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16th ANNUAL OC/IE TechAmerica HIGH-TECH INNOVATION
AWARDS
EVENT RECAP
The 16th Annual TechAmerica OC/IE High-Tech Awards Dinner
is an opportunity to spotlight
Orange County and Inland Empire's robust technology companies and
individuals.
Event Overview II Event Photos II
Honorees II
Finalists II Awards Review
Committee
Event
Videos II
Lifetime Achievement Award II
Greg Ross Community Service Award
Sponsors
II About TechAmerica II Contact
 TechAmerica (formerly
AeA) hosted the event of the year for the high-tech community
in Southern California at Hilton Orange County, Costa Mesa, May 14, 2009. The 16th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards,
themed "Inventing The Future," directed the spotlight of innovation and
U.S. competitiveness on Orange County.
This was an extra special evening where we recognized
outstanding achievements of innovation in the categories of Harvey Mudd
College Green Engineering,
Innovative Product/Technology In 2008,
Outstanding Public/Private CEO In Technology,
Outstanding Public/Private Technology Company,
Outstanding Woman In Technology, and
TechAmerica Lifetime Achievement Award.
 Prior to the awards
dinner program, more than 300 guests mixed it up in the Fountain Terrance during
the pre-technology reception, where they networked while learning of the innovative
products and services of technology companies. Company tables and
showcase participants included Balqon Corporation, CMTC, CMS Products,
Inc., Conexant Systems, Inc., Crowell & Moring, Emulex Corporation,
EPIC, HireRight, Inc., LaCount Law, Local.com, Memeo Inc., NetGuru,
Powerwave Technologies, Inc., Silicon Valley Bank, SRS Labs, Inc.,
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, SYSPRO, Teridian Semiconductor,
Toshiba, WebVisible, WiSpry, Inc., and WunderMarxPR.
After the tech showcase, participants enjoyed a
lovely three course
dinner in the beautiful Catalina Ballroom, prior to witnessing the unveiling of the 2009
honorees.
The banquet room was filled with
luminaries from local high-tech companies, political leadership,
community leaders, educators, investors and media affiliates.
The video program
opened with the official TechAmerica's promo film featuring member logos
and the association's objectives. The video also featured
finalists and sponsor presentations and commercials.
Innovative award
recipients included Kirsten Mangers, WebVisible, Inc., who accepted the
Outstanding Woman in Technology award; CMS Products received the
Innovative Software award; Future Ads received the Innovative Internet
award; SYSPRO received the Private Technology Company Award;and D-Link
recieved the Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering
Award, to name a few. Nick E.Yocca, Stradling, Yocca, Carlson &
Rauth, received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Richard Shuttleworth
recieved the Greg Ross Community Service Award.
Additionally, TechAmerica recognized
educators and students for their innovative use of math, science and
technology in the classroom in conjunction with
Project Tomorrow, the
nation’s leading education nonprofit group focused on preparing today’s
students to be tomorrow’s innovators, and their sponsor
EMULEX
Corporation.
Awardees within this category are Dave
Gerhard, Concordia Elementary School, Capistrano Unified School
District, who received the Innovative School Program in Science, Math
and Technology for Project Splash; Govil Gupta, 10th Grade, Northwood
High School, Irvine Unified School District, received the Emerging
Student Innovator award for Wonderwriters.com; and Todd Salesky, Brea
Orlinda High Schoo, Brea Unified School District, received the
High-Impact Teacher in Science, Math and Technology award for Global IT
Academy.
To view a complete listing of the 16th Annual TechAmerica High-Tech
Innovation Awards
program honorees,
please click here. To view a
listing of this
year's finalists, please click here.
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CMS Products
accepted the Innovative Software award.
(Front) Ken Burke; (L-R Back) Gary Streuter, Phil Walker, Randy
Deetz, and Gary Stockton
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Kirsten Mangers, WebVisible,
Inc., accepted the
Outstanding Woman In Technology award.
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(L-R) Future Ads Jared Pobre and
Michael Rosenberg accepted the Innovative Internet award.
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Teridian Semiconductor's Gerald
Fitch accepts the Innovative Semiconductor award.
