Manish Singh

Bain Capital Public Equity LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1996 as Brookside Capital LP. They are wholly-owned by Bain Capital LP, itself a subsidiary of Bain Capital Holdings LP. Bain Capital Public Equity provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles (Public Equity Funds). Investors in the Public Equity Funds includes high net-worth individuals, banks, thrift institutions, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, university endowments, corporations, limited partnerships and limited liability companies or other business entities.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1997 as the William H. Gates Foundation. In 1999, the foundation was renamed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust was created in January 2000 through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. The foundation participates in preventive approaches and collaborative endeavors with government, philanthropic and not-for-profit partners. Priority is given to grants that leverage additional support and serve as a catalyst for long-term, systemic change. The foundation also provides funds to promote greater equity in global health, education and public libraries. Through their partnerships in communities across the US, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to raising the high school graduation rate and helping all students, regardless of race or family income. The foundation is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

ACM Capital Partners LLC provides investments services. The company is headquartered in Miami, FL.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1980, Mehta Partners LLC is a research firm located in New York City. The universe Mehta monitors includes biopharmaceutical companies in the U.S., Europe, Japan and emerging markets including Brazil, China, Eastern Europe and India. They cover 400 companies that are classified by geography and maturity.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

The General Hospital Corp. provides healthcare services. It offers diagnostic and therapeutic are in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. The firm's care center provides cancer, digestive disorders, heart disease, transplantation and vascular medicine services. The company was founded in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Bristol Capital Advisors LLC (BCA) is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. The firm was co-founded by Paul Kessler and Diana Derycz-Kessler in 2000. BCA manages Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands company with two feeder funds - one for US taxable investors (Bristol USA Fund LLC) and the other for non-US and US tax-exempt investors (Bristol International Fund, Ltd.).

Brookside Mezzanine Partners Management LLC (Brookside Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1977 by John N Irwin and David D Buttolph. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Massachusetts General Physician's Organization, Inc. operates as a multi-specialty medical firm. It is working in partnership with the Massachusetts General Hospital and in cooperation with Partners HealthCare to builds on the synergies among clinical practice, research and teaching to improve its patient's well being and the professional lives of physicians and staff. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Varro Technologies, Inc. develops distributed knowledge management applications for the life science industry. It offers a patent-pending technology solution for accessing, managing, and sharing the genetic information. The company was founded by Jay Venkatesan, David Sullivan Shin, Wesley Chan, and Chester M Hedgepeth III on December 22, 2000 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Exicure Operating Co. operates as a biopharmaceutical company commercializing spherical nucleic acid constructs as gene regulation and modulation agents for diseases including applications in oncology, dermatology, neurology, and for immune disorders. The SNA constructs allow the use of oligonucleotide-based therapies to treat diseases in a range of tissue types. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Colby Shad Thaxton in 2011 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

Balance Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapeutics to address conditions of intellectual disability. Its pharmacological approach, based on technology licensed from Stanford University, hypothesizes that restoring the proper balance between inhibition and excitation at the neuronal synapse by antagonizing excessive inhibitory circuits could result in the appropriate plasticity for memory and learning to occur in many conditions of intellectual disability. The company was founded by Lyndon Lien, Craig Garner and Daniel Wetmore in 2009 and is headquartered in San Bruno, CA.

Nacuity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets pharmaceutical products. The company is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.