Stephen Joseph O'Keefe

Apache Corp. operates as an energy company, which engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company was founded by Truman Anderson, Raymond Plank, and Charles Arnao on December 6, 1954 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO) is a not-for-profit foundation headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Foundation was founded in 1996 to oversee investments for The University of Texas and Texas A&M University Systems. UTIMCO manages four major endowment funds under the fiduciary care of the UT System Board of Regents: the Permanent University Fund (PUF), the Permanent Health Fund (PHF), the Long Term Fund (LTF), and the Separately Invested Funds (SIF). The PHF and the LTF are pooled and invest in shares of the General Endowment Fund (GEF).

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

State Bar of Texas provides legal educational programming services. The private company is based in Austin, TX.

The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation engages in recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of Texas business leaders, to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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.

Rheonix, Inc. operates microfluidic platform for the molecular diagnostics industry. It is committed to improving standards of care by making molecular diagnostics available to more people, in more places, more often. The firm's platform performs fully automated, complex molecular assays in an easy to use and economical format on the Rheonix CARD cartridge. The company was founded by Greg Galvin in 2007 and is headquartered in Ithaca, NY.

QuantaLife, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops and manufactures products based on nucleic acid testing concept for the life science research, clinical molecular diagnostics, personalized medical care and industrial markets. The company was founded by Kevin Dean Ness, Benjamin Hindson, Christopher T. Blisard and William Wayne Colston Jr. in 2008 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

HealthTell, Inc. develops healthcare diagnosing tools for individuals to monitor their health status. It offers OneTest, a new technology for the early detection and monitoring of progressive diseases and the test is simple and inexpensive, and can be performed with only a single drop of blood. The company was founded in 2010 by Stephen Albert Johnston and Neal Woodbury and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory provides nuclear testing services. The Laboratory's security needs include countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and strengthening homeland security against the terrorist use of such weapons. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Livermore, CA.

Purigen Biosystems, Inc. engages in extracting, enriching and quantifying DNA and RNA from biological samples. The company was founded in 2012 by Amy Hiddessen, Klint Rose and Juan Santiago and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP provides legal services. It offers services in education, aviation, communications, consumer and retails, corporate and securities, hospital and intellectual property. The company was founded in 1868 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SeneXta Therapeutics SA engages in the research and development of therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. The firm provides medicines that maintain healthy brain ageing and rehabilitation after ischemic brain injury. The company was founded by Enrico Braglia and Federica Pericle in 2008 and is headquartered in Lugano, Switzerland.

The Michigan Biosciences Industry Association is an official bio-industry association that serves various sectors such as pharmaceutical, medical device, ag-bio, r&d, health IT, and life science logistics. The company is based in Ann Arbor, MI. The association provides cost-savings on business essentials, industry connections and networking, talent support, advocacy, and more. The CEO of the company is Stephen Rapundalo.

Sestina Bio LLC operates a platform for automated synthetic biology. It provides technology centric, R&D platform to provide cutting edge solutions to sustainably feed and clothe. The firms approach is to integrate tools for genome editing, single cell biology, and machine learning to transform ability to engineer and harness biological function. The company was founded by William Wayne Colston, Jr. and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Botsford Hospital is a 330-bed health care facility serving communities southern Oakland and western Wayne Counties including Farmington, Farmington Hills, Livonia, Redford, Dearborn Heights, Detroit, Southfield, West Bloomfield, Novi, Northville, Plymouth, Lyon Township and Wixom. Botsford Hospital's ability to care for critically injured patients sets us apart from other area hospitals.

Nura Bio, Inc. develops neuroprotective drugs. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Atavistik Bio, Inc. is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company located in an undisclosed location. The American company is pioneering a synthetic, scalable approach to identify and harness highly conserved protein-metabolite interactions to revolutionize small molecule drug discovery. The company's advanced data analytics and AI platforms leverage structure-based drug design to engineer novel, highly specific small molecule drugs to activate, inhibit or stabilize targets. The company is led by an experienced management team and advisors, plus a robust investment syndicate, and is positioned to deliver transformational science to ultimately improve patient care. Atavistik Bio was founded by prominent scientists who are considered among the leading authorities in cell biology, cancer cell biology and cell metabolism. Bryan E Stuart has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Circle Pharma, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company was founded by Matthew P. Jacobson and Scott Lokey in June 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RubrYc Therapeutics, Inc. develops antibody therapy applications. Its products include RubrYc Discovery Engine, through which people can decode protein interactions through the integration of data and biological science. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska provides health insurance products. It offers health and temporary coverage plans, medicine discount programs, and benefit administration solutions. It has offices in Lincoln and Grand Island Nebraska. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

iCarbonX engages in the provision of digital health records by storing genomic, and medical and daily health data services. The firm offers individualized health analysis and prediction of health index through advanced data mining and machine analysis technologies. The company was founded on by Haoli, Yingrui Li, Jun Wang, and Chun Wu on October 28, 2015 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.

Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton LLP provides legal services. The firm provides legal support to manufacturing, automotive, electronics, real estate, textile, finance, agricultural and service sectors. The company was founded in Rene Cacheaux, Daniel Cavazos and Joseph B. Newton in January 1994 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.