Richard Scott Schaefer

Hutchinson Technology, Inc. engages in the design and manufacture of products that require chemical, mechanical, and electronic technologies. It offers optical image stabilization, custom precision components, screens, circuits, micro assembly, hard disk drive suspensions, and sensors. The company was founded by Jon A. Geiss and Jeffrey W. Green in 1965 and is headquartered in Hutchinson, MN.

The Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) is a research consortium for the worldwide information storage industry. The non-profit company is based in San Diego, CA. INSIC's mission is to enhance the growth and technical vitality of the information storage industry and to advance the state of information storage technology. The consortium brings together the unique capabilities of industry, academia, and government in the development of advanced, pre-competitive data storage technologies. INSIC has more than sixty-five corporate, university, and government organization members with common interests in the field of digital information storage.