Bill McDermott
CEO, SAP

Bill McDermott was appointed co-CEO of SAP alongside Jim Hagemann Snabe on February 7, 2010. In this capacity, and also as a member of the Executive Board of SAP, he oversees SAP's strategic business activities relative to all customer operations, sales, marketing, communications, field services, consulting, corporate development, and ecosystem activities.

As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP is an over $80 billion company with more than $17 billion in revenue in 2011. SAP's more than 55,000 employees and its vast ecosystem enable 183,000 customers of all sizes in more than 25 industries and 130 countries worldwide. SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and McDermott is based at the company's North American headquarters location in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

McDermott was first named to the SAP Executive Board in 2008 to manage global field operations, a responsibility he continues to maintain as co-CEO. During this time, McDermott has been instrumental in re-architecting the company's go-to-market strategy, closely aligning the field organizations, and product development teams led Snabe.

Rich Karlgaard
Publisher, Forbes

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes - the world's most popular business and financial magazine, read by 5.5 million people per issue. He also is the author of the book, Life 2.0, which was a Wall Street Journal business best seller.

In every issue of Forbes magazine, Karlgaard writes a column called “Innovation Rules” which covers economic and technology trends, business transformation and conversations with leading CEOs. He frequently lectures on these subjects and is a regular panelist t on the Fox News Channel's Forbes on Fox, seen by 1.2 million households each Saturday. Karlgaard also appears on CNBC's Kudlow & Co. and writes columns for The Wall Street Journal op-ed page.

Karlgaard is an accomplished entrepreneur. He has started two magazines, Upside and Forbes ASAP; one venture capital firm, Garage Technology Ventures and Silicon Valley's leading civic organization, the 6,500-member Churchill Club. For the latter, Karlgaard was a co-winner of the Ernst & Young Northern California "Entrepreneur of the Year" award.

Karlgaard was raised in Bismarck, North Dakota and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Political Science. He is an angel investor and sits on several corporate boards.

Pat McCrory
Governor, State of North Carolina

Inspired by the desire to make a difference in the city of Charlotte, Pat was elected Mayor in 1995 and went on to serve a record seven terms.

When Pat was elected as Mayor, Charlotte was on the cusp of an explosion of growth, and he was just the visionary needed to help take Charlotte to the next level to become one of America’s great cities. Mayor McCrory tackled and showed great leadership on Charlotte’s major issues like economic development, infrastructure, transportation, public safety, and education. Tens of thousands of jobs were created while Pat served as Mayor as he was the consummate champion for economic development and job creation.

Pat is a nationally recognized leader in economic, transportation, and homeland security issues. He served as the Chair of the Republican Mayors Association and received a presidential appointment to the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.

Pat has testified before Congress and has been an expert guest on several national media broadcasts, including National Public Radio, ABC World News, Lehrer News Hour, CBS This Morning, MSNBC News, CNN, CNBC and Fox News, among others.

Bob Hower
General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures

Bob is ATV's East Coast lead partner for investments in information technology and is primarily focused on the internet, digital media and software sectors. He has been with ATV since 2002 and is an active board member of Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT), ChannelAdvisor, Packet Design, Nuventix, Sanovi, and [x+1]. Named to Forbes’ Midas list for the past two consecutive years, Bob was instrumental in Acme Packet's 2006 public offering, one of the most successful IPOs in the communications sector this decade.

Bob has extensive operating experience, including serving as Vice President of sales at LHS Group (EMEA), where he built the company's Enhanced Services Division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a member of the senior management team at Priority Call Management (PCM). Prior to LHS Group’s acquisition of PCM in 1999, Bob helped grow PCM's revenue from approximately $3.5 million to $45 million. Bob’s management background also includes sales and marketing roles at Lotus Development and General Mills.

