Core Electrical group is a commercial electrical contractor in the San Antonio/New Braunfels, Texas area.

Westcore Europe is a real estate investor-manager with a specialization in multi-tenant industrial, retail, and office properties. The Westcore family of companies have over €1.5 billion in assets under management, €300 million of which is under Westcore Europe’s management. The strength of our team is reflected in our consistent record of delivering high risk-adjusted investment returns to investors through effective asset management and operating strategies. Our clients include opportunity funds, real estate investment trusts, family offices, and high net worth individuals. Operating from four “local” European offices and with access to a wide base of capital, we are able to quickly analyze and act upon new opportunities, implementing creative solutions to complex real estate transactions. Westcore sources the majority of its transactions off-market, direct from owners, institutions, and other principals acquiring real estate outright or recapitalizing existing ventures. Westcore approaches real estate from the bottom up, with a primary focus on asset management. Coupled with an active risk management, financial monitoring, and reporting structure, Westcore provides investors with transparent and timely information flows. Westcore Europe is part of the Westcore Properties Group. Westcore Properties focuses on Western United States commercial and industrial properties. Since its founding in 2000, Westcore Properties and its affiliates have acquired and managed more than $4 billion in industrial and office assets, comprised of more than 750 buildings and totalling over 45 million square feet. In addition to its US headquarters in San Diego, Westcore Properties has regional offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and Denver.

Ligand is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. Our business model creates value for stockholders by providing a diversified portfolio of biotech and pharmaceutical product revenue streams that are supported by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Our goal is to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the promise of the biotech industry in a profitable, diversified and lower-risk business than a typical biotech company. Our business model is based on doing what we do best: drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation and partnering. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) to ultimately generate our revenue. Visit our technical products: omniab.com, captisol.com, vernalis.com and ltptechnology.com.

CaseyGerry is one of the premier personal injury law firms in the United States. Each San Diego personal injury lawyer with CaseyGerry has worked to help recover hundreds of millions of dollars for families and individuals who have suffered serious injury or who have lost loved ones. We believe in individual and corporate responsibility. That includes being financially responsible for the intentional wrongful conduct or negligent acts which cause injury or death to others. For 72 years, every CaseyGerry San Diego personal injury attorney has successfully represented individuals, many of them against some of the world's largest corporations. CaseyGerry is committed to a thorough and accurate investigation for any client on whose behalf we undertake representation. Unlike most personal injury firms, we have a full investigative staff whose job it is to go into the field and thoroughly investigate every reasonable claim. Gathering the facts and evidence as soon as possible can be critical to the success of a case and CaseyGerry offers prospective clients unparalleled resources to that end. Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP

Succession Capital Partners, (“Succession”) is a specialty Private Equity firm providing investment capital to individually or family owned businesses in the Mid-Atlantic and the Southeast. Succession specializes in providing liquidity for family-owned businesses and providing unique and creative solutions necessary for the smooth transition and the continued success of small cap businesses. Since 1998, the principals of Succession have successfully invested in more than 30 family-owned companies across a vast array of industries in the Southeast. Our team has a singular focus on working with and acquiring family-owned businesses. Succession Capital was created to assist with the “succession” of businesses from family controll to institutional ownership. Our deep understanding of family-owned business and the unique aspects of those businesses have enabled us to be successful over time and deliver significant returns for our investors. Since all of our principals are true operators and not financial engineers, we understand the unique challenges that small, family business owners encounter. We have extensive knowledge and experience operating and growing companies, and offer our management teams substantial strategic, financial and operating support.

ZENO Office Solutions is the premiere office equipment technology company serving the greater west Texas and southeastern New Mexico area from our headquarters in Midland, Texas. Founded in 1999 by Dale Fowler and Larry Bond, ZENO was built on the philosophy of focusing on the customer and putting their needs first. As a nationally recognized Kyocera dealer and service provider, we work with companies to implement the perfect solution to help increase efficiency and productivity while lowering their costs. Managed Print Services monitor your equipment and toner levels to help ensure minimal downtime. Document Management Solutions can streamline document processes and provide your company with a digital document repository to minimize physical document storage. Our mission at ZENO is to profitably provide IT services, managed print, copiers, and other office equipment to businesses with key operations in the West Texas area. We will accomplish this through: living our core values, staying at the forefront of technology, and remaining a nationally recognized service provider. “Customer Satisfaction” is not just a saying at ZENO; it is how we do business.

Merkel & Associates, Inc. is an environmental services company based out of 29325 Chagrin Boulevard Suite 101, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

Simbex is an experienced medical device and consumer health product design and development partner that excels in transforming your most complex ideas into game-changing commercial solutions. Our track record of success in the health industry along with our deep technical, analytical and commercialization know-how reduces your development and implementation risk to deliver and launch innovative products. Our work has been recognized by Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of the Year, Inc. 5000, Sybase Innovation Award, New Hampshire High Tech Council, Edison Awards, Computerworld’s Honors Program Award Finalist, and US Small Business Tibbets Award. Learn more and view our open positions at https://simbex.com/careers/.

HomeFed Corporation is a real estate development company that specializes in creating vibrant, mixed-use master-planned communities that combine innovative placemaking techniques and environmental stewardship. Incorporated in 1988 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California, HomeFed is known for undertaking large, complex, environmentally challenging projects that require long-term investments. The company attributes its success to financial prudence, creative land planning, and a collaborative team approach with stakeholders and development partners.

aTyr Pharma (Nasdaq: LIFE) is a biotherapeutics company engaged in the discovery and development of innovative medicines based on novel biological pathways. aTyr’s research and development efforts are concentrated on a newly discovered area of biology, the extracellular functionality and signaling pathways of tRNA synthetases. aTyr has built a global intellectual property estate directed to a potential pipeline of protein compositions derived from 20 tRNA synthetase genes and their extracellular targets. aTyr’s primary focus is efzofitimod (ATYR1923), a clinical-stage product candidate which binds to the neuropilin-2 receptor and is designed to down-regulate immune engagement in severe inflammatory lung diseases. For more information, please visit http://www.atyrpharma.com. The Company was founded by Professors Paul Schimmel, Ph.D., and Xiang-Lei Yang, Ph.D., two leading aminoacyl tRNA synthetase scientists at The Scripps Research Institute.

When it comes to a commercial real estate transaction, a lot can go wrong. The stakes are high. The issues are complicated. Deals move quickly. Unfortunately, even the best intentioned lawyers can add unwanted complexity, stress and cost to doing business. Some practice law in isolation, failing to consider the overall business context of a deal. Some focus only on what is in front of them without considering the long-term impacts that deals can have on overall business strategies and outcomes. Others work at firms where fees are not driven by client value, but instead by internal pressures related to overhead and profitability. Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP -- CGS3 -- brings a new dimension to commercial real estate. At every stage of the commercial real estate cycle, CGS3 helps clients maximize their investments without sacrificing their legal interests, relationships or bottom line. Let us be your legal partners in building innovation.

RFD is a firm of laboratory design consultants focused exclusively on the programming and design of laboratory buildings for industry, healthcare, research and education. Located in San Diego, California and Raleigh, North Carolina, RFD’s staff of architects, engineers, and laboratory planners work cohesively to provide seamless project management and delivery. Since its incorporation in 1984, the firm has provided laboratory design services for more than one thousand projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Egypt. These projects represent a wide range of facility and client types, including Biomedical, Bioscience, Physical Science, Engineering and Nanotechnology Research, University and College teaching facilities for private and public institutions, and scientific research institutions. The firm has also provided laboratory design services for Biotechnology and Biopharmaceutical companies and a variety of research buildings for the Federal Government.