Melinda Chavez

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AOBiome Therapeutics, Inc. develops microbiome-targeted therapies for local, nasal and systemic inflammatory conditions. Its portfolio includes three clinical-stage programs, a Phase 2b study to treat patients with acne vulgaris, a Phase 2 trial to reduce elevated blood pressure, and a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial in allergic rhinitis, as well as earlier-stage preclinical programs targeting diverse inflammatory indications. The company was founded by Jamie Heywood, David Whitlock and Lenny Barshack in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Baropace, Inc. is a privately held medical device company located in Ashland, OR. Baropace is focused on the development of pressurepace™, a real-time physiologic control software and hardware to regulate cardiac pacemakers to treat resistant hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (hfpef). The company has proprietary biotechnologies including a pacemaker control algorithm (pressurepace™) and new sensor technologies working through patient mobile and wearable platforms. Baropace expects to launch a first-in-human clinical trial (relievehtn-i) in the fourth quarter of 2022. Pressurepace™ is limited by federal law to investigational use only and is not approved for sale in any geography. The company was founded in 2019 by Eli Gang and Michael Burnam, who has been the CEO since 2018.