Scott Maxwell
Founder & Senior Managing Director, OpenView Venture Partners

Scott has been a Venture Capitalist since 2000, first as a senior Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners, and then as the founder of OpenView Venture Partners. He has worked with numerous companies to help them craft and realize their visions.
At OpenView, and previously at Insight, Scott worked to develop and communicate the vision that an institutionalized venture capital firm can - and should - offer meaningful value beyond the capital that it invests. He has spent over a decade iterating on that approach, which includes the development of our investment focus and team, OpenView Labs team, and our content sites for executives.

Scott led the team that founded OpenView in 2006 to continue developing his model for investing in and adding meaningful value to expansion stage technology companies. Since OpenView’s inception, Scott has served on the board of directors or worked in some fashion with most of the OpenView portfolio companies.

Larry Bettino
General Partner, StarVest Partners

Larry Bettino has 23 years of private equity and venture capital investment experience. He is currently a Partner at StarVest Partners, a New York - based venture capital firm focused on technology - enabled business services that take advantage of next - generation internet and information technologies. He was a Partner and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus, joining the firm in September 2001 to lead the firm’s investment activities in telecommunications and information technology, and a member of the firm’s executive management group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was a founding partner at Baker Capital. From 1989 to 1996 he was a partner with Dillon Read Venture Capital where he focused on technology and data communications investments. An experienced engineer, he held a series of technical and management positions at IBM.

Dara Albright
Founder, NowStreet Media

Dara Albright, founder of NowStreet Media, is a thought provoker and frequent speaker on topics relating to market structure, private secondary transactions and crowdfunding. She is the author of the NowStreet Journal, a primary provider of analysis and insight into the private company marketplace as well as the legislation and innovation currently fueling it. Prior to founding NowStreet, Dara has held a distinguished 20 year career in investment banking, investor relations and institutional equity sales. She has organized and managed hundreds of road shows and conferences for Wall Street’s elite. She has worked closely with a number of institutional and accredited investors providing investment and trading strategies as well as restricted transaction services. Her work has included extensive IPO execution and counseling newly public companies in the after-market. Prior firms she worked for include: Unterberg Towbin, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Divine Capital and Citigate Dewe Rogerson.

Christopher Kersey
Managing Member, Camden Partners

Christopher Kersey focuses on private equity investments in the health care and life science industries. Founded in 1995, Camden Partners is one of the largest growth equity and investment management funds in the United States with more than $700 million under management.

Dr. Kersey serves on the board of directors of Essence Group Holdings Corporation, LipoScience Inc., Medivance Inc., MinSec Corrections Corporation, PatientSafe Solutions Inc., Santa Rosa Consulting Inc. and Webmedx Inc. Dr. Kersey’s previous portfolio companies include MedServe Inc. (acquired by Stericycle Corporation, NASDAQ: SRCL), AlgoRx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (acquired by Anesiva Corporation, NASDAQ: ANSV), ComView Medical Systems (acquired by ElectroMed Corporation), MacroGenics Inc., Pet DRx Corporation (acquired by VCA Antech Inc., NASDAQ: WOOF), Rejuvenon Corporation (acquired by Helsinn Healthcare S.A.), Targacept Corporation (NASDAQ: TRGT) and Xeotron Corporation (acquired by Life Technologies Corporation, NASDAQ: LIFE).

Dr. Kersey serves on the board of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and the board of trustees of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Kersey serves on the board of directors of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Endowment Fund, and is the Chairman of the Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the global development arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine with hospital management and clinical education services in the Middle East, North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Brian Rich
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Catalyst Investors

Brian Rich is responsible for the general management and investment policy of Catalyst and oversees the management of each fund portfolio. Since the mid-1990s Catalyst has invested in more than 50 portfolio companies and completed 100+ consolidating acquisitions. Prior to co-founding Catalyst, Brian founded and managed TD Capital, the entity that made Toronto Dominion Bank’s U.S.-based equity, mezzanine, and limited partnership investments from 1995 to 1999. As group head, he oversaw approximately 40 investments totaling more than $600 million. Before founding TD Capital, he was a Managing Director in the bank’s Media, Telecom & Technology Group. Prior to joining TD in 1990, Brian held positions at The Bank of New York and Intel Corporation.

