Chairperson- Eric Linsley, Pappas Ventures
Chairperson-elect- David Spitz, ChannelAdvisor Corp.
Secretary- Kent F. Christison, K&L Gates LLP
Treasurer- Greg Anglum, Grant Thornton LLP
President- Joan Siefert Rose, CED
Anastasia Pucci, Carlyle & Conlan Inc.
David Hood, Ernst & Young
David Spitz, Channel Advisor
Helga Leftwich, Hutchison Law Group
Katrin Burt, Intersouth Partners
Michael Elliott, Noro-Moseley Partners
Richard West, Advanced Liquid Logic
Stephen Wiehe, SciQuest, Inc.
Vipin Garg, Tranzyme Pharmaceuticals

Aaron Houghton, CEO, Preation

Adrian Wilson, President, Square 1 Ventures

Anastasia Pucci, Senior Partner, Carlyle & Conlan

Ben Weinberger, CEO & Co-founder, Digitalsmiths

Bill Spruill, Managing Partner, Global Data Consortium

Bob Reuss, VP of Business Development, VACO

Brent Ward

Brian Handly, CEO, BrightPath Education

Brooks Malone, Partner, Hughes Pittman & Gupton LLP

Chip Royce, Director, Global Alliances, Lenovo

Chris Matton, General Counsel, Bandwidth.com

Chris Stoecker, VP, Silicon Valley Bank

Collin Hill, Senior Manager, Cherry Bekaert & Holland LLP

Dave Rizzo, President & CEO, NC IDEA

David Finch, President & CEO, ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions

David Hood, Partner, Ernst & Young

David Routh, Managing Director, US Trust/Bank of America

David Spitz, President and COO, Channel Advisor

Eric Linsley, Managing Partner, Pappas Ventures

Faisal Mushtaq, Sr. VP of Product Development, Allscripts

Greg Anglum, Audit Partner, Grant Thornton

Helga Leftwich, Partner, Hutchison Law Group

Jack Sheffield, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

Joan Siefert Rose, President, CED

Joe Colopy, Founder & CEO, Bronto Software

John Crumpler, General Partner, Hatteras Venture Partners

John Kerr, President, York Commercial, a division of York Properties

John Stewart, Partner, Dixon Hughes Goodman

Jonathan Gindes, CFO & SVP Business Development, Affinergy

Karen LeVert, President & CEO, Southeast TechInventures

Katrin Burt, Partner, Intersouth Partners

Ken Eheman, Partner, Wyrick Robbins

Ken Tindall, Senior Vice President, Science and Business Development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Kent Christison, Administrative Partner, K & L Gates

Kevin Prakke, Partner, Williams Mullen

Kyle Breischaft, President & CEO, Emergency Technologies Inc.

Laura Hoke, Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP

Lee Buck, Principal, Blue Bright Ventures LLC

Lori Spivey, President, Financial Directions Group, Inc.

Mark Fekaris, IT Director/Global Client Services, Cisco

Merrill Mason, Partner, Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan L.L.P.

Michael Elliott, Managing Partner, Noro-Moseley Partners

Moise Khayrallah, President & CEO, Neuronex, Inc.

Oliver Sherill, VP of Regional Marketing Dir., Alexandria Real Estate Equities

Pat Gibbons, VP Corporate Communications, RTI

Paul Torrey, Senior Manager of LS Business Development, Deloitte

Phillip Street, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend

Rich Brown, Senior Vice President, Knowledge-Based Industries Group, RBC

Rich West, CEO, Advanced Liquid Logic

Rik Vandevenne, Principal, River Cities Capital Funds

Rob Orr, Principal, Sandton Capital

Rob Tyler, Partner, Poyner Spruill LLP

Stephen Wiehe, President & CEO, SciQuest

Steve Crist, Senior Director, BCBS of North Carolina

Steve Holloman, Senior VP of Wells Fargo Private Bank, Wells Fargo

Susan Acker-Walsh, VP and Director, Health and Civil Services Sector Operations, SRA International

Ted Zoller, Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC- Chapel Hill

Teresa Spangler, President, Plaza Bridge Group LLC

Tina Valdecanas, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Research Triangle Park Foundation

Vipin Garg, President & CEO, Tranzyme Pharmaceuticals

William Greenlee, President & CEO, The Hamner Institutes

Wright Steenrod, Principal, Chrysalis Ventures