John J. Kody

Capital H Group LLC offers consulting services. The firm provides talent, leadership and organizational solutions to help clients improve their business performance. The company was founded by Gregory J. Silich, Mike Harris and Daniel J. Weinfurter in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

AGI Therapeutics Plc provides pharmaceutical services. The firm engages in development and commercialization of differentiated drug products to treat unmet medical needs, including conditions which qualify for orphan drug status. The company was founded by John Devane and Patrick Ashe in 2003 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Institute For Public Relations is a non-profit organization which researches in, on, and for public relations. It focuses on research that matters to the practice, providing insights, and applied intelligence that professionals can put to immediate use. It offers behavioral insights research center, digital media research center, issues management, crisis management and communications, and employee communications. The organization was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Gainesville, FL.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Keystone Capital Management LP (Keystone Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1994 by Kent P. Dauten and Scott L. Gwilliam. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

GCI Group, Inc. provides public relations consultancy services such as media relations, consumer marketing and corporate reputation offerings to companies in the health care, finance and technology industries. Its clients include Dell, Genentech, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Merck, Microsoft and Starbuck’s. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Transcontinental Holding Corp. manufactures and supplies plastic and paper-based flexible packaging, film products, and precision coated substrates. The company was founded on July 26, 2001 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, SC.

Astellas Pharma US, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers cardiology, dermatology, immunology, infectious diseases, and urology. The firm was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

Mercer LLC provides human resources and staffing consulting services. Its services include retirement plans, health and benefits, investments, merger and acquisitions, and human capital services. It focuses on advising clients on the financial, cultural, and talent aspects of human capital issues in corporate and private equity transactions, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, spin-offs, start-ups, and business transformations. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Daniel J. Edelman, Inc. provides public relations and strategic communication services. The firm's services include financial communications, investor relations, corporate affairs, diversity marketing, litigation, and public affairs. It provides services to the consumer, health, and technology industries. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

RR Donnelley Logistics Services Worldwide, Inc. operates as a leveraged platform third-party logistics provider. It offers logistics services distribute catalogs, magazines, books and direct mail. The firm provides air charter and freight, truckload, less than truckload, expedited ground and white glove services. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Bolingbrook, IL.

Real Chemistry, Inc. is an end-to-end healthcare experience group that leverages advanced AI-powered insights, diverse expertise, and customer-centric ideas to transform the healthcare industry. Real Chemistry is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. The company helps healthcare professionals better understand, reach, and engage patients, while creating healthcare experiences that span diagnosis to adherence. The company was founded in 2001 by Jim Weiss. Shankar Narayanan has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

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.

Horizon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the development, manufacture, and lifecycle management of blow-fill-seal (BFS) technology and products for the pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, and clinical industries. The private company is based in West Palm Beach, FL and operates two segments: blow-fill-seal drug discovery and development and blow-fill-seal manufacturing, including in-house mold fabrication. The company is a leader in custom BFS aseptic manufacturing and have the capabilities to complete projects at any stage of the development cycle. The company also holds a state license for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs (OTC and prescription) and medical devices.

Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd. is a pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and delivery of treatments to help improve the lives of patients with rare and orphan diseases. Its products include Lomitapide and Metreleptin. The Lomitapide provides homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), and Metreleptin provides treatment for generalized lipodystrophy (GL) and partial lipodystrophy (PL). The company was founded on December 20, 2004 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

GCI Group Ltd. provides information technology services and solutions. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The Illinois Science & Technology Coalition operates a membership organization focused on policy advocacy and impactful programs. The non-profit company is based in Chicago.

Part of Abbott Laboratories, Inc., the company manufactures and wholesales diagnostic and pharmaceutical products as well as medical devices. The company is based in Chicago, IL.

Esteve Pharmaceuticals S.A. operates as a global pharmaceutical company. It provides Ophthalmology and other Pathologies therapies. The company is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.