as High Definition TV, IPTV, and Video-on-Demand. The company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Princeton Lightwave, Inc. specializes in detecting and processing photons digitally. It offers GeigerCruizer, Geiger-mode flash 3D LIDAR cameras, and Gm Detectors and Components. The company was founded by John C. Connolly, Pamela York, Raymond J. Menna, Nancy Morris, and Dmitri Garbuzov on February 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Cranbury, NJ.