Jeffrey C. Girard

Ace Hardware Corp. distributes and sells lumber, hardware, and related products. It offers lawn and garden products, paint, home goods, tools, hardware, plumbing equipment, heating and cooling solutions, electrical, and auto products. The company was founded by Richard Hesse, E. Gunnard Lindquist, Frank Burke, Oscar Fisher, and William Stauber in 1924 and is headquartered in Oak Brook, IL.

ShopKo Stores, Inc. operated merchandise stores. It also offered apparel, furniture, health and beauty aids, cosmetics, fitness products, over-the-counter medications, convenience foods as well as general merchandise. The company was founded in 1962 and was headquartered in Green Bay, WI.

SUPERVALU, Inc. engages in the distribution of grocery and other products and provision of logistics and professional service solutions to retailers. It operates through the Wholesale and Retail segments. The Wholesale segment engages in wholesale distribution to independently-owned retail food stores and other customers. The Retail segment includes the sale of groceries at retail locations of its operations. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, WA.

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. is a food retailer operating under Winn-Dixie banner. It has retail stores in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi in the Southeastern United States. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

ProVantage Health Services, Inc. provides pharmacy benefit management and health information technology products and services. It offers plan design, formulary administration, physician profiling, mail pharmacy and clinical services. The company is headquartered in Waukesha, WI.

NanoMedex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops formulation strategy to allow drugs that are only soluble in oil to be soluble in water. It offers offers Microfol, a micro emulsion formulation containing the generic active pharmaceutical ingredient propofol and two IIG listed excipients-sodium caprylate and poloxamer, which replaces the macro emulsion components of the reference listed drug and its generic equivalents. The company’s formulation is applied to drug classes, including chemotherapeutics, anesthetics, anti-infective, anti-inflammatories and arrythmics, immunosuppressants, and vitamins. NanoMedex Pharmaceuticals was founded by Donn M. Dennis, Nikolaus Gravenstein, Jerome H. Modell and Timothy E. Morey in 2002 and is headquartered in Middleton, WI.

Part of Coherent Corp., Beam Dynamics is a company that manufactures advanced laser cutting machine tools. The company is based in San Carlos, CA. The company was founded by Jeffrey C. Girard. Beam Dynamics was acquired by Coherent, Inc. on April 29, 2010 for $6.20 million.