John B. Hollister

Oakley, Inc. designs and manufactures sunglasses and accessories. Its optics brand portfolio includes Eye Safety Systems, Fox Racing, Mosley Tribes, Oakley, Oliver Peoples and Paul Smith Spectacles. The company was founded by James H. Jannard in 1975 and is headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Target Discovery, Inc. provides scientific research services. It discovers, validates, and utilizes protein isoforms to improve clinical diagnosis and the management of diseases. The firm’s products address prostate cancer aggressiveness, and chemotherapy selection in breast and ovarian cancer. The company was founded by Luke V. Schneider in 1999 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Quantum Dot Corp. develops and markets novel solutions for biomolecular detection. Its products and services employ quantum dot particles, tiny semiconductor crystals that emit light brightly in a range of sharp colors. The company was founded by Bala Manian in 1998 and is located in Hayward, CA.

Singulex, Inc. provides biotechnological research and development services. It also provides instrumentation and immunoassays with the requisite sensitivity and specificity to enable biomarker discovery and validation for drug safety and efficacy. The company was founded by Robert S. Puskas in November 1997 and is headquartered in Alameda, CA.

Crescendo Bioscience, Inc. develops and commercializes quantitative blood tests for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. It develops quantitative, objective, reproducible blood tests to provide rheumatologists with deeper clinical insight to help enable more effective management of patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Mike B. Centola and Christopher L. Sutton in July 2002 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

EMBL Ventures GmbH (EMBL Ventures) is a venture investment arm of EMBL which was founded in 2001 by Drs. Stefan Herr, Christoph Antz and Jan Adams to provide start-up companies exploiting EMBL research and intellectual property with equity and expertise to build up and expand their business. Headquartered in Heidelberg, EMBL Ventures manages funds on behalf of institutional and private investors, forming a triad with EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and EMBLEM (EMBL Enterprise Management Technology Transfer GmbH) to provide exclusive access to unique technology commercialization opportunities from the EMBL. In addition, their investment activities complement and exploit synergies with EMBL and EMBLEM, providing financial and strategic investors with access to an attractive private equity market and an international scientific and research community, respectively.

Affimed NV Niederlassung Deutschland discovers and develops antibody-based therapeutic drugs. The firm generates and develops a pipeline of antibody product candidates based on proprietary technology platform. It offer therapeutic drugs that target autoimmune diseases and tumor cells. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.

Barnev, Inc. is a healthcare information technology company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of comprehensive monitoring and information solutions to clinicians and hospitals for labor and delivery. The firm is the first to market with delivery suite/product solutions that improve the clinical management of patients, and improve economic efficiency for its customers. Its first product, the BirthTrack™ Continuous Labor Monitoring System, is the most exciting innovation in labor progression monitoring since the Friedman Labor Curve was introduced over 50 years ago. The BirthTrack System is a revolutionary continuous labor monitoring technology that provides obstetric caregivers invaluable, precise, objective, real-time information about the physical progress of labor.

Sensovation AG manufactures and supplies scientific imaging instrumentation products. The firm specializes in the development and production of scientific imaging and low light detection solutions, based on charge coupled device and complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies. It offers automated digital microscopes, microarray analyzers, and scientific cameras for bioimaging, diagnostics, and quality control in clean technology applications. It also engages in partnerships focused on building and supplying commercial production systems and platforms. The company was founded by Stefan Bickert and Paul Hing in 2000 and is headquartered in Radolfzell, Germany.

Murdock Capital Partners Corp. (Murdock Capital) is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Thomas Dean and Luis Mejia in 1991. Murdock Capital provides small and medium sized businesses with corporate, financial and business advisory services.

TTTech Computertechnik AG engages in the provision of aerospace, space, manufacturing and energy market solutions. The company was founded by Stefan Poledna and Gerog Kopetz in 1998 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Calibrium Private Investments GmbH (formerly Aeris Capital AG) is a venture capital firm with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 2006.

Halteres Associates LLC is a consulting firm founded in 2002 and based in an undisclosed location. The American company provides strategic and tactical consulting services to organizations in the areas of diagnostics, health, medical devices, and life science research. The private company leverage a robust network of industry professionals across multiple disciplines to assist organizations with technology creation and applications, product and market development, opportunity and economic analyses, business modeling, and more. The company's clients include large multinational companies, nongovernmental organizations, and emerging industry innovators. Halteres Associates is passionate about improving healthcare and can help create impact and value by matching medical innovation to market needs.

Decipher Biosciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage precision oncology company which engages in patient care improvement. The Company?s differentiated approach measures the biological activity of a patient?s entire tumor genome, known as whole transcriptome analysis, and applies proprietary machine learning algorithms to improve therapy selection and accelerate adoption of new therapies into the standard of care. Its novel prostate cancer genomic testing products examine the underlying biology of a patient?s tumor, enabling physicians to select an optimal therapy. The firm?s whole transcriptome analysis of clinical patient samples from its commercial channel and its participation in practice-changing clinical trials has allowed it to build and expand its Decipher GRID database GRID. The company was founded by Elai Davicioni, Timothy J. Triche, Bruce A. Schmidt, and Jonathan D. Buckley and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Jiff, Inc. provides mobile based consumer-centric software platform for the healthcare industry. It provides an enterprise solution for self-insured employers to connect to and manage digital health tools, and to provide each employee with an individualized health incentives program. The firm’s HIPAA-compliant platform helps companies connect their health benefit design and incentives to the consumer digital health applications, devices, and services that employees know. The company was founded in 2010 by James P. Currier and Stan Chudnovsky and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

PatientWisdom, Inc. develops and operates platform that collects, curates, segments and shares patient stories. The firm offers services to patients and families, healthcare providers, researchers and educators, and manufacturers and payers. The company was founded by Gregory Makoul and Eric Langshur in 2015 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Cxc Teams provides business support services. The private company is based in Mesa. The American company was founded by Joe Biehl, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

emPower Health Equity, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Tiburon, CA.

OrphAI Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The firm engages in matching drugs to diseases and identifying the care for individual patients using Guardian Angel Artificial Intelligence algorithm. The company was founded by Tian Xu, Jonathan M. Rothberg and Henri S. Lichenstein in 2013 and is headquartered in Guilford, CT.

Inkspace Imaging, Inc. develops magnetic resonance imaging surface receive coils. The company was founded by Ana Claudia Arias, Michael Lustingis and Joseph Corea in 2016 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.