Stephen C. Hanson

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Metatomix, Inc. provides computer programming and software development services. It solutions include integrate data and processes to create a common, contextual understanding across multiple enterprise systems. The company was founded by Colin Britton, Timothy Cunningham, Robert F. Angelo in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Corthera, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceuticals, such as cardiovascular preparations. It engages in acquiring, developing, and commercializing therapies for illnesses in the acute care setting. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Domain Associates LLC (Domain Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners /Ventures/ (Ben Franklin Tech Partners) is a venture Capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Part of Guidehouse LLP, Easton Associates LLC is a management consulting company that provides services to the healthcare industry. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Robert J. Easton, Michelle Hasson. Easton Associates was acquired by Guidehouse, Inc. (Virginia), part of Guidehouse LLP from October 11, 2019 on October 02, 2012 for $12.10 million.

Endovalve, Inc. develops percutaneous mitral valve replacement system. It designs for insertion during a minimally invasive surgical procedure, allowing a complete valve replacement without the risks and complications associated with both sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass. The company was founded by Howard Herrmann in June 2005 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

The National Association of Corporate Directors is a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to help directors strengthen board leadership. The American company was founded by Maryann Bruce and the CEO is Peter R. Gleason.

NellOne Therapeutics, Inc. develops and produces soft-tissue regenerative medicine. It develops a new class of therapeutic products that will shift the paradigm of tissue healing after acute injury from scarring to complete regeneration of form and function. The company’s product NELL1 is a signaling protein that triggers pathways for tissue growth and maturation in a variety of tissues including heart muscle, skeletal muscle and blood vessels. NellOne Therapeutics was founded by Cymbeline Tancongco Culiat and Tracy S. Warren in 2008 and is headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN.

Innara Health, Inc. provides understanding and improvement of neonatal, pediatric, and adult feeding. It offers the FDA-cleared NTrainer System, the first neonatal technology that assesses and develops non-nutritive suck for newborns and infants born prematurely. The company was founded by David Stalling and D. Michael Litscher in 2006 and is headquartered in Olathe, KS.

Clemson University Research Foundation, Inc. engages in managing the process of moving Clemson’s hundreds of innovative technologies from the laboratory into commercial markets. it acts as the legal recipient of certain gifts, contracts, and grants from public and private industry, non-profits, and government agencies. The foundation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Clemson, SC.

Micro Interventional Devices, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures minimally invasive and catheter-based technologies that address unmet needs in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology. The firm’s Permaseal and Endovalve technologies provide for the one-two punch in mitral valve repair, one access and spontaneous closure to left-sided structures and two, 360 degrees anchoring capabilities. The company was founded by Michael Whitman in May 2010 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

naviHealth, Inc. engages in the provision of post-acute care management services. It offers risk underwriting, benchmarking and analytics, clinical design and support, PAC decision support, network management and bundled payments services. The company was founded by Ken Botsford, Claiborne R. Richards in January 2012 and is headquartered in Brentwood, TN.

Right Care Solutions, Inc. develops a discharge decision support platform. It offers risk assessment by flagging patients at risk for readmissions when admitted to the hospital. The solution also provides recommendations regarding post-acute care and community-based services for patients. The company was founded by Eric M. Heil and Kathyrn H. Bowles in 2011 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

GE Healthcare, Inc. manufactures and distributes diagnostic imaging agents and radiopharmaceuticals for imaging modalities that are used in medical imaging procedures. It offers dyes that are used in magnetic-resonance-imaging procedures. The firm also manufactures medical diagnostic equipment including CT image machines. It develops healthcare technological solutions for medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

FedIMPACT LLC facilitates meaningful partnerships between industry, financial investors and the federal labs to improve the overall success of technology commercialization initiatives. The company was founded by Tracy S. Warren in 2014 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Acuamark Diagnostics, Inc. develops blood-based screening for early cancer. The company was founded by Francis Barany and Bernard peperstraete and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Upward Health Solutions Rhode Island Administration LLC operates as a specialty care coordination organization that partners with health plans and providers to help patients with severe mental illness or substance abuse disorder improve their health and functioning through intensive condition management and promoting access to effective therapy. The company was founded by Bradley Bennett, Eric Heil, and Thomas Hawes and is headquartered in Providence, RI.

Astarte Ventures (Astarte Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Tammi Jantzen and Tracy S. Warren in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Nobias Therapeutics, Inc. develops drugs to cure rare illnesses in children. The American company was founded by Brian K. Halak.

Medical Excellence Capital LLC (MEC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by John R. Prufeta. The firm is headquartered in New York City.

ProJenX, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that focuses on developing targeted therapies for untreatable brain diseases, with a particular emphasis on ALS. The company is based in Nissequogue, NY. ProJenX's lead therapy candidate, Prosetin, is a first-in-class kinase inhibitor that is being developed for people living with ALS. The company's innovative, patient-specific, cell-based drug discovery platform is at the heart of its approach to research and drug development for ALS and other debilitating brain diseases. The company was founded in 2021 by Erin Fleming and Valerie Estess, and the CEO is Stan E. Abel.

Rejuvitas, Inc. provides biotechnology services. The company is based in Nissequogue, NY. The company was founded by Andrea Spezzi. Andrea Spezzi has been the CEO since incorporation.

Part of Upward Health Solutions Rhode Island Administration LLC, Upward Health, Inc. is a home-based medical group located in Hauppauge, NY. Upward Health specializes in primary medical and behavioral care for individuals with complex needs. Glen Moller has been the CEO of the company since 2018.