Mark G. Charest

Great Point Partners LLC (Great Point) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dr. Jeffrey Jay and David Kroin. Great Point provides discretionary investment management services to pooled investment vehicles, which includes hedge funds and private equity funds, as well as separately managed accounts.

Itero Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. develops biopharmaceutical products for novel therapeutic proteins and antibodies. The firm focuses on the development and commercialization of protein therapeutics that offer significant clinical and commercial advantages over marketed alternatives. It provides recombinant follicle stimulating hormone for the treatment of female infertility. The company was founded in 2006 by Dr. V. Bryan Lawlis Jr., Dr. Darlene P. Horton and Roy Jerald Beers and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Tekla Capital Management LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Formerly known as Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management LLC, the firm serves as an investment adviser for four closed-end funds – Tekla Healthcare Investors, Tekla Life Sciences Investors, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund and Tekla World Healthcare Fund.

ZS Associates, Inc. engages in the sales and marketing consulting, outsourcing, technology and software services. Its services include market segmentation, targeting, mergers, integration, forecasting and design. The company was founded by Prabhakant K. Sinha and Andy Zoltners in 1983 and is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

New Leaf Venture Partners LLC (New Leaf Ventures) is an independent Venture Capital firm founded by Jeani Delagardelle, Philippe Chambon, Vijay Lathi, Ron Hunt, James Niedel, and Kathy LaPorte. The firm is headquartered in New York. It spun out from Sprout Group.

Panorama Capital LLC (Panorama Capita) is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Chris Albinson, Rod Ferguson, Shahan Soghikian and damion wicker. The firm is headquartered in Campbell, California.

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. conducts biomedical researches. It focuses in the areas of oncology, ophthalmology, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, neuroscience, and cardiovascular conditions, other focus areas include discovery chemistry, biologics, pathway biology, and translational medicine. The company was founded on September 10, 2002 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

LifeSci Venture Partners (LifeSci Venture Partners) is a venture capital subsidiary of LifeSci Index Partners LLC founded in 2017 by Paul Inho Yook. The firm is headquartered in New York.

LifeSci Fund Management LLC (LFM) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Phenomic Capital LLC. LFM serves as an investment advisor to the AlphaCentric LifeSci Healthcare Fund, an unconstrained biotech/healthcare portfolio.