Lisa Ackermann

Cordis Corp. develops and manufactures devices for interventional vascular medicine and electrophysiology. The firm's products include guidewires, balloons, forceps, catheters, and stents to treat a variety of circulatory system problems including coronary artery disease and cerebral aneurysms. The company was founded by William P. Murphy Jr. in 1959 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

I-Flow Corp. designs, develops and manufactures ambulatory drug delivery systems. Its products include portable infusion pumps, catheters and pain kits. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA.

Land O'Lakes, Inc. engages in the production and distribution of agriculture and dairy products. It offers butter, cake, bread, spreads, and cheese. The firm operates through the following business units: Dairy Foods, Animal Nutrition, and Crop Inputs and Insights. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Arden Hills, MN.

Qualigen, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops and commercializes novel therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases. It offers FastPack, a diagnostic platform. The company was founded by Michael S. Poirier in 1996 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

CloSys Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures medical devices. It specializes in vascular closure devices that are used in interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular procedures to close the arterial access site. The company was founded on June 1, 1999 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Rebiotix, Inc. develops and commercializes medical therapies. It offers human microbiome, clostridium difficile, inflammatory bowel disease or ulcerative colitis, hepatic encephalopathy, multi-drug resistant organism, and microbiota restoration therapies. The company was founded by Lee A. Jones, Michael Berman, and Erwin A. Kelen in 2011 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Part of Federated Hermes, Inc., Investment Advisers, Inc. is a company that provides investment and other related financial services. The company is based in Bloomington, MN. Investment Advisers was acquired by Federated Hermes, Inc. from Lloyds TSB Group Plc on September 20, 2000.

Urology Healthcare Group, Inc. provides management services to physician practices including billing and collections, information technology, and ancillary development. The firm also offers consulting, document imaging, practice management, and custom reporting services. The company was founded by Robert B. Barnett in 1997 and is headquartered in Franklin, TN.

Oncotherapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures therapeutic cancer drugs and biomarkers. The firm is a service contract research organization (CRO) with a unique focus on the oncology therapeutic area. Its program encompasses laboratory research, protocol concept, design and development, clinical trial management, monitoring, data management, biostatistics, safety review, clinical and database auditing, medical monitoring, and medical writing. Oncotherapeutics was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

Founded by Mitchell Dann in 2000, Sapient Capital Management LLC is a venture capital firm located in Wilson, Wyoming

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

MECS, Inc. provides industrial construction and design services. Its technologies include sulfuric acid plant processes, heat recovery systems, fertilizer and chemical processes, wet gas scrubbing, mist elimination, air preheating, and corrosion resistant metals for sulfuric acid. It offers engineering, consulting, and inspection services. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Chesterfield, Mo.

TranS1, Inc. designs and develops surgical procedures and equipment for back pain. It is a medical device company focused on designing, developing and marketing products that implement its proprietary approach to treat degenerative conditions of the spine affecting the lower lumbar region. TranS1 currently markets the AxiaLIF family of products for single-level and two-level lumbar fusion and the Vectre and Avatar posterior fixation systems for lumbar fixation supplemental to AxiaLIF fusion. Its primary technology is AxiaLIF, a minimally invasive access and fusion system that enables lumbar fusion to be performed with complete preservation of the annulus and all paraspinal soft tissue structures. The company specializes in bringing innovative spine solutions to market, including AxiaLIF and AxiaLIF 2L+, technologies that allow surgeons to perform lower lumbar fusions that result in high fusion rates and low complication rates. The company is also developing a motion preservation platform to be delivered through this minimally invasive, trans-sacral approach. TranS1 was founded in May 2000 and is headquartered in Wilmington, NC.

FlowCardia, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures endovascular devices. It offers flowmate Injector to optimize the performance of crosser cto recanalization and crosser catheter, a minimally-invasive endovascular device. The firm also provides portfolio of catheter-based technologies to facilitate guidewire crossing of totally occluded coronary and peripheral arteries. The company was founded by Henry Nita and Erik T. Engelson in 2001 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

The University of St. Thomas is an institution that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. The private company is based in St. Paul, MN. It offers over 150 undergraduate majors and minors, as well as graduate programs in various fields such as business, engineering, law, education, social work, and arts and humanities. The University of St. Thomas was founded in 1885 by John Ireland.

Minnesota Business Partnership, Inc. engages in helping the Minnesota residents maintain a high quality of life ensuring that the state's economy remains strong and globally competitive. The firms works with elected officials, state agency staff, and others on a range of public policy issues relevant to all Minnesotans such as education, jobs, economy, and health. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Covidien Unlimited Co. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of healthcare products for use in clinical and home settings. It operates through Medical Devices and U.S. Medical Supplies segments. The Medical Devices segment involves in the distribution of surgical solutions, peripheral vascular and neurovascular therapies, patient monitoring products, and airway and ventilation products. The U.S. Medical Supplies segment includes marketing of nursing care, medical surgical, SharpSafety brand, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Sapient Capital LP is a venture capital fund based in Jackson, DE.

Sonablate Corp. develops and manufactures high intensity focused ultrasound surgical ablation systems. Its products include Sonablate 450, a HIFU solution that determines the safety and efficacy of a minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment; Sonablate 500, a HIFU surgical ablation system for the treatment of localized prostate cancer that delivers ablative therapy with the possibility of reducing side effects; and Sonatherm, a laparoscopic HIFU surgical ablation system that uses a laparoscopic probe to deliver robotic ablative therapy to soft tissue with a customizable ablation zone. The company was founded by Stephen R. Puckett Sr. and George M. Suarez in 2004 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Supply Chain Services LLC engages in the provision of barcoding and data collection solutions. It also offers consulting, configuration, mobile device management, repair, depot management, project management, wireless design, rentals, and training services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Oakdale, MN.

On Target Laboratories LLC develops precise and innovative small molecules whose goal is to target and illuminate cancer and other diseased tissue. The company is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

Radiaction Ltd.engages in the development of an innovative radiation shielding system. Its technology offers full body protection, automatic operation, zero-impact on image quality, and lead-free and non-toxic materials. The company was founded by Amir Belson in 2014 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.