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Article: He's Xsirius about making money: eminent engineer-physicist Dr. William Graham links Capitol connections and L.A. scientists in guiding an R&D firm to its first commercial product and the prospect of profits for the first time in its six-year history.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- April 8, 1991
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He's Xsirius about making money
Son of a bomber pilot and scientific authority on the effects of nuclear-bomb blasts, Dr. William R. Graham is now sitting on eggs. R&D eggs.
This January the engineer-physicist took charge of a patient but ambitious team of research scientists, at a Marina del Rey outfit called Xsirius Inc., that finds and hatches sophisticated technologies for commercial use.
Last month a 6-year-old egg finally cracked open for Xsirius, whose staff now numbers 42. Out popped its first production-line copy of a new-design avalanche photodiode.
Graham, chairman and chief executive, says the 6-year-old company's first ...