Jean-Yves Nothias

Gene-IT, Inc. (GenomeQuest, Inc.) provides software solutions to life-science research organizations. It makes sequence information available to all end-users in life sciences. The firm identifies new applications and adapts sequence search technology to serve life science end-users. The company was founded by Dr. Jean-Jacques Codani and Eric Glémet in 1998 and is located in Westborough, MA.

GQ Life Sciences, Inc. provides software solutions to life science research organizations. It offers LifeQuest, a patent search platform specific for the life sciences that provides a solution for semantic keyword and life science ontology searching; and GenomeQuest that integrates full-text search and sequence search in the intellectual property domain. The company was founded by Eric Glemet in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Picometrics SA manufactures Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) detectors for liquid separation analysis. Its products include ZETALIF Evolution, ZETALIF LED, and ZETALIF Discovery. The company's detectors have been used in the analysis of a range of molecules such as proteins, carbohydrates, alcohols, thiols, amines, aldehydes and ketones, organic acids, nucleotides as well as fluorescent pharmaceutical products and illicit drugs. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Trod Medical NV develops and commercializes tools for use in the focal ablation of soft tissues. The company was founded by Andre Scattolin Faure on June 29, 2006 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

Societé Générale Asset Management Alternative Investment/Private Equity (SGAM AI/PE) is the banking group's European asset management center for Private Equity. They are located in Paris-La Défense. SGAM AI/PE is a division of the Société Générale Asset Management, established in 2003, which is a subsidiary of the bank's Global Investment Management and Services division. The ultimate parent firm is the French financial institution Société Générale (PK: SCGLY), established in 1864. Nationalized at different intervals throughout their history, the bank is in the private sector since 1997. SGAM AI/PE is composed of three units: venture capital, expansion capital and buyout, and fund of funds. In addition to their Paris office, they are also present in London, Milan, Munich, Warsaw, Bucharest and Casablanca.