"We were not looking at ECD as a financial entity or as a company, " Metzger says.
With his wife, Iris Ovshinsky--a current ECD director--he started ECD in 1960 and took the company public in 1964.
He was forced out in 2007 and ECD was finally liquidated last year.
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"He's been close to losing the company his whole life, " admits ECD Chairman Robert Stempel, the former head of General Motors.
James Metzger, ECD's chief operating officer since 2002, was Texaco's chief technical officer when the oil firm decided to invest in ECD.
After Ovshinsky allegedly violated their agreement, Manning sued and eventually received control of ECD's X-ray-mirror and flat-panel display technology, which he later sold off.
It might even have anticipated some kind of devaluation in Europe, where the ECD may need to eventually monetize some of the bad PIIGS loans.
The annual ECD fosters a high-level dialogue between both governments to promote bilateral trade and investment and to further bilateral Poland economic and commercial relations.
In conjunction with the roundtable, the United States and Poland will seek to hold an executive session of the U.S.-Poland Economic and Commercial Dialogue (ECD).
Mr. Miller continued to hold the remainder of his ECD stake.
The ECD, co-chaired by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Polish Ministry of Economy, last met at an experts-level in Warsaw, Poland in April 2011.
In 1999 former Micron executive Tyler Lowry formed a joint venture with ECD called Ovonyx to make memory that, like flash, doesn't lose data when it loses power.
ChevronTexaco declined to comment about its ventures with ECD.
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