Brian Andersen

HZNP USA LLC acquires, develops, markets and distributes specialty pharmaceutical products. The firm offers Actimmune, which is a bioengineered form of interferon gamma-1b, a protein that acts as a biologic response modifier through stimulation of the human immune system. Its Actimmune product is used for reducing the frequency and severity of serious infections related to chronic granulomatous diseases, and for delaying time to disease progression in patients with severe malignant osteopetrosis. The company was founded in 2011 by Balaji K. Venkataraman and Virinder Nohria and is headquartered in Lake Forest, FL.

Part of Lundbeck Foundation, Lundbeck, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that produces pharmaceutical preparations. The private company is based in Paramus, NJ. The company was founded by Jeffrey S. Aronin.

EKR Therapeutics, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring, developing and maximizing the potential utility of critical-care hospital products offering broader therapeutic options and greater control to improve in-patient care, speed recovery, and achieve optimal outcomes. Backed by the strength of its award winning management team, the dedication of its field force of product specialists and its commitment to excellence in customer service and medical education, EKR has been organized to be a class leader in commercializing products to address unmet and under-satisfied medical needs or to otherwise enhance the therapeutic value of acute-care products.

PDL BioPharma, Inc. engages in the business of developing innovative therapeutics and healthcare technologies. It operates under the Medical Devices and Income Generating Assets segments. The Medical Devices segment focuses on the sale and lease of the LENSAR laser system which includes equipment, patient interface devices, procedure licenses, training, installation, warranty, and maintenance agreements. The Income Generating Assets segment offers notes and other long-term receivables; royalty rights, hybrid notes, and royalty receivables; equity investments; and royalties from issued patents covering the humanization of antibodies. The company was founded by Cary L. Queen and Laurence Jay Korn in 1986 and is headquartered in Reno, NV.

ESP Pharma, Inc. produces pharmaceutical products. The company used to produce drug for acute-care hospital use and these drugs include therapeutics for high blood pressure and angina; one product, IV Busulfex, is used to prepare myelogenous for leukemia patients for bone marrow transplants. The company formulates its products to be delivered intravenously or by injection when oral administration is impossible. The company was founded in April, 2002 and was headquartered in Edison, NJ

Pharmacia Corp. developed, manufactured and marketed pharmaceutical products. Prescription pharmaceuticals included general therapeutics, ophthalmology and hospital products including oncology and diversified therapeutics. It also operated in consumer health care, animal health, diagnostics and contract manufacturing and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals. The customers of the group were pharmacies, hospitals, chain warehouses, governments, physicians, wholesalers and other distributors. It was headquartered in Peapack, NJ.