Kurt A. Dasse

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. provides kidney dialysis services and renal care products. It offers specialty pharmacy and laboratory services as well as manufacturing and distributing dialysis equipment, disposable products, and renal pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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.

Metatomix, Inc. provides computer programming and software development services. It solutions include integrate data and processes to create a common, contextual understanding across multiple enterprise systems. The company was founded by Colin Britton, Timothy Cunningham, Robert F. Angelo in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Advanced Academics, Inc. provides online learning solutions. The firm offers courses correlated to state standards in core and elective areas such as language arts, math, science and social studies. It also provides students assistance through email, online instant help and telephone. The company was founded in April, 2000 and is headquartered in Edmond, OK.

ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. develops cancer treatment centers. The firm is dedicated to improving the lives of patients with cancer by increasing access to proton therapy, an alternative to traditional radiation. It provides design, construction, financing, staffing, training, and day-to-day operations of world-class proton therapy centers. The company was founded by John Montgomery Cameron in 2005 and is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

Vero Biotech LLC is a biotechnology company, which focuses on the design, development and commercialization of inhaled nitric oxide delivery systems to address the unmet medical needs of patients with cardiopulmonary conditions. It develops a drug, GeNOsyl to meet the needs of patients and care providers. The company was founded by David H. Fine in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Recombinetics, Inc. operates as a gene editing technology company with a platform in therapeutics development. It uses genetic technologies to improve the health of people, animals, and the environment. The firms offers transplantable cells, tissues and organs for patients, accelerating drug, device therapy, and animal health, welfare and sustainability services. Recombinetics was founded by Scott C. Fahrenkrug in 2008 and is headquartered in Eagan, MN.

Critical Technologies, Inc. provides document management solutions. The firm offers solutions to banks, airlines, mortgage companies, casinos, colleges, and universities. It also offers aviation technologies and maintenance records management. The company was founded by Kim Swiggart in 1998 and is headquartered in Edmond, OK.

American Renal Associates LLC engages in the provision of renal care and dialysis services. It operates dialysis clinics and serves patients with end stage renal disease in partnership with local nephrologists. The company was founded by Joseph Carlucci and Syed Kamal in 1999 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

Essex Woodlands Management, Inc. (EW Healthcare Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1985 by Jim L. Currie and Martin P. Sutter. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners /Ventures/ (Ben Franklin Tech Partners) is a venture Capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The National Association of Corporate Directors is a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to help directors strengthen board leadership. The American company was founded by Maryann Bruce and the CEO is Peter R. Gleason.

Thoratec LLC provides semiconductor and medical products. Its products include medical blood pumps, mixers, and flow control systems. The firm provides its services to the semiconductor industry. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

NellOne Therapeutics, Inc. develops and produces soft-tissue regenerative medicine. It develops a new class of therapeutic products that will shift the paradigm of tissue healing after acute injury from scarring to complete regeneration of form and function. The company’s product NELL1 is a signaling protein that triggers pathways for tissue growth and maturation in a variety of tissues including heart muscle, skeletal muscle and blood vessels. NellOne Therapeutics was founded by Cymbeline Tancongco Culiat and Tracy S. Warren in 2008 and is headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN.

Multistack LLC manufactures and distributes chillers and cooling products. Its products include water-cooled modular, air-cooled modular, MagLev water-cooled, MagLev air-cooled, heat pumps and heat recovery, centrifugal modules, and air-cooled split. The company was founded by William Bast, Richard Campbell, and Monte Holman in 1989 and is headquartered in Sparta, WI.

Clemson University Research Foundation, Inc. engages in managing the process of moving Clemson’s hundreds of innovative technologies from the laboratory into commercial markets. it acts as the legal recipient of certain gifts, contracts, and grants from public and private industry, non-profits, and government agencies. The foundation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Clemson, SC.

Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. provides waste treatment solutions and services to the oil and gas industry. It's services include mixing technologies, energy, water technologies, and integration. The company was founded in June 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Micro Interventional Devices, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures minimally invasive and catheter-based technologies that address unmet needs in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology. The firm’s Permaseal and Endovalve technologies provide for the one-two punch in mitral valve repair, one access and spontaneous closure to left-sided structures and two, 360 degrees anchoring capabilities. The company was founded by Michael Whitman in May 2010 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

FreshRealm LLC provides fresh food cloud-based technology. It offers platform that allows participants such as traditional retailers, large and small enterprises, communities, and food banks to plug in to an ecosystem resembling a national fresh food cooperative. The company was founded by Michael Lippold and William James Farrell III on January 15, 2013 and is headquartered in Ventura, CA.

Prosep USA, Inc. provides integrated oil, gas and water separation solutions. The firm provides field service equipment and technicians to solve operational issues, commission equipment and optimize current operations. Its services can also provide replacement media’s for both gas and produced water streams such as activated carbon, charcoal, nutshell filter media and ceramic media. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

B-MoGen Biotechnologies, Inc. provides gene editing solutions for antibody validation, human disease research, gene transfer, and mitochondrial DNA editing. It offers custom vector generation services that include multi-gene expression vectors that are delivered via the proven sleeping beauty transposon system; and custom gene targeting vectors. The company was founded by David A. Largaespada and Branden S. Moriarity in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

FedIMPACT LLC facilitates meaningful partnerships between industry, financial investors and the federal labs to improve the overall success of technology commercialization initiatives. The company was founded by Tracy S. Warren in 2014 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Astarte Medical Partners develops a software that provides infant health care. It combines research, microbiome data, and innovative software to optimize care and significantly improve outcomes, initially for nation’s tiniest and highest risk patient. The company was founded by Tracy Warren, Tammi Jantzen, and Katherine Gregory and is headquartered in Yardley, PA.

Astarte Ventures (Astarte Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Tammi Jantzen and Tracy S. Warren in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Luminary Therapeutics, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company was founded by Jeff Liter, David Largaespada, Beau Webber and Branden Moriarity in 2019 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.