Brian Lestini

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Part of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Holdings, Inc. provides financial advisory services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Prospect Hill Growth Partners LP (Prospect Hill Growth Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by John Winston Childs and Adam L. Suttin. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

CHG Healthcare Services, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare staffing services. It offers permanent placement and temporary staffing of physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, therapists, lab clinicians, and other healthcare professionals to healthcare facilities. The company was founded by Therus C. Kolff in 1979 and is headquartered in Midvale, UT.

Mattress Firm, Inc. offers mattresses and related products. It offers a broad selection of both traditional and specialty mattresses, bedding accessories and related products. The firm markets its products under the brand name of Sealy, Serta, Stearns and Foster, Tempur-Pedic, and Simmons. The company was founded by Paul Stork, Harry Roberts, and Stephen G. Fendrich in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

GPC Biotech, Inc. discovers and develops anticancer drugs through discovery technologies and development approaches. It is a mechanism-based drug discovery and development company focused on treatments for cancer and fungal infections. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of GPC Biotech AG. GPC Biotech was founded in 1992 and is located in Waltham, MA.

Ducks Unlimited, Inc. provides wetlands and waterfowl conservation. is the world's leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation. The firm guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, works toward the wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceuticals products. It develops and markets drugs for the treatment of respiratory, cancer, cardiovascular, immunological and central nervous system diseases. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, CT.

J.W. Childs Associates, Inc. operates as a private equity firm, which specializes in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. The company was founded on February 15, 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Pharos Capital Group LLC (Pharos Capital Group) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Bob Crants, Michael Devlin and Kneeland Youngblood. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Simcom International, Inc. engages in the provision of flight simulator-based training services to the global general aviation, business aviation and regional airline market. It also offers pilot and maintenance training of general aviation, business, and commercial aircraft types. Its specialty courses includes upset recovery, crew resource management, high altitude, and avionics. The company was founded by Walter W. David in 1989 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

MentorTech Management LLC (MentorTech Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Michael B. Aronson and Boris M. Kalandar. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Part of Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Wetlands America Trust, Inc. provides financial and philanthropic support services. The company is based in Memphis, TN.

Part of Golden Triangle Ventures, Inc., Napa Wine Co. LLC is a company that produces and distributes wines. The company is based in Oakville, CA. The company was founded by Andy Hoxsey. Russell Joy has been the CEO of the company since 2020. Napa Wine Co. was acquired by Golden Triangle Ventures, Inc. on May 06, 2021.

Esselte AB manufactures office solutions. It sells office products and graphics products. The company was founded on April 18, 1913 and is headquartered in Solna, Sweden.

Cadent Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel small molecule therapeutics to treat schizophrenia and other cognitive disorders. It focuses on modulating synaptic plasticity, the mechanism through which the brain builds and evolves the synaptic networks that carry out cognitive functions such as learning and memory. The company was founded by Kollol Pal, Frank S. Menniti, and Bertrand Leo Chenard in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

VeraDermics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing drugs for immunologic and dermatologic diseases. The company is based in San Antonio, TX. The company has a portfolio of five product candidates that target common skin conditions such as warts, hair loss, and eczema. Founded by dermatologists, VeraDermics leverages its clinical experience to identify and advance novel drugs that address specific patient needs and solve pervasive treatment challenges in dermatology practice.

ImmPACT Bio USA, Inc. operates as a cell therapy company. The firm develops potent and selective engineered T-cells for the treatment of solid tumors. The company is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engaged in the identification and development of clinical stage compounds targeting the glutamatergic system. The company in July 2013 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Vita Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Baltimore, MD that develops state-of-the-art cellular therapeutics for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases and cancers. The company uses induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology to engineer specific cell types designed to replace those that are defective in patients. Vita Therapeutics is progressing its co-leading programs VTA-100 and VTA-300 for the treatment of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) and multiple solid tumors with the goal of filing investigational drug applications with the Food and Drug Administration in 2023. The company is developing these proprietary cellular therapies following a dual development strategy beginning with autologous-derived cells before moving to a universal hypoimmunogenic cell line. Vita Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Douglas Taylor Falk, M.S. and Peter Andersen, Ph.D. Douglas Taylor Falk has been the CEO since 2019.