Ralph Kauten

Lucigen Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of biomedical research products and services. The firm offers products for array-based analysis; cloning kits and vectors; competent cells; enzymes; in vitro transcription; next gen sequencing (NGS); nucleic acid extraction and purification; PCR and amplification; protein expression; and transposon mutagenesis. It also provides NGS and custom competent cell services. The company was founded by David Mead and Thomas W. Schoenfeld in 1998 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Quintessence Biosciences, Inc. develops and manufactures biopharmaceutical products. Its products are based on the Evade Ribonuclease Technology which allows for the engineering of human proteins (ribonucleases) for the treatment of human diseases. The company was founded by Laura L. Kiessling and Ronald T. Raines in 1999 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Promega Corp. manufactures enzyme systems. Its products include cell biology, nucleic acid analysis, drug development, molecular diagnostics, and lab equipment and supplies. The company was founded by William Alderman Linton in 1978 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

PanVera LLC develops protein drug targets and drug screening assays for high throughput screening. The company is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Roche Madison, Inc. provides gene transfer technologies to the pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded in 1995 by Jon Wolff, James Hagstrom and Vladimir Budker and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

First Business Bank of Madison offers a line of financial services for businesses and business owners, including commercial lending, treasury management, private banking, retirement plans, investment management services, trust services, asset based lending and equipment finance and leasing. The company was founded by Jerry Smith in March 1990 and is headquartered in Madison, WI.

Heublein, Inc. (US) is a private company based in Hartford, CT.