Joel Jesse

Allied Capital Corp, a business development company, invests in private middle market companies located in the US. The fund target companies across a broad range of sectors with an EBITDA of $5 - $150 million. It provides debt and equity financing for buyout transactions and also makes minority equity co-investments. It also invests in private equity and debt funds.

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Price Associates) is a registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. in 1937. They are a subsidiary of the T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), which was formed in 2000 as the publicly traded parent holding company of Price Associates and their affiliated entities. Price Associates offers a variety of mutual funds, sub-advisory services and separate account management for individual and institutional investors, retirement plans and financial intermediaries.

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells labchip systems. It offers microfluids, lab automation, liquid handling, optical imaging technologies, and discovery and development outsourcing solutions. The company was founded by Michael R. Knapp on July 26, 1995 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

Biolog, Inc. enages in the manufacture of diagnostic substances. It offers microbial identification, phenotype microarrays for microbial and mammalian cells, mitochondria function assays, educational porta, microbiome, microbial community analysis, and microbial detection. The company was founded by Barry R. Bochner and Donald W. Barnby in 1984 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

Biomatrica, Inc. produces reagents and devices used for sample collection and analysis in diagnostics systems, nucleic acid analysis, and bio banking. Its technology is used to protect analyst in samples at the molecular and cellular level, chemically position laboratory workflows on microfluidics chips. The firm’s products include DNAstable, DNAgard, RNAstable and RNAgard. The company was founded by Judy L. Müller-Cohn and Rolf Müller in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Tales2go, Inc. provides audio books for early childhood programs and primary schools. Its products can be installed in laptops and mobile devices issued and available to both students and teachers. The company was founded by William Weil and Tracey Weil in 2009 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Ernst & Young provides accounting services. Its services include auditing, accounting, tax and transaction services, assurance and advisory business, online transaction advisory and a wide range of financial services. The company was founded by Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst in 1881 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Part of Revvity, Inc., NovaScreen Biosciences Corp. is a company that develops commercial research and drug discovery devices. The company is based in Hanover, MD. NovaScreen Biosciences was acquired by Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., part of Revvity, Inc. from November 07, 2011 on October 04, 2005 for $30 million.

Atto BioScience, Inc. is a company based in Rockville, MD that specializes in storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data management. The company's FibreChannel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) provide fast data throughput for direct-attached or networked storage. The company also offers production grade solutions for Tape Library Storage Connectivity. Atto BioScience was acquired by Becton, Dickinson & Co. on July 01, 2004 for $25 million.

Emerging Technology Partners LLC (ETP) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Wei-Wu He and Bill Snider. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ATTO Technology, Inc. manufactures storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions. Its products include fibre channel HBAs, ethernet adapters. switches and fibre channel to SAS bridge. The company was founded by Timothy J. Klein and David A. Snell in 1988 and is headquartered in Amherst, NY.

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.

BroadOak Capital Partners LLC (BroadOak Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Bill Snider and Lars Hanan. The firm is headquartered in Maryland.

Williams & Gallagher LLC (Williams & Gallagher) is a private equity firm founded in 2004 by George Williams and Susan Gallagher. The firm is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

IXRF Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures software and hardware for the micro-analysis and x-ray fluorescence industries. Its products include micro-XRF, mobile -XRF, vacuum devices, stages, upgrades, sdd detectors. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Optofluidics, Inc. operates as a scientific instrumentation company. It commercializes proprietary nano-technological devices to perform particle analysis and nano-manipulation applications for the life science and materials industries. The firm?s products include Hexpoint, NT Surface and Nano Tweezer. The company was founded by Bernardo Cordovez, Robert Hart and David Erickson in 2010 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Cellphire, Inc. develops proprietary method for the long-term stabilization of platelets in the dry state. It focuses on developing stabilized cellular materials for advanced technologies in the therapeutic and diagnostic markets through its proprietary cell stabilization technology. The company was founded by Richard O. Cliff in 2005 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Tonbo Biotechnologies Corp. provides cell analysis reagents for use in in-vitro cell assays and protocols. It offers antibodies and reagents, recombinant proteins, PCR reagents, and research focus as well as technical support and custom and bulk reagents. The company was founded by Todd R. Nelson and john Miller in 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cellaria Biosciences LLC engages in research and development of cancer cure products. The firm offers cancer research custom and stem cell services. The company is headquartered in Wakefield, MA.

BioInformatics, Inc. engages in the provision of market research and advisory services. Its services include interviews, surveys, market modeling, focus groups, and industry experience. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Science & Medicine Group, Inc. engages in the provision of business information and media solutions for life science, analytical instrument, clinical diagnostic, diagnostic imaging, and dental industries. It offers business intel and market research; and media and marketing services. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Learning Undefeated, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides STEM education opportunities for underserved communities. The non-profit company is based in Gaithersburg. The American company's flagship education program features mobile STEM labs that have provided hands-on learning opportunities to more than 200,000 K-12 students in 18 states since 2003. The company also operates several other celebrated STEM education programs including the Young Science Explorers program, a summer camp for middle school students, and the Advancing Tomorrow's Leaders in STEM (ATLAS) college and career exploration program. Learning Undefeated is driving race and gender equity in STEM through experiential and deep-impact learning experiences for students from under-resourced communities.

Empire Genomics Corp. is a molecular and cytogenetic diagnostics company. The private company is based in Bethesda, MD. The CEO of the company is William F. Snider.