VALENCIA, Calif. - Thomas Michael Veloz, 69, chairman and CEO of UltraViolet Devices Inc. (UVDI), died Sept. 13, 2006. He was born on July 19, 1937, in New York, and moved to California with his family in the 1950s, where he attended high school and later the University of Southern California.
Veloz was the former owner of Aquafine Corp. and the founder of UVDI. He also was a noted philanthropist who supported the Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) Boys and Girls Club, Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, College of the Canyons, American Red Cross, and the United Way, and was the founding father of the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center.