Amitava Gupta

PixelOptics was founded in 2005 as the world's first composite lens company. Its unique and proprietary approach to lens design combines sound lens design principles and well-known, proven lens materials to create entirely new categories of eyeglass lenses. Its objective is to bring 'transformational innovation' to the spectacle lens category and deliver significantly enhanced vision performance to eyeglass wearers worldwide. To accomplish this endeavor, they have brought together an impressive team of leading scientists, industry professionals and business leaders from around the globe to make its vision a reality. And to date, PixelOptics has registered over 300 lens-related patents and patent applications worldwide. PixelOptics lenses are marketed through traditional vision care industry channels of distribution. There is no need to purchase special equipment to process its lenses or incorporate them into their practice. With PixelOptics, everyone wins-eyeglass consumers, vision care professionals, optical dispensaries, and wholesale laboratories.

Vistakon, Inc. manufactures disposable contact lenses. The company's products include daily wear disposable and bifocal lenses. It also makes color contact lenses (in shades of blue, green, gray and honey). Vistakon is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Part of AbbVie, Inc., Ioptex Research, Inc. is a company that manufactures ophthalmic lenses. The company is based in Irwindale, CA. Ioptex Research was acquired by Allergan, Inc., part of AbbVie, Inc. from June 15, 2015 on September 08, 1994 for $16 million.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory operates a national research facility. It is a federally funded research and development center. The firm specializes in robotic space and Earth science missions. The company was founded by Frank Malina, Ed Forman, and Jack Parsons on October 31, 1936 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

ELENZA, Inc. develops and commercializes electro-active AutoFocal intraocular lens (IOL) to address the cataract extraction market and future opportunities associated with the correction of presbyopia. Its electro-active accommodating IOLs are used for the correction of near, intermediate, and distance vision in patients. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Roanoke, VA.