Gary Paul Magnant

ActivBiotics, Inc. discovers and develops pharmaceutical drugs. It provides discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of vascular disease, inflammation, and other high-value chronic and infectious diseases. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Sage Science, Inc. develops products for the life sciences research markets. Its products include Pippin Prep, BluePippin, PippinHT, SageHLS HMW Library System, Pippin Pulse, and SageELF. The company was founded by Gary Paul Magnant and Todd Barbera in 2005 and is headquartered in Beverly, MA.

ThermoCeramix, Inc. is a holding company, which is engaged in the design and manufacture of heating solutions for industrial, commercial and residential applications. It also offers its customers the opportunity to manufacture the products themselves through a license or to acquire them from an affiliated licensed contract manufacturer once the products are developed. The company was founded by Gary P. Magnant in 1992 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Merlin Corp. provides automobile services. Its services include suspension system repair, wheel alignment, starter work, tires, fuel injection cleaning and changing belts and hoses. The company was founded by Richard J. Samulski and Dana M. Fowlkes in 1975 and is headquartered in DeKalb, IL.

ANDE Corp. provides rapid DNA analysis solutions. It develops a series of enabling microfluidic and molecular biology technologies and products for sample preparation and DNA purification, rapid thermal cycling, multiplexed amplification, focused DNA sequencing, optical detection of DNA sequences, and nucleic acid separation and detection. The company was founded by Paul Matsudaira in 2000 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Essen Instruments, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of cell and bead based screening solutions. It offers phenotypic drug discovery, antibody discovery and in vitro toxicity testing. The firm’s proprietary technologies, instrumentation, assays and software products address the pervasive need to provide turnkey solutions that increase productivity in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and life science research. The company’s products are used in biologics discovery, small molecules, in vitro tox and cellular research antibody applications. The company was founded by R. Terry Dunlay, Larry A. Sklar, and Bruce S. Edwards in 2006 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Genesys Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of electronic engineering and manufacturing services. The company was founded on October 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.