Yves R. Michel

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Part of Autodesk, Inc., Discreet Logic, Inc. is a Canadian company that develops animation software. The private company is based in Montréal, Canada. The company was founded by Tom Cantwell, Raju Bopardikar. Discreet Logic was acquired by Autodesk, Inc. on March 16, 1999 for $411.40 million.

PureSafe Water Systems, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacturing and sale of Pure Safe First Response Water System. It also develops advanced mobile water purification systems for disaster relief. The company was founded in 1987 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.

Long Island Community provides health care services. It provides medical care using advanced technologies. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Patchogue, NY.

United Cerebral Palsy Association, Inc. operated as association of Cerebral Palsy. The company was headquartered in New York, NY.