John C. Crosby

Provco Ventures (Provco Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1978 by Richard E. Caruso. The firm is headquartered in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Integra LifeSciences Italy SRL develops, manufactures and markets medical devices, implants and biomaterials. The company is headquartered in Rozzano, Italy.

Community Bank Delaware provides banking services. It offers loans, online banking, convenient ATMs, overdraft protection, cashiers checks, night depository, and direct deposit services. The company was founded by Bette Gallo and Anthony Pires and is headquartered in Lewes, DE.

LFC Financial Corp provides financial services. The private company is based in Radnor, PA.

Songbird Holdings LLC designs and manufactures hearing devices. Its products include songbird ultra, songbird ultra 2.0 replacement batteries, 2-pack ultra 2.0 right ear assembly and songbird air. The firm offers its products online, as well as through retailers. Songbird makes it as easy as buying a pair of new reading glasses. It provides a strong alternative to traditional hearing aids that can cost thousands of dollars. The company was founded in 2000 by Frederick J. Fritz and is headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

Quaker Partners Management LP (Quaker Partners Mgmt) is a venture capital subsidiary of Independence Capital Partners Inc founded in 2002 by Ira Mark Lubert and Paul Sherrill Neff. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

NB Therapeutics, Inc. develops pharmacologic therapies. The firm has two technology platforms: iontophoresis and nitric oxide gas, through these two technology platforms it seeks to address the inherent challenges of drug delivery for diseases of the skin and nails. The company was founded by Frank J. McCaney in 2006 and is headquartered in Bristol, PA.

Diasome Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical stage diabetes therapeutics company which designs and develops insulin-based therapies for the treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the clinical and commercial development of breakthrough therapies for diabetes and obesity. The company’s technology platform is based on the use of its proprietary Hepatocyte Directed Vesicle or HDV, nanotechnology to deliver a wide range of critically necessary hormones and drugs to the liver, the body’s primary site of glucose storage. The firm’s HDV system is designed to fundamentally improve the way in which insulin works in people with diabetes by enabling much greater amounts of injected insulin to reach hepatocytes, the liver’s glucose storing cells. The company was founded by Len Rosenberg, Lance Converse, W. Blair Geho and Robert Geho in 2004 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.