Rachael Balchin

Slate Asset Management LP /Private Equity/ (Slate Asset Management /Private Equity/) is a real estate investment firm, which was founded in 2005 by Blair Welch and Brady Welch. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

OPGI Management LP provides real estate management services. It owns and manages portfolio of diverse real estate assets and development sites. The firm’s investment portfolio includes retail, industrial, multi-family residential and hotel industries. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Canada) (BMO Capital Markets-Canada) is the Canadian brokerage arm of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service financial services provider in the US. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a subsidiary of BMO Asset Management, Inc., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. Headquartered in Toronto, BMO Capital Markets-Canada provides full-service, institutional brokerage services to corporate, institutional and government clients around the world.

Moody's Canada, Inc. is an investment research firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 1992 and is a subsidiary of Moody's Overseas Holdings Inc., which is owned by Moody's Corp. (NYSE: MCO) in the US. Moody’s Canada provides Canadian fixed income professionals with a variety of products and services, such as credit analyses, regular analyst briefings, seminars, conferences, and one-on-one meetings. They cover a variety of Industry sectors which includes financial institutions, media and telecommunications, oil and gas, power and gas utilities and pipelines, paper and forest products, sub-sovereign governments, project & infrastructure finance and structured finance.

Diabetes Canada operates as a registered national charitable organization that is making the invisible epidemic of diabetes visible and urgent. The firm partners with Canadians to end diabetes through educational programs and support services, resources for health-care professionals, advocacy to governments, schools and workplaces and funding Canadian research. The company was founded by Charles Best in 1953 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

The Institute of Corporate Directors is a not-for-profit, member-based association that serves as a resource and voice for directors and boards. The non-profit company is based in Toronto, Canada, and has subsidiaries in Canada. The ICD provides thought leadership through various publications and is a unified voice for directors. The Canadian company was founded by Brian J. Gibson, and Rahul K. Bhardwaj has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

The Bishop Strachan School provides education services. It provides education for day and boarding students from JK to Grade 12. The company was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Tralucent Asset Management, Inc. (Tralucent) is an independent Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by Bill Siddiqui in 2008. Tralucent offers discretionary portfolio management services to institutions and individuals.

Flerie Invest AB (Flerie Invest) is a venture capital subsidiary of Flerie Creations Ltd. founded in 2011. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prokarium Holdings Ltd. provides management services. The private company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded in 2014. Kristen Albright has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Geneos Therapeutics, Inc. Develops and commercializes neo-antigen based personalized cancer therapies. The firm engages in developing personalized immunotherapies against tumor specific neoantigens which arise from gene mutations in cancerous cells. The company was founded by Niranjan Y. Sardesai in 2017 and is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

XNK Therapeutics AB operates as a technology platform which leads research on NK cells at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Huddinge, Sweden.

Part of XNK Therapeutics AB, CellProtect Nordic Pharmaceuticals AB is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Huddinge, SE. CellProtect Nordic Pharmaceuticals is one of the pioneering companies in the field of cell therapy, developing unique and individualized natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer therapies. The Swedish company has built a tailor-made GMP clean room facility for manufacturing clinical products and is currently evaluating its lead product, evencaleucel, in a randomized, controlled, phase II study for the treatment of multiple myeloma. The company was founded in 2012 and the CEO is Johan Liwing.

Prokarium Ltd. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on developing vaccination solutions based on synthetic biology. Its oral vaccine delivery platform Vaxonella stimulates broad protective immune responses applicable to a wide range of diseases. The company is headquartered in Keele, the United Kingdom.

