A native of Fort Mill, South Carolina, with more than 30 years of experience in the textile industry, Derick Close is the CEO and owner of Springs Creative Products Group, Carolina Manufacturing and Springsteen Logistics. He was a board member … Continued

Swadesh Chatterjee is chief executive officer of Swadesh Chatterjee & Associates, Inc. A businessman and entrepreneur who operated an industrial instrumentation company in North Carolina, he is one of the co-founders and past presidents of TiE Carolinas, a group of business … Continued

Steve Capps served as general manager of the pharmaceutical business at IDEXX Laboratories until 2008. His affiliation with IDEXX began in 1998 when IDEXX purchased Blue Ridge Pharmaceuticals where he was vice president of business operations. His early career included … Continued

Jan Rowe Capps served as president of Cone Health Foundation from 2007 until 2009. Prior to that, Capps was affiliated with Syngenta, Novartis and Ciba-Geigy for 26 years, where she served as vice president of Syngenta’s Human Resources for the … Continued