Steven W. Wardell

Chardan Capital Markets LLC is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Kerry Propper and Steve Urbach in 2003. The firm offers a range of services which include capital raising, merger and acquisition advisory, strategic advisory, equity research, corporate access and institutional trading to institutional clients.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Activate Networks, Inc. provides technology for analyzing real life social networks of physicians and patients. Its services include social network analysis, organizational network analysis, influence marketing and organizational effectiveness. The firm has locations in New York and San Francisco. The company was founded by Nicholas Christakis, Peter DeWan, Gerald J. Gallivan and Lawrence G. Miller in 2009 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

PatientKeeper, Inc. provides healthcare applications for physicians. Its clinical solutions include Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Mobile CPOE, Medication Reconciliation, NoteWriter, Mobile Clinical Results, Physician Portal, ePrescription, Sign-Out, eSignature and Provider Directory. The firm’s financial solutions include PatientKeeper Charge Capture, PatientKeeper Analytics and PatientKeeper PQRS. It operates through its offices located in Boston and Chicago. The company was founded by Stephen Hau and Joseph Vincent Bonventre in 1996 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Commonwealth Pharma Securities LLC is a private company based in Boston, MA.

Artisan Pharma, Inc. provides critical-care and hospital-based therapeutics to patients. The firm focuses on the clinical development of drugs in the field of critical care therapeutics throughout the world. The company was founded by Kazuhisa Tsuruta in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Apeiron Partners LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded by Jeffrey D. Wager.