Three Local Companies Receive City's Beaverton 4 Business Award

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(BEAVERTON, Ore.) - A trio of successful Beaverton-based companies, GemStone Systems, Decarli and Voxtel, Inc., will receive Beaverton 4 Business awards from Mayor Denny Doyle and City Council at the Beaverton City Council meeting on Tuesday, October 12 at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall (4755 SW Griffith Drive).

Launched in October 2009, Beaverton 4 Business is a program conducted in partnership with the Beaverton Chamber of Commerce that publicly recognizes the significant achievements of businesses either headquartered or with operations in Beaverton.

"Successful businesses mean good jobs, a stronger regional economy, support for our schools and a better quality of life in Beaverton," said Mayor Denny Doyle. "We are proud to recognize the achievements of these businesses."

October 2010 award winners:

GemStone Systems is an enterprise software company whose products are used in industries such as financial services, the Federal Government, transportation, telecommunications and energy. They have recently developed in-memory caching databases that store entire databases within working memory, eliminating the time-consuming process of writing to and reading from a database on a disk.

DeCarli, created by the husband and wife team of Paul and Jana DeCarli, is an Italian-inspired restaurant that is lauded for becoming a fine dining destination and bringing new visitors to Beaverton. Paul, a longtime Oregonian and a graduate of Western Culinary Institute, developed his expertise at many of Portland's top restaurants including Paragon, Fratelli, Saucebox, and Tuscany Grill, where he was the Executive Chef.

Voxtel, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Beaverton, which specializes in developing and manufacturing innovative photonic devices and systems. Voxtel has recently developed an inexpensive system for manufacturing the microscopic quantum dots that go into the fabrication of solar panels, photodetectors, video displays and lighting.