Chad W. Souvignier

Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust (MIMBT) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1988 and formerly known as Delaware Management Business Trust. They are a subsidiary of Delaware Investment Management Co. LLC, ultimately held by Macquarie Group Ltd. (ASX: MQG) in Australia. MIMBT advises a variety of institutional clients. The firm also provides investment services to certain affiliates and acts as a sub-advisor to unaffiliated sponsors and investment products.

JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. (JPMIM) is a global, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 as the result of Chase Manhattan's purchase of Robert Fleming Holdings and the subsequent merger of Chase and JPMorgan. In January 2010, JPMorgan Investment Advisors merged into JP Morgan Investment Management. JPMIM is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). The firm primarily provides investment advisory services to both US and non-US institutional and retail clients.

Wellington Management Co. LLP (WMC) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1928 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Investment Advisors Holdings LLP, ultimately held by Wellington Management Group LLP. WMC offers investment management services for a fee to separate account clients and mutual funds sponsored by unaffiliated parties, as well as to investment vehicles that the firm sponsors.

Molecular Devices LLC engages in the provision of bioanalytical solutions for protein and cell biology in life science research, pharmaceutical, and bio-therapeutic development. Its product portfolio includes platforms for screening, genomic and cellular analysis, colony selection, and microplate detection. The company was founded by Harden M. McConnell in July, 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Gardner Lewis Asset Management LP (Gardner Lewis) is an independent, SEC-registered investment adviser and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1990 by W. Whitfield Gardner and John L. Lewis IV. Gardner Lewis provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to both managed account clients as well as private pooled investment vehicles it sponsors intended only for sophisticated investors.

Artisan Partners LP (Artisan Partners) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 2009 by Andrew Ziegler and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Artisan Partners Holdings LP, itself a subsidiary of Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc. (NYSE: APAM). Artisan Partners serves as investment adviser to a variety of separately managed accounts, unregistered pooled investment vehicles, trustees of collective investment trusts, and to each series of Artisan Partners Funds, Inc. (Artisan Partners Funds) and Artisan Partners Global Funds plc (Artisan Partners Global Funds), an open-ended management investment company.

MEMBERS Capital Advisors, Inc. (MCA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1982 and formerly known as Cimco, Inc. They are wholly owned by CUNA Mutual Investment Corp., which in turn is wholly owned by CMFG Life Insurance Co. MCA provides investment management and advisory services to their affiliated companies, other institutions and pension and profit-sharing plans.

NWQ Investment Management Co. LLC (NWQ) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1982 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen NWQ Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Nuveen Investments, Inc. NWQ provides investment advisory services to a wide variety of retail and high net-worth individual and institutional clients, such as corporate and multi-employer plans, charitable organizations, educational institutions, trust accounts, estates, corporations or other business entities, banks and thrift institutions, insurance companies, governments and municipalities. Additionally, the firm provides investment sub-advisory services to affiliated and unaffiliated open-end and closed-end investment companies, CITs, and UCITS Funds.

Thrivent Investment Management, Inc. (Thrivent) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund manager headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded in 1986 and is a subsidiary of Thrivent Financial Holdings, Inc., itself a subsidiary of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a faith-based, not-for-profit membership organization and financial services firm. Thrivent provides investment management and advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, non-profit organizations, corporations and other business entities.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Equity) (Baird Equity Asset Management) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a subsidiary of Baird Financial Corp., which is owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird Equity Asset Management is investment management department within Baird that provides investment management and other services to certain Baird Funds, which invests primarily in equity securities (Baird Equity Funds). The firm also serves as investment sub-adviser to a mutual fund series of the Principal Funds, Inc.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Unchained Labs designs, develops, and manufactures tools and devices for biologics research. It sells its products to biopharma and academic customers. The company was founded by Timothy A. Harkness in January 2015 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Optofluidics, Inc. operates as a scientific instrumentation company. It commercializes proprietary nano-technological devices to perform particle analysis and nano-manipulation applications for the life science and materials industries. The firm?s products include Hexpoint, NT Surface and Nano Tweezer. The company was founded by Bernardo Cordovez, Robert Hart and David Erickson in 2010 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

