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

Stephen Wiehe

SciQuest, Inc.
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

Michael Elliott

Noro-Moseley Partners

John Fogg

Hutchison Law Group, PLLC

John Glushik

Intersouth Partners

Richard Harris

Synergy Commercial Advisors

Mark E. Larson

Grant Thornton LLP






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 gave our management team the ability to understand and anticipate what was in front of us. As a potential or early-stage entrepreneur, joining CED is one of the very first things you should consider doing." -- Peyton Anderson, CEO, Affinergy