Adrian Escher

KENDRIS AG provides family office, trust, and fiduciary services. It also offers Swiss and international tax and legal advice, family office services, compliance, finance and accounting, outsourcing and art management services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Oncalis AG ('Oncology alliances') has been founded in June 2006 as a spin-off from ESBATech AG, a Swiss biotechnology company that has developed technology platforms in both the antibody and small molecule areas of pharmaceutical research. Oncalis has acquired from the mother company all small molecule-related assets, including a yeast-cell based, high- throughput screening platform for receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), and a number of specific and potent kinase inhibitors. The company is currently financed by ESBATech's Series A investors, including Novartis Venture Fund, BioMedInvest and Venture Incubator (VI) Partners. Oncalis will now focus on the discovery and development of small molecule inhibitors for oncology indications.

Part of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG Holding AG is a Swiss company that provides accounting services. The company is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

ESBATech AG develops antibody fragment therapeutics. The firm's antibody fragment is derived from human antibody fragment scaffolds. It develops Immuna, an antigen-independent platform to screen, select, and optimize highly-stable and soluble, single-chain antibody fragments. The company was founded by Dominik Escher in September 1998 and is headquartered Schlieren, Switzerland.