Alexander Nichols

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Balyasny Asset Management LP (BAM) is a multi-strategy hedge fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm’s predecessor, Balyasny Capital Management LLC (BCM), was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder and Taylor O'Malley. In 2003, BCM converted from a limited liability company to a limited partnership. Then, in January 2004, their name was changed to Balyasny Asset Management LP. They are a subsidiary of Balyasny Asset Management Holdings LP. BAM provides investment advisory services to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients through privately offered pooled investment funds.

Owl Creek Asset Management LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 2001 by Jeff Altman. The firm provides investment management services to private pooled investment vehicles (funds). Their flagship funds are Owl Creek I, Owl Creek II, Owl Creek Overseas, Owl Creek Overseas Master Fund, Owl Creek SRI and Owl Creek SRI Master Fund.

Fitness Cubed, Inc. designs and manufactures fitness equipment. Its products include Cubii Jr, Cubii Pro, Cubii Elite, Cubii Essentials, and Cubii Extras. The company was founded by Arnav Dalmia, Shivani Jain, and Ryota Sekine in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Lumira Capital Investment Management is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Nordion (Canada),Inc. founded in 1989 by Tony Pullen. The firm is headquartered in Toronto.

McKenzie Sports Products LLC provides taxidermy products. The firm's products include largemouth bass stencil, black welting, badger tongue, coyote jawset, and exotic mammal glass eyes. The company was founded by Larry McKenzie in 1973 and is headquartered in Salisbury, NC.

iconectiv LLC engages in the provision of mobile, broadband, and enterprise software and services. It offers network and operations management; numbering; registry; messaging; and fraud and identity solutions. Its platforms include TruNumber, TruOps, and TruReach. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Part of Air Liquide SA, Presto Technologies, Inc. is an American company that distributes industrial/medical gases. The company is based in CT. Presto Technologies was acquired by Airgas, Inc., a subsidiary of Air Liquide SA from Petroleum Heat & Power Co., Inc. on February 01, 1993.

Millennium Partners LLC develops mixed-use properties which includes hotels, condominiums, entertainment and fitness facilities. The company was founded by Christopher M. Jeffries, Philip E. Aarons and Philip H. Lovett in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dealer Tire LLC distributes replacement tires and parts for automotive manufacturers and dealers. The firm specializes in automotive, tires, maintenance, distribution and program management. The company was founded by Dean Mueller and Scott Mueller in 1999 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Dent Wizard International Corp. provides automotive reconditioning services . It offers hail damage repair, interior repair, paintless dent repair, and exterior repair. The company was founded by Terry R. Koebbe in 1983 and is headquartered in Bridgeton, MO.

Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., DSM Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. is a science-based company that specializes in nutrition, health, and bioscience. The company is based in Parsippany, NJ. The company offers solutions for animal nutrition, human nutrition and care, food and beverage, and materials. DSM's companies cover a range of human and animal health and nutrition businesses. DSM's investor relations team provides key facts and figures, as well as shareholder information, to current and potential shareholders of DSM and to analysts.

Forbion Capital Partners Management Holding BV (Forbion) is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm which was founded by Bart Bergstein. Headquartered in Naarden, the firm specializes in late-stage and early-stage clinical development programs to optimize the commercial potential of their investee company's technologies.

Atalasoft, Inc. It provides commercial imaging software products. It develops imaging software that companies use for their Web-based and internal applications and documents. The firm serves the health care, financial, and legal industries among others. The company was founded by William M. Bither II in 2002 and is headquartered in Easthampton, MA.

EpiTherapeutics ApS is a holding company that develops cancer drugs based on research in the field of epigenetics. Its development programs are focused on enzymes involved in the regulation of transcription in cancer - current programs target histone demethylases and methyltransferases. The firm's regulation is commonly used for post-translational covalent modifications of histones and other chromatin-remodeling complexes, which determines whether a gene is accessible and hence, expressed or repressed. Its covalent modifications involved in epigenetic regulation include deoxyribonucleic acid methylation, histone acetylation, and histone methylation. The company was founded by Kristian Helin, Paul Andreas Compare Cloos, Jesper Aagaard Christensen, Karl Agger, and Klaus Hansen on September 18, 2008 and is headquartered in Greve, Denmark.

Rough Country LLC engages in manufacturing and supply of motor vehicle suspension kits. Its products include suspension lift, leveling lift, body lift, and lowering kits; lighting and accessories; exterior, interior, and performance parts; shocks and struts; tires; wheels; steps and running boards; winches and accessories; armor and skid plates; bumpers and tire carriers; drivetrain; steering; suspension components; jeep accessories; tops; and apparel. The company was founded by John Michael Heckethorn and William Patrick Heckethorn in 1986 and is headquartered in Dyersburg, TN.

Performance Health Holdings, Inc. provides and distributes health care products. It offers rehabilitation, assistive and splinting equipment. The firm supplies and equipment to acute care facilities, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities and select dealers. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Warrenville, IL.

Jacent Strategic Merchandising LLC sells non-edible, impulse items to grocery stores and other retailers. Its products include baby essentials, barware, cleaning supplies, gadgets, and beverage. The firm’s services include surveys and planning, merchandising support, re-ordering and replenishing. The company was founded by Larry Dion and Michael Dion in 1986 and is headquartered in Huntingdon Valley, PA.

