Darren Platt

The Brookings Institution provides research and policy solutions. The firm's activities are carried out through four research programs: economic studies, foreign policy studies, governance studies, and metropolitan policy. The company was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Ilios Partners is the pre-eminent provider of global securities surveillance and investor relations support to a wide range of corporate, investment banking, and investor relations consulting firms. It also provides investor relations support for corporate clients, including targeting and investor perception studies. The principals of Ilios Partners, John Karageorge and Nick Trikolas, have extensive industry experience. Most recently, Mr. Karageorge was a Managing Director at The Carson Group, where he spearheaded a team providing deal-related stock and fixed income surveillance to investment banking clients as well as having originated Carson’s global surveillance program. Mr. Trikolas has over ten years of experience in investor relations and stock surveillance, having participated in various capacities in the industry since its inception. Prior to co-founding Ilios Partners, he founded and ran the Chicago branch of The Carson Group.

Lygos, Inc. engages in the development of full-stack biological engineering platform. Its platform focuses on organic acid specialty chemicals and bio-monomers. The company was founded by Eric Steen, Jeffrey Dietrich, Jay D. Keasling, Leonard Katz, and J. L. Clem Fortman in 2010 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Napigen, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in genome engineering of various organisms such as plants, microbes, and animals. The company is based in Wilmington, DE and Dr. Hajime Sakai has been the CEO since 2016. The company's technology targets mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are important for creating energy and producing biochemical molecules. The company's genome technology has broad applications in human and animal healthcare, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology. Napigen was founded in 2016 by a group of accomplished scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors including Dr. Hajime Sakai, Dr. Jay Keasling, Dr. Ganesh Kishore, and Dr. Roger Wyse.

ResVita Bio, Inc. is a company based in Berkeley, CA that aims to restore and maintain the vitality of the skin through the topical application of cellular therapies. ResVita Bio genetically programs living cells to repair disrupted skin and alleviate inflammation in various inflammatory skin diseases, including Netherton syndrome, atopic dermatitis, acne rosacea, and psoriasis. The company has received several awards, including the Bakar Innovation Fellowship, NIAMS SBIR Award, NIAID SBIR Award, and the AbbVie Golden Ticket at UC Berkeley's Bakar Labs. ResVita Bio is developing a safe and versatile skin probiotic platform through synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to continuously deliver therapies that directly treat inflammatory skin diseases, including Netherton syndrome, atopic dermatitis, chronic wound infection, and psoriasis. The company was founded by Amin Zargar and Jay D. Keasling, with Amin Zargar serving as the CEO since incorporation.

SS&C Technologies, Inc. develops investment and financial management software solutions. It products and services include asset management platform, genesis, outsourcing, portfolio exchange, advisor ware, agency lenders, Altair, common diamond wealth platform, recon, risk reporting, SVC and Syncova. The firm offers services to the commercial lenders, corporate treasury groups, insurance and pension funds, municipal finance groups and real estate property managers. The company was founded by William C. Stone in February 1986 and is headquartered in Windsor, CT.

LS Dissolution, Inc. engages in the production of petroleum replacement products and industrial chemicals. It offers chemical and fuel products. The company was founded by George M. Church, Christopher Somerville, Noubar B. Afeyan and Jay D. Keasling in 2005 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Tuatara Capital LP (Tuatara Capital) is a private equity/venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Tuatara Capital GP LLC founded in 2014 by Mark Zittman and Albert Foreman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Long Play, Inc. is a company that manufactures and retails cannabis products. The company is based in Denver, CO and has subsidiaries in Colombia. The CEO of the company is Andrew Davison.

Accellta Ltd. offers solutions for stem cell culturing. Its portfolio include pluripotent stem cell culturing, human foreskin-derived feeder cells, growth media for feeder-free culturing of hPSC, stem cell expansion in suspension, stem cell culturing as single-cells in bioreactors, stem-cell controlled differentiation, and medium formulation. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Haifa, Israel.

Memed Diagnostics Ltd. engages in the development and commercialization of diagnostic solutions for inflammatory and infectious diseases. Its products include MeMed BV and MeMed Key, devices for blood test and quantitative diagnostic immunoassays. The company was founded by Eran Eden and Kfir Oved in 2009 and is headquartered in Tirat Carmel, Israel.

Synthace Ltd. produces bio-based chemical and biological products through synthetic biology. It is a synthetic biology company with a platform of technologies for the rapid engineering and optimization of novel biological production systems. The bioengineering platform is broadly applicable across multiple industry sectors, including the production of specialty chemicals from renewable feed stocks using efficient and sustainable processes. The company was founded by Sean Ward and Markus Christian Gershater in January 2011 and is headquartered in, London, the United Kingdom.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engages on research of environmental studies, nanoscience, and quantitative biology, physics and nuclear energy. The lab is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the University of California. It was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious disease. Its lead products include BENLYSTA for systemic lupus erythematosus and raxibacumab for inhalation anthrax. The firm's other products include, mapatumumab, darapladib, albiglutide, ZALBIN, HGS1036 and HGS1029. The company was founded by Alan G. Walton and William A. Haseltine in 1992 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

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.

The Trilateral Commission operates a business policy-oriented forum.

Profectus BioSciences, Inc. engages in the design and development of preventive and therapeutic vaccines. It develops novel vaccines for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and related cancers. The company’s vaccines are based on its proprietary VesiculoVax and GeneVax vaccine delivery platforms. The company was founded by Robert Charles Gallo, William A. Blattner, and Robert R. Redfield in 2003 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

New York Academy of Sciences is an independent, not-for-profit organization, which engages in the advancement of scientific research, education, and policy. The company was founded in 1817 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. provides treatment to cancer patients and also researches new cancer diagnostics, treatments, and preventions. The firm's patients receive treatment through its cancer centers operated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The company was founded by Sidney Farber in 1947 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) is a leading advocate for innovation in public health. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. For 176 years, NYAM has been at the forefront of promoting bold changes to the systems that perpetuate health inequities and prevent communities from achieving good health. NYAM's work includes innovative research, programs, and policy initiatives that value community input for maximum impact. NYAM's library is one of the most significant historical libraries in medicine and public health in the nation, with an extensive range of recommended resources available.

X-Vax Technology, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Acasti Pharma, Inc., Grace Therapeutics LLC is a company that designs and develops drug delivery technology and products. The company is based in East Brunswick, NJ. The company was founded in 2014 by Vimal Kumar Kavuru, Santosh George Kottayil. Grace Therapeutics was acquired by Acasti Pharma, Inc. on August 27, 2021 for $63.41 million.

Federation Bio, Inc. uses microbiome therapeutics to address medical needs. The company was founded by Racquel N. Bracken, Michael Fischbach and Dylan Dodd and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.