Neil Ayotte

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.

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.

Image Sensing Systems, Inc. engages in the development and marketing of video and radar image processing products used in traffic applications such as intersection control, highway, bridge and tunnel traffic management, and traffic data collection. It operates through the Intersection and Highway business segments. The Intersection segment comprises sale of machine-vision product line, video products, international products, and royalties. The Highway segment consists of radar product lines sold domestically and internationally. The company was founded by Panos G. Michalopoulos on December 20, 1984 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Cain Brothers & Co. LLC delivers solutions to mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and strategic and financial advisory clients. Its services include strategic and financial advisory, direct bank placements, tax-exempt bond underwriting, joint ventures and affiliations, fairness opinions and valuations, leverage finance, swaps and derivatives, and growth equity. The company was founded by Daniel M. Cain and James E. Cain in 1982 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

VivoMetrics, Inc. provides non-invasive ambulatory monitoring systems. The company was founded on March 10, 2000 and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

BioMedix, Inc. provides equipment and services for non invasive detection of peripheral vascular disease. It provides suite of hardware, software and online services designed to cost-effectively detect peripheral arterial disease. The company was founded by Claver Bundac and Richard C. Magnuson in 1997 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MI.

SillaJen Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes cancer therapeutics. It focuses on the development and commercialization of first-in-class, breakthrough targeted oncolytic immunotherapy products for solid tumors. It is focused on two main programs, lead product candidate, which is in mid-stage clinical development for the treatment of advanced primary liver cancer and colorectal cancer and JX-929 which is under investigation for a variety of other solid tumors. The company was founded by John C. Bell and David H. Kirn in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CloSys Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures medical devices. It specializes in vascular closure devices that are used in interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular procedures to close the arterial access site. The company was founded on June 1, 1999 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Part of Federated Hermes, Inc., Investment Advisers, Inc. is a company that provides investment and other related financial services. The company is based in Bloomington, MN. Investment Advisers was acquired by Federated Hermes, Inc. from Lloyds TSB Group Plc on September 20, 2000.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Senseonics, Inc. develops transformative glucose monitoring products. It develops Senseonics continuous glucose monitoring system, an implantable continuous glucose monitoring system, which includes a miniaturized sensor and receiver that is inserted into the subcutaneous space under the skin to wirelessly transmit glucose levels to an external receiver. The company was founded by Michael James Barrett and Arthur E. Colvin in 1996 and is headquartered in Germantown, MD.

SenoRx, Inc. develops and manufactures invasive devices for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Tempe, AZ.

AgriStarts, Inc. produces and sells tissue culture liners. It offers plant tissue culture initiation, proprietary propagation and growing, elite stock maintenance, virus elimination, and international and domestic genetic transfer services. The company was founded by Strode Randall and Gerri Abner in 1984 and is headquartered in Apopka, FL.

The University of St. Thomas is an institution that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The private company is based in St. Paul, MN. It offers over 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as graduate programs in various fields such as business, engineering, law, education, social work, and arts and humanities. The University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 by John Ireland.

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.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. operates as a medical device firm. The company is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Part of Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., Centerpulse Spine-Tech, Inc. manufactures surgical instruments. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN.

Taylor-Wharton International LLC designs and manufactures cryogenic equipment that is used to hold and transport a variety of liquefied gasses for medical and beverage industries. Its products include compressed gas cylinders, organ transplant transportation vessels, vehicle fuel cylinders, and propane tank cylinders. The company was founded in 1742 and is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN.

Volunteers of America, Inc. (Minnesota) operates as a non-profit organization. The firm offers services to help vulnerable children, adolescents, families, older adults, students, person with disabilities and special need, and ex-offenders. Its services include community family support, community services for seniors, education, mental health services, rehabilitative and veterans services, residential treatment, services enriched housing, housing, and residential care. The company was founded by Ballington Booth and Maud Booth in 1896 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

The tru Shrimp Co. operates as an aquaculture company, which is utilizing proprietary and patented technology to produce premium, antibiotic, non-GMO shrimp in a controlled, indoor, and shallow water environment. It is a seafood and biopolymer company that produces premium consumer shrimp of varying sizes, chitosan for medical applications made from its shrimp shell tissue. The company was founded by Robert Galbraith on December 26, 2014 and is headquartered in Balaton, MN.

Growth Operators LLC provides finance, accounting, and human resources transformation services. The private company is based in Minneapolis, MN. The CEO of the company is Rick Nordvold.

RBC Capital Markets LLC (Investment Management) (RBC-IM) is the asset management division of RBC Capital Markets LLC, a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp., ultimately held by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. RBC-IM provides advisory services to individuals, foundations, endowments, employee benefit plans, trusts and estates, educational institutions, corporations, businesses, government entities and other entities.

Elire, Inc. operates as a consulting firm. It offers cloud, strategic enterprise resource planning (ERP), treasury management, human capital management, advanced technology, strategic advisory, and business intelligence services. . The company was founded by Grant Bernardy, Chris Costakes, and Landon Hartvigsen in 2005 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.