Maria Jennifer Zepeda

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Torax Medical Inc. designs and develops medical devices to treat chronic diseases related to defective sphincter muscles. Its technology platform, Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation (MSA), uses attraction forces to augment weak or defective sphincter muscles to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and fecal incontinence (FI). The firm's products include LINX, a reflux management system for the treatment of GERD; and FENIX, a continence restoration system for the treatment of FI. The company was founded by Todd Berg in 2002 and is headquartered in Shoreview, MN.

Part of PepsiCo, Inc., PepsiCo Frito Lay International manufactures soft drinks. The company is based in Aliso Viejo, CA.

INROADS, Inc. provides education and training services. It develop and place talented underserved youth in business and industry, and prepare them for corporate and community leadership. The company was founded by Frank C. Carr in 1970 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Part of MetaSource Group, Inc., Kensington Group, Inc. provides research, consulting, and training to assist end-users, vendors, media, financial analysts, venture capitalists, and others. The company is based in Corte Madera, CA. Kensington Group was acquired by MetaSource Group, Inc. on July 15, 2002.

BCBSM, Inc. engages in the provision of health care plans and resources. It offers individual and family plans, medicare plans, employer provided plans, prescription drugs, and dental plans. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. manufactures, develops, and markets pharmaceutical products. Its services include gastroenterology, gynecology, and urology. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL.

Coral Group, Inc. is a venture capital firm. It offers telecom, Internet and media content, real time data, IoT sectors, mobile, security, ecommerce, and cloud services. The company was founded by Yuval Almog in 1990 and is headquarterd in Minneapolis, MN.

Ounce of Prevention Fund is a non-profit organization, which provides care and education to children who were born in poverty. It offers childhood education, research, and program models that focus on the physical, social, and emotional development of children from birth to age of five. The company was founded by Irving B. Harris in 1982 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Children's Home + Aid provides children healthcare services. The firm offers adoption, foster care, counseling, treatment programs, child care and education services. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Thresholds provides behavioral healthcare services. Its services include housing and outreach services, clinical services, family and youth services, employment and private pay programs. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Empathetics, Inc. provides empathy and interpersonal skills training for medical professionals. It offers novel training based on the neurobiology and physiology of human interactions that improve interpersonal behavior benefiting both patients and clinicians. The company was founded by Helen Riess in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Innovation Development Institute, Inc. operates as a community of healthcare innovators who aspire to heroic change. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.