The Download

Alexandra Jones (“Alex”) is a three-time founder. Alex co-founded BitWall, one of the first venture-backed Bitcoin startups, where she led design and was a front-end developer. After growing the company […]

Kurt Heusner is General Manager and Senior Vice President of ShareFile, where he is responsible for the entirety of the independently operating business unit. Previously, he served as Senior Vice […]

Justin Wright-Eakes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Raleigh-based Oval Park Capital, where he oversees all investment-related activities including deal sourcing, screening, structuring, negotiation, execution, portfolio company support, and […]

Jack Thompson is the Head of U.S. Financial Services at Cary-based SAS and leads the charge in delivering cutting-edge analytics and artificial intelligence solutions to clients in banking, insurance, and […]

Amy Bastian serves as Senior Director at NC IDEA, where her primary responsibilities are managing the NC IDEA SEED  and NC IDEA MICRO grant programs. Prior to NC IDEA, Amy […]

Alex Lassiter is the Founder and CEO of Raleigh-based GreenPlaces, a platform to make achieving sustainability easy for all businesses. Prior to GreenPlaces, Alex co-founded Gather, an enterprise software startup […]