Ian A. Maxwell

RPO, Inc. develops digital waveguide technology solutions for consumer electronics, telecoms and datacoms. The company's products include game players, cell phones, PDAs, GPS systems, automotive control displays, multimedia players, tablet PCs and professional applications, such as ATM's and gambling machines. RPO was founded by Ian Maxwell & Robbie Charters in 2003 and is headquartered in Acton, Australia

Sapien Capital Partners Ltd. Is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Roger Allen and Roger G. Buckeridge. It is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

The Maxwell Group, Inc. helps all types of organizations to better understand and integrate the future of business communications with web based events and meetings. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

BT Imaging Pty Ltd. supplies research and development process inspection tools to the photovoltaic manufacturing industry. It also includes different products like laboratory offline tools software, production tools and software and production inspection modules and software. The company was founded in 2008 by Ian Andrew Maxwell, Robert Andrew Bardos and Thorsten Trupke and is headquartered in Waterloo, Australia.

VIVA BLU was providing the world with a leading and novel advanced oxidation process-disinfection technology for the breakdown of organic compounds and the inactivation of micro-organisms. It was targeting its technology primarily at the advanced or tertiary stage of water treatment in municipal drinking water and wastewater facilities, environmental/recreational water body remediation, and industrial process water. The company was established in Sydney, Australia, in June 2006. Prior to this date co-founders Dr. Greg Leslie and Dr. Ian Maxwell collaborated, first to understand the shortfall of existing commercial advanced oxidation process water treatment technologies, and second to invent a novel approach that is both superior in technical performance, lower in cost and consumer much less greenhouse gas emitting electrical power.

RPO, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware and has headquarters in San Jose. The core technologies have been developed at its research and development facilities in Canberra and Sydney, Australia. It has received venture funding from existing investors including Australian funds managed by Jolimont Capital, by Allen & Buckeridge and by Neo Technology Ventures; and from BASF Venture Capital and from Jafco. Since mid-2003 RPO's focus has been turned to applying its waveguide technology to solutions for consumer electronics markets and developing a high-volume manufacturing process. They are a technology focused company, with over 90% of its staff engaged in waveguide technology development, technical marketing, product development, design, and manufacturing. Die design, layout and footprint is customized to suit customers' cost, performance, assembly and packaging requirements. RPO supplies the key component to its touch screen customers the polymer optical waveguides for integration during the final product's assembly process.