Kathy A. Appuhn

AMO Manufacturing USA LLC engages in the design, develop and manufacture of excimer refractive surgical systems. It is designed to re-contour the front surface of the cornea of the human eye. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Care Fusion, Inc. provides barcode-enabled positive patient identification products. Its products help to improve patient care, to support medication administration, allergy warnings, safety alerts and complex IVs. The firm works with hospital-based clinicians to design point-of-care solutions that would help create a safer care environment. The company was founded by Kenneth E. Tighe and Navneet Gosal in 2001 and is headquartered in Reston, VA.

Reddy Ice Holdings, Inc. engages in the manufacture and distribution of packaged ice products. Its products include traditional cubed iced, block ice, and ice calculator. It offers services such as direct store delivery, merchandising equipment, ice factory, emergency management, and industrial cleaning. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

AvidBiotics Corp. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops therapeutic proteins designed to destroy target cells with laser precision, including cancer cells, virus-infected cells, and pathogenic bacteria. The company was founded by David W. Martin, James L. Knighton, and Jeffrey F. Miller in 2005 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

ProCure Treatment Centers, Inc. develops cancer treatment centers. The firm is dedicated to improving the lives of patients with cancer by increasing access to proton therapy, an alternative to traditional radiation. It provides design, construction, financing, staffing, training, and day-to-day operations of world-class proton therapy centers. The company was founded by John Montgomery Cameron in 2005 and is headquartered in Somerset, NJ.

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC (Glass Lewis) is an independent investment research firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2003 by Kevin J. Cameron & Gregory P. Taxin. Glass Lewis provides investment research and advice on proxy votes to institutional investor and?publicly listed?companies. Their clients include pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers.

Catheter Connections, Inc. develops vascular access products. Its flagship product DualCap, designed to protect patients from acquiring infections during intravenous infusion therapy. It disinfects both IV tubing end connectors and needle-free valves. The company was founded by Michael W. Howlett, James Mercer, Vicki Farrar, and Robert Hitchcock in 2008 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

VitaMedMD LLC manufactures dietary supplements and nutritional products. Its products include prenatal supplements, iron supplement, skin care, menopausal supplement, calcium supplement, and pre-post natal must-haves. The company was founded in 2008 by Robert Finizio and Brian Bernick and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

California Institute of Technology provides education focusing on science, engineering, academia, business, and public service. The company was founded in 1891 and it is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

CJ Logistics, Inc. provides third-party logistics and supply chain management solutions. It offers transportation management, supply chain packaging, technology, business process integration, supply chain consulting, omnichannel, logistics center management, business intelligence, retail consolidation and requirements, and human capital solutions. The company was founded by James A. McIlrath in 1960 and is headquartered Des Plaines, IL.

Life Science Angels (Life Science Angels) is a venture capital subsidiary of Life Science Angels, Inc. founded in 2004 by Allan W. May, Greg B. Scott and J. Casey McGlynn. The firm is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The Committee of 200 operates as a membership organization for women entrepreneurs and corporate innovators.

Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel PLLC is a law firm that specializes in complex trial and appellate litigation. The private company is based in Washington, DC. The company's attorneys have extensive experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in trials and appeals.

Part of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Vestron, Inc. markets pre-recorded programs on videocassettes. The company is based in Stamford, CT.

Ionetix Corp. engages in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of a novel class of superconductng cyclotrons for the point-of-care production of PET radioisotopes. It offers ION-12SC, a positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceutical production system for producing N-13 ammonia (13NH3), which is used in PET myocardial perfusion imaging. The company is headquartered in Marblehead, MA.

HealthTech Capital Co. invests in the healthcare sectors. It invests in capital efficient companies that use new scalable business model to improve the healthcare delivery from the hospital to the home. The company was founded by Anne DeGheest in 2010 and is headquartered in Los Altos Hills, CA.

Part of GoodRx Holdings, Inc., vitaCare Prescription Services, Inc. is a company that works closely with patients, healthcare providers, and pharmacies to provide easy and convenient access to prescribed therapy. The company is based in Boca Raton, FL. The company offers convenient options for pick-up or delivery of prescriptions, ensuring a seamless and reliable patient experience. The company's services also include working with insurance companies to verify coverage and optimize benefits, as well as providing support from a dedicated team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The CEO of the company is John C. K. Milligan. vitaCare Prescription Services was acquired by GoodRx Holdings, Inc. from TherapeuticsMD, Inc. on April 14, 2022 for $157 million.

Pylum Biosciences, Inc. develops and patents an Avidocin platform technology capable of generating bactericidal protein complexes targeting specific bacterial pathogens. Its platform modifies to generate new protein complexes to kill emerging strains as their genome sequences become available. The company was founded by James L. Knighton, Kevin Cameron, Jeffery F. Miller and David W. Martin and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Joyance Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Kinside, Inc. develops healthcare tehnology products. It also serves as a childcare management tool, letting parents pay their care providers with a Venmo-like feature, while making it simpler for companies to offer childcare benefits that can help attract talented employees. The company was founded by Robert K. Bircher, Shadiah D. Sigala, and Abe Han on September 13, 2018 and is headquartered in Claremont, CA.

Xyphos Biosciences, Inc. engages in biotechnology business. The firm’s novel and proprietary ACCEL (Advanced Cellular Control through Engineered Ligands) technology platform allows new ways to mobilize and control immune cells to find and destroy specifically targeted cells throughout the body. The company was founded by David W. Martin, Jr. and James L. Knighton and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.