James B. Powell

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings operates as a life sciences company, which engages in the provision of vital information to help health professionals make clear and confident decisions. It operates through the Drug Development and Diagnostics segments. The Drug Development segment consists of lead optimization, preclinical safety assessment, analytical services, clinical trials, central laboratories, biomarkers, and companion diagnostics, market access, and technology solutions. The Diagnostics segment includes primary care, women's health, specialty medicine, oncology, ACOs, and hospitals and health systems. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Burlington, NC.

MidCarolina Financial Corp. operates as a bank holding company. The firm, through its subsidiary, MidCarolina Bank, offers banking and financial services to individuals and small to medium sized businesses, with an emphasis on small business and consumer lending, through six full-service banking offices and two limited service offices in the cities of Burlington, Graham, Greensboro and Mebane. It offers debit cards, commercial and residential mortgage loans, financing for construction, credit and depository services, online banking, and equity lines of credit, as well as a complete line of brokerage services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Burlington, NC.

Verinata Health, Inc. focuses on maternal and fetal health. It develop and offer non-invasive tests for early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. The firm's products include 'verifi' prenatal test, a non-invasive test that detects three primary aneuploidies for trisomies 21, 18 and 13 from a single maternal blood draw as early as 10 weeks and 'Monosomy X', a test for Turner syndrome. The company was founded by Michael D. Grisham and Richard P. Rava in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Paladin Labs Inc. operates as pharmaceutical company. It engages in developing, acquiring, in-licensing, marketing, and distributing innovative pharmaceutical products in Canada and internationally. The firm's products include Abstral, GlucaGen, Metadol, Plan B, Pennsaid, Seasonale, Testim, Twinject, Dexedrin, Tridural, and Trelstar. The company was founded by Jonathan Ross Goodman and Mark Beaudet on February 25, 1983 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

U.S. Trust Co. of North Carolina operates as a state chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Greensboro, NC. The company was founded by Richard Thurston Holderness.