Heidi L. Huntsman

Pelion Venture Partners (Pelion Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Jim C. Dreyfous and Joel D. Kellman. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City. Utah.

ApopLogic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. researches and develops pharmaceutical products. It focuses on the development and commercialization of B201, is a rationally-designed synthetic peptide dimer of a potent decapeptide bradykinin B1&B2 receptor antagonist that directly induces apoptosis of cancer cells that overexpress these receptors and AP-300 is used in the neo-adjuvant or adjuvant setting with standard-of-care agents to improve survival outcomes in humans and companion animals with any accessible solid tumor including carcinomas, sarcomas and lymphomas. The company was founded in 2006 by Richard C. Duke, Donald Bellgrau, Paul A. Bunn, Daniel Chan, Lajos Gera, Jaime F. Modiano and John M. Stewart and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

First Interstate Bank is the investment management subsidiary of First Interstate BancSystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: FIBK), a financial holding company headquartered in Billings, Montana. Founded in 1971, the firm provides wealth management services to individuals and businesses.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.