NorthX Biologics Matfors AB is a biologics company that specializes in high-quality protein production and DNA manufacturing. The company is based in Matfors, Sweden, and has subsidiaries in Sweden. The Swedish company offers comprehensive cell banking services, including master cell bank production, GMP cell banking, and cell bank characterization, ensuring quality and compliance for biological products. The company also provides premium plasmid DNA services, offering GMP, High Quality, and Research Grade plasmids for gene therapy, cell therapy, molecular biology research, and clinical applications. The company was founded in 1963, and Janet Hoogstraate has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Vitara Biomedical, Inc. engages in the biotechnology business. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Alder Therapeutics AB is a cell therapy platform company that aims to develop and manufacture functional cell therapy products based on simple and robust processes. The company is based in Solna, Sweden. The Swedish company's unique platform allows for the manufacturing of better cells at a lower cost, making pluripotent cell therapy treatment available to more patients. The CEO of the company is Kristian Tryggvason.

Synerkine Pharma BV focuses on developing novel fusion proteins for the treatment of inflammatory, neuropathic and osteoarthritic pain. The company was founded by Hans Preusting in 2018 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Tekiu Ltd. operates internet blogs that focus on trance and progressive house music. The British company was founded by Ted Ingemar Jakob Fjällman.

Amarna Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company developing SVac viral gene delivery vector platform. The firm has developed a proprietary SuperVero cell line and SVec gene delivery platform for the development of safe and efficient immunotherapies for major indications within the degenerative, inflammatory and autoimmune disease areas. The company was founded by Ben van Leent and Peter de Haan in 2008 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Anbaric Development Partners LLC specializes in early stage development of electric transmission systems (especially controllable DC lines) and small, medium, and large scale microgrid projects. The company is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.

Attabotics, Inc. provides robotic warehousing and fulfilment systems. The firm specializes in automated warehousing, storage and retrieval, robotics, industrial automation, e-fulfilment and e-commerce storage and retrieval. The company was founded by Jacques LaPointe, Rob Cowley, Scott Gravelle and Tony Woolf in 2015 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Northleaf Capital Partners Ltd. (Northleaf Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Toronto with an additional office in Montreal.

Research Capital Corp. is an independent, fully integrated national investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 as Mackie Research Capital Corp. until 2021. Research Capital offers a complete range of capital markets and wealth management services to private clients, institutions and growth companies with offices across Canada.

Verecan Capital Management Inc. is an independent financial advisory firm that provides client-focused financial advice and discretionary investment management. Verecan Capital Management Inc. is based in Halifax, Canada, and is composed of the team formerly known as White LeBlanc Wealth Planners. The team has over 30 years of experience in the industry and is not commission-based, ensuring that their advice is never motivated by profit considerations or quotas. The Canadian company measures success by client satisfaction and helping clients achieve their investment goals. The private company is currently a registered portfolio manager in Scotia, Ontario, and has plans to register across other locations. Colin White has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Part of Whirlpool Corp., Whirlpool Canada Co. is a company based in Mississauga, Canada.

The BioIndustry Association is a UK-based organization that represents the life sciences and biotech industry. The British company's mission is to facilitate and connect the ecosystem to help businesses start, grow, and deliver world-changing innovation. The non-profit company was founded by Cormac G. Kilty and Simon Geoffrey Best, and Steve Bates has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

BluEarth Renewables, Inc. engages in the development and production of renewable energy. It also acquires, develops, constructs, and operates wind, water and solar projects. The company was founded by John D, Keating, Ross Keating, Kathy Bolton, Kent Brown, Geoff Carnegie and Kelly Matheson-King in 2010 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Ontario Teachers Private Capital /Infrastructure/ is a private equity firm founded in 2001. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, a subsidiary of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.

Teachers' Venture Growth (Teachers' Venture Growth) is a venture capital subsidiary of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Beactica Therapeutics AB operates as a drug discovery company, utilizing its proprietary methodologies to evaluate the interactions of molecules in order to generate novel therapeutics. The firm's services include fragment-based lead generation, kinetic and mechanistic characterization of inhibitors, extended rate analysis, competition analysis, and antibody interaction analysis. The company was founded by Per K?llblad and Ulla Helena Danielson in 2006 and is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden.