1540 Ventures is an early-stage venture investor focused on innovation in women’s digital health (WDH), intelligent device leveraging integration & data collection (MedTech), Software-as-a Medical Device (SaMD), the intersection of digital biology and medicine (TechBio), and digital manufacturing software & services (DMSS).

Partner and FINRA Financial Operations Principal. Crewe is an independent investment and merchant banking firm and M&A advisor providing a range of services to a diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, and family offices. Crewe is headquartered in Salt Lake City with offices in New York and Denver. Crewe Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC.

Five Prime Advisors renders valuations and fairness opinions, and provides expert testimony for a variety of transactional, regulatory, tax, legal, accounting, and fiduciary purposes. Five Prime Advisors, LLC sold its FINRA broker/dealer membership & operations to Crewe Capital, LLC in 2015.

The Expert Review Panel includes experts from the biopharma industry, the life science venture community, serial life science entrepreneurs, and academic life science researchers with deep domain expertise. Members of the Panel review, evaluate, score, and provide feedback to the Fund about which applications are most likely to deliver innovative and commercially viable solutions for infectious disease threats.

Mid Atlantic Bio Angels is a prominent life science angel investor focused on new and emerging life sciences technology, device, and therapeutic companies. Our funds include investments in Immunomic Therapeutics, Opsidio, PainQx, Elysium Therapeutics, New View Surgical, Seneca Therapeutics, FEMSelect, Thermalin, Virion Therapeutics, Cerus Endovascular, GenPro, Virion Therapeutics, Healionics, and Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals.

The Economic Club of New York, founded in 1907, is a membership organization whose purpose is to provide a forum for the discussion of current social, economic and political issues. The Club has been host to over 1,000 eminent leaders at its speaker's dais. Past speakers have included Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump. Among the many distinguished foreign leaders to address the Club have been Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Ghandi, Margaret Thatcher, Yitzak Rabin, Corizon Aquino, and Zhu Rongji.

Applied Cardiac Systems is a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of non-invasive cardiac instrumentation and services. It is an industry leader in Holter monitoring technology and until recently, external counterpulsation. ACS Diagnostics, a wholly owned subsidiary, has commercialized an integrated cardiac monitoring technology that, combined with its 24/7 cardiac event monitoring service, is revolutionizing how hospital-based and outpatient cardiology is practiced.

The Johns Hopkins Alliance for Science and Technology Development evaluated the commercial promise of curated biomedical innovation originating in the laboratories and clinics at Johns Hopkins University. For those projects judged most promising, funding was provided when a modest amount of capital would lead to proof-of-concept. The Alliance was recruited from pharmaceutical and biotech executives, medical device designers and manufacturers, and venture capitalists.

Maxim Group is a leading full-service investment bank, securities and wealth management firm headquartered in Manhattan providing an array of financial services including investment banking, global institutional sales, equity research, fixed income and derivative sales & trading, merchant capital, private wealth management, and prime brokerage services to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.