Marc Olivier Perret

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Conatus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on the development and commercialization of novel medicines to treat chronic diseases. The firm engages in developing emricasan, an orally active pan-caspase inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with chronic liver disease and is designed to reduce the activities of human caspases. It also develops CTS-2090, an orally active selective caspase inhibitor, for diseases involving inflammasome pathways. The company was founded by Alfred P. Spada, Jennifer Giottonini Cayer, and Steven J. Mento on July 13, 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Neuro3d SA develops pharmaceutical products to treat the central nervous system. Neuro3d has a full pipeline of innovative compounds with new mechanisms of action that have the potential to overcome the limitations of current drug therapies. It leads compound, the atypical antipsychotic ocaperidone, is being investigated in two international double-blind Phase II trials for treatment of schizophrenia. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in Mulhouse, France.

CropDesign NV develops traits for cereal crops. It delivers agronomic traits for the global commercial seed markets. The firm focuses on enhancing grain yield in crops such as corn and rice, and increasing biomass of energy crops. Its platform, TraitMill, lows evaluating the effect of genes on the performance of plants under different growing conditions, including drought and low nutrient stress. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Zwijnaarde, Blgium.

BioProtein Technologies SA develops recombinant therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Its proprietary technology offers customized packages supplying highly purified biopharmaceuticals. The firm provides pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with integrated services from gene expression to industrial production of proteins and vaccines in milk. The company was founded on July 1, 1988 by Marc Le Bozec, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Jean-Paul Renard, Bernard Jégou and François Deneux and is headquartered in Jouy-en-Josas, France.

Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Gilde Healthcare Holding BV founded in 1999 by Pieter van der Meer and Edwin William de Graaf. Gilde Healthcare Partners BV is headquartered in Utrecht with additional office in Cambridge.

Gilde Healthcare Holding BV is an investment holding Dutch company. The private company is based in Utrecht, NL. and has subsidiaries in Australia, Netherlands, United States and Germany. The CEOs of the company are Edwin William de Graaf, Marc Olivier Perret.