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Dave Gerhard, Project Splash
Concordia Elementary School, Capistrano Unified School District,
accepted the Project Tomorrow: Innovative School Program in
Science, Math and Technology award
Photo By: Jay Henderon,
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Todd Salesky, Brea Orlinda High
School, Brea Unified School District, accepted the
Project Tomorrow Innovative School Program in Science,
Math and Technology award for his
Global IT Academy program.
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Govil Gupta, 10th Grade,
Northwood High School, Irvine Unified School District, received
the Project Tomorrow Emerging Student Innovator award for his
Wonderwriters.com website.
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Andrew Pery accepts the
Outstanding Public CEO in Technology and Outstanding Public
Technology Company award on behalf of Reynolds C. Bish.
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(L-R) Ramesh Sabetiashraf and Ko-Ting,
Reazon Systems, Inc. accepted the Innovative Software Honorable Mention
for education.
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(L-R) SYSPRO's Brian Stein and Joey
Benadretti accepted the Outstanding Private Technology Company award |
TechAmerica Executive Committee
Members Sigmund Fidyke, Custom Software, and Peter Craig,
Valicore Technolgoies, mix-it-up during the technology
pre-reception. Fidyke serves as the High-Tech Awards
Product Judge Chair and Growth Matters Initiative Chair, and
Craig also sits on the Product Manager Committee.
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Attendees visited the showcasing
companies, including NetGuru, during the technology reception to learn of thier
products and services.
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Stephen LaCount presents the Harvey
Mudd College Green Engineering award.
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Michael Hajeck, SiliconSystems,
Inc., accepted the Outstanding Private Company CEO award
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D Link's Carlos Casassus Fonteci
accepted the
Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Award.
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(L-R) Eduardo Bertagni, Richard C.
Farrell, and Dawna Lee Heising
accepted the Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Certificate
of Merit for
EcoTek Lighting Solutions' LED Illuminated Menu Boards.
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Powerwave Technologies, Inc.
accepted the Innovative Telecommunications award.
(L-R) Yanke Liu, Richard Maiden, John Owen, Yatin Buch, and
Gerard MacManus
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(L-R) Crowell & Moring's Wendy
Smith, Kimberley Chen Nobles,
and Kendra Miller take a moment to smile for the camera.
Crowell & Moring served
as a contributing sponsor for the High-Tech Awards program.
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The SYSPRO team gather together
for a group photo opportunity to celebrate the acceptance of the
Outstanding Private
Technology Company award.
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TechAmerica
Lifetime Achievement Award
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TechAmerica Orange County presented Nick E.Yocca, Stradling,
Yocca, Carlson & Rauth, with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Yocca
leads the Firm's Transaction Law Group.
Yocca, the Godfather of
the Orange County Technology sector, would tell you his first
achievement was to breakaway from a coal mining town in Southwest
Pennsylvania. After receiving a small scholarship to Pitt and graduating
with honors, he joined the United States Army during the Korean War and
served in Korea for a year. Unscathed by war, he was smitten by love. He
was married to his beloved Bonnie for 52 years before she passed on in
2008 after a long battle with cancer. During those five decades, he
built a strong family, many who became lawyers as they welcomed Mark,
John and Nicholas and his daughter, Kathy.
Yocca was admitted to Michigan Law School, and graduated in 1958.
He started his career at O'Melveny and Meyers in Los Angeles. Then he
landed a job with Rutan and Tucker. After awhile, he had the
vision to be part of his own firm. In 1975 he teamed up with Craig
Carlson, Bill Rauth and K.C. Schaaf to form the Orange County law firm
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. K.C.
The team became a corporate juggernaut. Each a success in its own right.
Nick worked with and served great leaders in the corporate and high tech
areas, including working with corporate executives such as Safi Qureshey,
AST Research; Bruce Edwards, Powerwave Technologies; Zak Kong, Net Soft;
Carm Santoro, Silicon Systems; Lad Handelman, Oceaneering International,
and a host of others. Each of these executives recognized the importance
of higher technology.
Yocca also worked with great professionals at UCI and Chapman
University, and at the great accounting firms operating in Orange
County. He was at one time on almost every leading charitable and
business board in Orange County and was listed for more than a decade as
one of California's top 100 lawyers and most influential business
people. He has assisted in billions of dollars in financings for more
than a thousand technology companies.
