Christopher Evans

Cherokee Investment Partners LLC is a Private Equity and Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by John A. Mazzarino and Thomas F. Darden. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh.

IH Holdings International Ltd. is an investment holding British company founded in 2015. The private company is based in London, UK. The company's main function is to hold investments.

Investors Management Corp (Investors Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1971 by James H Maynard and Bill Carl. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Double Time Capital LLC (Double Time Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2013 by Rye Barcott and Dan McCready. The firm is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Acorn Innovestments LLC (Acorn Innovestments) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Vinventions USA LLC manufactures synthetic wine closures. The firm offers co-extruded synthetic wine closures and analyzers for winemakers, wine industry professionals, and consumers. Its closures provide consistent, predictable oxygen management and protect against off-flavors due to oxidation, reduction or cork taint. The company was founded by Gert Noël in 1999 and is headquartered in Zebulon, NC.

PlotWatt, Inc. provides personalized smart meter data analysis to reduce energy bills. The firm offers a platform for analyzing real-time electricity data. Its cloud-based algorithms analyze smart meter data to figure out appliance level energy cost without monitoring the individual appliances. The company was founded by Lucas Fishback and John Cunningham in 2008 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

bioMASON, Inc. operates as a biotechnology manufacturing company that serves the building and construction industry. It offers concrete, glass, steel, and wood. The company was founded by Ginger Krieg Dosier in 2012 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Nomaco, Inc. manufactures and distributes of synthetic materials. Its products include fitness rollers; recreational padding, agricultural frost protection and oil containment products; small tubes; and home furnishings. The firm offers flotation, vibration management, and construction solutions. The company was founded by Marc Noël in 1979 and is headquartered in Zebulon, NC.

ndustrial.io Inc. provides energy management system and industrial internet services. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. engages in the production of novel and specialty chemicals from plant oils. It offers cleaning and personal care ingredients, coating materials, oil field chemicals, surfactant intermediates, and polymer building blocks products. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Pearland, TX.

University of Houston System offers higher education degrees and job training or vocational study programs. It offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fields such as business, education, humanities and law. It was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Next Century Spirits LLC engages in manufacturing, processing and supplying of distilled spirits. The firm offers whiskey, rum, taquila and other flavoured products and liqueurs. The company was founded by Scott Bolin in 2018 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

DisSolves, Inc. creates natural, edible packaging in the form of dissolvable, edible pods. DisSolves is based in Pittsburgh, PA and was founded by Jared Raszewski, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company is committed to using high-quality, natural ingredients in their strong and easy-to-use packaging.

Evofem Biosciences Operations, Inc. is a biotechnology company, which engages on the development and commercialization of reproductive health products for women with a core focus on contraception. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cherokee Ventures LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Newport Beach, CA.

Liggett Group LLC manufactures cigarettes. Its brands such as Pyramid, Liggett Select, Eve and Grand Prix. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Mebane, NC.

Part of Japan Tobacco, Inc., Liggett Ducat Ltd. is a Russian company that manufactures and sells cigarettes. The company is based in Moscow, Russian Federation. Liggett Ducat was acquired by Gallaher Group Ltd. from Vector Group Ltd. on August 04, 2000 for $335.60 million.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Mi Corp. develops and licenses enterprise mobile information software services for mission-critical business processes. Its services include mobile field inspections, mobile timesheets, offline data capture, enterprise application development, and executive reports and analytics. The company was founded by James B. Clary and Gregory J. Clary in 1999 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Part of Vector Group Ltd., Liggett Vector Brands LLC is a tobacco company based in Mebane, NC. The company offers an extensive line of quality tobacco products made in the USA, including Liggett Select, Eve, Jade, Pyramid, and numerous private label and distributor exclusive brands. Liggett Vector Brands is the exclusive sales, marketing, and distribution agent for Liggett Group LLC and Vector Tobacco Inc. The company has a strong history of youth smoking prevention initiatives and a commitment to customer satisfaction.

Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization, which works to forge practical solutions that help nature and people prosper sustainably. It launched the Smart Boat Initiative (SBI) which focuses on leveraging the technological advances and plummeting costs in sensors, artificial intelligence, broadband communication and data analytics to equip and surround fishing vessels of all sizes with digital tools and infrastructure that can increase sustainability, accountability, profitability and transparency in fishing. The company was founded by Arthur P. Cooley, Charles F. Wurster and Dennis Puleston in 1967 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Research Triangle Institute is a non-profit organization which provides research and development services. It offers surveys and data collection, statistics and data science, assessment and analysis, program design and implementation, and research technologies and analytical laboratory. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Fidus Capital LLC (Fidus Capital ) is a private equity subsidiary of Fidus Partners LLC founded in 2005 by Edward H. Ross, B. Bragg Comer and Thomas C. Lauer. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Part of Wienerberger AG, Cherokee Sanford Group LLC is an American company that manufactures bricks.

Consert, Inc. provides energy distribution and management network services. Its specialties include demand response, intelligent load management, advanced metering infrastructure and virtual peak plant. The company was founded by Roy Moore in 2008 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.