The Download

Jimmy Xu is the Cofounder and CTO of Highrise. Highrise is a social virtual world for gen-z that is backed by the likes of Y Combinator, Bessemer, and the founders of King. After working on […]

Sharat Nagaraj is President and CEO of celito.net.  Sharat launched celito in 1999 with a passion for providing “desktop to the internet” solutions for business. The company creates technology solutions for businesses both large and […]

Dr. Alden Parsons is a top thoracic surgeon who cares deeply for her patients. Throughout her career, she has worked hard to prepare patients physically and emotionally for their surgery, but there never seemed to […]

Karl Rectanus is an educator, entrepreneur, advisor and the co-founder and CEO of Raleigh-based Lea(R)n, Inc. the B Corp that produces LearnPlatform, the comprehensive edtech management system for educators and administrators to organize, streamline and […]

William “Bill” Spruill is co-founder and CEO of Raleigh’s Global Data Consortium (GDC). The Global Data Consortium enables cross-border digital transactions by providing instant identity verification of individuals and businesses though its Worldview platform. Customers […]

Jan Davis is a retired CEO and former Shuford Program Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is an active board member of companies in software, analytics, marketing, tech-enabled services, including the boards of Epifany, Megalytics, SEAL […]

Nick Jordan strongly believes that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial minded teams can change companies and change the world for the better. As founder and CEO of Smashing Boxes, a design and development digital agency, Nick focuses […]

An accomplished leader with over 20 years of information technology and services experience, Kim has a strong foundation in business strategy, marketing and sales. Her history with Medfusion—a patient experience and communication platform—goes back to […]

David is responsible for leading Morrisville’s ChannelAdvisor, a publicly traded e-commerce company, in its mission to provide retailers and branded manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales […]

Brooks Bell is an established leader in the emerging industry of conversion optimization. She started her firm, Brooks Bell (or “the Company”), in the early 2000s to help bring a data-driven mindset to digital marketing […]