Peter O. Newton

CONNECT creates and scales companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. It creates an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources. The organization was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. operates as a non-profit organization. It mobilizes business, government, and civic leaders to maximize the region’s economic prosperity and global competitiveness. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

BIOCOM provides scientific and technological services. The firm focuses that positively influence the growth of the life science industry, including capital formation, public policy, workforce development and scientific discovery and development. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Rady Children's Hospital Foundation-San Diego provides healthcare support services. It provides fund-raising support and services focused on health development projects and activities. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co. engages in the provision of energy services. It purchases, transmits and distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, wholesale, and industrial customers; and oil recovery and electric generation customers. The company was founded on April 18, 1881 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego is a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive pediatric medical services to San Diego, Imperial, and Southern Riverside counties. Rady Children's is based in San Diego, CA, and Patrick A. Frias has been the CEO of the non-profit company since 2018. The hospital has a team of nearly 1,000 physicians, 1,500 nurses, and over 5,100 employees, as well as 500 active volunteers and 1,200 auxiliary members. Rady Children's is the only hospital in the area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and is the region's only designated pediatric trauma center. The hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's top children's hospitals in all 10 specialties surveyed.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute conducts and translates biological research programs. The firm offers tumor initiation and maintenance, cancer metabolism and signaling network, tumor microenvironment and cancer immunology, degenerative disease, development/aging/regeneration, immunity and pathogenesis, human genetic, cardiovascular metabolism, integrative metabolism, metabolism genomic control, bioinformatics and structural biology programs. The company was founded by William Fishman and Lillian Fishman in 1976 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Maravai Life Sciences, Inc. provides investment services. It focuses on acquiring companies and products in the diagnostics and life sciences industry. The company was founded by Carl W. Hull and Eric Tardiff in March 18, 2014 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Antylia Scientific provides laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, equipment, and supplies. The firm's services include calibration services, custom-blend chemicals, custom cut-to-lenght tubing, custom single-use bioprocess assemblies, custom temperature probes, on-site calibration services and special and custom orders. The company was founded by Jerry Cole and John Parmer in January 1955 and is headquartered in Vernon Hills, IL.

Part of Dentsply Sirona, Inc., Dentsply Sirona France SAS provides endodontic treatments and restorations. The company is based in Versailles, France.

Corza Medical Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative surgical technologies with a team of over 2,500 employees supporting clinicians, distributor-partners, and medical device companies worldwide. The company is based in Westwood, MA and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and United States. The company provides healthcare professionals a platform of surgical technologies with many industry-leading brands, including Quill® barbed sutures, Sharpoint® Plus and Look™ surgical sutures, ® reusable and Blink™ single-use ophthalmic instruments, Barron corneal transplant devices, Sharpoint® microsurgical knives, and the Tachosil® fibrin sealant patch. The company was founded by Gregory T. Lucier, and Thomas B. Testa has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

EdenRoc Sciences LLC engages in the business of biotechnology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Birmingham, MI.

Pleno, Inc. is a company that specializes in multi-omic instrument platform technology for clinical testing and biomedical research. The company is based in San Diego, CA and was founded by Pieter van Rooyen, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's proprietary hypercoding™ technology uses signal processing techniques to provide targeted biological information with exceptional scale, precision, and performance.

DNA Direct, Inc. operates as a holding company with interests in providing genetic information and testing services. Its products include genomic medicine network, decision support program, coverage management. The company was founded by Ryan Phelan and Deena Aljuhani Abdulaziz in 2005 and it is headquartered in Bluffton, SC.

Corza Health, Inc. develops healthcare platform for life sciences and medical technology sectors. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Genome British Columbia invests in and manages genomics and proteomics research projects. It offers services in human health, environment, agriculture, forestry, mining, energy, aquaculture, and fisheries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. engages in a biotechnology company.. It delivers attractive solution for production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources, eliminating the need for petroleum feedstocks. The company was founded by Andrey J. Zarur, Marta Ortega-Valle, and James R. Swartz and is headquartered in Medford, MA.

GE Healthcare, Inc. manufactures and distributes diagnostic imaging agents and radiopharmaceuticals for imaging modalities that are used in medical imaging procedures. It offers dyes that are used in magnetic-resonance-imaging procedures. The firm also manufactures medical diagnostic equipment including CT image machines. It develops healthcare technological solutions for medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Allstream Business US, Inc. provides integrated communication and networking services. Its solutions include data networking, unified communications, cyber security, and cloud services. The firm's products and services include data networking solutions, managed services, collocation, cloud services and a suite of voice products. The company was founded by Dudley Slater in 1996 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

AgilePQ, Inc. develops internet of things device security and provides data communication software solutions. The firm offers end-to-end, data-in-transit security solution designed and engineered with constrained IoT endpoint devices. The company was founded by Billy Spazante and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Kymeta Corp. engages in the development of broadband satellite connectivity solutions. Its products include portable satellite terminal, aeronautical terminal, fixed satellite terminal, and mTenna core module. The company was founded in by Nathan B. Kundtz in 2012 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

Part of General Electric Co., GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc. provides software and technologies to hospitals and health care systems. The company is based in Hermosa Beach, CA.

Edico Genome Corp. develops bioinformatics processor chip that helps in DNA analysis. It serves agribusiness, architects & engineers, construction insurance, cyber liability, environmental insurance, garage insurance, healthcare professional, lawyers professional and real estate insurance. The company was founded in 2013 by Robert Mcmillen, Michael Ruehle and Pieter Van Rooyen and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Viridos, Inc. develops and commercializes genomic-driven solutions and products. The firm's offerings are designed for application in solutions such as human health, food, water production, and environment. The company was founded by J. Craig Venter, Hamilton O. Smith, David C. Kiernan and Juan Enriquez-Cabot in February 2005 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.