Dr. Brian Spencer has more than 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare, including Chief Resident, Medical Practice Owner, Chief of Surgery, Chief of Medical Staff, Executive Director - VA Innovation Center, and Strategic Advisor to healthcare startups. During his journey, his goals remained consistent, ‘improve lives and bring great ideas to realities.’

Dr. Purves is a Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He has a clinical practice in pediatric urology, treating children with congenital defects urinary dysfunction. He is also the Principal Investigator of Duke University's Urinary Dysfunction Laboratory, focusing on the role of the innate immune system in benign urinary pathology.

Erick Swaine is a global ‘go-to-market’ (GTM) strategist and data experience platform facilitator to the financial services community, specific to advanced analytics adoption. With this experience, Erick has worked with some of the largest private equity and investment banks in the world around the long-term benefits of a well-developed advanced analytics and artificial intelligence technology roadmap development.

Dr. Brookhart is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University. Dr. Brookhart has spent his career developing epidemiologic and statistical methods for improving learning from real-world healthcare data. Dr. Brookhart also co-founded RxAnte, Inc. and NoviSci, Inc., both with successful exits.

Marne is Principal at Coit Consulting and a senior level legal professional with more than 15 years of experience in food and agricultural law. Marne launched and ran N.C.’s Hemp Extension program to educate and support more than 1,500 licensed hemp growers and other industry professionals in North Carolina. Marne is also a Board Member of the Global Hemp Association.

Ben is the Founding Partner of Chasing Rainbows Investment Fund. He was named a “Top 100 Investor” by Alumni Spotlight in 2022 and is recognized by the NVCA, as one of the top LGBTQ+ investors making an impact. Ben founded SocialTable, a social platform used on every continent. Recently, Ben was awarded Venture Capital Journal’s 2023 “40 under 40.”

Darryl is a business management generalist with 30 years of global business experience as an HR executive, chief compliance officer, executive coach, entrepreneur, business management consultant, and attorney. Most recently, Darryl served as SVP, Head of HR for TILT Holdings Inc. He has steered HR and other business functions across several industries, such as biotech, financial services, CPG, colleges/universities, and legal cannabis.

Dr. Lockshin is the CSO of Xenetic Biosciences. He previously served as CEO of SciVac Therapeutics, CTO of VBI Vaccines, CEO of Guardum Pharmaceuticals, and VP of R&D for OPKO Health. Dr. Lockshin currently serves ad Board Member of Phio Pharmaceuticals and Director of the Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation, a Duke University Support Corporation.