Linda Tharby

Cordis Corp. develops and manufactures devices for interventional vascular medicine and electrophysiology. The firm's products include guidewires, balloons, forceps, catheters, and stents to treat a variety of circulatory system problems including coronary artery disease and cerebral aneurysms. The company was founded by William P. Murphy Jr. in 1959 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Fischer Imaging Corp. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of mammography and digital imaging products used to diagnose breast cancer and other diseases. It offers digital imaging systems and other medical devices that help radiologists, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals in screening, diagnostic, and interventional procedures. It also provides SenoScan digital mammography system that is used for both screening and diagnostic mammography and MammoTest stereotactic breast biopsy system, which is used for minimally invasive breast biopsy. Fischer Imaging was founded by Morgan W. Nields in 1910 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Biothera, Inc. develops natural gluco polysaccharide that engages and directs natural innate immune systems. The company was founded by Daniel Conners in 1997 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Metabolon, Inc. operates as a health technology company. It offers precision medicine, clinical diagnostic, and metabolomics services. The firm serves to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer product industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

CNS Therapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures drug delivery products. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Horton Capital Management LLC (dba The Horton Fund) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 2012 and provides investment advice to high-net-worth clients.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fresenius Kabi AG manufactures medical devices for therapies. It specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The firm offers infusion solutions for fluid substitution, blood volume replacement, intravenously administered drugs as well as the respective medical devices for the application, pump systems and infusion management systems. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP provides legal advisory services. Its practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate finance, insurance, tax, labor and employment, political law, private equity, corporate, antitrust, white collar crime, international, regulatory, and legislation. The company was founded by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps in 1948 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

StemoniX, Inc. provides IPS-based platforms for pharmacy and research institutions. It offers microBrain 3D Assay Ready, microBrain 2D Assay Ready, microPlate, microHeart Assay Ready, and microHeart Cell Ready. The company was founded by Yung-Ping Yeh and Robert Petcavich in 2014 and is headquartered in Maple Grove, MN.

Mufson Howe Hunter & Co. LLC provides investment advice. It focuses on middle market companies seeking growth capital and liquidity through recapitalizations, mergers & acquisitions and private placements. The firm provides sell-side advisory, buy-side assignments, recapitalizations, private placements of growth capital, financial advisory services and valuations services to the business services, cleantech, consumer and retail, life science tools and services, specialty distribution and manufacturing and technology industries. The company was founded by Michael J. Mufson, Anthony Lopez-Ona and Michael J. Howe in 2004 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Energizer Auto Brands, Inc. engages in the provision of interior and exterior automobile surfaces. The company was founded in November 2010 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

BZ Bank AG provides securities trading, investment advice and asset management services. The firm's services include brokerage, private banking, corporate advisory, asset management and investment funds. The company was founded by Martin Ebner in May 1985 and is headquartered in Wilen, Switzerland.

NuAx, Inc. develops medical devices for the treatment of heart disease. The firm focuses on enhancing the clinical performance of pacing, cardiac resynchronization, and defibrillation therapy through advancements in lead design, placement and myocardial sensing, and activation. The company was founded by Robert G. Walsh and John L. Erb in 2008 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.