David Lowrance

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Acucela, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company. It discovers and develops novel therapeutics to treat and show the progression of sight-threatening ophthalmic diseases. Its pipeline includes drug candidates and therapeutics for the treatment of age related macular degeneration, cataracts, presbyopia, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis igmentosa and Stargardt disease. The company was founded by Ryo Kubota in April 2002 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Aravas, Inc. develops innovative drugs for the treatment of serious and life-threatening conditions. It develops dry powder formulations for various therapeutic molecules, including antibiotics, corticosteroids, nucleic acids, and insoluble and soluble molecules. The firm’s products include AeroVanc, an inhaled dry powder form of vancomycin in a capsule-based inhaler to treat methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in patients with cystic fibrosis or other lung-compromising conditions; and AeroCort, a high performance inhaled corticosteroid product for the treatment of asthma in children. The company was founded by Cory Berkland, Chris Marich, Robert N. Neville, Taneli Jouhikainen, Chal Lenge and George Laurence in March 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.