CED thanks the following companies for supporting CED’s work at a significant level over a 5-year time period. For information on how to become a sustaining member of CED, please contact Miriam Wilson, CED’s Development Director, at 919.549.7500 x 126.

MAJOR BENEFACTORS ($150,000)

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

PARTNERS ($100,000)

Grant Thornton
Hutchison Law Group
Intersouth Partners
K&L Gates
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP
Square 1 Bank
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

ANGELS ($75,000)

Clean Design
Dixon Hughes, PLLC
Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP
Williams Mullen

CONTRIBUTORS ($50,000)

Bank of America
Branch Banking and Trust (BB&T)
Ernst & Young, LLP
Financial Directions / Lori and Robert Spivey
Hosted Solutions
Microsoft Corporation
Preation
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
RBC Centura
Silicon Valley Bank
Wachovia Bank, NA
Wakefield Group, L.P.

SUPPORTERS ($25,000)

Alston+Bird LLP
The Aurora Funds
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Carlyle & Conlan, Inc.
Duke Energy Carolinas
Hatteras Venture Partners
HireNetworks
Hughes Pittman & Gupton,L.L.P.
Jenkins Wilson Taylor & Hunt, P.A.
Noro-Moseley Partners
O'Brien/Atkins Associates PA
Pappas Ventures
Rankin McKenzie
The Reseach Triangle Foundation of North Carolina
River Cities Capital Fund
Synecor

ANNUAL SUPPORTERS

Deloitte & Touche L.L.P.
Exhibit Resources
Lenovo
Pepsi Bottling Ventures
Parker Poe Adams & Berstein L.L.P.
Poyner Spruill LLP
Quintiles Transnational Corp.
Triangle Business Journal

GRANTORS

ACGI
BD Technologies
Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard L.L.P.
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Cisco Systems Inc.
Clifton Gunderson, LLP
ClinPharm Consulting, LLC
CRB Consulting Engineers Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline
McGuireWood LLP
MPI Research
NC IDEA
Oxford Finance Corporation
POZEN Inc.
PPD Inc.
RPG Solutions, Inc.
RTI International
SCYNEXIS, Inc.
Southern Capitol Ventures
SRA International, Inc.
Surya Technologies, Inc.
Ward and Smith, P.A.
York Properties / McDonald York Building Company