CED would like to thank the following companies for their investments in Innovation to Impact:

Major Benefactors
($150,000)

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Alston+Bird LLP

Partners
($100,000)

Bank of America
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Comerica Incorporated
   Technology and Life Sciences Division
Daniels Daniels & Verdonik, P.A.
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Ernst & Young LLP
Grant Thornton
Gray Ventures, Inc.
hesketh.com/inc.
Hutchison Law Group PLLC
IBM
Intersouth Partners
Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, L.L.P.
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Maupin Taylor, P.A.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
RBC Centura
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP
U.S. Trust Company, N.A.
Wachovia Bank, NA
Wakefield Group, L.P.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Angels
($75,000)

Carlyle & Conlan, Inc.
Kenan-Flagler Business School
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

Contributors
($50,000)

Aon Corporation
ATCOM Business Telephone Systems, Inc.
The Aurora Funds, Inc.
BB&T Asura / BB&T
Cassell Design Group, Inc.
Duke Power Company
Hosted Solutions
Myers Bigel
Noro-Moseley Partners
Progress Energy
R+M
Silicon Valley Bank
Triangle Business Journal

Supporters
($25,000)

Advantis Real Estate
Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown
Financial Directions / Lori and Robert Spivey
HireNetworks
Hughes Pittman & Gupton,L.L.P.
Jeff and Joanne LeRose
Merrill Lynch Private Client Group
Morris, Manning & Martin, L.L.P.
Pappas Ventures
R.R. Donnelley Financial
Sockwell Partners
Southeast Interactive Technology Funds
Storr Office Environments, Inc.
Strategic Technologies, Inc.
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Vance County Economic Development Commission
WUNC Radio

Catalysts
($15,000)

Academy Funds
Cantando & Associates
Cardinal Health Pharmaceutical Development
W. Lowry Caudill
Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P.
Alfred G. Childers
Cingular Wireless
Hatteras BioCapital
JPMorgan Private Bank
Korn/Ferry International
Life Sciences Law, PLLC
Lovett Miller & Company
Manpower
O'Brien/Atkins Associates, PA
Oxford Finance Corporation
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein L.L.P.
River Cities Capital Funds
The Staubach Company
Thompson Clive & Partners
Venture Management Inc.

Friends

4Front Systems, Inc.
AIMS Company
Peyton and Maria Anderson
Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative, pa
Bruce Edwards & Associates Inc.
Capital Associates
The Cassie Group-Shipherd Group
Closure Medical
Constella Group, Inc.
First Citizens Bank
Frontier Capital, LLC
Bill Cunningham
Gene Gabbard
Robbie Hardy
Heidrick & Struggles
Sigmon L. Hutchinson
ICAgen, Inc.
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Lichtin Corporation
Liebel Consulting
Lineberry Research Associates
Mission House Creative
Paragon Commercial Bank
PharmaNetics Inc.
Dan Shea
Trimeris, Inc.
TriState Investment Group, LLC
York Properties, Inc.