Ladd M. Lavallee

Medical Resources, Inc. operates and manages fixed-site outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. At each of the diagnostic imaging centers, the Company provides management, administrative,marketing and technical services, as well as equipment, technologists and facilities, to physicians or physician groups who interpret scans performed on patients.

Inhibitex, Inc. operates as an clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The firm develops differentiated anti-infective products to prevent or treat serious infections. Its research and development efforts are currently focused on oral, small molecule compounds to treat viral infections, and in particular, chronic infections caused by HCV and herpes zoster. The company was founded by Joseph M. Patti in May 1994 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

CDP Capital Private Equity (CDPQ) is a private equity subsidiary of The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Montréal with additional office in London.

Gemin X Pharmaceuticals US Inc. is engaged in the development of cancer therapeutics. It offers mimetic and telomere capping programs, as well as screening, medicinal chemistry, and preclinical development services. The company was founded by Gordon C. Shore in 1998 and is headquartered in Malvern, PA.

Acurian, Inc. provides clinical trial patient recruitment and retention solutions for the life sciences industry. It offers recruitment feasibility, site identification and selection, patient recruitment and retention services. The firm also provides the recruitment manager platform or database that features feasibility and project management capabilities. The company was founded by Lance D. Converse, David Restrepo and Leslie D. Michelson in 1998 and is headquartered in Horsham, PA.

University of South Dakota Foundation engages in the provision of private sources for education. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Vermillion, SD.

Quantic Group Ltd. provides management consultant services. The firm's services include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, vaccines and nutraceuitcal. It also provides security consulting and design services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Livingston, NJ.

Sigmedics, Inc. is a private company that provides FDA approved technology to help people with spinal cord injuries attain their maximum rehabilitation potential while maintaining a superior state of physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health. The company is based in Fairborn, OH. The company's technology, the Parastep I™ system, is a microcomputer controlled functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) system that enables independent, unbraced ambulation (i.e., standing and walking) by people with a spinal cord injury.

Americana Healthcare Corp. provides health and personal care services. The private company is based in Toledo, OH.

IsoTech Design Corp. manufactures advanced hospital pharmacy equipment such as fully compliant USP 797 & 800 compounding isolators and hoods, pharmaceutical equipment, and complete bio-containment laboratories. The private company is based in Saint-Laurent, Canada. The Canadian company has helped thousands of pharmacies and hospitals comply with USP 797-795 by providing them with isolators and cleanrooms of the latest technology. IsoTech Design offers the IsoTransfer, a negative pressure isolator for efficient and safe material transfer, weighing, and general compounding. The company also provides sterile compounding hoods and sterility testing isolators to create a safer work environment for pharmacies.