W. Gregory Shearer

Channel Medical Partners (Channel Medical Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Carol D. Winslow and W. Gregory Shearer. The firm is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Part of UBS Group AG, Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc. /Non Retail Unit/ is a security brokers & dealers. The company is based in Staten Island, NY.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Novare Surgical Systems, Inc. manufactures and supplies surgical equipment. Its products include laparoscopic, surgical, electrosurgical instruments, surgical laser and clamps, skin markers and orthopedic appliances. The company was founded by Thomas J. Fogarty and Kerry Pope in 1999 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

ViOptix, Inc. develops a tissue oximetry technology for the measurement of local tissue oxygen saturation. It offers T.Ox Tissue Oximeter, a lightweight and portable A/C power-operated unit. The was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Cylex is a privately held global life science company that is in the development and manufacture of in vitrodiagnostic products. ImmuKnow is the in vitro diagnostic utilized to detect cell-mediated immunity (CMI) in an immunosuppressed population and is increasingly being adopted at organ transplant centers throughout the United States and abroad. The Company's patented technology provides a platform allowing clinical researchers to simply and reproducibly measure CMI for the development of new diagnostics, biomarkers and companion assays. The company is based in Columbia, MD and was founded in 1992

Healthios Capital Markets LLC provides financial advisory services. The private company is based in Northbrook, IL and has subsidiaries in Thailand and Singapore. The company was founded by Fritz Reichenbach.