Nehemiah Corporation of America
Nehemiah Corporation of America is a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California specializing in homeownership, affordable housing and community development. It started in 1994 as a small organization, but grew to prominence later in the 1990s after it developed a program that allowed home buyers to make down payments on their purchases using funds that were derived from the home sellers. This program, the Nehemiah Program, became popular and was widely emulated, giving birth to what came to be known as the seller-funded down-payment assistance industry. The industry attracted criticism from U.S. federal agencies (particularly the Government Accountability Office and the Internal Revenue Service) and was ultimately shut down in 2008 by a change in federal law.
John Wheatley (physicist)
In 1970 Wheatley with Olli Lounasmaa and other colleagues founded the SHE (for Superconducting Helium Electronics) Corporation in San Diego. SHE was the first worldwide corporation specializing in superconducting electronics. The name of the corporation was changed to Biomagnetic Technologies in 1985. In December 1999, Biomagnetic Technologies merged with the Finnish company Neuromag Oy to form the new corporation 4-D Neuroimaging. The Neuromag part of the company was sold to Elekta AB of Sweden in 2003; 4-D Neuroimaging filed for bankruptcy in 2009.