The Download

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 […]

Ravila Gupta has over 15 years of experience in senior leadership roles. Ravila brings a passion for entrepreneurship to the RTP-based Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) as she helps forge stronger connections, engage new partners, […]

Randy Myer is the Managing Director of the Carolina Angel Network. Besides leading the Carolina Angel Network, Myer is presently a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina. He teaches […]

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 […]