The Download

Travis Milks is a Managing Partner of Topmark Partners, a growth equity investment firm focused on high-growth, technology-enabled businesses. Milks also serves as a board member at Topmark portfolio companies Thrive and Choice Legal. In […]

Amit Sharma is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chapel Hill-based CData Software (CData), a company specializing in interconnecting applications and data sources that power business operations. CData’s products are used in Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, […]

Scott Moody is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Raleigh-based K4Connect. K4 is a mission-centered company that integrates the latest advances in technology to serve and empower older adults and those living with disabilities. The company […]

Greg Dolan, the CEO of Keen Decision Systems (“Keen”), co-founded the marketing technology company with data scientist John Busbice. (Editor’s note: GrepBeat profiled Keen Decision Systems in August, 2019.) Dolan spent more than a decade […]

Billy Marshall is the CEO at ServiceTrade and author of two books: The Digital Wrap and Money for Nothing. He is a sought-after speaker on topics relating to innovation, technology, digital marketing, and sales methodology […]

Amanda Levinson is the Co-Founder and COO of NeedsList, a tech company creating solutions for a new era of global crises. NeedsList was the U.S. winner of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in the Social Impact Category, […]

Maari Casey is an ad-agency art director turned freelancer turned entrepreneur. After leaving the full-time agency, she began freelancing and discovered a void between the quickly growing talent pool of freelance consultants and clients looking […]

A legendary figure in the video game industry, Dr. Michael Capps—the CEO of Raleigh-based AI startup Diveplane—previously served as president of Cary’s Epic Games. Epic created two of the most successful blockbuster video games ever […]

Former eBay and Channel Advisor executive Michael Jones stepped into the CEO role at Durham-based Spoonflower in January, heading a company putting a 21st-century spin on a once-dominant North Carolina industry: textiles. Spoonflower is a […]

Wade Fulghum serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Commercialization for NC State University. He leads the office whose mission is to facilitate the commercialization of innovative research discoveries that seek to address the […]