John E. Runnells

Lifecore Biomedical LLC develops, manufactures and markets medical and surgical devices. It serves ophthalmic, orthopaedic and veterinary markets. The firm offers pharmaceutical grade sodium hyaluronate and hydrogels. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Chaska, MN.

Biosurface Engineering Technologies, Inc. was a holding company, which engaged in the development of proprietary therapeutic peptides as medical devices to improve bone and soft tissue repair. It offered amplex and soft tissue augmentation services. The company was founded by Thomas G. Roueche, Paul O. Zamora, William G. Mavity, and Linda M. Finn in 2001 and was headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Axya Medical, Inc. develops and markets medical devices for ultrasonic welding of sutures. The company provides systems enabling minimally invasive tissue approximation and fixation. Axya Medical was co-founded by Paul V. Fenton and Thomas Egan in 1996 and is located in Beverly, MA.

Flexuspine, Inc. manufactures devices for the replacement of the functional spinal unit. It offers functional spinal unit, a total spinal segment replacement to provide an alternative to lumbar fusion by re-establishing mobility to an affected segment of the lumbar spine. The company was founded by Charles R. Gordon, Vincent J. Jannetty, Erik J. Wagner and Corey T. Harbold in 2003 and is headquartered in Tyler, TX.

The Vertical Group LP (TVG) is a venture capital firm founded in 1988 by Richard B. Emmitt. The firm is headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

Part of American Millennium Corp, Inc., TCT, Inc. is a company that provides SCADA system integration for oil and gas producing markets. The company is based in Midland, TX. TCT was acquired by American Millennium Corp, Inc. on April 30, 2003.

SpineCore, Inc. was a privately-owned developer of artificial lumbar and cervical discs located at Summit, NJ. SpineCore was founded in 2001 by Thomas Errico, MD and J.P. Errico

IncuMED LLC creates and develops novel surgical implant systems. It offers services and facilities, such as seed financing, intellectual property development, product design and modeling, design iteration and prototyping, design evaluation, and exit strategy development and implementation. The company offers its services and facilities to medical device inventors. IncuMED was founded Dennis M. McDevitt in 2000 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Anova, Inc. is a private company that is focused on precision medicine. The company is based in Naperville, IL. The company aims to help patients gain access to promising investigational products regardless of where they receive care.