Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (ARE: NYSE), Landlord of Choice to the Life Science Industry®, the largest owner, cluster developer and pre-eminent first-in-class international real estate investment trust focused principally on the ownership, operation, management, redevelopment, selective development and acquisition of properties containing office/laboratory space. Alexandria is the leading provider of real estate to the life science industry, and has an outstanding eleven-year track record as a NYSE listed company with an approximate $6.7 billion total market capitalization (as of September 30, 2008). Alexandria provides high-quality real estate, technical infrastructure, services and capital to the broad and diverse life science sector. Client tenants include institutional (universities and independent not-for-profit institutions), pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, life science product, service, and translational medicine entities, as well as governmental agencies. Alexandria’s international operating platform is based on the principle of “clustering”, with assets and operations strategically located in key life science hub markets.

BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on providing real estate to the Life Science Industry®. We acquire, develop, own and operate laboratory and office space. Our properties are designed to effectively support the demanding needs of a wide range of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and research institutions.

Real Estate Owner, Manager and Developer

Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is the largest flexible office facility for growing technology and life sciences companies in the Greater Boston area. The Cambridge Innovation Center offers start-up and emerging companies award-winning facilities and state-of-the-art business services in a package which is designed to meet the needs of small and growing businesses. CIC is cost efficient and scales with the company's growth. Currently, ~210 companies are located at CIC.

The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority engage in urban redevelopment projects and other activities in the City of Cambridge.

Real Estate Owner and Manager

CityRetail is the retail division of [t] Twining Properties. CityRetail provides retail real estate advisory, development and brokerage services to some of Kendall Square's most exciting and active landowners. Since its founding 2009, CityRetail has been a catalyst in recruiting, marketing and developing Kendall Square's retail community.Closed deals range from Evoo Restaurant to Clevergreen Cleaners and Pine Village Preschool.

The Institute's mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.  MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.

The mission of the MIT Investment Management Company is to provide stewardship of MIT's financial resources.  The stewardship of these resources includes the investment of endowment and operating assets, administration and investment of life income funds, and the financial management of the defined benefit portion of the MIT Retirement Plan and Retiree Welfare Benefit Plan.