George Lombardi

Alliance HealthCard, Inc. is an international marketing company providing a broad range of consumer discount membership plans and insurance. Program components range from discounts on medical, dental and pharmacy to groceries, restaurants, travel, automotive and a host of others, and can also include specialty insurance and product service. It provides two standard healthcare savings plan retail offerings, Gold Card Plan and Platinum Card Plan. The company's plans are sold to consumers primarily through retail, rent-to-own, financial and consumer finance clients. The company performs turnkey programs including design and fulfillment of marketing pieces and collateral support material, network support, customer service, regulatory compliance, and billing. The company provides healthcare savings membership plans under both retail and wholesale arrangements as well as included as additional benefits to other membership programs

Etex Corp. manufactures calcium phosphate biomaterials. Its products are used for bone graft substitutes, reconstruction of skeletal defects, orthopedic, spine indications, and orthopedic implants. The company was founded by D. Duke Lee in 1989 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

VisEn's in vivo fluorescence imaging technologies, including its Fluorescence Agent Portfolio and its Fluorescence Molecular Tomographic (FMTTM) Imaging Systems provide robust fluorescence molecular imaging performance in identifying, characterizing and quantifying ranges of disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in vivo. VisEn's FMT systems and agents are used by leading research institutions and pharmaceutical companies in applications including cancer research, inflammation, cardiovascular, skeletal and pulmonary disease. The company also works with large pharmaceutical partners to design ranges of tailored molecular imaging agents and applications that are designed to their specific pre-clinical and clinical research areas.

Pivot Medical, Inc. develops and markets novel technologies for a rapidly growing segment of the orthopedic marketplace. It offers services in the non-spine orthopedic areas. The company was founded by Julian Nikolchev on January 29, 2007 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Formed in 1973, RENN Capital Group, Inc. is an SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager located in Dallas, Texas. The firm is owned by the Cleveland Family LP. They were formerly known as Renaissance Capital Group. RENN Capital Group serves as investment advisor and/or manager to the RENN Fund, Inc., a US closed-end mutual fund, and one UK-based investment trust that is currently in voluntary liquidation.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. is a global surgical implant company providing surgeons with biologic, metal and synthetic implants. It operates through the following business lines: Spine, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Sports and International. The Spine business line designs, manufactures, and distributes surgical implants, instruments, and biologics used in the treatment of conditions affecting the spine caused by degenerative conditions, deformities or traumatic injury. The OEM business line market and distributes the implants and instruments. The Sports business line deals with sports-related injuries that can be addressed with allograft implants. The International business line markets and distributes products through a direct distribution organization and a network of independent distributors from foreign affiliates. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Alachua, FL.

Zimmer, Inc. provides joint replacement solutions. The firm products include trauma and dental implants and orthopaedic surgical products. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Praxim SA manufactures and sells orthopedic surgical instruments. It specializes in minimal invasive products for knee arthroscopy. The company was founded by Stéphane Lavallée in 1995 and is headquartered in La Tronche, France.

OMNI Orthopaedics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes orthopedic implants. The company was founded by David L. Lasalle, George B. Cipoletti and Edward J. Cheal on December 22, 2008 and is headquartered in Taunton, MA.

Graftys SA designs, manufactures and markets calcium phosphate-based synthetic bone substitutes to the global orthopedic and dental surgery markets. Its research and development projects include injectable and resorbable synthetic bone substitutes, biological repair of cartilage and of the spine, as well as bone substitutes combined with pharmaceutical agents. The company was founded by Jean Marc Ferrier, Alain Valet, Jean-Michel Bouler and Aurélien Valet in September 2005 and is headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. designs, develops and markets orthopedic implants and devices. The company was founded by Jerome J. Klawitter in 1996 and is headquartered in Overland Park, KS.

OMNIlife science, Inc. manufactures orthopedic, prosthetic and other related products. The firm products are used in hip and knee replacement, joint pain and robotic surgery. The company was founded by Edward J. Cheal and George B. Cipolletti in 1999 and is headquartered in Raynham, MA.

Procter & Gamble Ltd. manufactures and markets consumer products. It provides fabric and home care products which include laundry, cleaning, detergents, soaps, softeners, and cleansers. The company was founded in 1837 and is located in Newcastle, UK.

Premium Credit Ltd. provides payment facilitation and financing services. The firm's insurance premium finance business provides consumer and business policyholders with the ability to pay insurance premia by periodic monthly installments instead of a single annual payment. It also provides financing services for individuals to pay for other annual fees or services by monthly installments, including accountancy fees, golf club subscriptions, holiday, home pitch fees and school fees. The company was founded in 1988 is headquartered in Leatherhead, the United Kingdom.

BPO Management Services, Inc. provides business outsourcing solutions. The company is both a BPO direct service provider and an expert BPO project manager. The company was founded by Patrick A. Dolan and James Cortens on July 26, 2005 and is headquartered at Anaheim, CA.