Ernie L. Godshalk

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor processing equipment. The company was founded in April 1999 and is headquartered in Gloucester, MA.

Verigy Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and sells advanced test systems and solutions to the semiconductor industry. Its products includes: V93000 SOC, V6000 Memory, V93000 High Speed Memory, Design for Test and Yield & V101 Low-Cost ICs. Its services includes: System Support & Professional Services. The company was founded on June 1, 2006 and is headquartered in Singapore, Singapore.

GT Advanced Technologies, Inc. operates as a diversified technology company. It provides crystal growth equipment and services for the global, solar, LED and electronics industries. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Hudson, NH.

Velocity Equity Partners LLC (Velocity Equity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by David Vogel, Sam Foster and Jeff L. Vogel. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hittite Microwave LLC designs and manufactures performance integrated circuits, or ICs, modules, subsystems and instrumentation for technically demanding digital, RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications covering DC to 110 GHz. The company's standard and custom products apply analog, digital and mixed-signal semiconductor technologies, which are used in a wide variety of wireless & wired communication and sensor applications for the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, fiber optic, microwave & millimeterwave communications, military, space and test & measurement markets. It operates design centers and has sales and technical support staff in Canada, Colorado, Egypt, Norway, Turkey and Virginia, and has sales offices in China, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The company was founded by Yalcin Ayasli in 1985 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.

GTAT Corp. provides polysilicon production technology and crystalline ingot growth systems. Its products include polysilicon technologies, silicon crystal growth, sapphire crystal growth, advanced sapphire material and silicon carbide crystal growth equipment. The company was founded by Kedar P. Guptais in 1994 headquartered in Merrimack, NH.