David W. Lazarek

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Evermay Wealth Management LLC is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2008 by Will Pitt, Damon White and Biljana McKinley. Evermay provides investment supervisory services on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to individuals, high net worth individuals, corporations, pension and profit-sharing plans, and trusts and estates.

LegalNet Works, Inc. provides program management, risk management, and security governance. The firm covers the development of surveys and the collection and analysis of data on data management and security topics. It specializes in offering director and officer due diligence requirements for security and risk management services, security and privacy assessments in accordance with federal regulations, developments in operational risk management, and vendor management standards and guidelines for IT outsourcing. The company was founded by Lee M. Zeichner in May 1996 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Codagenix, Inc. provides platform technology to construct viral vaccines against multiple targets. It focuses on SAVE platform technology that utilizes computer-based rational design of viral genomes for the design and construction of vaccines for a range of medically important human diseases. The company was founded by J. Robert Coleman, Eckard Wimmer, Charlie Petty and Steffen Mueller in 2009 and is headquartered in Farmingdale, NY.

Adjuvant Capital LP (Adjuvant Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Glenn Rockman, Kabeer Aziz and Charlie Petty. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Eldridge Industries LLC (Eldridge Industries) is a venture capital/private equity firm founded in 2015 by Duncan Bagshaw, Todd L. Boehly and Tony Minella. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

PBMares Wealth Management LLC (PBMares) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Williamsburg, Virginia. Formerly known as Witt Mares Financial Vision LLC, the firm was founded in 1999 and is wholly owned by the accounting firm PBMares LLP. PBMares manages investment portfolios for individuals/high-net worth individuals, qualified retirement plans, charitable organizations, trusts and small businesses.

Librato, Inc. provides solutions for monitoring and understanding the metrics. It offers metrics a monitoring as a service platform that allows user to store, visualize, and create alerts for various time series data. The company was founded by Michael A. Heffner, Fred van den Bosch, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Arun J. Bangalore, Daniel Stondin, Joseph F. Ruscio and Nikolas Wekwerth in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Curevo, Inc. is a clinical stage company based in South Korea that aims to bring next generation vaccines to the market quickly and efficiently. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company's partners include Mogam Institute for Biomedical Research and GC Pharma. Curevo is currently in phase 2 of a shingles study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of their vaccine. The company's goal is to reduce the burden of infectious disease with a focus on safe and highly effective shingles and varicella vaccines. Curevo was founded in 2018, and the CEO is George Simeone.

VitriVax, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, CO that partners with vaccine developers to create thermostable vaccines that can be delivered in a single shot. The company's proprietary atomic layering thermostable antigen and adjuvant (alta™) technology platform enables vaccines to be shipped ly without refrigeration or freezing, last for years on the shelf, and only require one patient interaction to deliver multiple doses. The alta™ technology can be applied to a wide variety of vaccine antigens and adjuvants to protect against thermal and chemical degradation and enable controlled release, incorporating prime doses and additional booster doses in a single-shot administration. The company was founded by Robert Garcea and Theodore Randolph, and the CEO is Matthew Raider.

Granite Bridge Partners LLC (Granite Bridge Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Third Bridge Group Ltd. provides information about investment opportunities to private equity firms, hedge funds and strategy consultants. The firm offers Third Bridge Connections, Forum and Intelligence. It also offers consultations, interview transcripts and market intelligence reports that provide insights into companies and markets. The company was founded by Rodolphe de Hemptinne and Emmanuel Tahar in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Preqin Ltd. provides online database services, publications, and research reports for the alternative assets industry. The firm provides data and information on the private equity, real estate, hedge fund, infrastructure, private debt, and natural resources asset classes encompassing the following areas: funds and fundraising, performance, fund managers, institutional investors, deals, and fund terms. The company was founded by Alfred Louis Mark O'Hare in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

CoBe Capital LLC (CoBe Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1994 by Neal Cohen. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Halo Diagnostics LLC provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Cowboy Clean Fuels LLC is an emerging renewable energy technology company based in Wyoming. Cowboy Clean Fuels utilizes non-producing coal bed methane wells and infrastructure to produce renewable natural gas from agricultural byproducts through a naturally-occurring biogenic process. This process also results in permanent sequestration of CO2 in deep, geologic formations. The American company's proprietary and patented technology was developed by Dr. Michael Urynowicz, who is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the company. The leadership team of Cowboy Clean Fuels has over 100 years of experience in clean energy technology commercialization, upstream gas operations, and large-scale energy project development. The company was founded in 2020 by Noah Yates, Michael Urynowicz, Rob Garland, Douglas Bottrell, and Ryan Waddington, with Ryan Waddington serving as the CEO since then.

Huron River Venture Partners LLC (Huron River Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Ryan Waddington and Tim Streit. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Heavybit LLC (Heavybit) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by James Lindenbaum and Thomas Drummond. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

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

RDL Financial, Inc., do business as Wolf Group Capital Advisors (WGCA), is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1996 and is owned by Robert D. Len, Leonard S. Wolf, and Charles K. Verruggio. WGCA provides investment advisory and financial planning services to individuals, high net-worth individuals and trusts.

Pacific Architects & Engineers, Inc. provides integrated services to support missions. It offers defense support services specializing in aviation and ground vehicle maintenance at various levels, including aerospace ground equipment and precision measurement equipment, exercise/event planning, staging and life support. The company was founded by Edward A. Shay in 1955 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.