Peggy Sotiropoulou

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

La Financière de l’Echiquier SA (LFDE) is an asset management firm headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1991, the firm is a subsidiary of La Banque Postale Asset Management SA, ultimately owned by BPCE SA. LFDE offers a range of investment products and services to private clients or their long-standing partners such as financial advisors and institutional investors.

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.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Bryan, Garnier & Co Ltd. is a European, full-service growth-focused independent investment bank for technology, healthcare, consumer, and business services companies. The private company is based in London, UK, and has a global presence of subsidiaries in several regions. The British company is well-positioned in a capex intensive industry that is increasingly dynamic both in capital raising and M & A, driven by the 4th Industrial Revolution. Bryan Garnier is the world's leading independent full-service investment bank for European healthcare and technology-led companies and their investors. The company is focused on new disruptive technologies and alternative production models in a variety of domains geared towards fighting climate change and environmental degradation. The consumer sector is transformed across its segments by the way digital natives relate to brands, products, and the environment. The company was founded in 1996 by Olivier Marie Paul Garnier de Falletans.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

deVGen NV provides biotechnology services for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. It innovates in crop protection research and environment induced stress tolerance for its own crops and provides technology to corporate partners. The firm produces and sells its hybrid seeds in field crops such as rice, sunflower, sorghum and pearl millet in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The company was founded by Thierry Bogaert on September 10, 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Brutele SC provides television, Internet, and telecommunication services in Belgium. It offers television services that include analogue and digital television, television programs, cable television network and telephone services, such as fixed line, voice, fax and internet services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Vendis Management BVBA (Vendis Capital) is an independent private equity firm that was founded by Michiel Deturck, Cedric Olbrechts, Luc Geuten and Willem Van Aelten in 2009. The firm is headquartered in Diegem, Belgium.

DIAsource ImmunoAssays SA manufactures and distributes clinical diagnostics products. It develops, manufactures and markets clinical diagnostic products in the field of endocrinology and infectious diseases. The firm offer Elisa reader, washer and shaker, along with open and closed fully automated Elisa platforms helping customers to automate their tests. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

LNC Therapeutics SA operates as a research and development company that designs and develops medical food formulas. It's develop therapeutic solutions for metabolic and cardiometabolic disorders. The firm also designs and develops formulas for obesity and pre-diabetes sickness. Its products include Stablor, Bariamed, and Fertimed. It encompass serious game, patient community, and support tools: BariaSpoon and BariaFork. The company was founded by Jérôme Théron and Claude Vincent on October 29, 2010 and is headquartered in Bordeaux, France.

2Rivers NV develops event planning software solutions. The firm's Yesplan platform gives users an overview of all the planned events and available locations. It also helps user to plan and manage resources, services and staffing levels. The company was founded by Henk Catry, Eddy Naert, Johan Brichau, Thomas Cleenewerck, Andy Kellens and Karen Vander Plaetse in 2011 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium.

Econopolis NV provides financial services. The private company is based in Wilrijk, Belgium and has subsidiaries in Switzerland and Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2009 by Geert Noels, who has been the CEO since 2009.

Leucid Bio Ltd. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in London, UK. The British company develops novel, lateral car cell therapies for the treatment of refractory cancers, with a focus on developing next-generation cell therapies for the benefit of individuals with hard-to-treat solid tumors. The company's operations are based at Guys Hospital, enabling them to maintain a patient-centric focus. Leucid's goal is to develop CAR-T therapies with more durable responses, improving treatment outcomes and saving the lives of patients with refractory cancers. Leucid was established to translate 20 years of Kings College research in the CAR-T field and is led by a highly experienced management team, including scientific founder John Maher. Filippo Joseph Petti has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Appia Bio, Inc. is an early stage biotechnology company based in an undisclosed location. Appia Bio is focused on discovering and developing engineered allogeneic cell therapies across a broad array of indications with a scalable technology platform that increases access for patients. The American company utilizes the biology of lymphocyte development with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) gene engineering to generate CAR-engineered invariant natural killer T (CAR-NKT) or gamma delta T cells from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with its ACUA (Appia Cells Utilized for Allogeneic) technology platform. The ACUA platform was developed from groundbreaking research in the laboratory of Lili Yang, Ph.D., at the University of California, and collaboration with Appia Bio's other scientific founders, David Baltimore, Ph.D. at Caltech and Pin Wang, Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. The company was founded in 2020 by Jeffrey S. Wiezorek, David Baltimore, Jeenjoo Kang, Lili Yang, Edmund Kim, and Pin Wang. Jeenjoo Kang has been the CEO since 2020.

Advanced Engineering Accelerator SA provides business support services for engineering firms. The company is based in Charleroi, Belgium. The CEOs are Olivier Belenger, Maxime Vuckovic. The Belgian company was founded in 2018.

Pricing Pact is a Belgian company that helps businesses increase their revenue or profit through better pricing strategies. Pricing Pact was founded in 2016 by Laurent-David Hostyn and Candice Wachel, with Laurent-David Hostyn serving as CEO since then.

4Ventures SASPJ is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. 4Ventures is headquartered in Ixelles, Belgium.