Board of Advisors

Kevin Beasley
Tax Partner
Grant Thornton LLP

James Beck
President and CEO
Trustatlantic Financial Corporation

Robert Bird
Executive Vice President
Independent Insurance Agents of NC, Inc.

W. James Black, Jr.
Partner
Batchelor Tillery & Roberts

E. Gerald Bowen
Senior Vice President
Wachovia Bank, N.A.

Charles T. Brandquist
Vice President, Human Resources
Credit Suisse

Richard Bryant
President
Capital Investment Companies

Joan Busko
Director
Mills Family Foundation

Kelly Campbell
President
Interface Technologies, Inc.

D. McQueen Campbell,III
Broker

Henry Campen
Managing Partner
Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, LLP

Mike Condrey
Managing Director
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network

Brian Connors
Vice President, WW Linux on POWER Business Line
IBM Systems Group

Michael Constantino
Partner
Ernst & Young LLP

Peter J. Coode
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ron Doggett
Executive-in-Residence

Jeffrey J. Eakes
Director, Corporate Treasury, Finance Division
SAS Institute

Lisa Hall
Director, Information Technology
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Ed Hand
Executive Director of Development
NC State College of Management

Michael Luther
Vice President, R&D
GlaxoSmithKline

Sam Matheny
General Manager, News Over Wireless
Capitol Broadcasting Co., Inc.

T. Kevin McNamara
President, Business Banking
RBC Centura Banks, Inc.

David C. Morgan
Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer
Capital Bank

John Morrison
Vice President
Advanced Energy Corporation

J. Wilfred Neal
VP, Risk Management & Compliance
Duke Power Company

David Otteni
Managing Partner
KPMG

Charles E. Peters, Jr.
Executive VP and CFO
Red Hat

Dede Ramoneda
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Progress Energy Service Company, LLC

Edward J. Rapp
Vice President, Building Construction Products Division
Caterpillar, Inc.

Kenneth Reece
Senior Vice President, Corporate Financial Services
First Horizon

Ernest Roessler
Executive-in-Residence

Jon Rufty
President and Founder
Rufty Homes, Inc

Bruce W. Sharpe
Senior Vice President, The Private Bank
Bank of America

JR Shearin
Managing Partner
Deloitte

Jeff Stocks
President and CEO
Manpower

Samuel L. Straight
Executive-In-Residence SCRC

E. Stephen Stroud
Chairman
Carolantic Realty, Inc.

David P. Tomick

Karl von Gunten
Von Gunten Consulting

William F. Watson
NC Touchstone Energy (retired)

Ira R. Weiss
Dean & Ex-Officio Member
NC State College of Management

Carol Yochem
Executive Vice President and Manager, Wealth Management Services
First Citizens Bank

G. Smedes York
President
York Properties, Inc.

Stephen Zelnak
President & CEO
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.