Barbara M. Grant

Agoura was founded to help solve the rapidly growing power consumption problem of all LCD displays. LCD displays are ubiquitous in its lives and are becoming larger in virtually every application. With this size increase, comes increased power consumption. All of the major industrial economies are taking measures to regulate TV energy consumption, with an eye towards improving the energy efficiency of TV's. In the United States, both the EPA, with their Energy Star program, and the California Energy Commission are introducing regulation to drive greater LCD TV efficiency in the United States. The company has innovated an ability to manufacture a reflective, light recycling, polarizer on polymer film. The company's PolarBrite polarizer technology reclaims and recycles lost light and enables polarization with 75% efficiency instead of 50% efficiency. This 50% efficiency improvement results in a significant energy savings and enables a 30% energy savings in every LCD display. The PolarBrite technology will be offered at the same price as the current energy absorptive polarizer and will thus enable overall cost savings with lower lighting costs and power supplies. In addition, the PolarBrite technology offers a better viewing angle, offering a further improvement in one of the well noted shortcomings of LCDs. It will enable the LCD industry to make a big step forward in energy efficiency, improved margins, and improved performance.

Lumetric Lighting, Inc. provides energy management and monitoring systems. Its products are SmartHID, SmartINDUCTION, Smart Network Node, Plug-n-Play Sensors, and Smart Network. The company was founded by Gregory Davis and Moshe Shloush in November 2007 and is headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN.

Cody Resources, Inc. provides petroleum refining services. It refines crude petroleum and produces natural gas & other petroleum related products. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Integrated Materials, Inc. was manufactured poly silicon furnaceware products. The company was founded by Raanan Y. Zehavi in 1998 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Xponent Photonics, a subsidiary of HOYA Corp. USA, designs and manufactures optical devices. Their products include a range of triplexers and diplexers for single-fiber applications including passive optical network, point-to-point and bidirectional radio frequency systems. Their target customers include optical systems vendors, transceiver suppliers and optical subsystem suppliers. The company was founded by Kerry Vahala and Pete Spercel in 2001 and is headquartered in Monrovia, CA.