2007-2008 Board of Directors

Executive Committee
Board of Directors
Former Chairmen and Ex-officio Members of the Board


Executive Committee

Mary U. Musacchia

Chairperson, CED Board of Directors

Michael Elliott

Noro-Moseley Partners
Chairperson-elect, CED Board of Directors

Kent F. Christison

Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell, & Hickman, L.L.P.
Secretary

Michael T. Constantino

Ernst & Young LLP
Treasurer

Monica Doss

President of CED

Jason Caplain

Southern Capitol Ventures

Reid Conrad

Near-Time
Past Chairperson, CED Board of Directors

John Fogg

Hutchison Law Group, PLLC

John Glushik

Intersouth Partners

Richard Harris

Synergy Commercial Advisors

Mark E. Larson

Grant Thornton LLP

Stephen Wiehe

SciQuest, Inc.






Board of Directors

  • Jo Abernathy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC
  • Ted Abernathy, Research Triangle Regional Partnership
  • Susan K. Acker-Walsh, Constella Group, LLC
  • Ryan Allis, iContact
  • David Babson, Marathon Innovations
  • Jeffrey Barber, Price Waterhousecoopers, LLP
  • Win Bear, Silicon Valley Bank
  • Michael Brader-Araje, SunPocket Management, LLC
  • Steven Burke, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
  • Jason Caplain, Southern Capitol Ventures
  • Richard Casey, Square 1 Bank
  • Kent F. Christison, Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell, & Hickman, L.L.P.
  • Michael T. Constantino, Ernst & Young, LLP
  • Reid Conrad, Near-Time
  • W. Mark Crowell, Ph.D., Office of Technology Development, UNC at Chapel Hill
  • Richard Daugherty
  • J. Donald deBethizy, Ph.D., Targacept, Inc.
  • Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D., UNC at Chapel Hill, NC State University, Liquidia Technologies
  • Mike Elliott, Noro-Moseley Partners
  • Tom Finegan, Clarkston Consulting
  • John M. Fogg, Hutchison Law Group PLLC
  • Joe Freddoso, MCNC
  • Jeff Glass, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
  • John Glushik, Intersouth Partners
  • Rich Harris, Synergy Commercial Advisors
  • Guy Harvey, The Staubach Company
  • Tom Hawkins, Arcapita Ventures
  • Wayne Hunter, Harbert Venture Partners, LLC
  • Kevin Johnson, Research Triangle Foundation of NC
  • Brent J. Keating, RBC Centura Bank
  • Byron B. Kirkland, Smith, Anderson, Blount, et al
  • Chris Kroeger, The Aurora Funds Inc.
  • Mark E. Larson, Grant Thornton LLP
  • Kenneth Lee, Jr., Hatteras Venture Partners
  • Brad Lenox, DLA Piper US LLP
  • Kenneth Lewis, Womble, Carlyle, et al
  • J. Christopher Lynch, Wyrick, Robbins, Yates et al
  • R. Brooks Malone, III, Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP
  • Joel S. Marcus, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
  • Christopher W. Matton, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
  • Robert McMahan, Ph.D., North Carolina Board of Science and Technology
  • Patricia Morton, Franklin Street Partners
  • Donovan Moxey, Ph.D., Interactive Multimedia Solutions, Inc.
  • Mary U. Musacchia
  • Arthur M. Pappas, Pappas Ventures
  • Greg Pelton, Cisco Sytems, Inc.
  • Anastasia Pucci, Carlyle and Conlan
  • C. Douglass Riddle, Wachovia Bank, NA
  • David P. Rizzo, NC IDEA
  • Joan Siefert Rose, North Carolina Public Radio WUNC
  • William G. Smith, Bank of America
  • Teresa Spangler, Creative Leadership Adventures, LLC
  • John Stewart, Dixon Hughes, PLLC
  • Rik Vandevenne, River Cities Capital Funds
  • Brent Ward, RTI International
  • Richard M. West, Advanced Liquid Logic
  • Stephen Wiehe, SciQuest, Inc.
  • David Winwood, Ph.D., North Carolina State University
  • Ryan K. Wuerch, Motricity, Inc.
  • YanChing Zhang, IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry
  • Ted Zoller, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School

Former Chairmen and Ex-Officio Members of the Board

  • Christy L. Shaffer, Ph.D., Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Chairperson, 2005-2006
  • B. Jefferson Clark, The Aurora Funds, Inc., Chairman, 2004-2005
  • M. Les Bethune, Ernst & Young, Chairman, 2003-2004
  • Steve Nelson, Wakefield Group, L.P., Chairman, 2002-2003
  • Kip Frey, Intersouth Partners, Chairman 2001-2002
  • Tim Gupton, Hughes, Pittman, & Gupton LLP, Chairman, 2000-2001
  • Max N. Wallace, Arbor Group, LLC, Chairman, 1999-2000
  • Paul A. Jones, Eno River Capital, Chairman, 1998-1999
  • Jim Talton, Impact Design Build, Inc., Treasurer, 1997-1999
  • Jeffrey Barber, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Chairman, 1996-1998
  • Mitch Mumma, Intersouth Partners, Chairman, 1995-1996
  • Peter Bechtel, US Investor Network, Chairman, 1994-1995
  • Orlan Johnson, TriState Investment Group, Chairman, 1993-1994
  • K. Michael Munsch, MercuryMD, Inc., Chairman, 1992-1993
  • Lori Spivey, Financial Directions Group, Chairman, 1990-1992
  • K. Ray Allen, Cii Associates, Incorporated, Chairman, 1988-1990
  • Bert Amdahl, Chairman, 1987-1988
  • Horace Johnson, Ernst & Young, LLP, Chairman, 1985-1987
  • Fred D. Hutchison, Hutchison Law Group PLLC, Chairman, 1984-1985

What Members are Saying

"CED has provided entrepreneurs like myself with an effective way to network and gather valuable information and meet other business leaders in the Research Triangle." -- Scot Wingo, President and CEO, ChannelAdvisor Corp.