Charlie Lucas

The Duke Endowment is a private foundation serving the people of North Carolina and South Carolina by supporting selected programs of higher education, health care, children's welfare and spiritual life. The endowment was founded in 1924 and is located in Charlotte, North Carolina

AEON Global Health Corp. was a growth oriented provider of personalized, actionable medical informatics, and telemedicine. It offers a comprehensive menu of diagnostic and laboratory developed assays, as well as interpretive data for a range of inherited conditions. The company was founded by Hanif A. Roshan and Shawn Desai in August 1985 and is headquartered in Gainesville, GA.

Elevation LLC is an independent broker-dealer headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The firm was founded by Jordan Meranus and Patrick Sheehan in 2006. Elevation focuses on agency execution for its institutional clients across multiple platforms.

Variant Perception is a private company that provides investment research. The company is based in Charlotte, NC and has subsidiaries in United Kingdom. The company was founded by Jonathan I. Tepper. Jonathan I. Tepper has been the CEO since incorporation.

The McAulay Smith Firm Ltd. is a performance-based executive recruiting private company that has been connecting industry-changing leaders with the right organizations for over 25 years. The company is based in Charlotte, NC. The company serves mid-tier to Fortune 500 clients and have filled nearly a thousand C-suites worldwide. The company uses a combination of instinct, targeted research, and focused intangibles to assess potential colleagues' skillset, experience, and cultural fit. The company delivers transformative leaders to public and private clients across nearly every major industry, with a market-leading client return rate.