The Download

Robbie’s business experiences range from corporate strategies for Fortune 500 companies to founding, building, running and successfully exiting various technology businesses, as well as raising and managing an angel network. She’s passionate about empowering women […]

Lewis Sheats is an entrepreneur and educator. He has identified and developed several unique new ventures from launch to profitability and has both bootstrapped and raised venture funding for several ventures from concept to exit. […]

Thad Tarkington is the co-founder and CEO of Second Nature, formerly FilterEasy, a home wellness subscription service for homes and business. Prior to founding Second Nature, Thad spent three years attending NC State University and […]

Igor Jablokov is the CEO and Founder of Raleigh-based Pryon. Named an “Industry Luminary” by Speech Technology Magazine, he previously founded industry pioneer Yap, the world’s first high-accuracy, fully-automated cloud platform for voice recognition. After […]

Brooks Raiford has served as President and CEO of the North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH) since 2008. NC TECH is the statewide industry association for the tech sector, representing over 600 member companies and […]

Brian Handly is the Founder and CEO of Raleigh’s Reveal Mobile, a Data-as-a-Service and mobile intelligence firm that builds location-based audiences from billions of data signals from opted-in mobile devices. At Reveal Mobile, Brian has […]

Thom Ruhe is President and CEO of NC IDEA, a Durham-based private foundation committed to supporting entrepreneurial ambition and economic advancement in North Carolina. He is an entrepreneur, investor and mentor, and works with entrepreneurs, […]

Chris Matton has served as General Counsel of Bandwidth since 2010. As General Counsel, Chris provides support and counsel for corporate, human resources, intellectual property, legal and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Bandwidth, Chris was […]

Vickie started her career at Mitsubishi Semiconductor as a hardware design engineer after earning her electrical engineering degree at Duke University. The experiences there made her realize that there is a large communication gap between […]

Mitch has primary responsibility for venture capital firm Intersouth Partners’ technology portfolio. He joined Durham-based Intersouth in 1989, shortly after its founding. Mitch has extensive full-cycle venture investment experience and has personally led more than […]