List of Technology Pioneers 2009
Biotechnology and Health
AC Immune
S.A.
www.acimmune.com
Prof. Andrea Pfeifer, Chief Executive Officer
AC Immune S.A. is a Swiss biopharmaceutical company developing innovative
therapeutics for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) along three axes of
AD therapies: vaccines, antibodies and small molecules.
Alnylam
Pharmaceuticals
www.alnylam.com
John Maraganore, Chief Executive Officer
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel
therapeutics based on a breakthrough in biology known as RNA interference, or RNAi,
a discovery that enables the creation of a broad new class of human
therapeutics.
BioMedica
Diagnostics
www.biomedicadiagnostics.com
Dr Abdullah Kirumira, Chief Executive Officer
The primary mission of BioMedica is the dissemination of affordable Medical
Diagnostics in the developing world.
Intercell
AG
www.intercell.com
Gerd Zettlmeissl, Chief Executive Officer
Intercell is a biotechnology company developing novel vaccines against
infectious diseases.
Mobile
Healthcare Inc
www.lifewatcher.com
James Hiroshi Nakagawa, Chief Executive Officer
Mobile Healthcare Inc. (MHC) is a private, Tokyo-based integrated solutions
provider of unique real-time mobile solutions for preventing and managing
lifestyle-related chronic diseases.
MorphoSys
AG
www.morphosys.com
Dr. Simon E. Moroney, Chief Executive Officer
MorphoSys AG, located in Martinsried/Munich, is one of the world's leading
biotechnology companies focusing on fully human antibodies.
Phase
Forward, Inc.
www.phaseforward.com
Robert Weiler, Chairman, President and CEO
Phase Forward's software helps biopharmaceutical and medical device companies
bring better, safer therapies to market more efficiently and cost effectively.
Proteus
Biomedical
www.proteusbiomed.com
Andrew Thompson, Chief Executive Officer
Proteus is a leader in Intelligent Medicine: personalizing proven therapies by
embedding computers and sensors into drugs and devices and linking them to
mobile computers.
Energy/Environment
CURRENT
Group, LLC
www.currentgroup.com
Thomas J. Casey - Chief Executive Officer
CURRENT is the leader in enabling electric utilities worldwide to implement a
Smart Grid benefiting utilities, consumers and the environment.
BrightSource
Energy, Inc.
www.brightsourceenergy.com
Arnold Goldman, Chairman and Founder
BrightSource Energy, Inc. designs and builds large scale solar plants that
deliver low-cost solar energy in the form of steam and/or electricity, at
prices competitive with fossil fuels, to industrial and utility customers
worldwide.
Cows to
Kilowatts Partnership Limited
www.biotec.or.th/biotechnology-en/newsdetail.asp?id=732
Dr. Joseph Adelegan, Executive Director and Head of Partnership
The partnership is abating pollution, mitigating greenhouse gas emission and
creates cheap source of domestic energy through the installation of sustainable
bioreactor.
GreenPeak
Technologies
www.greenpeak.com
Mr. Cees Links,, Chief Executive Officer
GreenPeak is a semiconductor, module and software company offering wireless and
green ultra low power network communication technology for sense and control
applications.
Lemnis
Lighting
www.lemnislighting.com
Frans Alexander Otten, Chairman
Lemnis was established to provide the world with the most energy efficient
lighting products.
NovaTorque
www.novatorque.com
John Petro - Founder and CTO
NovaTorque has invented highly efficient electric motors that achieve half to a
quarter of the losses of conventional motors and 50-100% higher power
densities.
RECYCLA
Chile
www.recycla.cl
Fernando Nilo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
RECYCLA offers a sustainable final destination for electronic equipment that
frequently contains hazardous materials.
RecycleBank,
LLC
www.RecycleBank.com
Ron Gonen – Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
RecycleBank is a rewards program that motivates people to recycle.
SemiLEDs
Corporation
www.semileds.com
Mr. Trung Tri Doan, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
SemiLEDs Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of
high-performance light-emitting diodes (HPLED) suitable for general lighting
applications.
Virent
Energy Systems, Inc
www.virent.com
Dr. Randy Cortright, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Virent's BioForming(TM) process cost-effectively and renewably generates
conventional hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from
plant sugars.
ZPower,
Inc.
www.zpowerbattery.com
Ross E. Dueber, President and Chief Executive Officer
ZPower is dedicated to innovating change in the field of battery
technology.
Information Technologies and New Media
Advanced
Track & Trace
www.advancedtrackandtrace.com
Jean-Pierre Massicot, Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Track & Trace is a pioneer in digital security solutions applied
to Brand Protection.
Brightcove
Inc.
www.brightcove.com
Jeremy Allaire, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Brightcove is an online video platform that empowers video producers and
programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and
control over their use of video and television.
Etsy Inc.
www.etsy.com
Robert Kalin, Founder
Etsy's mission is to enable people to make their living making things.
GameForge
www.gameforge.de
Klaas Kersting, Chief Executive Officer
Gameforge is the largest independent supplier of browser- and client-based
MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) worldwide.
JiGrahak
Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd.
www.ngpay.com
Sourabh Jain, Chief Executive Officer
JiGrahak provides "ngpay", India's first end-to-end, mass market
mobile commerce service.
Mint.com
www.mint.com
Aaron Patzer, Chief Executive Officer
Mint.com applies breakthrough technology to make it easier to make smarter
financial decisions.
Mojix,
Inc.
www.mojix.com
Dr.Ramin Sadr, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mojix, Inc. was founded in 2004 by a team of former JPL/NASA scientists and
engineers with the vision of applying breakthroughs in deep space
communications to exponentially refine the precision, reach and scope of RFID
technology.
MPedigree
www.mPedigree.net
Bright B. Simons, Chief Strategist
mPedigree manages the 1393 service, which has been deployed in Ghana since
January of this year, and is the first system anywhere in the world by means of
which consumers and patients can instantly verify the source of a purchased
pharmaceutical at no cost, at the point of purchase, using standard mobile
phones.
Nivio
www.nivio.com
Sachin Duggal, Chief Executive Officer
Nivio is the first online Windows desktop.
Qifang
Inc
www.qifang.cn
Calvin Chin, Chief Executive Officer
Qifang is a company built on the simple premise that everyone should be able to
get an education, no matter their financial means.
Slide,
Inc.
www.slide.com
Max Levchin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Slide's current sources of revenue include product sponsorships,
product-placement within applications, display advertising, and
direct-to-consumer products.
SpinVox
Ltd
www.spinvox.com
Ms Christina Domecq, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
SpinVox is the creator and global leader in an entirely new category of
communications which it has called Voice-to-Screen.
Tideway
Systems
www.tideway.com
Richard M. Muirhead, Chief Executive Officer
Tideway provides data center search software that continuously consumes and
transforms IT data into intelligence, including identifying application
software components and inter-relationships and mapping them to physical and
virtual infrastructure.
Ubiquisys
Ltd
www.ubiquisys.com
Chris Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer
Ubiquisys launched the femto industry in 2004 to improve and reduce the cost of
mobile coverage, capacity and services in homes and offices.
TraceTracker
Innovation ASA
www.tracetracker.com
Ole-Henning Fredriksen, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
TraceTracker is the global information exchange for the food industry.