Charles Barry Wicker

Trinity Medical Devices, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It delivers single use medical products. The firm offers ventilation, humidification, aerosol delivery, respiratory care, oxygen delivery, anesthesia delivery, resuscitation, critical care and temperature management products as well as blood pressure accessories. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ.

Advanced Medical Technology Association is a trade association which provides medical technology solutions. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Colorado MEDtech, Inc. provided design, development and manufacturing services for the production of medical electronic devices, instruments and disposables. It provided integrated engineering for hardware, software and disposables ranging from concept through volume manufacturing, including proof of principle, subsystem/component development, verification and validation and regulatory agency evaluation. The company was founded by Dean A. Leffingwell in 1977 and it was headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Breg, Inc. manufactures and sells sports medicine products and services. Its products include knee braces, cold therapy, hip braces, shoulder braces, elbow and wrist braces, Orthopedic Practice Solutions, canes, crutches and walkers. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Prettybrook Partners LLC is a healthcare and life sciences investment firm that creates value in the industry. Prettybrook Partners is based in Princeton, NJ. The private company screens investments to match its investment criteria, which includes control-oriented leveraged buyouts, restructurings, and staged transitions of corporate entities. The company has invested in various healthcare companies, including Trimedx, Elap, Dohmens, Keystone Dental, and Availity. The company co-invested with Water Street in Take Care Employer Solutions, which merged with CHS Health Services. The company's mission is to improve the healthcare industry through transformative opportunities. The company was founded by Stuart M. Essig, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Welch Capital Partners LLC (WCP) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The firm was founded by Leighton Welch in 1996. WCP provides investment advisory services to separately managed accounts as well as a long-short private limited partnership.

Nordic Bioscience A/S engages in preclinical and clinical drug development. It specializes in precision medicine using biomarker technologies. The company was founded by Claus Henrik Christiansen and Bente Juel Riis in 1991 and is headquartered in Herlev, Denmark.

Part of ING Groep NV, ING Barings Furman Selz LLC is a financial services provider. The company is based in New York, NY.

Plexxikon, Inc. provides clinical and medical drug discovery and development services. The company was founded by Joseph P. Schlessinger, Thomas Richard Kassberg, Sung-hou Kim and K. Peter Hirth in 2001 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Tekla Capital Management LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Formerly known as Hambrecht & Quist Capital Management LLC, the firm serves as an investment adviser for four closed-end funds – Tekla Healthcare Investors, Tekla Life Sciences Investors, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund and Tekla World Healthcare Fund.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Outer Islands Capital Management LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 by David MacCallum. They provide investment advice to high net-worth clients.

Wellington Partners GmbH (Wellington Partners) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1991 by Rolf Christof Dienst. The firm is headquartered in Munich, with offices in Zurich, London, and Palo Alto.

IVAX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products, which are sold to wholesalers, retail drug chains, retail pharmacies, hospital groups, nursing home providers and government agencies in the United States. The company was founded in 1987 by Philip Frost and Michael Jaris. It is headquartered in Miami, FL.

FC Liquidating, Inc. manufactures air treatment products. Its products include air conditioners, furnaces, air cleaners and humidifiers for residential, commercial and the industrial markets. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Liberty Corner, NJ.

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. provides medical products and solutions. It offers imaging systems, therapy equipment, and hearing instruments for diagnosis, treatments, and patient monitoring. The firm services include imaging and therapy, customer resources and logins, healthcare financing solutions and laboratory diagnostics services. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in Malvern, 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.

Visionsense Ltd. develops novel visualization solutions that bring natural stereoscopic sight to minimally invasive surgery (MIS). It delivers depth perception, 3D-HD resolution images and maneuvering flexibility through the smallest access diameters. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Petach Tikva. Israel.

Visionsense Corp. develops novel visualization solutions. It offers stereoscopic vision system, an open architecture software-driven system that combines the functionality of the endoscope and the 3D capability of the operating room microscope to provide a visualization solution for the surgeon. The company was founded by Avi Yaron and Michael Goldstein in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Becton, Dickinson & Co., Stelex, Inc. provides software development services, system validation services, auditing, and consulting services. The company is based in Bensalem, PA. Stelex was acquired by Validation Group, Inc. on April 08, 2002 for $13.30 million.

Variantyx, Inc. provides whole genome sequencing-based testing for diagnosis of rare genetic disorders as well as genomic diagnostic solutions for hospitals and labs. The company was founded by Haim Neerman, Noam Shomron and Tomer Jackman in 2014 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

Ammon Analytical Laboratories, Inc. operates as a full-service laboratory. The private company is based in Linden, NJ.

Availity LLC provides health care services. The firm's health information network encompasses administrative and clinical services, supports both real-time and batch transactions via the web and electronic data interchange. It offers products for medical groups, hospitals, health systems, health plans, developers and vendors. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.