I co-teach one elective course for second-year MBAs who intern with venture capital firms and angel groups and firms. My partner is an experienced venture capitalist. Our students gain invaluable exposure to the industry during this two-semester course.

RTP Angel Fund is designed to identify, nurture, and support promising startups in their early stages,. It invests in early (pre-revenue or initial revenue), high-potential companies that have the capacity to delivery 10X returns within a reasonable timeframe. The primary geographic target is the Triangle with secondary interest in investments across North Carolina and the Southeast.

Using a patient-centered design approach, Couplet Care LLC has developed a superior hospital bassinet for in-room post-natal care for healthy babies.

Davis Growth Partners advises start-up and early-stage CEOs and executive teams on corporate organization, culture, recruiting, strategy, marketing and general management. We make connections to sources of capital and provide angel funding. We have advised companies like iScribes (acquired by Nuance) and Rewardstock (acquired by Experian) and are currently advising Market Vue Partners (marketing services), Looma Project (in-store video storytelling) and Minerva Lithium (nanofilter for lithium extraction from waste water). Other engagements have included:Retel Technologies - retail shopper traffic analysis, 2008-2012GeeYee - natural language analytics, 2009-2011Alpharank - consumer analytics, 2011-17Gift Boogle - ecommerce, 2012-16Three Ships - digital advertising, 2012-2016Spring Engage - marketing services, 2014-2016

Screen early-stage and start-up companies, lead diligence team, participate in investment decisions.

Triangle Angel Partners (TAP) is an experienced band of angel investors, in the high tech and life sciences industries, interested in investing their time, analysis and money into early life cycle companies. Our members are executives, PhDs, successful entrepreneurs and professional investors. With TAP’s exclusive network, we get the first look at the best new ideas coming out of the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Park areas. Executive Committee provides leadership and oversight. Elected President of Executive Committee in November 2013 and served for two years.TAP I has made had 9 initial investments and 8 follow-on investments during its investing cycle, now completed. TAP II closed in 2016 with more than $4 million committed and is continuing to make investments.

Triangle Tweener Fund is an index fun managed by Scot Wingo and Robbie Allen that invests in early-stage technology companies in the Triangle, North Carolina

Carolina Angel Network is a band of nearly 200 angel investors who are affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These investors wish to invest in UNC affiliated startups. I served on the Screening Committee, evaluating potential candidates for investments and raising questions for due diligence from July 2017-December 2020 and remain active in the group.

Epifany is an enterprise business intelligence solution designed to help brands collect the highest caliber of customer data and feedback. The software-as-a-service platform enables clients to offer everyday fans and customers mobile surveys with a premier, modernized user experience -- simply by integrating the Epifany technology into their existing mobile apps.

ShowingTime equips real estate offices, brokers, agents and MLSs with showing management tools to schedule showing appointments, generate showing feedback, create showing appointment call centers and distribute listing activity reports to sellers. Zillow acquired the company for $500mm in September 2021

The Launch Place Seed Fund is a $4 million non-profit investment fund focused on high potential early stage companies with the capacity to bring high quality jobs to Danville and ultimately generate a financial return to the fund. Served as member for 4 years, served as chair for 3 years till term limited.

The SEAL SwimSafe™ and drowning detection system empowers swimmers and their guardians by tracking a swimmer's safety while he or she plays, learns to swim, does laps, and dives. Using our patented SwimSafe™ technology, if the system detects a potential drowning incident in progress, the SEAL band triggers​​ a high intensity visible, audible, and vibrating alarm alerting guards and guardians to the danger so that a rescue can begin.

Megalytics provides our customers in the commercial property leasing and lending space with proprietary data from a number of data sources. We unlock transactional data sets and deliver advanced analytics and predictive modeling. In return, they get the information they need to make better decisions so risks can be identified and avoided. Serve on Audit and Governance Committees.

Blackstone Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) are seasoned, successful entrepreneurs who know what it takes to make a startup a successful company. EIRs work one-on-one and in a team setting with Blackstone Companies, navigating the complex maze of business, marketing and financial strategy and guiding teams to meet their goals.

GSP provides retail marketing technology and POP advertising to many of the nation's largest convenience store chains. Its new AccuStore SaaS solution coupled with its site survey capabilities now allow retail and restaurant chains to build and maintain the most comprehensive database of location attributes for use by store operations, real estate and marketing.

Transformed this provider of consumer traffic counting solutions. ShopperTrak designs, manufactures and delivers integrated digital devices and software for measuring visitors to retail stores, malls, casinos and other locations. During my tenure, the company's installed base of monitored devices grew by 140%, revenue doubled, and net equity grew 560%. Purchased by Sensormatic, part of Tyco, in 2016.

Built the consumer products business unit for this major credit reporting company. Acquired and integrated Truelink, a key reseller. Previously ran the direct marketing and insurance business units, driving profitable growth while addressing successive waves of regulatory change. Served on Executive Council and CEO's staff.

Established a private consulting practice to leverage business/marketing expertise while living part-time in Central Europe. During this period: retained as Vice President of New Ventures for Customer Development Corporation and completed several successful projects for multi-national, US and Polish firms.

Founded and led this venture-backed direct marketing information, analytics and services company. Served as CFO for first three years. Acquired and integrated four companies with complementary services.

Managed marketing, administration, human resources, accounting and served as CFO for this venture-backed, start-up developer of software for automobile dealerships

Strategic planning consultant to Fortune 1000.

Strategic planning consultant to Fortune 1000.