Adrian Wilson
Founder & Managing Partner, Square 1 Ventures

Adrian is Founder and Managing Partner of Square 1 Ventures and is a member of its Investment Committee. Square 1 Ventures was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of Square 1 Financial, a bank holding company, to manage a series of venture capital fund-of-funds. Before joining Square 1, he was the co-founder and managing general partner of two early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firms: The Trelys Funds and Coastal Growth Partners. In this capacity, Adrian served on the board of directors for a dozen portfolio companies. Previously, he practiced law for over a decade with a concentration in corporate governance, M&A, and venture capital. He also worked in general management for Progress Energy. Adrian graduated with a BA from Davidson College and an MBA and JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Roland Reynolds
Managing Director, Industry Ventures

Roland Reynolds is responsible for sourcing and evaluating primary commitments and early secondary and is also actively involved in fundraising and maintaining limited partner relationships. He is on the investment committee for the Industry Ventures Partnership Holdings funds. Previously, he was the founder and managing partner of Little Hawk Capital Management LLC which was acquired by Industry Ventures. He also spent five years as a Principal with Columbia Capital, a leading communications and information technology venture capital firm with $2.0 billion under management. Earlier in his career, Roland was an investment banker for four years with JP Morgan & Co. in New York.

Roland represents Industry Ventures on the Advisory Board of Costanoa Venture Capital, Kearny Venture Partners and is an observer on the Limited Partner Advisory Board of IA Ventures. He graduated from Princeton University with high honors and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Don Rainey
General Partner, Grotech Ventures

Don Rainey joined Grotech Ventures as a general partner in September 2007 and currently serves on the boards of Grotech portfolio companies Clarabridge, GramercyOne, HelloWallet, LivingSocial, Personal, SnappCloud, and Zenoss. He is a strong proponent of technology transfer and education and devotes much time to both areas. Currently, he is an emerging technology consultant to the Chief Information Officer of the US Department of Defense through the DeVenCi Program, which is tasked with researching and nominating companies to solve the DOD’s unmet technology needs.

He is a frequent speaker at local and national technology events, and was included on Washingtonian’s Tech Titans list in May 2011. The Northern Virginia Technology Council presented Don with its prestigious “Lifetime Navigator” Award for his work with entrepreneurs in March 2011. Read Don’s latest "VC in DC" blog entry.

Mark Rostick
Director, Intel Capital

Mark directs east coast investments for Intel Capital. Mark covers all areas of investment focus for Intel with particular interest in internet, semiconductor, wireless and communications opportunities. He has worked with Intel Capital since 1998 during which time he has focused on a variety of areas, including computing infrastructure, enterprise software and communications silicon.

Prior to joining Intel, Mark worked for Turner Broadcasting marketing its cable networks in South America, spent five years as a practicing attorney specializing in tort litigation, and also worked in commercial banking. He holds a JD and an International MBA from the Moore School at the University of South Carolina.

Marc Lederman
General Partner, NewSpring Capital

Marc R. Lederman is a co-founder of NewSpring Capital and a General Partner of NewSpring Growth. NewSpring Capital, headquartered in Radnor, PA, is a family of specific purpose private equity funds focused on the Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Lederman has an extensive background in finance, consulting and accounting. Prior to joining NewSpring Capital, he was a Manager in the Business Assurance and Advisory Services Group of Deloitte. He currently serves on the boards of Exegy, LiquidHub, Raritan, RealTIME Media and Quintiq. Mr. Lederman is an active member of the region’s private equity community. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies, the Steering Committee of the IMPACT Conference, and is a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He is also an active panelist and supporter of the regional universities’ entrepreneurial programs. Mr. Lederman was selected as one of the Philadelphia region's “40 Under 40” young business leaders in 2005 and in 2001 received PhillyTech Magazine's “30 Under 30” award. He received a B.S. in Accountancy, cum laude, from Villanova University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Mr. Lederman was a Certified Public Accountant.

