Masterworks in Progress

Just as each of the world's master artists exhibits a unique and engaging perspective, so too each of the businesses in the portfolio below demonstrates characteristics unique to the people, services, and ideas from which they developed.  And unlike a classical painting or a Renaissance sculpture that has already taken its well-deserved place in history and development, these works continue to shift and evolve.  The array below represents just a few of our masterworks in progress.

The Calvert Laboratories are where Calvert Holdings first began to make a move into the business development arena. Having built the Labs into a premiere toxicology lab at the forefront of the contract research industry, Calvert CEO Russ McLauchlan continued developing the Holdings with a strong and clear desire to support the entrepreneurial instincts of other emerging innovative businesses. Today Calvert Laboratories continues to lead the rest of the Holdings by maintaining outstanding science, operational excellence, and regulatory assuredness in the design, management, and implementation of non-clinical safety programs.

Calvert Research Institute was formed in order to bridge the growing gap between emerging biodiscovery companies and clinical development. The Institute has implemented an innovative model of strategic partnering in order to help biotechnical, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and medical device start-ups by shouldering the burden of obtaining investors, acquiring and directing staff, locating development and testing resources, and evaluating marketing strategies so that the start-up can focus on developing their core science. The staff and partners of Calvert Research Institute have high levels of experience in both bioscience and business development, and can put that experience to work on behalf of young companies as well as the investors who seek to finance drug development in a responsible way.

Calvert Creative brings the full force of leading-edge, state-of-the-art technology to traditional media, helping companies create an image and experience that meets their corporate goals and makes them more competitive. Their specialty is interactive digital media. From promotional cd's and web-delivered video to logo and tagline animations, they help create environments, experiences, and messages that connect with people's emotions and provoke desired reactions.

More than half of Americans – over 66% – drink coffee away from home. Coffee shops are now appearing in medical facilities, educational environments, class-A offices, banks and other properties. Since numerous coffee franchises compete in an already saturated market, Calvert conceived of and created a product for the new premium amenities market instead. We believe Calvert is the first to offer coffee and related product lines in a variety of customizable end-to-end coffee systems, complete with equipment, products and training. To that end, we applied the same business acumen, expertise, and investment to Calvert Coffee Systems as we have to our other companies; the result is an emerging Holding that shines.

Calvert Holdings acquired Carolina Securities (NASD/SIPC) to further expand the network of pioneering service sector companies needed to assist the drug development cycle. The company was already known as an innovative boutique broker/dealer with a solid reputation, and they have continued to expand the scope of their work as one of the essential Calvert Holdings. Carolina Securities offers young companies seasoned service and advice as well as entry into the professional capital markets. While Carolina Securities can access larger amounts of capital for the appropriate clients, the typical client raise is in the range of $500,000 to $5,000,000 for early stage science ventures.

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