John Battinelli

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Warburg Pincus LLC (Warburg Pincus) is a private equity subsidiary of Warburg Pincus & Company US LLC founded in 1966. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Tudor Investment Corp. (TIC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1980 by Paul T. Jones, II. TIC provides discretionary investment advisory services to various hedge funds, private equity funds and managed accounts. Investors in these funds generally include high-net worth individuals and related entities, sovereign entities, pension funds, non-financial corporates, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, fund-of-fund vehicles and proprietary capital from current and former personnel.

TriplePoint Capital LLC (Triplepoint Capital) is a global specialty debt financing firm founded in 1987 by Jim Labe. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

MD Global Partners LLC specializes in global trading and fund services. It offers advisory, institutional execution, capital markets, corporate finance, acquisitions and private equity & venture capital services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC engages in the operation of a talent and literary agency that provides entertainment services. It offers books, comedy, culinary, digital, endorsements, motion picture, music, sports, speakers, television, theater, and voiceover. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Yorkville Advisors LLC (Yorkville) is an independent alternative investment manager headquartered in Mountainside, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Mark A. Angelo in 2001. Yorkville serves as a global investment manager to a number of private investment funds.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

H.I.G. Capital LLC (H.I.G Capital) is a private equity division of H.I.G. Capital LLC founded in 1993 by Sami W Mnaymneh and Anthony A Tamer. The firm is headquartered in Miami, Florida with offices in Europe, Latin America and Middle East.

Duke University Health System, Inc. engages in the provision of health care services. It offers cancer treatment, primary care, orthopedics, aesthetics, and fertility services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Valtris Specialty Chemicals Ltd. develops, manufactures and sells additives for the polymer and coatings industries. It offers additives, antioxidants, metal stearates and lubricants, light stabilizers, blowing agents, pigments, waxes, non phthalate plasticizers, polymeric plasticizers, processing aids, flame retardants and viscosity modifiers. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

Wafra Partners LLC (Wafra Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1993 by Yousef Al-Humaidhi. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Finacity Corp. provides securitization and funding services. It offers asset-backed working capital funding solutions, consumer receivables financing, supplier and payables finance, back-up servicing, and transaction reporting. The company was founded by Kit Codik in 2001 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Comerica Bank & Trust, NA operates as a nationally chartered commercial bank. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Avista Capital Holdings LP (Avista Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Steven Webster and Thompson Dean. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Rockpoint Group LLC (Rockpoint Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2003 by Bill Walton and Keith Gelb. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with an additional offices in San Francisco, Dallas, Seoul, and London.

Perkins Coie Ventures (Perkins Coie Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Perkins Coie LLP founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Michigan Ross Zell Lurie Institute / Venture Capital/ (Zell Lurie Institute) is a venture capital subsidiary of Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Studies founded in 1997 by Samuel Zell, Ann Lurie and Robert H. Lurie. The firm is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Load One LLC is a leading provider of expedited transportation and logistics services. The company is based in Taylor, MI. Load One is dedicated to providing exceptional service to its customers in helping them address their time-critical, time-sensitive, and high-value freight needs. In addition to ground expedite services, Load One also provides truckload, specialized flatbed, air, and logistics solutions. Load One was founded in 2003 by John K. Elliott, who has been the CEO since then.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Ten Oaks Group (Ten Oaks Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2020 by Matt Magan and Mike Hahn. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

MBA Fund /Venture Capital/ (MBA Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Hansae Catlett, Josh Hoffman-Senn, Hiro Tien and Sieva Kozinsky. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Part of Valtris Specialty Chemicals Ltd., Valtris Advanced Organics Ltd. is a British company that manufactures and sells organic chlorinated chemicals. The company is based in Manchester, UK.

Raines International, Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in healthcare, financial services and CPG retail, private equity, industrials, entertainment, media, technology, and board positions. The company was founded by Bruce R. Raines in 1969 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BioEclipse Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of curative immune-oncology therapeutics for patient with cancer. Its patented immunotherapy is the CRX-100, which delivers potentially curative treatments to patients over a broad range of tumor type. The company was founded by Pamela R. Contag, Christopher Contag, and Robert Negrin and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

NextGen Venture Partners LLC (NextGen Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Inc, founded in 2011 by Daniel Mindus and Grant Allen. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Albaron Partners LLC (Albaron Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2017 by Allesio Baraldi and Dmitri Ivanov. The firm is headquartered in New York.