Royal Paper Converting LLC engages in the manufacture of personal and commercial paper products. Its products include bath tissue, kitchen towel, quarter-fold towel, dinner napkin, ad pocket and facial tissue. It operates through the following brands: Earth First, Super Soft, Soft & Silky, Softitelle, and Petalo. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Good Sportsman Marketing LLC manufactures and distributes hearing protection, amplification and portable LED lighting devices. Its products include digital infrared motion detector scouting cameras, laser sights and super-bright LED, halogen and krypton lighting products. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

Exosome Diagnostics, Inc. develops and commercializes biofluid-based diagnostics to deliver personalized precision healthcare that improves lives. Its novel exosome-based technology platform can yield comprehensive and dynamic molecular insights to transform how cancer and other serious diseases are detected, diagnosed, treated and monitored. The company was founded by Wayne D. Comper, Harvey J. Barnett and James R. McCullough and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Avelas Biosciences, Inc. develops integrated suite of therapeutic and imaging agents for treatment of cancer. It develops AVB-620, an intravenously administered in vivo fluorescent protease activatable peptide that detects, marks, and diagnoses cancer. The company was founded by Yon Chien Tsien, Quyen T. Nguyen and Michael A. Whitney in 2008 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

International Biotech Center Generium, LLC operates as a Russian scientific research company.

Galecto Biotech ApS provides galectin modulators for the treatment of severe diseases, including fibrosis and cancer. Its products include galectin-3 inhibitors, fibrosis and literature. The company was founded by Tariq Sethi, Hans Thalsgard Schambye, Ulf Jorgen Nilsson, and Hakon Leffler in 2011 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Prexton Therapeutics SA operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops novel therapeutic compounds as a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease and other brain disorders. The company was founded by Francois Conquet in 2012 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

H.M. Dunn Aerosystems, Inc. manufactures aerospace components and assemblies for commercial and military aerospace industries. It offers integrated services, programming engineering and program management. The company was founded by H. M. Dunn in 1975 and is headquartered in Euless, TX.

Calypso Biotech SA operates as a innovative biopharmaceutical company for gastrointestinal immunological disorders. The company was founded by Alain Vicari and Yolande Chvatchko in 2013 and is headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Germany.

Akarna Therapeutics Ltd. develops novel small molecule therapeutics. It offers non-bile acid FXR agonist, a therapeutic for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and fatty-liver diseases. The company was founded by Raju Mohan in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc. develops cell and gene therapeutics that employ precise exogenous control of transgenes for improved safety and efficacy. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Colibri Group LLC provides online learning solutions to licensed professionals. The firm's brands include McKissock, Real Estate Express, The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing, Elite Professional Education and Superior School of Real Estate. It serves real estate, healthcare, personal care and financial services industries. The company was founded by Richard McKissock and Matthew Richard McKissock in 1989 is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Inversago Pharma, Inc. develops novel gastrointestinal drugs. The company was founded by Fran?ois Ravenelle in and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

M&D Distributors is a distributor of mission-critical diesel engine parts and components within primarily Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Its product portfolio includes new and remanufactured fuel injection, turbocharger, engine part, and filtration. The company was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Odessa, TX.

VectorY BV is a biotech company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that is dedicated to developing transformative medicines for people with neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's. VectorY's platform combines the promise of precise therapeutic antibodies with one-time AAV-based delivery to the CNS, enabling long-lasting CNS treatment after a single administration using cutting-edge antibody, AAV, and manufacturing technologies. The Dutch company's unique in-house expertise in antibodies, AAV vectors, protein degradation, manufacturing, and neuroscience drives the rapid development of much-needed disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded by Sander J. van Deventer and Pavlina Konstantinova, with Sander J. van Deventer serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Rectify Pharmaceuticals LLC is a biotech company that is developing positive functional modulators (PFMs) to address the underlying cause of serious ABC transporter-mediated diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and was founded by Jonathan Moore. The company's team includes Xiaobing Li as Chief Development Officer, Robert Hughes as Executive Vice President of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Development, and Leif-Ann Tuohey as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development. The company has received $100 million in Series A financing from Atlas Venture, Omega Funds, Forbion, and Longwood Fund. The CEO is Rajesh Devraj, who is also a venture partner at Atlas Venture.

Oxitope Pharma BV is a Dutch pharmaceutical start-up founded in 2020 that focuses on discovering and developing medicine for the treatment of inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases caused by oxidative stress. The company is based in Naarden, Netherlands. The Dutch company takes a different approach to the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases by preventing, halting, or reversing acute and chronic diseases driven by oxidized phospholipids. Oxitope Pharma's goal is to enable people to live long and healthy lives. The CEO is John Montana.

NewAmsterdam Pharma BV develops novel drugs to treat dyslipidemia. It operates as a biotechnology company and develops anti-dyslipidemic compounds in cardiovascular disease indications. The firm's product DEZ-001 develops a potent cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitor that has shown a decrease of low-density lipoprotein levels, and an increase of high-density lipoprotein levels. The company was founded by John J. P. Kastelein in 2012 and is headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands.