James Hughes

Seaport Global Securities LLC is a full service investment bank, capital markets advisory and research platform headquartered in New York City with offices across the US and in Europe. They are a subsidiary of Seaport Global Holdings LLC. The firm offers access to a broad selection of fixed income and equity products, as well as the market intelligence to provide insight to dynamic opportunities for its clients. Seaport Global Securities provides clients access to innovative trading solutions, competitive rates, quality execution, and superior service. Their equity trading team focuses on identifying liquidity in US, Canadian and European markets. The fixed income distribution platform covers all areas of the credit spectrum.

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. operates as a gene therapy-based company. It engages in capsid development, scaled manufacturing, and a portfolio of therapeutic programs. The company was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Xiao Xiao, and Sheila A. Mikhail in 2001 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

CosmosID, Inc. is a genomics big data company that specializes in the rapid identification of microorganisms for various applications such as molecular diagnostics, clinical trials, public health, food safety, agriculture, and environmental studies. The company is based in Germantown, MD. The company's microbiome platform uses advanced next-generation sequencing technologies and proprietary sequence analysis databases and algorithms to accurately profile all microorganisms in a metagenomic sample. CosmosID offers end-to-end support for microbiome studies, including study design, sample collection, sample preparation, NGS, bioinformatics, and interpretation support. The company was founded in 2008 by Dr. Rita Colwell, a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Manoj Dadlani has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Cassel Salpeter & Co. LLC operates as an independent investment banking firm that provides advice services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, valuations, fairness & solvency, re-structuring, advisory services and capital raising services to the banks and commercial finance companies. The company was founded by James S. Cassel and Scott E. Salpeter in 2010 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.

TBWA Chiat/Day, Inc. operates as an advertising company. Its services include design, digital, retail activation and theater, sports sponsorship, cause related marketing, custom publishing, mobile utility, event marketing and brand amplification. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Outsell, Inc. provides research and advisory services specializing in actionable market analytics for the information industry. The company was founded by Gregory Chagaris and Anthea Stratigos in 1994 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

TBWA Worldwide, Inc. provides advertising services. It operates such brands as AUDITOIRE, BEING, Digital Arts Network (DAN), eg+ worldwide, The Integer Group®, TBWA\Media Arts Lab and TBWA\WorldHealth. TBWA's global clients include Accenture, adidas, Apple, Energizer, Gatorade, GoDaddy, Henkel, McDonald's, Michelin, Nissan, Pernod Ricard, Pfizer, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines, Sotheby's and Vichy. The company was founded by William G. Tragos, in 1970 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wells Rich Greene BDDP is a paid media advertising concern. The private company is based in Houston, TX and has subsidiaries in United States.

Gordian Group LLC provides financial advisory services. It offers financial advisory, merges and acquisitions, structured finance, access to capital, litigation support, financial options and asset management. The company was founded by Patricia A. Caldwell and Henry Furlow Owsley III in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

AccessLex Institute provides student loans and financial aid services. It specializes in providing graduate and professional student loans. The firm provides federally guaranteed loans and private loans for students financing their law, business, medical, dental, health and other graduate degrees. It also creates custom loan options and university-wide programs for schools to meet the needs of their students. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in West Chester, PA.

Volkswagen Group UK Ltd. imports and distributes Volkswagen vehicles and automotive parts. It also provides support services to its retailers and customers. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution engages in the provision of marine research, engineering, and higher education services. It offers services which include understanding the area of research, program and projects, facilities and services, data and repositories, and MBLWHOI library. The company was founded on January 6, 1930 and is headquartered in Woods Hole, MA.

Unruly Group LLC provides mobile video advertising services. It offers video ad units, tablet ad units, display ad units, rich media ads and interactivity options. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students. The organization was founded in 1870 and it is headquartered in New York, NY

The American Bankruptcy Institute is a professional association. The non-profit company is based in Alexandria, VA. The company was founded by Richard A. Gitlin.

Open Space Institute, Inc. engages in protecting land. It protects scenic, natural and historic landscapes to provide public enjoyment, conserve habitat and working lands and sustain communities. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bacchus Capital Management LLC (Bacchus Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Sam Bronfman, Peter S. Kaufman and Henry F. Owsley. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York.

Northside Center for Child Development, Inc. provides children development services. It offers behavioral, mental health, education and enrichment programs to children and families living in poverty. The company was founded by Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Community Memorial Hospital Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization. Its services include cardiology, center for heartburn & digestive disorders, emergency services, gastroenterology, laboratory, medical imaging, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation services, primary care,pulmonology, respiratory care, surgery and swing bed program. The company is headquartered in Hamilton, NY.

Science Foundation Ireland funds oriented basic and applied research in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It promotes and supports the study of, education in, and engagement with STEM and promotes an awareness and understanding of the value of STEM to society. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland,.

Sbragia Family Vineyards LLC engages in the production of red and white wine. The company was founded by Edward G. Sbragia in 2001 and is headquartered in Geyserville, CA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Agenovir Corp. provides research and developing novel antiviral therapeutics for diseases. The company was founded by Bruce Hironaka and Stephen R. Quake and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

CytoDel LLC is engaged in biotechnology services. Its products include Ctyo-111, first botulism antidote and Cyto-012, musculoskeletal and aesthetic medicine. The company was founded by Philip A. Band, Konstantin Ichtchenko and Edwin Vazquez Cintron in 2012 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Part of Bayer AG, BlueRock Therapeutics LP is a clinical stage cell therapy company focused on creating cellular medicines to reverse devastating diseases. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. In late 2019, BlueRock became a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary of Bayer AG as a cornerstone of its newly formed cell & gene therapy platform. The company's culture is defined by the courage to persist regardless of the challenge, the urgency to transform medicine and deliver hope, integrity guided by mission, and community-mindedness with the understanding that they are all part of something bigger than themselves. BlueRock Therapeutics' lead clinical program, Bemdaneprocel (BRT-DA01), is in phase I clinical trials for Parkinson's disease. BlueRock Therapeutics was founded in 2016 as a joint venture of Versant Ventures and Leaps by Bayer, the impact investing arm of Bayer AG. Seth Ettenberg has been the CEO of the company since 2020.