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BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD
Bruce Neviaser,
Chair - General Partner,
Continuum Investments, LP, and Chairman of the Board, Great
Wolf Resorts, the nation’s largest operator of destination
indoor waterpark family resorts. Great Wolf Resorts had
a successful IPO in December 2004. Mr. Neviaser was also
one of the earliest investors in Bone Care International,
which was sold to Genzyme Corporation in 2005 in a transaction
valued at approximately $600 million.
Daniel J. Broderick - Managing Director,
Mason Wells Venture Funds with over $375 million currently
under management.
Jan Eddy - Ms. Eddy was founder, president
and CEO, Wingra Technologies, LLC, a Madison based software
company, from 1990 until its acquisition by Quest Software,
Inc. early in 2005. Wingra was funded entirely
by angel investments. From
1983 until its sale to Software Publishing in 1988, Ms.
Eddy was the president, CEO and Chairperson of Office
Solutions, Inc, a venture-backed software company. Ms
Eddy remains involved in many business, non-profit, and
economic development efforts in the state including directorships
of DEMCO, First Business Financial Services, First Business
Bank, Meriter Retirement Services, Wisconsin Technology
Council and Collaboration Council.
Paul Frederick - Chairman,
Frederick & Company, Inc.,
which focuses on investment banking and provides financial
assistance and advice to selective emerging growth
companies.
Janice Galbavy - Vice President, Silicon
Valley Bank-Chicago Office, which provides diversified
financial services to emerging growth and mature companies
in the technology, life science and private equity
industries. At present, SVB has over $5 billion in
assets and 1,000 employees in 27 domestic offices and
2 international subsidiaries in the U.K. and India.
Irene
Hrusovsky, M.D. - President and Chief Executive
Officer of Madison-based EraGen Biosciences, Inc., a
molecular diagnostics company focused on Women's Health.
Prior to coming to Madison, Dr. Hrusovsky served as Vice
President of General Medicine/Medical Marketing Strategy/Clinical
Operations at GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Hrusovsky also spent
over 20 years at Abbott Laboratories, holding executive
management positions in Pharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics,
Licensing and Business Development, and in various entrepreneurial
business ventures.
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