On Wednesday, August 13, at 6 pm, Investor Dinners by Astronomic organized a fireside chat with Casey McPherson, who shared his investment opportunity in his company, AlphaRose Therapeutics.  Afterward, guests engaged Casey in Q&A, followed by a buffet networking dinner.

Guests ranged from biotech and healthcare investors and executives:

• Bril Flint — Board or Director at Goodwill Central Texas
• Maryam Taheri — Founder at Everground Advisory
• Lala Elizondo — Cofounder at Tule Capital
• Justin Smith — Managing Partner at Recharge Capital
• Alex Pepe — Private Investor
• Ethan Baehrend — Angel Investor
• Dave Blake — Angel Investor
• David Kil — CEO at CML Insight
• Divyansu Patel — Principal Investigator at BioBehavioral Research of Austin
• James  Ryan — VP of Engineering at L7 Informatics
• Shree Moorthy — President at Solve4M
• Xiaofei Deng — Private Investor
• Shaun Dharshan — Board Advisor at SweatPals
• Stan Sukhinin — Founder at Sorso
• Pam Andrews — Executive Director at Firefly Fund
• Carlos Santos — CEO at Angstrom Bio
• Angelos Angelou — Founder at Angelou Economics
• Drew Yashar — Senior Venture Associate at Capital Factory
• Enrique Lin Shiao — Head of Search and Evaluation at Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Bob Butchofsky — Founder and CEO at Mati Therapeutics
• Hugh Forrest — Founder at SXSW
• Kabir Israni — Founder and CEO at Raveum
• Carlos Oviedo — Cofounder at ISITA
• Samantha Vaccaro  — Board Member at SWAN Impact Network