Frank J. Manzella

BioResource International, Inc. engages in the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance enzyme solutions for animal nutrition. Its products include Xylamax, XylaQuick, Versayme and Valkerase. The firm’s products help poultry and swine producers optimize animal nutrition. BioResource International was founded by Giles C. Shih abd Jason C. H. Shih in November 1999 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. operates as a gene therapy-based company. It engages in capsid development, scaled manufacturing, and a portfolio of therapeutic programs. The company was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Xiao Xiao, and Sheila A. Mikhail in 2001 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

SDG MGMT Co. LLC engages in the provision of dermatology services. The company was founded by Eric S. Schweiger in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

William Blair & Co. LLC (William Blair) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by William McCormick Blair in 1935 and is a subsidiary of WBC Holdings LP. Until 1941, they were known as Blair, Bonner & Co. William Blair provides broking services to individual, institutional and issuing clients.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

LLR Management, LP is a private equity firm founded in the year 1999 by Howard Ross, Ira Mark Lubert and Seth Lehr. The firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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

Ropes & Gray LLP provides legal and private equity services. Its practice areas include asset management, banking, business and commercial litigation, business restructuring, capital markets and corporate governance and compliance. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bamboo Therapeutics, Inc. develops gene therapy products for central nervous system and neuromuscular diseases. Its therapeutic platform is based on the use of Adeno-associated virus as a gene therapy vehicle. The company’s proprietary technologies include chimeric vectors, self-complementary vectors, and dual glycan receptor. It focuses on the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, giant axonal neuropathy, Friedreich ataxia, and Canavan disease. Bamboo Therapeutics was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Sheila A. Mikhail, Josh Grieger, Xiao Xiao, and Paola Leone in December 2014 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

Symbiotix Biotherapies, Inc. develops a novel class of molecular therapeutics based on the human microbiome. It delivers first-in-class oral agents that improve the lives of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and other serious immune-mediated diseases. The company was founded by Lloyd Kasper, Nader Yaghoubi, Sarkis Mazmanian and Dennis Kasper in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center provides research and education grants. Its services include financing, technology assessment, business planning, and marketing strategies implementation. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Viralgen Vector Core SL is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that produces AAV gene therapy treatments for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The company was founded in 2017 by Javier García Cogorro and is based in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. Viralgen offers the Pro10™ based suspension manufacturing platform, which increases scalability, performance, and yield of AAV therapies. The Spanish company's clinical facilities have four CGMP manufacturing suites, with 250-liter and 500-liter bioreactors. In 2020, Viralgen expanded within the scientific park by constructing a new building for large-scale commercial manufacturing. The new state-of-the-art space includes three additional CGMP suites with a manufacturing capacity of >2,000 liters each, as well as a suite dedicated to fully automated fill and finish operations. The new facility has received the CGMP certification by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) as part of the EMA network. The CEO is Jimmy Vanhove.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides legal services. It specializes in the areas of corporate law, securities, corporate, litigation, mergers, real estate, pro bono, investment management and taxation. Their clients include industrial, commercial, financial, private funds, governmental, educational, charitable and cultural enterprises and entities. The company was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell in 1879 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

American Bar Association provides legal services. It provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, legal information and other services to assist legal professionals. The firm has members which include judges, court administrators, law professors, and non-practicing attorneys. The company was founded on August 21, 1878 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

CyberShift, Inc. provides workforce and expense management software solutions. Its solution includes time-and-attendance labor-management software, time clock software and badge readers, employee scheduling and optimization software for work schedules, shift scheduling software, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) software, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime support, absence and occurrence management, accrual management, leave management, and workforce reporting and analytics. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ.

Medmark, Inc. manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Carnegie, PA.

VectorLearning.com, Inc. provides online continuing education platform. It delivers online continuing education (CE) to a broad range of industries, including architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), as well as industrial, facilities management and public safety fields. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Community Education Centers, Inc. provides re-entry treatment and education services. The firm offers therapeutic residential and non-residential reentry services, residential assessment centers, in-prison treatment programs, detention management, parole violator centers, work release programs, women's and mental health programs and drug testing services. The company was founded in 1996 by John J. Clancy and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

LLR Equity Partners V Co-Invest LP operates as a private equity firm. The firm specializes in investments in expansion and growth capital, emerging growth, late stage growth, buy and build, acquisitions, corporate divestitures, generational transitions, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations, buyouts, shareholder liquidity, and working capital financing in middle market companies. The company is headquartered in Christiana, DE.

Draper Triangle Ventures (Draper Triangle Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Threshold Ventures, Inc. founded in 1999 by Jay Katarincic, and Michael Stubler. The firm is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SDG Holding Co. LLC provides real estate services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Benefit Express provides employee benefit administration services. It offers self-service platform which allows clients to have direct access to: customized content delivery, enrollment assistance, employee benefit education tools, transactional administrative processing and tracking, carrier billing reconciliation, vendor data-links and detailed HR reporting. The company was founded by Maria D. Bradley in 2001 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, IL.

InnerOptic Technology, Inc. develops real-time visualization systems. Its services include integration, contract development, and patent licensing. The firm specializes in laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasound, image-guided surgery, medical visualization, real-time tracking and spatial coordination, 3D navigation, and human perception, factors, and computer interaction. The company was founded by Kurtis P. Keller, Sheila A. Mikhail, Andrei State, and Henry Fuchs in 2003 and is headquartered in Hillsborough, NC.

A.T. Kearney, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. Its services include strategic, operational and technology consulting executive search services. The company was founded by Andrew Thomas Kearney in 1926 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Hennepin Life Sciences LLC operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company which focuses on identifying and developing antimicrobial therapeutics. It is advancing its novel antimicrobial, GML Gel, for local administration to prevent and treat CA-UTIs caused by ESKAPE pathogens in hospitals and long-term care centers. The company was founded by Patrick M. Schlievert, William Merrill Faulkner and Douglas Wicks in 2009 and is headquartered in Plymouth, MN.