Evergreen Material Partners

Allegro MicroSystems is one of the world s leading companies that manufactures, develops and markets a range of power integrated circuits and magnetic sensors. It serves clients in the automotive electronics, office automation and industrial markets. The company also provides power conversion devices and management systems. Allegro MicroSystems offers products for electronic appliances and portable systems. In addition, it provides fabrication, packaging and testing services. The company has achieved ISO 9000 certification. Allegro MicroSystems maintains a more than 200,000-square-foot facility in Massachusetts. It has sales operations in North America, South America, Europe and Japan. Allegro MicroSystems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanken Electric Company.

Founded in 1976, Accuprobe Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of probing/interface products for the testing of integrated and hybrid circuits. Manufacturers of semiconductors and hybrid circuits use the company s proprietary products. The firm caters to the semiconductor, hybrid, optical and related industries. Accuprobe Inc. utilizes a wide selection of probing technologies, including Probe Ring (Epoxy Ring), metal and ceramic blades, Z-adjustable and blade spring probes. The company s products address the semiconductor wafer sort as well as the thick/thin film hybrid circuit, optical and laser trim segments of the semiconductor device market.

Analog Devices is a world-leading semiconductor company specializing in high performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuits. The company was founded in 1965. Its products play a fundamental role in converting real-world phenomena such as temperature, motion, pressure, light and sound into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of applications ranging from industrial process control, factory automation, radar systems and CAT scanners to cellular base stations and telephones, broadband networking, computers, cars and digital cameras. The company s unique value to its customers is its ability to overcome the seemingly insurmountable barriers of speed, accuracy and cost, to solve intricate engineering challenges and to create ICs that enable portability, connectivity, and multimedia. Analog designs, manufactures and markets the high-performance, high-precision signal processing ICs that make pictures vibrant, voices clear, connections continuous and products portable. Jerald G. Fishman has been the chief executive officer of Analog Devices from more than 10 years. He has been with the semiconductor manufacturer for over 35 years. Fishman earned a BSEE from CUNY City, and a MBA from Boston University. The company is headquartered in Norwood, Mass.