For all his success, Yocca never let it go to his head. He was kind and
soft-hearted. Indeed the firm had to manage its charitable giving
budget, because Yocca rarely found a charity he didn't want to give to.
That charity and caring extended well beyond his family and his friends.
Now 80, Yocca comes to the office each
day to remain in contact with so many people he has come to know over
the years. That is what a Godfather does. That's the legacy of Orange
County's technology Godfather.
 TechAmerica
Orange County presented
Richard Shuttleworth with the Greg Ross Community Service Award.
Shuttleworth is currently Head of Product Advisory Services at Silicon
Valley Bank. In this role he manages a team of product experts and
implementation specialists in International, Investments and Cash
Management for SVB in California.
He formerly managed a team of SVB
commercial lenders targeting emerging high-tech and life science
companies headquartered in Orange County. Shuttleworth has 32 years of
banking experience in corporate, international, middle market, and
technology lending.
He was with First Interstate/Wells Fargo
for 20 years, and has been with SVB for the past twelve years. He
received a bachelor’s degree from Denison University, and a MBA from the
University of Southern California.
Shuttleworth has been active in a number
of Orange County organizations over the years. He formerly was on the
Executive Committee of the AeA’s Orange County Council, and was also on
the Board of Directors of the Orange County Venture Group and OCTANe.
Congratulations to Orange County and
Inland Empire 16th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards Recipients:
TechAmerica Lifetime Achievement Award
Nick Yocca, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
Greg Ross Community Service
Richard Shuttleworth, Silicon Valley Bank
Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering
Award
D-Link Systems, Inc.
Certificate of Merit:
EcoTek Lighting
Solutions
Certificate of Merit: Balqon
Corporation
Outstanding Private Technology Company
SYSPRO
USA
Outstanding Private Company CEO
Michael Hajeck, SiliconSystems, Inc.
Outstanding Public Company
Kofax
Outstanding Public Company CEO
Reynolds Bish,
Kofax
Outstanding Woman in Technology
Kirsten Mangers, Founder and CEO, WebVisible, Inc.
Innovative Hardware
SRS iWOW Adaptor for iPod, SRS Labs, Inc.
Innovative Internet
Resultlinks™, Future Ads
Innovative Semiconductors
71M653X Metering Chip Family, Teridian Semiconductor Corp.
Innovative Software
BounceBack Ultimate, CMS Products, Inc.
Honorable mention: iRubric, Reazon Systems, Inc.
Innovative Telecommunications
WiMAX Digital Remote Radio Head, Powerwave Technologies, Inc.
Project Tomorrow: Emerging Student
Innovator
Govil Gupta, Wonderwriters.com
10th Grade, Northwood High School, Irvine Unified School District
Project Tomorrow: High-Impact Teacher
in Science, Math and Technology
Todd Salesky, Global IT Academy
Brea Olinda High School, Brea
Unified School District
Project Tomorrow: Innovative School
Program in Science, Math and Technology
Dave Gerhard, Project Splash
Concordia Elementary School, Capistrano Unified School District
Congratulations to Orange County and
Inland Empire 16th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards Finalists:
Outstanding Public CEO In Technology Finalists
Reynolds Bish, Kofax
Heath Clarke, Local.com
George Klaus, Epicor
Outstanding Private CEO In Technology Finalists
Joey Benadretti,
SYSPRO
USA
Michael Hajeck, SiliconSystems, Inc.
Oli Thordarson, Alvaka Networks
Outstanding Woman In Technology
Finalists
Kelsey Galarza, Director, SMB Solutions,
HireRight, Inc.
Kirsten Mangers, Founder and CEO, WebVisible, Inc.
Miranda Su, Executive Vice President, IOGEAR
Outstanding Public Technology Company Finalists
Epicor
Kofax
QLogic Corporation
SRS Labs, Inc.
Outstanding Private Technology Company Finalists
D-Link Systems, Inc.
Enclarity
SiliconSystems, Inc.
SYSPRO
Innovative Product/Technology In 2008 Finalists
Hardware Finalists
Emulex OneConnect™ UCNA Platform, Emulex Corporation
USB to VGA Kit, IOGEAR
QLogic 8100 Series CNAs, QLogic Corp
SRS iWOW Adaptor for iPod, SRS Labs, Inc.
SiliconDrive Blade, SiliconSystems, Inc.