Trevor Kienzle
Managing Director, Correlation Ventures

As a founder and Managing Director of Correlation Ventures, Trevor helps lead the firm, manages its Bay Area office, and leads its Information Technology, Consumer, and Business Services investment practices. Trevor began his venture capital career in 1997. Prior to Correlation, Trevor was a Managing Director of Newbury Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital fund headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. There, he led investments in the technology sector, including in such companies as MetaLINCS (acquired by Seagate) and Onaro (acquired by NetApp). Previously, Trevor was Vice President at GE Equity, the $2 billion venture capital arm of GE Capital, most recently as co-head of the Software Group. He had responsibility for a team of investment professionals managing 26 portfolio companies. He led GE Equity’s investments in Okena (acquired by Cisco) and RSA Security (RSAS) (successful PIPE investment, acquired by EMC) and co-led its investment in Netscreen (NSCN, acquired by Juniper).

revor also was co-founder and CFO of Loans USA (acquired by Mariner Finance). Prior to that, he worked as a management consultant at Deloitte & Touche LLC as well as Furash & Company, and as an investment banker at Bankers Trust Company. The son of a U.S. diplomat, Trevor has lived in seven foreign countries. He received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia.

Lenard Marcus
Principal, Edison Ventures

Lenard Marcus is a member of the Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC investment team for Edison Ventures, identifying and evaluating investment opportunities. Lenard participates in due diligence and structuring investments. His responsibilities include market research, technology assessment and financial analysis. He is actively involved in the entrepreneurial, technology and financing communities in the MAVA region.

Lenard began his career at IBM where he worked as a Financial Analyst for IBM Global Services. His main responsibilities were overseeing a budget of $80 million and partnering with international locations to decrease the project costs of IBM Global Services West. Later, Lenard worked for Princeton eCom - an online bill payment company - where, as Manager of B2C Implementations, he oversaw one of the largest joint ventures in the company’s history. Lenard also worked in healthcare investment banking for Wachovia Securities.

David Jones
President & CEO, Peak10

David co-founded Peak 10 in March of 2000 and has led the company to a top market position as a leading independent data center, managed services, and cloud computing solutions provider in the United States. As the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, David has assembled a talented management team which has worked together to build one of the industry's strongest operating cultures and financial performers. Peak 10 is positioned with a solid forecast for long-term growth and profitability as the company continues to expand existing data centers, cloud computing infrastructure and enter into new markets. Active in the community, David is past chairman of the board, and current member, of directors for the North Carolina Technology Association.

Glenn McGonnigle
General Partner, TechOperators

Glenn McGonnigle is a General Partner at the Atlanta-based early stage venture capital firm TechOperators. Prior to launching TechOperators in 2008, Glenn was most recently CEO of VistaScape Security Systems, a leading provider of enterprise intelligent video surveillance software. He lead the successful sale of the company to Siemens Building Technologies. Previously, Glenn was a co-founder and top executive of Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems (ISS) where he helped raise initial venture capital and launch the business. For 7 years, he led the business development team in developing sales channels and entering the managed security services market. During his tenure, the company grew from startup to revenues of over $225 million and was later acquired by IBM for $1.3 billion. For most of his earlier career, Glenn worked at venture-backed software companies such as InterBase Software (acq by Borland) and Epoch Systems (acq by EMC) in a variety of sales and marketing executive positions.

Bill Brown
CEO, NET Power

Bill Brown is CEO of NET Power, LLC, a Professor at Duke Law School and a co-founder of 8 Rivers Capital, a company that focuses on financing and commercializing technologies related to the energy, internet, biomedical device, telecom and automotive industries. A distinguished lawyer with an extensive career in financial services, Brown has held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs & Co., AIG International, and Morgan Stanley. At Duke Law, his teaching focuses on entrepreneurship, business law, business planning, capital markets and corporate finance. He was instrumental in helping put together Duke’s LLM program in Entrepreneurship and the Law.

Brown has authored a number of pieces and is a frequent commentator for a number of organizations, including the BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, The New York Times, NBCTV-17, Forbes.com, MarketWatch, China.com and The Huffington Post.

John Lawrence
Partner & CFO, Longworth Venture Partners

As a Partner and Chief Financial Officer at Longworth, John is responsible for the Longworth's financial, legal and administrative functions. John manages Longworth's fundraising and limited partner relations efforts and manages the investment term sheet/closing document structuring and negotiation process. John is also active with many of Longworth's portfolio companies with finance and operating initiatives including budgeting and capital raising.

Before joining Longworth in 2001, John served as the CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Quail Piping Products, Inc., a venture-backed manufacturer of fiber-optic conduit products. John helped form Quail in 1999 after raising over $20 million in equity and debt financing to orchestrate a management-led buyout of the company from its then publicly traded parent company. Prior to Quail, John was the Assistant Vice President of Finance of Asahi/America, Inc., a NASDAQ -listed manufacturer and distributor of fluid flow systems. At Asahi, John led all finance, accounting, M&A, SEC, and IR activities. John began his career at Arthur Andersen LLP holding various senior audit positions in the Enterprise and Technology Group.

John is a member of the Private Equity CFO Association where he also serves as a member of their Board of Directors, and the Financial Executives Networking Group. A Certified Public Accountant, John earned his MBA from Suffolk University and his BA in accounting from Assumption College.

Richard Maclean
Managing Partner, Frontier Capital

Richard is a founding Partner of Frontier Capital and has more than 20 years of experience advising and investing in growth companies. He is a former director of several privately held companies, including Peak 10, LURHQ/SecureWorks and Anodyne Health, and currently serves on the boards of Healthx, Celergo, Perceptis and Inclinix. Mr. Maclean has a wide range of experience completing numerous private capital and M&A transactions as both principal and advisor. Mr. Maclean graduated from the College of Charleston and received his MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Joe Colopy
CEO, Bronto

Joe Colopy is Founder and CEO of Bronto Software. Bronto provides a cloud-based marketing platform for retailers and other commerce-focused companies to drive revenue through email, mobile and social campaigns. After being developed in Joe’s spare bedroom, Bronto grew quickly and now employs over 150 people, with offices in Durham, North Carolina, and London, United Kingdom.

Earlier in his career, Joe worked as an online marketer for Red Hat, a teacher in the U.S. Peace Corps (Seychelles Islands) and a software developer for the Harvard Business School. He earned an AB in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Carter Griffin
General Partner, Updata Partners

Carter Griffin joined Updata in 2005 and is a General Partner. Prior to Updata, Carter co-founded Brivo Systems in 1999 and served as Chairman and CEO until selling the company to a strategic acquirer. Brivo Systems pioneered the software-as-a-service model in the physical security market by introducing the first-ever on-demand system for facility access control. Carter also spent four years as a Senior Vice President at Kaiser Associates, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on competitive positioning and new-market entry strategies. Earlier in his career, Carter worked in London for the Coca-Cola Company and held positions at American Management Systems and Arthur Andersen.

Carter has twice served as Co-Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association Capital Connection. He holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ron Shah
Vice President, Stripes Group

Ron is focused on sourcing and executing technology, software and internet investments as well as strategy and business development with our portfolio companies.

He is currently actively involved with the firm’s investments in Kareo, Netbiscuits, eMarketer, Elance, MyWebGrocer, Art.com, Folica and Perimeter.

Prior to joining Stripes Group, Ron co-founded Endgame Capital, LLC, which focuses on land investment and development in the mid-Atlantic region. Previously, he was an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Citigroup Global Markets, where he worked on providing strategic advisory on leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions and recapitalizations to a wide array of Fortune 500 clients.

Carolyn E. Saacke
Managing Director, Capital Markets, NYSE Euronext

Carolyn is a Managing Director in the Capital Markets group at NYSE Euronext. In this role, she advises private companies, PE and VC firms, and investment bankers on the capital markets, market structure, NYSE initiatives and exchange selection. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext in 2006, Carolyn spent fourteen years on Wall Street, working in the investment banking units of Bear Stearns, Citigroup and Deloitte. She has advised companies of all sizes on M&A, IPOs, other public and private equity, high yield and high grade public debt, and other capital structure alternatives. Her experience includes over $23.5 billion of completed advisory and over $30 billion of completed financing transactions. In addition, she has served as a corporate Vice President of Strategy and Finance for Cendant Corporation, focused on creating, developing and executing cross-divisional revenue opportunities within the travel space and defining the company’s long-term consumer services strategy.

Carolyn earned her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Economics from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences.

Igor Jablokov
Entrepreneur in Residence, Blackstone EN

Igor Jablokov is an Entrepreneur in Residence for Blackstone EN, a collaboration between the region’s major universities, its entrepreneurial community and the private sector. He was recently awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship, to research how our nation can fully engage its special operations community at the intersection of economic development and evolving national security considerations within the Middle East.

Igor previously served as CEO and co-founder of Yap, a venture-backed startup that pioneered cloud-based speech recognition. Amongst numerous accolades for their innovations, the Company was a finalist at Silicon Valley's elite TechCrunch Conference and was awarded North Carolina's Early Stage Company of the Year.

Scott Moss
Managing Partner, Advisory Services, Cherry Bekaert

With an accounting career spanning more than two decades, Scott is the Managing Partner of Cherry Bekaert’s Advisory Services Practice. Scott's client service activities are focused on providing Transaction Advisory Services and numerous domestic and multinational companies and private equity funds have benefitted from Scott’s guidance in all areas of mergers, acquisitions and due diligence. Scott has successfully advised clients on transactions with cumulative transaction values of more than $3 billion. Scott is also a sought-after speaker and author on all aspects of merger and acquisition activities.

While working closely with both strategic and financial organizations, Scott has successfully advised clients undertaking acquisitions and divestitures with transaction values ranging from less than $10 million to over $700 million. These transactions have covered industry segments such as manufacturing and distribution, governmental contracting, technology, sports and entertainment, consumer products, business services, healthcare, life sciences and transportation. Scott also specializes in accounting for business combinations.

David Gilroy
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Scale Finance LLC

David has over 15 years experience in principal venture capital investing, corporate M&A, and investment banking, and currently serves as Managing Director of Scale Finance LLC - a firm that provides professional CFO and Controller services and balance sheet problem-solving to more than 90 entrepreneurial companies. Prior to founding Scale Finance, David was a partner for 5 years with Wakefield Group, a North Carolina venture capital firm with more than 30 portfolio companies. David also opened a Charlotte office for technology investment bank Hyde Park Capital, and has worked as the interim CEO of VC-backed Meta Security, VP of Acquisitions for multinational Oldcastle, Inc. (where he closed 9 middle market acquisitions in 3 years), and as a Manager at McKinsey & Company. David is an occasional angel investor currently and continues to serve on Boards and Advisory Boards for prior portfolio companies and clients. He was also an Executive Officer in the US Army in Europe (Airborne and Ranger qualified).

David holds a BS in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jonathon Perrelli
Founding Partner, Fortify.vc

Jonathon started Fortify.vc in May of 2011 after founding, leading and exiting four startups over the past 17 years. His experience ranges from founding pre-IPO venture backed startups to executive level roles with publicly traded firms. He has been a successful Angel, investing in startups such as Plaxo, FormSpring, and numerous Cyber-Security firms, and is now a venture capitalist focused on the seed and early stage. Prior to “joining the dark side”, Jonathon was the Founder and CEO of SecureForce, a cyber security solutions provider serving the US Intelligence and DoD, as well as some of the country’s largest corporations. He continues to provide strategic leadership as Chairman of SecureForce. Other startups that he has co-founded include; Plesk (renamed “Parallels”) which is the largest platform for hosting automation in the world, The Shadow Group (acquired, and now part of BAE Systems), SecureSoftware (acquired by Foritfy Software, and subsequently by HP), and eTantrum which was the “other half of Napster”.

Matt Shapiro
Director, Issuer Engagement, East Coast and Midwest, SecondMarket

Matt Shapiro is the Director of Issuer Engagement, East Coast and Midwest, at SecondMarket, the next generation investment platform. Prior to joining SecondMarket, Matt worked for LaunchCapital, a seed stage investment fund. Prior to working for LaunchCapital, Matt attended the Yale School of Management, where he authored the Entrepreneur's Census, a survey designed to quantify the differences between launching a venture in New York, Boston and Silicon Valley. Matt began his career at Viva International Group, a manufacturer and distributor of branded eyewear for major fashion brands (e.g. Guess, Tommy Hilfiger), where he led the Company’s Canadian subsidiary.

Laura Robinette
Managing Partner, PwC

Laura is the Managing Partner in the Raleigh office of PwC. She has experience in several technology-backed industries, specifically in medical device, life sciences, pharmaceutical and professional services.

Laura has extensive SEC experience and has led several recent initial public offerings in North Carolina. Over the past several years, Laura has been involved in more than ten initial public offerings and numerous carve out audits, including many in the medical device and life science industries. She has also been actively engaged in both buy and sell side mergers and acquisitions throughout the United States.

Laura is the Carolinas IFRS leader for PwC, including implementation and transformation at several international companies traded on foreign exchanges. She manages the Raleigh office's ECS (emerging company services) practice and is responsible for the PwC MoneyTree ® program, where she works closely with the venture capital community and the NCVA to report on trends in venture capital investments in the state of North Carolina.

Greg Baty
Principal, Hamilton Lane

Greg is primarily focused on the activities of the Florida Growth Fund, as Vice President of Hamilton Lane, a provider of private equity asset management services with over $107 billion in assets under management.

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2009, Greg held investment positions within the private equity marketplace and has had previous experience with venture finance at Sand Hill Capital and Garage.com (Garage Technology Ventures). At these firms he screened potential portfolio companies, sourced deal flow for emerging technologies, raised capital and managed relationships with top-tier venture capital and venture debt firms. Greg also brings an operational background with him to Hamilton Lane having owned and operated multi-unit branded retail franchises along with his operational roles in technology startups.

Greg also spent nine years as a professional football player in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots and finished his career with the Miami Dolphins.

Greg Bohlen
Managing Director, Morgan Creek Capital Management

Greg Bohlen joined Morgan Creek in 2011 and is responsible for the Venture investment program. Mr. Bohlen’s experience and relationships in the venture capital and investment banking communities have been developed over the past 30 years, and he has successfully invested in over 50 venture backed companies, including names as diverse as Sourcefire (FIRE) and Neurogesx (NGSX). During his tenure at Wasatch Advisors, he was the leader in developing and building one of the top venture fund of funds. Prior to Wasatch, Mr. Bohlen was the Chief Financial Officer and an investing professional at The Aurora Funds in North Carolina. His previous work experience also includes a significant tenure in investment banking, most recently with UBS AG as the Director for the Private Equity Coverage Group from 2001 to 2003 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Jason Caplain
General Partner & Co-Founder, Southern Capitol Ventures

Jason Caplain is a co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in software, e-commerce and digital media companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Jason is on the boards at ReverbNation and Zift Solutions and is a board observer at DoublePositive, eTix and WeddingWire. Before SCV, Jason was at Red Hat through the company’s successful IPO in 1999. Jason has received the Triangle Business Journal's "40 under 40" leadership award and was named by TechJournal South as one the Southeast's Internet Mavens. Read his blog www.southeastvc.com and follow Jason on Twitter @jcaplain.

Steve King
Senior Managing Partner, EverCore Capital Advisors

Mr. King is an expert in International Finance and Private and Public Equity / Corporate Finance consulting. Mr. King currently serves as Senior Managing Partner of EverCore Capital Advisors, LLC. a New York based Investment Banking / Corporate Advisory firm. Mr. King also currently serves as Managing Director of DK Venture Fund II, LLC. a US based venture capital firm with investments in the technology/IP field. Mr. King is co-founder and Board Member of Perzo.com, which is a Silicon Valley technology startup, designed to paradigm shift social platforms through growth of personal networks. Mr. King was formerly a principle of VEM Capital Partners, LLC. which owned and operated Alternative Investment Management Group Ltd., the Investment Advisor of Sprydex Fund Limited, a Bahamian based Hedge Fund.

