James Ross

Philips Medical Systems MR, Inc. develops and manufactures magnetic devices. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC provides corporate advisory, capital market, and asset management services. The company was founded on April 13, 1992 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. provides in vitro diagnostics and clinical laboratory products. It supplies diagnostic quality controls, biological materials, and reagents to in vitro diagnostics developers, clinical laboratories, and life science researchers. The firm’s products include Next-Gen Sequencing and Digital PCR Tools, Controls and Reference Materials, Validation and Lot Qualification Materials, Plasma and Serum Diluents/Derivatives, Cell Culture Reagents, KPL Antibodies and Conjugates and KPL Immunoassay Reagents and Kits. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Milford, MA.

CardioMEMS LLC designs and manufactures wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body. Its technology platform is designed to improve the management of severe chronic cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure and aneurysms. The firm’s miniature wireless sensors can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and transmit cardiac output, blood pressure and heart rate data that are critical to the management of patients. The company was founded by Mark G. Allen and Jay S. Yadav in 1999 is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

RedShift Bioanalytics, Inc. manufactures and markets thermal imaging systems, infrared cameras and infrared detectors. Its products are used in various applications, such as tunable laser spectroscopy, tunable infrared illuminators, line narrowing filters, gas analyzers and handheld spectrometers. The company was founded by Matthias Wagner, Eugene Y. Ma and Stuart Nixdorff in 2005 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

IROA Technologies LLC provides chemical signatures in biological compounds. Its products include IROA 100: Yeast and Fungi Profiling, IROA 200: Bacterial Profiling, IROA 300: Mammalian Profiling, IROA Phenotypic Quantitation Kit, IROA Fluxomic Quantitation Kit, Unlabeled IROA Mammalian Media, Unlabeled IROA Bacterial Media and Dialyzed Fetal Bovine Serum. The company was founded by Chris Beecher and Felice A. de Jong in June 2010 and is headquartered in Bolton, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Korys Management NV is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Korys NV founded in 2000. Korys Management NV is headquartered in Halle.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. operates pediatric hospitals. It offers urgent care, cardiology, surgery, neurology, rehabilitation, emergency, otolaryngology, audiology, orthopedics and speech-language pathology services. The firm also offers child life, family library, psychiatry, transitional housing and translation and interpreting support services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. provides educational services. It promotes the cause of higher education in the State of Georgia, receives and manages financial donations received by the foundation for support and enhancement of the Georgia Institute of Technology and assists the Georgia Institute of Technology in its role as a leading educational and research institution. The company was in 1932 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Sparq, Inc. provides information technology outsourcing solutions. It offers from software application development to ongoing support and maintenance of business applications information technology services for companies across industries. It also provides QA testing and business intelligence and analytics services. The company was founded by Katht Brittain White in 2003 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

thinXXS Microtechnology AG engages in the development and production of microfludic plastics disposables. It provides plastics disposables for the diagnostic, pharmaceutical, analytical, and medical industries. The firm’s services include concept study, product development, and ramp up and manufacturing. The company was founded by Lutz Weber and Hans-Joachim Hartmann on April 1, 2001 and is headquartered in Zweibrucken, Germany.

National Institute of Aerospace Associates is a non-profit research and graduate education institute that provides aerospace and atmospheric research. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Hampton, VA.

Agendia, Inc. operates as a molecular diagnostics company. It develops and markets FFPE-based genomic diagnostic products, which help support physicians with their treatment decisions. Agendia?s tests can help physicians assess a patient?s individual risk for metastasis, it benefits from chemo, hormonal or combination therapy. The company was founded by Laura van't Veer and Ren? Bernards in 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Applied Biosystems Finance BV is an investment holding Dutch company. The company is based in Bleiswijk, Netherlands.

Bio-Rad Laboratories AB manufactures and distributes products for the life science research and clinical diagnostic markets. It develops and markets tools for genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, food safety, and medical diagnostics. The firm's customers encompass hospitals, references, transfusion and physician office laboratories, universities and medical schools, industrial research organizations, government agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology researchers, food producers, and food testing laboratories. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sundbyberg, Sweden.

GRA Venture is a venture capital arm of Georgia Research Alliance, Inc. founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hytest Oy manufactures biological products. It operates as producer of monoclonal antibodies and antigens for the diagnostic industry. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Turku, Finland.

G-Con Manufacturing, Inc. provides design and construction services for pharmaceutical facilities. It maintains an integrated product team of engineers with bioprocess development, mechanical-electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning experience. The company was founded by Barry Holtz in 2009 and is headquartered in College Station, TX.

Part of IDEX Corp., IDEX Health & Science LLC is a leader in life science fluidics, microfluidics, and optics. The company is based in Oak Harbor, WA. The company offers a three-fold advantage to customers by bringing optofluidic paths to life with strategic partnerships, solutions, and expertise. The company helps instrument developers solve the most demanding fluidic and optical challenges in a wide array of applications.

Part of Lazard Ltd., Lazard B.V. (Netherlands) is a leading advisor on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and related strategic matters. The company is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Lazard provides trusted, independent financial advice and investment solutions to its clients, backed by the intellectual capital of the firm. The Dutch company's services encompass all types of M & A transactions, and its Capital Markets Advisory Group advises on capital markets, capital structure, as well as topics related to public shareholders, ESG, and activism defense. Kenneth Marc Jacobs has been the CEO of the company since 2009.

Bluebee Holding BV engages in the development of a private cloud-based accelerated genomics platform. It supports cross-functional teams of life science researchers and clinicians by effectively centralizing and managing their genomics data processes and storage needs. The company was founded in 2011 by Vlad-Mihai Sima, Koen Bertls, Luk Wayne, and Zaid Al-Ars and is headquartered in Rijswijk, the Netherlands.

Summa Equity AB (Summa Equity) is a private equity firm founded in 2016 by Jenny Keisu, Reynir Kjær Indahl and Johannes Hidle Lien. The firm is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Quest Renewables, Inc. provides photovoltaic racking solutions for solar applications. The firm’s products include QuadPod Long Span Canopy, QuadPod Double Cantilever and QuadPod Parking Garage Canopy. The company was founded by Will Arnold and Beau Baldock and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Lazard is a private company that provides financial advisory and asset management services. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1848 by Alexandre Lazard. The CEO is Kenneth Marc Jacobs.

BioCircuit Technologies, Inc. develops non-invasive electrophysiology devices. It provides clinicians with simple-to-use devices that provide non-invasive access to nerve activity, enabling more precise diagnosis and individualized treatment. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Microbial Resource Management Technologies NV provides business management consulting services. The private company is based in Ghent, Belgium. The Belgian company was founded in 2016 by Sam Possemiers, Willy Verstraete, Massimo Marzorati.

Mavericks, Inc. owns, operates and franchises restaurant brands. It provides franchise support including restaurant development planning, design and construction, operations training, marketing and branding, and supply chain management. The company was founded by Neal K. Aronson and Paul J. Brown in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

M51 Topco, Inc., through its subsidiary Velsera, is a company that connects healthcare and life sciences to enable precision medicine. The company is based in Boston, MA, and has subsidiaries in the United States and Belgium. The company aims to create a continuous flow of knowledge between researchers, scientists, and clinicians worldwide to improve human health. Velsera's focus is on creating insights that can radically improve human health. Gavin Nichols has been the CEO of the company since 2022.