Internet Finalists
Resultlinks™, Future Ads
SmartStops.net
Where 2 Get It
Semiconductors Finalists
CX20562 USB Speakers-on-a-Chip, Conexant Systems, Inc.
71M653X Metering Chip Family, Teridian Semiconductor Corp.
Tunable Impedance Matching Network, WiSpry,
Inc.
Software Finalists
BounceBack Ultimate, CMS Products Inc
iRubric, Reazon Systems, Inc.
Memeo Share, Memeo, Inc.
SRS TruVolume, SRS Labs, Inc.
Telecommunications Finalists
WiMAX Digital Remote Radio Head, Powerwave Technologies, Inc.
Xpress Suite, Javaground
XPRESSED, Javaground
Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Award Finalists
Balqon Corporation
D-Link Systems, Inc.
EcoTek Lighting, Inc.
Teridian Semiconductor Corporation
Project Tomorrow Innovation in Education Awards 2009 Finalists
Project Tomorrow: Emerging Student
Innovator
Govil Gupta, Wonderwriters.com, Northwood High School (Irvine Unified School District)
Philip Jia, Coconut Climber, Troy High School (Fullerton Joint Union High School
District)
Kate Jaihee Lee, Brea Olinda High School (Brea Unified School District)
Project Tomorrow: High Impact
Teacher of the Year in Science, Math and Technology
Leslie Flores, 4th Grade Science Teacher
Star View Elementary School (Ocean View School District)
Susan Groff, Biology/Anatomy Teacher
Middle College High School at Santa Ana College (Santa Ana Unified
School District)
Todd Salesky, Global IT Academy
Brea Olinda High School, (Brea Unified School District)
Charlotte Zaremba,
Physics/Chemistry/Computers Teacher
Orange Coast Middle College High School, Newport-Mesa Unified School
District
Project Tomorrow: Innovative
School Program of the Year in Science, Math and Technology:
Dave Gerhard, Project Splash
Concordia Elementary School, Capistrano Unified School District
Kathy Slawson, Project-Based Learning
Early College High School, Newport-Mesa Unified School District
William Skelly, Technology
http://www.sausd.k12.ca.us/sausd/site/default.asp
Please stay tuned for select program videos to come...
Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Award
Don Allen, Incuity (Last Year's Award Winner)
Gregg Anders, Southern California Edison
Robert Best (2010), Harvey Mudd College Student
Olivier Chaine (1995), Chief Executive Officer, Magnify260
Raymond E. Grainger (1988), Harvey Mudd College Trustee
Dr. David Money Harris, Harvey Mudd College Faculty
Dr. Sarah Harris, Harvey Mudd College Faculty
Dr. Richard Haskell, Harvey Mudd College Faculty
John Roberts, CTG Energetics
Project Tomorrow Innovation in Education Awards Review Committee
Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow
Dr. Geoffrey H. Fletcher, Editorial Director, T.H.E. Journal
Serena Gallenstein, Vice-President, Mktg. and Business Dev. Operations,
Emulex Corporation
Jeanne Luckenbaugh, Sr. Executive Administrator, Emulex Corporation
Innovative Product/Technology Judges
Moize Beguwala
Edward J. Doyle
Sigmund Fidyke III
David George
Gene Goda
Patrick Lilley
Mike Mesenbrink
Richard Nelson
Himanshu Palsule
Jeff Reid
Jeff Scott
Michael Siersema
Norman Wolfe
The 16th
Annual TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards Dinner was underwritten and
produced by financial and in-kind sponsors including premier sponsors
Deloitte, EPIC,
Silicon Valley Bank,
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth; associate sponsor
California Manufacturing Technology
Consultants; and contributing sponsors
Crowell & Moring and Toshiba. In addition,
Emulex returned as the Project
Tomorrow Sponsor; and
WunderMarx|PR returned as the public relations and marketing
sponsor.
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About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, which
is the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the
United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy.
Representing approximately 1,500 member companies of all sizes from the
public and commercial sectors of the economy, it is the industry’s
largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members’ top
and bottom lines. It offers the technology industry's only
grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals
around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia
(Beijing). The Technology Association of America was formed by the
merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber
Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology
Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics &
Information Technology Association (GEIA). Learn more at
www.techamerica.org.
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