Struan Robertson

Novartis Corp. manufactures pharmaceuticals, vaccines, consumer health, generics, eye care and animal health products. It manufactures drugs for oncology, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded on November 15, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

CyVek, Inc. engages in the development of a novel, platform technology for measuring analytes in biological samples. It is a biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of healthcare by empowering researchers and clinicians with a disruptive technology for performing multi-analyte immunoassays. The firm is a versatile platform that can be quickly and easily configured for diverse applications such as rapid diagnostic tests, multi-sample multi-analyte tests, or routine ELISA-like tests, for use in both research and clinical settings. The company offers an breadth of applications, from life science research to drug discovery, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and point-of-care testing. CyVek was founded by Per J. Hellsund, Rajiv Pandey and Marty Andrew Putnam in 2010 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

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.

Medtronic CardioVascular manufactures medical devices. Its products include dru-eluting stents, guide catheters, guidewires and balloon diagnostic catheters to treat diabetes, heart disease, neurological disorders and vascular illnesses. The company is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

The Jackson Laboratory provides biotechnology research services. It offers nonprofit research, biomedical research, genomics, genetics, cancer, neuroscience, immunology, aging, bioinformatics, computational biology, research mice, genomic medicine, reproductive biology, developmental biology, eye research and hearing research. The company was founded by Clarence Cook Little in 1929 and is headquartered in Bar Harbor, ME.

GeneOhm Sciences Canada, Inc. develops diagnostic tests for the detection and identification of bacterial infections, fungal, and parasite infections. The company is headquartered in Sainte-Foy, Canada.

Novus Biologicals LLC develops and markets antibodies for scientific researchers in government, university, and biotech labs worldwide. It provides primary antibodies, secondary antibodies, antibody packs, lysates, peptides and proteins, antibody pairs, kits, RNAi, slides, isotype controls, support products, and various research reagents. Novus products are used in various research areas, including apoptosis, autophagy, cancer, DNA repair, epigenetics, epitope tags, GPCR, hypoxia, lipid and metabolism, loading controls, neuroscience, stem cell markers, cellular markers, immunology, and protein turnover. The company was founded by Karen M. Padgett in 1996 and is headquartered Littleton, CO.

The Society of Kauffman Fellows is a venture capital fellowship program that aims to foster innovative leaders. The non-profit company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The program lasts for two years and includes industry events, summits, and a venture capital fund. The CEOs of the company are Jeff Harbach, Costello Trish.

Adarza BioSystems, Inc. develops and manufacturers a multiplex immunoassay technology that can identify proteins and genetic markers in medical specimens. The firm operates as a medical diagnostics company which also develops a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care samples and also its technology allows hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. The company was founded by Benjamin L. Miller, Randolph R. Henke, Terry Gronwall and Christopher C. Striemer in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

SLMP LLC manufactures and supplies medical devices. It offers advanced diagnostics, histology, cytology, and general lab products. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in McKinney, TX.

Impresa Management LLC(Impresa Management) is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Devonshire Investors LLC founded in 1946.The firm is headquartered in Boston.

B-MoGen Biotechnologies, Inc. provides gene editing solutions for antibody validation, human disease research, gene transfer, and mitochondrial DNA editing. It offers custom vector generation services that include multi-gene expression vectors that are delivered via the proven sleeping beauty transposon system; and custom gene targeting vectors. The company was founded by David A. Largaespada and Branden S. Moriarity in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Intabio, Inc. develops bio therapeutic drugs. The frim utilizes microchip platform to seamlessly integrate capillary isoelectric focusing (cIEF) and mass spec, two pillars of analytical methods in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. The company was founded by Lena Wu and Erik Gentalen and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Cell IDx, Inc. provides commercial physical and biological research services. The firm offers path IDx staining, imaging and analysis, and custom panel development services. The company was founded by David Schwartz and Stephen J. Kron and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit organization that aims to help people lead healthy and productive lives. The non-profit company is based in Seattle, WA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's mission is to create a world where everyone has equal opportunities. The company is guided by the belief that every life has equal value. The foundation is currently working on 'the big catch-up' project, which aims to increase vaccination levels among children to pre-pandemic levels and strengthen primary healthcare services for essential immunization in the future. The company was founded by Melinda French Gates and William H. Gates, and the CEO is Mark Suzman.

Genoa Ventures LLC (Genoa Ventures) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Jenny Rooke. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Venn Biosciences Corp. engages in developing an artificial intelligence-driven mass spectrometry discovery and validation platform. Its products include VENN Vista, a glycoproteomic analysis; OpenPIP software, a neural network for automated mass spectrometry peak integration; and cancer liquid biopsy. The company was founded by Lieza Denan, Aldo Carrascoso, Carlito B. Lebrilla, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi in June 2017 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Nura Bio, Inc. develops neuroprotective drugs. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.