Robert B. Linke

Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc. develops treatments for smoking cessation, cocaine dependence and other addictions. The company was founded by Nicholas Edward Goeders and Marie A. Lindner in 2005 and is headquartered in Sudbury, MA.

IonSense, Inc. provides open-air mass spectrometry solutions to the fields of food safety, forensics, drug development, and chemical analysis. The firm''s products include DART, DART-QDa for Waters Acquity and QDa detector, ID-CUBE, and ASAP Probe. It manufactures and markets the DART (direct analysis in real time) ionization source. The company was founded by Douglas Simmons in 2005 and is headquartered in Saugus, MA.

Sunstar, Inc. manufactures and sells skin care products. Its brands include Sareine, Equitance, Atopilogy, Kenkodojo, Ora, and Butler. The company was founded in February 1946 and is headquartered in Takatsuki-shi, Japan.

Allscripts LLC provides clinical software solutions. It offers point-of-care decision support solutions, document imaging solutions and the resale of related hardware. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of ACI Global Corp., Periodontix, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in researching and developing next-generation antimicrobial agents for the prevention and treatment of periodontal disease. The company is based in Watertown, MA. Periodontix was acquired by Demegen, Inc. on July 16, 2001 for $8.02 million.