Ashraf Hanna

Tanox, Inc engages in the discovery and development of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in the areas of asthma, allergy, inflammation, other diseases affecting the human immune system, and infectious diseases. Its product, Xolair (omalizumab), is used for treatment of adults and adolescents with moderate-to-severe persistent asthma

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nexvet Australia Pty Ltd. operates as a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops and distributes medicines for companion animals. The firm focuses on transforming the therapeutic market by developing and commercializing novel biologic therapies, including products derived from its PETization technology. PETization is designed to rapidly create monoclonal antibodies that are recognized as “self” by a patient’s immune system. The company was founded by Mark Heffernan, Christopher Nigel Brown and David Gearing in February 2010 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Nexvet Biopharma Plc engaged in the provision of integrated biopharmaceutical business. It focused on transforming the therapeutic market for companion animals, such as dogs and cats, by developing and commercializing novel, species-specific biologics. The company was founded in September 2014 and was headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Verily Life Sciences LLC provides healthcare solutions for global markets. The firm specializes in healthcare, hardware, software, clinical studies, scientific research, disease management platforms, sensors, population health management and precision medicine. It develops tools to collect and organize health data. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Genalyte, Inc. specializes in instrumentation and multiplex assays for biomarker and protein detection. The firm offers autoantibody testing assays for autoimmune research, custom assay services and maverick detection system. The company was founded in 2007 by Lawrence Cary Gunn III and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.