Andrew Kain

ID Biomedical Corp. develops gene-based disease testing and subunit vaccines. It conducts research, development, manufacturing, sales, and marketing from its facilities in Canada and in the United States. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company, which engages in developing, manufacturing and marketing medical products and technologies, within the areas of interventional oncology, wound closure and ophthalmology. The company was founded by William L. Hunter and Cruz F. Tony in 1992 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

WEX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical products for pain management. The pain management solutions are provided through its proprietary platform technology based on TTX (Tetrodotoxin). It owns and operates its research, development and manufacturing facilities in China through its subsidiaries. The company was founded on June 3, 1987 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Silvermex Resources, Inc. explores and mines for gold and silver. It focuses on developing its core asset, the La Guitarra silver gold property. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

GS1 Canada operates as a electronic supply chain. It develops and maintains European consumer centres network industry manage solutions for global business communication. The company was founded by N. Arthur Smith and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

RCI Capital Group, Inc. provides financial, strategic advisory and capital formation services. It serves mid-market, private and public companies in the energy and resources sector. The firm also offers services to investors, state-owned enterprises, multinational conglomerates, private equity groups and sovereign wealth funds based predominately in Canada, United States, China, South Korea, Japan and India. The company was founded by John Park in 1996 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Established in 2000, TransPharma Medical Ltd. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of drug-products utilizing an innovative active transversal drug delivery technology. Its current proprietary drug-product development programs include ViaDerm-hPTH (1-34), a transversal hPTH (1-34) product to treat osteoporosis, undergoing Phase 2B clinical trials, which is developed in collaboration with Eli Lilly, and two additional peptides currently in Phase 1. TransPharma's drug-product development activities utilize its well-proven RF-MicroChannel Technology. Its RF-MicroChannel technology enables the creation of an array of microscopic pores through the very outer skin surface, allowing the delivery of therapeutic doses of a wide portfolio of drugs, including biologics, Its main area of focus. TransPharma's implementation of the RF-MicroChannel Technology is the ViaDerm delivery system. Intended for home use, the ViaDerm delivery system consists of a reusable, handheld, low-cost device and a disposable patch containing a drug. TransPharma's goal is to develop multiple drug-products through strategic partnerships with leading pharmaceutical companies and through independent product development. They believe that combining partnered and proprietary product development ensures capitalizing of both the promise of its technology and its growing capabilities.

The Focus Corp. Ltd. provides engineering, geomatics, planning, and project management services. Its services include 3D laser scanning, air quality monitoring, asset management, construction management, construction surveying, heavy oil and oil sands surveying, land use planning, metering and automation, power generation and transportation engineering. The Focus was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Savyon Diagnostics is an Israeli company that develops, manufactures, and markets diagnostic solutions for the detection of infectious diseases and genetic screening. The private company is a member of the Gamida Diagnostics Division, which has been developing and distributing high-quality diagnostic tests and systems for over 30 years through a network of over 80 distributors worldwide. Savyon Diagnostics has a team of specialists in analytical biochemistry and glycoanalysis who provide services to leading bio-pharmaceutical companies. The company also offers contract manufacturing and development solutions to transform concepts into products.

Prime Trials Ltd. operates clinical laboratories. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Lions Capital Corp (Lions Capital) is a fund management and corporate advisory firm founded in 2003. The firm headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.