ProteinSimple engages in the proprietary systems and consumables for protein analysis. Its products include simple plex, ice, simple western, micro-flow imaging, and single-cell western. The company was founded by Linda Cahill, Nancy Allbritton, Christopher Sims, Scott Lockard, and Jim Schlater in December 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

DuPont Pharmaceuticals Co. researches and develops pharmaceuticals and imaging products to treat diseases. It focuses on pharmaceuticals to treat unmet medical needs in the fight against HIV, cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, cancer and arthritis-related disorders. The company is located in Wilmington, DE.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Baird-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is ultimately owned by Baird Financial Group, Inc. Baird-Broker offers a full suite of comprehensive trading services for institutional clients.

Thrivent Asset Management LLC (TAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 2005, the firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thrivent Financial Holdings, Inc., which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a faith-based, not-for-profit membership organization and financial services firm. TAM provides investment advisory services to the Thrivent Mutual Funds, a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that is comprised of various mutual fund series.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

BroadOak Capital Partners LLC (BroadOak Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Bill Snider and Lars Hanan. The firm is headquartered in Maryland.

Imagine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops small molecules that enable the delivery of cancer therapeutics to meta-static and primary brain tumors. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Nuveen Asset Management LLC (NAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC, which is ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. NAM provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a broad range of individual and institutional clients, such as open-end and closed-end investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.

Critical Path Institute is a nonprofit organization established in 2005 as a public and private partnership with the FDA's Critical Path Initiative program. The non-profit company is based in Tucson, AZ, and operates from Ireland with additional staff in multiple other locations. The company's mission is to catalyze the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science, accelerating the path to a healthier world. The company orchestrates the development of drug development tools through an innovative, collaborative approach to the sharing of data and expertise, and accelerate the pace and reduce the costs of medical product development by building consensus among the participating institutions. The company was founded in 2005 by Raymond L. Woosley, Glenn C. Rice. Daniel M. Jorgensen has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

VasoNova, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices. The company was founded by Sorin Grunwald and Bradley B. Hill in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

DisperSol Technologies LLC offers plastics processing technology to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. It offers KinetiSol, a pharmaceutical processing technology that provides solutions to oral drug delivery problems and for amorphous solid dispersion systems; and ArmoRx Platform, a processing technology that enables use of certain compendial pharmaceutical polymers to produce oral dosage forms that are inherently abuse deterrent. The company was founded by Gershon Yaniv in 2007 and is headquartered in Georgetown, TX.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

MedTech Innovator is the world's largest accelerator of medical technology companies and the premier nonprofit startup accelerator in the medical technology industry. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA and was founded by Paul M. Grand, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's mission is to improve the lives of patients by accelerating the growth of companies that are transforming the healthcare system. MedTech Innovator matches healthcare industry leaders with innovative early-stage and emerging-growth medtech companies for mentorship and support. To receive industry insights and highlights about MedTech Innovator's current and alumni participant companies, subscribe to its monthly newsletter.

Omniome, Inc. provides biotechnical research services. The firm's biosensors can be adopted for mobile diagnostics and health monitoring applications. The company was founded by Kandaswamy Vijayan in 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

MicroBiome Therapeutics LLC develops drug therapies for metabolic diseases. Its microbiome modulators are designed to augment the growth of certain desirable bacterial strains and discourage the growth of others. The company was founded by John B. Elstrott and Dale R. Pfost in 2009 and is headquartered in New Orleans, LA.

Esperance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops oncology products. It specializes in oncology products that selectively kill cancer cells without harming normal cells. The company was founded by Hector W. Alila in 2006 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

VC Experts, Inc. provides market research, industry data and related content. It also provides information on private company valuations, terms of the financings, and prices of the transactions for bankers to perform their due diligence. The company was founded by Joseph W. Bartlett and Ross P. Barrett and is headquartered in Shreveport, LA.