Robert D. Mashal

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.

Coapt Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets bio absorbable implants for surgeons to use in plastic surgery to fixate soft tissue to other soft tissue and bone. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Sapphire Therapeutics, Inc. develops biopharmaceutical products. It develops compounds for the treatment of oncologic and metabolic diseases. The firm products include anamorelin for the treatment of anorexia and cachexia. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It focuses on dental products. The company's OraVerse product (phentolamine mesylate) reverses the effects of local anesthetic with a vasoconstrictor and accelerates the return of normal sensation and function. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Alinea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new therapeutics for the treatment of diabetes and metabolic disorders. The company was founded in August 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Siamab Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development of novel cancer immunotherapies. Its platform enables the rapid discovery of therapeutic antibodies that bind with unprecedented specificity and affinity to the novel class of carbohydrate antigens present on cancer cells called tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens (TACAs). The company was founded by Ajit Varki and Nissi Varki in 2006 and is headquartered in Newton, 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.