Leisa Swanson

Bausch & Lomb, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets eye health products. It offers over-the-counter supplements, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, contact lenses, lens care, ophthalmic surgical devices, and instruments. The company was founded by John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb in 1853 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company, which engages in developing, manufacturing and marketing medical products and technologies, within the areas of interventional oncology, wound closure and ophthalmology. The company was founded by William L. Hunter and Cruz F. Tony in 1992 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

AGA Medical Holdings, Inc. operates as a holding company for manufacturers of medical devices for the treatment of heart defects and vascular diseases. The companies AGA Medical Holdings operates sell devices, which are used by pediatric cardiologists, radiologists, and vascular surgeons. The company was founded in July 2005 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

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.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. (Stifel) is a dual-registered broker-dealer and investment adviser headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, the firm is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial service holding company. Stifel provides full-service brokerage and investment advisory services to individuals and their families, institutions and businesses, and financial advisors.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CR Group LP (CRG) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Charles Tate. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

AGA Medical Corp. manufactures medical devices used to treat structural heart defects and abnormal blood vessels. Its AMPLATZER products help improve patient outcomes, reduce length of hospital stay, and accelerate patient recovery times. The company was founded by Kurt Amplatz and Franck L. Gougeon on July 12, 1995 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.

Biovail Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops pharmaceutical medicines. The company products include Wellbutrin SR, Retavase, Zyban and Tiazac XC in Canada and Zovirax Ointment and Zovirax Cream in the United States. The company is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Part of Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., AMF Medical SA is a Swiss medtech company that was founded in 2014. The company is based in St-Sulpice, Switzerland. The company is developing a novel technology called Sigi™, a next-generation interoperable, semi-reusable, and rechargeable patch pump that uses standard pre-filled insulin cartridges. Sigi™ is designed to make life easier for people with diabetes and received breakthrough device designation by the Food and Drug Administration in November 2021. The company is led by co-CEOs Mr. Pim van Wesel and Mr. Antoine Barraud, PhD, who is also a co-founder. AMF Medical was acquired by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. on January 19, 2023, for $205.05 million.

AFYX Therapeutics AS engages in research and development of pharmaceutical drugs. It develops a platform designed to deliver a pharmaceutical drug uni-directional to a mucosal surface. The company was founded in May 2014 and is headquartered in Virum, Denmark.

Part of Immunocore Holdings Plc, Immunocore Ltd. is a British commercial-stage biotechnology company that develops and commercializes transformative medicines to address unmet needs in cancer, infection, and autoimmune disease. The company is based in Oxon, UK. The company has a robust pipeline of wholly owned and partnered programs to address a broad spectrum of disease indications, built on their proprietary soluble TCR bi-specific Immtac® platform. The company was founded in 2007, and the CEO is Bahija Jallal.

Part of Pressure Vessel Service, Inc., HoltraChem, Inc. distributes alkalies and chlorine chemicals. The company is based in Natick, MA. HoltraChem was acquired by Pressure Vessel Service, Inc. on October 29, 1998.

Harris Williams & Co. provides investment advisory services. It offers investment banking, sell-side mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, fairness opinion, and restructuring advisory services. The company was founded by H. Hiter Harris III and Christopher H. Williams in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Berkshire Biomedical LLC is a medical device company that is pioneering the use of biometric technologies to provide precise and accurate personalized medication delivery to only the authenticated intended user. The private company is based in Dallas, TX. The company's lead product under development is the computerized oral prescription administration system (COPA), a hand-held, automated, personalized oral liquid dispensing system designed to deliver controlled and non-controlled liquid oral medications to only the authenticated intended user upon confirmation of dual biometric identification. The company was founded in 2016 by Thomas M. Rouse, Susan Owen. John E. Timberlake has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Advanced Medical Technology Association is a trade association which provides medical technology solutions. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

EarlySense Ltd. provides patient monitoring systems. It offers continuous patient monitoring for heart rate, respiratory rate and motion, to potentially allow the clinical team to manage early detection of patient deterioration, fall prevention and pressure ulcers prevention. The firm develops system specifically for medical surgical, general care patients who are usually monitored by nurses once every four to six hours. The company was founded by Avner Halperin, Daniel H. Lange, Guy Shinar and Yossi Gross in 2004 and is headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Surgical Specialties Corp. manufactures medical products. It specializes in designing and manufacturing of surgical knives and wound closure products. The firm offers suture needles, sutures, microsurgical cutting instruments, eye garters, and ophthalmic cannulas. The company is headquartered in Westwood, MA.