Julie Plowden

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.

TechCXO LLC provides management consulting services. It also provides C-Suite professionals to deliver consulting services to technology companies. Its services include sales, marketing, strategy, and product and technology. The company was founded by Kent Elmer in 2003 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Founded in 2003, Parish Capital Advisors LLC is a private equity firm headquartered in Chapel Hill, 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.