Frank H. Ebetino

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Part of Sotera Health Co., Phoenix International Life Sciences, Inc. is a Canadian company that provides bioanalytical research and clinical testing services. The company is based in Saint-Laurent, Canada. Phoenix International Life Sciences was acquired by Nordion (Canada), Inc., part of Sotera Health Co. from July 30, 2018 on May 22, 2000 for $236.74 million.

Cantor Fitzgerald Securities (CFS) is a financial services provider headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1945. They are a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald LP and their ultimate parent is CF Group Management, Inc. CFS offers an array of financial products and services in the equity and fixed-income capital markets. The firm provides sales and trading, investment banking, asset management, market commentary and market data.

Agility Clinical, Inc. operates as a specialty consulting and clinical research organization. It offers project management services, including project feasibility, study budget and timeline management, study tracking reports, risk assessment, mitigation, and vendor management; clinical operations services, such as investigator selection, regulatory document collection and submission, TMF set up and maintenance, clinical monitoring, and site management; and data management services, which include database design and validation, data cleaning, and EDC. The company was founded by Ellen Morgan and David F. Hale in April 2012 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AIP LLC (American Industrial Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in New York City, New York.

SeaBridge Investment Advisors LLC (SeaBridge) is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Summit, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1996 by Garnett Keith. SeaBridge provides portfolio management services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, profit-sharing plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, private investment funds, foreign funds such as UCITs, SICAVs and foreign investment companies, and other US and international institutions and to investment companies.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets fertility and endocrinology products. Its products include Bravelle, Repronex, Novarel, Acthrel and Desmopressin Acetate. The company's products are used in treatment of osteoarthritis, prostate cancer, and other infertility related diseases. Ferring Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

XOMA (US) LLC develops pharmaceutical preparations. It offers proprietary drugs and toiletries. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Graftys SA designs, manufactures and markets calcium phosphate-based synthetic bone substitutes to the global orthopedic and dental surgery markets. Its research and development projects include injectable and resorbable synthetic bone substitutes, biological repair of cartilage and of the spine, as well as bone substitutes combined with pharmaceutical agents. The company was founded by Jean Marc Ferrier, Alain Valet, Jean-Michel Bouler and Aurélien Valet in September 2005 and is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Pepric NV develops imaging technology. It offers sensitive imaging systems with a long observation window for in-vivo molecular and functional imaging addressing pharmaceutical applications in drug development, pre-clinical testing, diagnostic imaging and translational medicine in general. The company was founded Stephanie Laura Gerard Claire Teughels in 2009 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Part of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Hôpital Erasme is a medical facility located in Brussels, Belgium. The hospital offers polyclinics in Nivelles and Brussels, as well as specialized centers in psychiatry, geriatrics, and traumatology.

Apaxen SA is a privately-held biotechnology company that was founded in 2018 and is based in an undisclosed location. The Belgian company has raised €5.4 million in equity and grant funding since its A round in 2019. Apaxen is focused on developing a pipeline of NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors with a novel mechanism of action for the treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company's clinical candidate, MFC-1040, is an orally bioavailable and selective small molecule NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor that has demonstrated efficacy in multiple animal models of chronic inflammatory disease and pulmonary fibrosis. The company's team combines the experience required for clinical development of its products and is supported by a world-class team of scientific advisors. Apaxen has a pipeline of products at discovery and preclinical stages of development for the treatment of diseases associated with chronic inflammation that depend on NLRP3 inflammasome activation. The company was founded in 2018 by Gael Jalce, Enrico Jose Adolfo Bastianelli, and Bart Wuurman has been the CEO of the company since 2020.