Harald Schmitzer

Dionex Corp. develops, manufactures, sells, and services chromatography and extraction systems for separating, isolating, and identifying the components of chemical mixtures. The firm's products are used extensively by the environmental, life science, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemicals, electronics and power industries. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

HBM Partners AG (HBM-P) was established in 2001 as an independent provider of investment advisory services with headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. HBM-P's field of expertise comprises global human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology and related sectors. The firm primarily advises HBM BioVentures AG and HBM BioCapital via their Cayman Islands-based, wholly-owned subsidiary, HBM Partners (Cayman) Ltd., which acts as the investment manager for the HBM funds. They rely on the services of an external consultant to analyze investment opportunities in the US.

SiC Processing GmbH provides solar slurry recovery services. It offers its services for the conditioning of used slurry from the photovoltaic industry and the semiconductor industry. The company was founded by Thomas Heckmann in 2006 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Credit Suisse AG is an investment management firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1856 and was acquired by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) from Credit Suisse Group AG in 2023. Credit Suisse manages global and regional portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. They also offer private banking and wealth management, investment banking, and corporate and business support services.

ESBATech AG develops antibody fragment therapeutics. The firm's antibody fragment is derived from human antibody fragment scaffolds. It develops Immuna, an antigen-independent platform to screen, select, and optimize highly-stable and soluble, single-chain antibody fragments. The company was founded by Dominik Escher in September 1998 and is headquartered Schlieren, Switzerland.

Meyer Burger AG operates as a holding company, which engages in the provision of product equipment and services for the manufacture of solar wafers, cells, and modules. The firm serves to the solar, semiconductor, and optoelectronic industries and other sectors related to semiconductor materials. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Thun, Switzerland.

Gebrüder Meier AG is a company based in Regensdorf, Switzerland. The Swiss company provides repair services for electric motors and frequency converters. Part of ERNE AG Bauunternehmung, Gebrüder Meier AG was founded in 1998. Daniel G. Zeidler has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

NexWafe GmbH supplies high quality wafers to solar cell producers. The company was founded by Stefan Reber, Frank Siebke, Roy Segev and Kai Schillinger on May 18, 2015 and is headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau. Germany.

Epasus AG provides energy consulting and investment services. The private company is based in Uetendorf, Switzerland. Peter Pauli has been the CEO of the Swiss company since 2017.

Part of Forbo Holding AG, Forbo Siegling GmbH is a German company that manufactures and sells conveyor belts, flat belts, modular belts, timing belts, splicing tools, and supplementary products. The company is based in Hannover, Germany. The CEOs are Buch Torsten, Judith Anne Matz, Marc Richard Deimling. The company was founded in 1919 by Ernst Siegling.