Medical Device Link.

Originally Published MX March/April 2004

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Mark C. Butts, JD, is a founder and principal of the investment banking firm Boston Equity Advisors LLC (Canton, MA), an SEC-registered, NASD member, broker/dealer that focuses on private placements of equity securities of pre-IPO-stage companies. He can be reached at butts@boston-equity.com.

Lars Enstrom is director of the healthcare investment banking group at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin (New York City), where he manages the firm's life sciences business. Enstrom served previously as executive director in the healthcare group at CIBC World Markets. He can be reached via e-mail at lenstrom@hlhz.com.

Don Grilli is CEO of Endius Inc. (Plainville, MA), a medical device start-up company specializing in minimally invasive spine surgery which he joined in July 2001. He brings more than 30 years of healthcare product and medical device industry experience to the company. Grilli can be reached via e-mail at dgrilli@endius.com.

Hugh J. D. McManus, PhD, is vice president of sales and marketing at Nanostream Inc. (Pasadena, CA), a biotechnology firm that has just launched its first product into the biotech and pharmaceutical markets. He is also president of the national board of the National Association of Investors Corp., an umbrella organization for individual investors and investment clubs. He can be reached at hugh.mcmanus@nanostream.com.

Ilya Nykin is a founder and managing director of Prolog Ventures (St. Louis), a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in companies involved in life sciences and related information technologies. He has 20 years of experience with technology-driven ventures as an investor, entrepreneur, and executive. Nykin can be reached at info@prologventures.com.

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