SILICON VALLEY is a small manufacturing company located in a mid-sized city in the upper Midwest. SILICON VALLEY manufactures high-quality specialty components for the computer industry. The company was founded in 1994 by current CEO, David Dukakis. Dukakis was a talented young engineer in Silicon Valley. When the industry hit the skids in the early 1990s, he found himself out the door with little more than an entrepreneurial spirit and a small severance package. Dukakis left California, moved back to his home state and used his severance package to finance SILICON VALLEY, starting the company in small rented quarters in a nearly vacant strip mall. He brought in Cliff McNamara early on as chief financial officer. Dukakis was smart enough to know that he had no head for figures, but McNamara did. McNamara was an old college buddy, a super accounting wiz, and somebody Dukakis could trust to squeeze as much mileage as possible out of his severance money.