Gary Smith

Cone Mills Corp. is a vertically integrated textile manufacturing company. Its services include yarn spinning. Jacquard woven,dyed, printed and finished fabrics for home furnishing and apparel.

Guerrilla RF, Inc. provides monolithic microwave integrated circuits for the wireless infrastructure market. Its products include broadband low noise amplifiers and linear drivers, WLAN LNAs, and broadband LNAs and gain blocks. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as wireless backhaul, cellular repeaters and signal boosters, enterprise and carrier-class Wi-Fi access points, small cells, and base stations and distributed antenna systems. Guerrilla RF was founded by Ryan Michael Pratt in 2013 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

Longwood Industries, Inc. designs and manufactures elastomeric and composite products. Its products and technologies are used to serve the automotive, food processing, industrial, oilfield, plumbing, electrical, medical, consumer and pump markets. The firm's products includes airbrake diaphragms, seals, bladders, couplings, custom molded products, extruded products, sheet stock, coated fabrics and composite materials. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

International Textile Group manufactures cotton -blend fabrics, denim, wool worsted, and waterproof synthetics through its Burlington House Interior Fabrics, Burlington Worldwide Apparel, and Cone Denim units for the apparel and home furnishing industries. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

Kinetic Systems, Inc. specializes in the design and installation of process, mechanical, plumbing, and HVAC systems in the United States and internationally. It offers solutions for electrochemical deposition, surface preparation, chemical blending, chemical dispense, slurry blend and dispense, gas handling, water purification, ultrapure water, and OEM and custom products. The firm provides program management, engineering and fabrication, pre-construction and installation, building information modeling, equipment design and manufacturing, and testing and validation services. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Elevate Textiles, Inc. engages in the manufacture of textile products. It offers global textile brands including American & Efird, Burlington, Cone Denim, Gütermann, and Safety Components. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.

Part of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp., Wabtec Corp. is a company that is at the forefront of driving innovative technologies and responsible operations worldwide. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA. Rafael O. Santana has been the CEO of the company since 2019. With over 150 years of experience, the company is a leader in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity.