Board of Directors

* denotes executive committee member

• Peyton Anderson, MBA
  CEO
  Affinergy, Inc.
• John L. Atkins III, FAIA*
  Chairman, Board of Directors
  Chairman and CEO
  O'Brien/Atkins Associates, PA
• Michael A. Batalia, Ph.D., CLP
  Director, Technology Asset Management
  Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
• George B. Briggs
  Executive Director
  The North Carolina Arboretum
• Goldie S. Byrd, Ph.D.
  Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences
  NC A&T State University
• John F.A.V. Cecil*
  Secretary, Board of Directors
  President
  Biltmore Farms LLC
• Sue W. Cole*
  Managing Partner
  SAGE Leadership & Strategy, LLC
• Michael T. Constantino*
  Treasurer, Board of Directors
  Office Managing Partner
  Ernst & Young LLP
• Sharon Decker
  Secretary, Department of Commerce
  State of North Carolina
• Stephanie E. Curtis, Ph.D.
  Professor and Director of Academic Programs
  NC State University
• Richard H. Dean, M.D.
  Retired President and CEO
  Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
• J. Donald deBethizy, Ph.D., DABT*
  Vice Chairman, Board of Directors 
  Former President and CEO
  Targacept, Inc.
• John F. Del Giorno, JD
  Former Vice President, Government Relations
  GlaxoSmithKline
• Victor J. Dzau, M.D.*
  Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University
  President and CEO, Duke University Health System
• Barbara Entwisle, Ph.D.
  Vice Chancellor for Research
  Kenan Distinguished Professor
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• John Jackson Hunt
  Former Legislator
• Roger W. Knight
  Roger W. Knight, P.A.
• Howard N. Lee
  President
  Howard N. Lee Institute
• Ernest Mario, Ph.D.
  Chairman and CEO
  Capnia
• William F. Marzluff, Ph.D.
  Director, Program of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
  UNC-Chapel Hill
• Ronald L. Mitchelson
  Vice Chancellor, Interim, Division of Research and Graduate Students,
  East Carolina University
• Patricia R. Morton*
  PRM Advisors, LLC
• Arthur M. Pappas*
  Managing Partner
  Pappas Ventures
• Michael R. Pavia, Ph.D.*
  Glori Energy
• Milton L. Prince
  President and CEO
  Coastal Carolina Cotton Gins
• R. Scott Ralls, Ph.D.
  President
  North Carolina Community College System
• Hazell Reed, Ph.D.
  Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development
  North Carolina Central University
• Gerald F. Roach
  Partner
  Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan LLP
• Thomas W. Ross
  President
  University of North Carolina
• Lynne Scott Safrit, CCIM, CCP
  President
  Castle & Cooke, North Carolina
• James N. Siedow, Ph.D.
  Vice Provost for Research
  Duke University
• E. Norris Tolson*
  President and CEO
  North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• Steve Troxler
  Commissioner
  North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
• P. Kay Wagoner, Ph.D.
  Former President, CEO and Director
  Icagen, Inc.
• Eric R. Ward, Ph.D.
  President
  AgBiome, Inc.
• Robert G. Wilhelm, Ph.D.
  Vice Chancellor, Research & Economic Development
  Executive Director, Charlotte Research Institute
  Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science
  The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Benjamin R. Yerxa, Ph.D.
  Chief Scientific Officer
  Liquidia Technologies

Board Staff:

• Douglas Edgeton
  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
• William Pappas
  Counsel and Assistant Secretary
  Parker, Poe, Adams and Bernstein L.L.P.
• Julie Ungaro
  Senior Executive Assistant