Andrea Rubakovic

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.

Founded in 1939, Scotia Capital, Inc. is a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) Their global operations are divided into two primary business units: (1) global corporate and investment banking and (2) global capital markets.

Grail Partners LLC provides merchant banking services. It provides mergers, acquisitions, divestitures & restructuring services to global investment management businesses. It has offices in London, New York and San Francisco. The company was co-founded by Donald H. Putnam & William P. Henson in 2005 and is located in Boston, MA

Vero Biotech LLC is a biotechnology company, which focuses on the design, development and commercialization of inhaled nitric oxide delivery systems to address the unmet medical needs of patients with cardiopulmonary conditions. It develops a drug, GeNOsyl to meet the needs of patients and care providers. The company was founded by David H. Fine in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Antiva Biosciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, topical therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by HPV infection. The company was founded by Karl Y. Hostetler in 2012 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicine for age-related diseases. Its drug discovery platform targets mTORC1, which responds to and integrates the cell’s response to nutrient availability and plays a key role in protein synthesis and cellular growth. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, David Sabatini and David Goldfarb and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Tyrogenex, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops dual vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and platelet-derived growth factor receptor inhibitors for wet age-related macular degeneration and solid tumors. Its compound targets the basic mechanisms of neovascular eye diseases, including angiogenesis, fibrosis and inflammation. The company was founded by Chris Liang, Teri Ardleigh Swift, and Sheridan G. Snyder and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Brace Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Brace Pharmaceuticals) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta.

HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc. develops new allosteric therapies with the ability to treat disease. The company was founded by Jonathan Montagu and Geraldine Harriman and is headquartered in Boston, MA.