Jack Olshansky

C. R. Bard, Inc. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and sales of medical, surgical, diagnostic, and patient care devices. It sells its products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities, and alternate site facilities. The company was founded by Charles Russell Bard in 1907 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

Medstone International, Inc. manufactures and markets lithotripters. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

The Company's principal activity is to develop, manufacture, market and distribute a hemoglobin-based blood substitute product. The Company's product, PolyHeme(R) blood substitute, provides an alternative to transfused blood for use in the treatment of acute blood loss. The company uses a proprietary process of separation, filtration, chemical modification purification and formulation to produce PolyHeme. PolyHeme is designed to avoid potential undesirable effects such as vasoconstriction, kidney dysfunction, liver dysfunction and gastrointestinal distress. Clinical trials of PolyHeme have been conducted at multiple locations in the United States. The company has entered into license agreements with Pfizer Inc and Hemocare Ltd an Israeli corporation to develop manufacture and distribute PolyHeme in certain European, Middle Eastern and African countries. The Company is in development stage.

Emergent Respiratory Products, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices. Its products include breathing equipment, single use circuits, accessories, and masks. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.