Triad Growth Partners
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Bill Doran
CEO |
As CEO of Triad Growth Partners, Bill has over 30 years of experience in technology investments and specializes in the implementation of repeatable processes to grow profits. With a long list of fortune 500 companies as his previous clients and having received an MBA from Drury University, Bill understands leading teams to harvest expected benefits from new technologies.
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Dr. Alexis Carpenter, Ph.D
Principal Investigator |
As head of the Triad Growth Partners Technical Development Group she is responsible for developing relevant technologies for commercialization, securing research funding, and managing contract research activities. A PhD chemist with experience in inorganic, analytical, and polymer chemistry, Alexis has specific interests in incorporating material science approaches to advancing the state-of-the-art in environmental improvement technologies. She is committed to leveraging her transdisciplinary scientific training to stitch together innovative approaches to solve problems that have significant global and human health impact. Her graduate dissertation was on “Synthesis of Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Nitric Oxide-Releasing Silica Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications" and her postdoctoral research focused on the synthesis and evaluation of zero valent iron nanoparticles for soil and water remediation.
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Dr. Wesley Storm, Ph.D
Product Development and IP Strategy |
Having received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Analytical Chemistry, Dr. Storm has broad research experience in product development for biomaterial, bioanalytical, and environmental applications. Dr. Storm also has experience in the development of sensor technology products within a variety of medical fields as well as the accompanying intellectual property strategy.
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Dr. Julia Darcy, Ph.D
Research Scientist - Laboratory Lead |
Dr. Darcy’s background is in chemistry and environmental studies. She received her Ph.D in inorganic chemistry from Yale University in 2019. Her research spanned inorganic, physical and analytic chemistry and focused on mechanistic understanding of fundamental oxidation-reduction reactions. Dr. Darcy also has research experience in green chemistry, including rare earth element recycling and copper catalysis, and has studied social mechanisms for environmental change.
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Key Collaborators
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Stephanie
Luster -Teasley, Ph.D Inventor |
Stephanie is Chair of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) Department and associate professor at North Carolina A&T State University. She specializes in environmental engineering, water sustainability, and engineering education. Her engineering courses and mentoring are lauded for their hands-on experience and real-world engagement. As the inventor behind the controlled-release polymer she became the first African-American female faculty member to be named on a patent issued to NC A&T State University when she received United States Patent No. 8,519,016 in 2013
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Lauren Greenlee, Ph.D
Inventor |
Dr. Lauren Greenlee is a research scientist and inventor who joins Triad Growth Partners as a collaborator on the RemRx-CSI composite project. She joined the University of Arkansas faculty as Assistant Professor, Louis Owen Professorship in Chemical Engineering in 2015 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she invented the novel zero-valent iron based composite technology which is the basis of the RemRx-CSI solution.
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Board Members
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Dennis Stearns
Advisor / Director |
Dennis Stearns is a partner in Triad Growth Partners. He is also President of Stearns Financial Group, a fee-only, award winning wealth management firm with offices in Chapel Hill and Greensboro, NC.
Dennis regularly uses his firm’s study of colliding “Super Trends” (technology accelerators, globalization, the global age wave and urbanization), to help clients navigate threats and opportunities in their personal and business financial planning and investment strategies. He has been called “one of the leading scenario experts and futurists” by the Financial Planning Association. Recent awards have included being named one of the Triad’s “Most Admired CEOs” and “Most Influential People” by the Triad Business Journal. |
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James E. Dunn, Jr.
Advisor / Director |
“Jed” is a Partner and Member of the Newport Board Group – a National Board and CEO Advisory Firm. He provides directors and senior executives with deep knowledge of business strategy, operations and capital markets. His passion is in helping businesses effectively execute on growth and value acceleration strategies. Jed started his career at First Union Corporation in Charlotte NC as a corporate lender in the World Banking Division. He has served as the CEO of two companies, has served on numerous Boards of Directors, and is currently a Trustee of Washington and Lee University.
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Bill McIvor
Advisor / Director |
Bill McIvor, Executive Vice President of SeniorLink Technologies, brings 25+ years as a senior executive in healthcare/life sciences IT to his role as a board member and adviser to Triad Growth Partners. Bill has advised numerous growth companies and venture capitalists and has served on the Board of Accordant Health Services (CaremarkCVS), Sentillion (Microsoft) and MedVantx and as an operating executive for NovaSom, iHealth Tech (Connelly/Advent & Accordant), Oxford Health and Ernst and Young. Bill started his career at Procter & Gamble.
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Chad Oakley
Advisor / Director |
Chad Oakley is President of Charles Aris in Greensboro which serves Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods, industrial R&D and manufacturing industries and financial services. Chad’s private equity experience includes former Case Team Leader for Bain & Co. focused on solving strategic challenges for clients in industries including software, telecommunications, optical networking, manufacturing and financial services. Chad earned an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business.
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Charles Gause
Advisor / Director |
"Charlie" is a technology development executive with more than 25 years of experience. His extensive business development experience for commercial and government customers has resulted in over $35 million in contract research. He has successfully developed multiple products developed for multiple markets. After establishing the 24K sq. ft. nanoWorks Division of Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA IPO June 2006) he founded AxNano, a strategic leadership and technology development group responsible for driving research and development for Triad Growth Partners.
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Leading organizations choose Triad Growth Partners
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Triad Growth Partners
2901 Gate City Boulevard Suite 2200 Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 217-5171 |
527 Bridge Street, Suite 301 Danville, VA 24051 |