David E. Bridgeford

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Firstgold Corp. is a junior mining and exploration company, with a focus on gold projects and other mineral producing properties. It engaged in the acquisition and exploration of gold-bearing properties in the country. The company was founded on January 10, 1995 and is headquartered in Lovelock, NV.

Part of Waste Connections, Inc., Amd, Inc. provides waste management services.

SigmaTel LLC designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits. Its products are used in the digital media players, printers, and televisions. The firm has operations in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. The company was founded by Spence H. Jackson in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

RMI Corp. is a fables semiconductor company providing High-Performance Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC). It processes solutions for the infrastructure, enterprise, and consumer media markets. The firm's applications include wireless, networking security, thin clients, and connected multi-media. RMI offers a broad platform of advanced MIPS-compatible processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, the United Kingdom, France, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. RMI offers highly scalable processor solutions that allow system designers the flexibility to optimize performance, power consumption and cost for a wide variety of applications. The company offers a range of high performance, highly integrated, feature-rich Super System-on-a-Chip (SuperSoC) processor solutions. These processor solutions provide high throughput, power efficiency, application and content awareness and security for the evolving global connectivity network. Its products serve the infrastructure, enterprise and consumer multimedia markets within this network with a wide range of price and performance configurations.

Siemens Corp. manufactures electrical hardware and software for the communication, power, medical and other industries. The company was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. provides storage, networking, and connectivity semiconductor solutions. Its product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions. The company was founded on February 10, 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

LifeSignals, Inc. develops wireless biosensor technology. It offers life signal processor, life signal patch, life signal cardiacApp, life signal receiver and with monitor accessory, and lifesignal SDK and development tools. The company was founded by Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Ali M. Niknejad, Surendar Magar and Randall J. Lee in 2008 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Part of Steele Oceanic Corp., Steele Resources, Inc. provides mining exploration services. The company is based in Las Vegas, NV.

Part of PureBase Corp., Purebase Agricultural, Inc. engages in exploration and mining services. The company is based in Cameron Park, CA. Purebase Agricultural was acquired by Port of Call Online, Inc. on December 23, 2014 for $152.98 million.

US Mine Corp. engages in mining exploration. Its services include exploration, engineering, soil surveys, lab analysis and water sampling; contract mining provides mine development and construction, airleg mining, labor hire and ground support services. The company is headquartered in Ione, CA.

U S Mine, LLC is an American company that engages in the mining of gold ores. The private company is based in Ione.

US Agricultural Minerals LLC engages in exploration and mining services. The company is headquartered in Yuba, CA.