Brian Powell

Precise Automation, Inc. manufactures and markets automation products. Its products include collaborative, traditional and custom robots, sample handler and controllers. The firm’s products serve a wide variety of industries including electronics, semiconductor, life science, medical products and mass storage. The company was founded by Bruce E. Shimano, Clifford Geschke and Brian R. Carlisle on January 13, 2004 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Xyratex Ltd. provides enterprise class data storage subsystems and hard disk drive capital equipment. The company operates in two business segments: Enterprise Data Storage Solutions and Hard Disk Drive Capital Equipment. The Enterprise Data Storage Solutions segment products are primarily hard disk drive based storage enclosures and solutions, which it provides to original equipment manufacturers. The Hard Disk Drive Capital Equipment segment products consist of disk drive manufacturing process equipment, which it sells directly to manufacturers of disk drives and their component suppliers. Xyratex was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Havant, The United Kingdom.

Adept Technology, Inc. was provided intelligent robotics systems and services. The company was founded in 1983 and was headquartered in Livermore, CA.