Ryan P. Ashton

Perceptive Advisors LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Joseph “Joe” Edelman in 1999. provides investment advice to private funds, separate accounts, and co-investment vehicles. Investors in the client accounts and co-investment vehicles consist primarily of institutional investors, financial institutions, other investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals.

Gilead Colorado, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and markets drugs used for cardiovascular disorders. Their products include discovery of novel therapies and product identification and acquisition. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westminster, CO.

Omniture LLC provides online business optimization software products and services. It offers online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture offers software application solutions for online analytics, channel analytics, visitor acquisition and conversion. Omniture's customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, GM and HP. The company was founded in 1996 by John R. Pestana and Joshua G. James and is headquartered in Orem, UT.

HyClone Laboratories, Inc. manufactures and markets cell culture products and bio-processing systems for life-science research and protein-based drug production. It provides serum-free and protein-free media, supplements, reagents, and process liquids; cell culture products; sera products, including fetal bovine serum, specialty FBS, bovine calf serum, and fetal bovine replacement; and disposable flexible containers/bags that are used for transporting, mixing, dispensing, and storing sterile liquids and powders during the manufacture of biotechnological drugs. The company was founded by Rex Spendlove and is headquartered in Logan, UT.

Bloomberg LP engages in the provision of business data, news, and financial information services. Its product include Bloomberg terminal, execution and order management, content and data, financial data management, and integration and distribution. The company was founded by Michael Rubens Bloomberg, Charles M. Zegar, Thomas F. Secunda, and Duncan L. MacMillan in 1981 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Velico Medical, Inc. operates as a pre-clinical medical technology company that develops and commercializes products for use in preparing and storing platelets and plasma, including a companion instrument and disposable product for spray drying plasma. Its products include FrontlineODP (on demand Plasma) and FrontlinePPS (Platelet Protection System). The company was founded by Robert W. Middleton and Cabot G. L. Henderson in 1991 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Thermo BioStar, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets high performance, rapid diagnostic tests. The company is based in Louisville, CO. Thermo BioStar was acquired by Alere, Inc. from Thermo Electron Corp. on October 03, 2005 for $52.50 million.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC provides a variety of capital raising, market making, advisory and brokerage services for governments, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and corporate clients and affiliates. It is also a primary dealer in U.S. government securities and an underwriter, placement agent, and dealer for money market instruments, commercial paper, mortgage and other assetbacked securities, as well as a range of debt, equity and other convertible securities of corporations and other issuers. The company was founded on January 3, 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Convergent Bioscience has become the Platinum Standard for characterizing proteins, peptides and other biologicals. It is the method of choice for charge based separations, due to its proprietary technology for whole column detection capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF). The company's clients include emerging companies, as well as the largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in the world, such as Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Genzyme, GSK, Merck, Novartis, PDL, Pfizer, Sanofi Aventis, Serono and Wyeth. Its iCE280 is used from Formulation to lot release in QC.

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.

Danforth Advisors LLC provides advisory services. It offers finance support and stratigic consultation services for life science firm. The company was founded by Gregg Beloff and Daniel Geffken and is headquartered in Southborough, MA.

Faver, Inc. develops mobile applications dedicated to word-of-mouth recommendations. Its focus is less about selfies or diatribe posts and more about the individual’s various personal passions and items of interest. The company was founded by Brandon Towner and David Spafford and is headquartered in American Fork, UT.