Jake Colognesi
Vice President, Volition Capital

Jake focuses on investment opportunities in software and technology-enabled services for Volition and most recently was involved in the firm's investment in Visual IQ. Prior to joining the firm in July 2011, Jake worked for Fidelity Ventures helping to execute the firm’s investments in GeoLearning and Vibes Media as well as source new investment leads. GeoLearning, a learning management software company, was acquired by SumTotal in January 2011. Vibes Media, a mobile marketing software company, is in Volition’s current portfolio. Prior to working at Fidelity Ventures, Jake worked in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Group at Cowen and Company where he helped to execute public and private equity offerings as well as M&A transactions.

Kathryn Stewart
Managing Director, J. Moore Partners

Kathryn Stewart, who leads the East Coast operations of J. Moore Partners, has more than twenty years of experience investing with high-growth technology companies.

Before arriving at J. Moore, Kathryn was a partner at Alex. Brown, and following its acquisition by Deutsche Bank, served as a Managing Director. With a focus on technology and health care, she assisted with initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, convertibles and private placements. As chair of the Deal Marketing Committee, she prepared management teams for initial public offerings. She also helped implement the firm’s growth strategy as a member of its Equity Review Committee.

David Jones
Partner, Southern Capitol Ventures

David is a Partner with Southern Capitol Ventures, an early stage technology venture capital firm serving technology companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. SCV is an investor in Art.com, ChannelAdvisor, eTix, ReverbNation, Motricity (NASDAQ:MOTR). David is on the board of ArtusLabs and was a board observer at AVIcode, which was acquired by Microsoft.

Justin Reger
Principal, LLR Partners

Justin Reger is a Principal at LLR Partners, a middle market private equity firm with more than $2 billion under management. LLR provides capital to growth companies with proven business models in a range of industries.

Justin is responsible for managing LLR’s technology practice focused on software and tech-enabled service investments. Prior to joining LLR, Justin was an investment banker with Citigroup focused on the technology sector.

Anthony Limberis
Managing Director, Fisher Lynch Capital

Anthony is a Managing Director in Fisher Lynch Capital’s Boston office and he focuses primarily on fund investments and buyout co-investments.

Prior to joining Fisher Lynch Capital, Anthony was a Portfolio Manager at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and managed the Foundation’s private equity portfolio. While at the Mellon Foundation, Anthony led investments in U.S. and non-U.S. leveraged buyout, growth capital, venture capital, subordinated debt and distressed security funds. Anthony also represented Mellon on several fund advisory committees.

Matthew Chaga
Principal, Trident Capital

Matthew Chagan joined Trident Capital in 2007 and is a Principal in the Palo Alto office. Prior to Trident, Matthew was a Vice President at SVB Alliant, Silicon Valley Bank's investment banking arm, where he worked on a number of transactions in the software, communications, internet and cleantech sectors. Before Alliant, Matthew was the Director of Finance at SOMA Networks, a wireless broadband systems company focused on selling hardware, software and services to telecom carriers. Before joining SOMA, he worked as an Associate in Banc of America Securities' Technology Investment Banking Group. Matthew is currently on the board of directors of mBlox and has served or is currently serving as a board observer at Appia, AccountNow, Bytemobile and Merchant e-Solutions.

Teresa (Terry) Thorson Cox
President & CEO, Business Innovation & Growth (BIG)

BIG is a non-profit membership organization, founded in 2006, and comprised of like minded high growth entrepreneurial companies in this region who share similar challenges in growing their businesses. We provide education, content, and best practices for a growth oriented company as well as access to resources
and capital. The value of BIG is the peer to peer exchange that develops from being in the group.

Previously Terry served as the Director of Client Relations & Marketing for Dresdner RCM Global Investors in San Francisco, where Terry worked with the Group's Managing Director and CEO to define strategies and oversee operations for institutional, individual, and financial intermediary clients.