Aleta Williams

The Duke Endowment is a private foundation serving the people of North Carolina and South Carolina by supporting selected programs of higher education, health care, children's welfare and spiritual life. The endowment was founded in 1924 and is located in Charlotte, North Carolina

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Investors Management Corp (Investors Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1971 by James H Maynard and Bill Carl. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

IH Holdings International Ltd. is an investment holding British company founded in 2015. The private company is based in London, UK. The company's main function is to hold investments.

Tethis IP Holding Co. LLC provides technology services. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Evofem Biosciences Operations, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages on the development and commercialization of reproductive health products for women with a core focus on contraception. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SJF Management LLC (SJF Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Rick J. Defleux and Dave Kirkpatrick. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is a non-profit organization. It focuses on education, technology, and business strategies to further the preservation of biodiversity. The company was founded by Jay M. Short, Neil Patterson, and Charles J. Smith in 2005 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Cherokee Ventures LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Newport Beach, CA.

Institute of Science & Technology operates as a multi-disciplinary scientific research institute. Its research divisions include Brain Science Institute, Biomedical Research Institute, Green City Technology Institute, Post-Silicon Semiconductor Institute, Robotics and Media Institute, Materials and Life Science Research Division, National Agenda Research Division, and Doping Control Center/Advanced Analysis Center. The company was founded on February 10, 1966 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Industrial Heat LLC provides cold fusion research. The company was founded by Thomas Francis Darden III and J. T. Vaughn in 2012 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Mi Corp. develops and licenses enterprise mobile information software services for mission-critical business processes. Its services include mobile field inspections, mobile timesheets, offline data capture, enterprise application development, and executive reports and analytics. The company was founded by James B. Clary and Gregory J. Clary in 1999 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Cherokee Investment Partners LLC is a Private Equity and Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by John A. Mazzarino and Thomas F. Darden. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh.

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization, which works to forge practical solutions that help nature and people prosper sustainably. It launched the Smart Boat Initiative (SBI) which focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip and surround fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability, profitability and transparency in fishing. The company was founded by Arthur P. Cooley, Charles F. Wurster and Dennis Puleston in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Research Triangle Institute is a non-profit organization which provides research and development services. It offers surveys and data collection, statistics and data science, assessment and analysis, program design and implementation, and research technologies and analytical laboratory. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Fidus Capital LLC (Fidus Capital ) is a private equity subsidiary of Fidus Partners LLC founded in 2005 by Edward H. Ross, B. Bragg Comer and Thomas C. Lauer. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Part of Wienerberger AG, Cherokee Sanford Group LLC is an American company that manufactures bricks.

Consert, Inc. provides energy distribution and management network services. Its specialties include demand response, intelligent load management, advanced metering infrastructure and virtual peak plant. The company was founded by Roy Moore in 2008 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.