Paul Smith

Bayer Corp. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutrition and materials products. The firm offers consumer care, diagnostics, diabetes and animal health products. It also provides material science products, which include coating, adhesive and sealant raw materials polycarbonates polyurethanes and thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Whippany, NJ.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Ferguson Holdings Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in distribution and sale of plumbing and heating products. The firm also supplies building and waterworks materials. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The company was founded by Frederick York Wolseley in 1887 and is headquartered in Wokingham, the United Kingdom.

Covington Capital Corp (Covington Capital) is a Toronto-based venture capital investment firm founded 1994. The firm is headquartered in Toranto, CA.

Xceed Molecular Corporation is a molecular diagnostic company dedicated to commercializing a platform for automated gene expression analysis and developing proprietary clinical research assays and custom arrays. They develop tools and content aimed at accelerating the current market trend towards 'translational medicine', and bridging the gap from gene signature validation to clinical diagnostics. The Ziplex Automated Workstation is the first integrated and fully automated hybridization system for multiplex gene expression signatures. Their integrated solution - the Ziplex System - features this innovative instrument platform and focused-content TipChip arrays and reagents to perform highly multiplexed molecular assays with superior accuracy, reproducibility, speed and scalability. The Ziplex System is designed to provide the ease-of-use in assay automation and analytics that is required to successfully translate gene expression analysis from research use into routine practice. Xceed complements the Ziplex platform by offering Gene Expression Services and Assay Development Services.

Siemens Canada Ltd. manufactures communication products, medical equipment and industrial products. It provides products for the health care, information and communications, energy and power, automation, transportation and building technologies. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Ciphergen Biosystems KK markets and supplies protein chip systems and services for clinical, research and process proteomic applications. The company was founded in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.