James J. Burson

ECB Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The East Carolina Bank. It is a state chartered, independent community bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. It provides financial services through its 25 offices covering eastern North Carolina from Currituck to Ocean Isle Beach and Greenville to Hatteras. It also provides mortgage, wealth management and Insurance services through the bank's licensed agents. The company delivers financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and agricultural customers. It offers wealth management products, insurance products and treasury management products to the small business enterprises which help them in managing their time and money. The company was founded on March 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Engelhard, NC.

Carbon Merger Subsidiary, Inc. provides clients with business design and performance improvement, information advantage, customer impact and execution services. The business design and performance improvement services translate the strategy into a realistic design for meeting growth and profit objectives. The information advantage services help clients make better decisions about opportunities and risks by extracting the untapped value of data and by increasing the value of information management investments. The customer impact services help companies design and implement superior experiences across all interactions, which lead to passionate, profitable customer relationships. The execution services turn high-level strategies into measurable results. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

MarkeTech Systems, Inc. develops software for the banking industry. It offers decision support solutions designed to help retail banks improve branch and branch network performance by analyzing which market to enter, the type of network to implement and the optimal network configuration, and by determining profitability and performance measures and actions. The firm’s product offerings consists of two software applications, WinSite and Perform, a data-driven performance benchmarking application, which establishes consistent and replicable cross-bank performance metrics for comparison against an individual bank''s results. The company was founded by Jeremy P. Anwyl in 1988 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

PB MapInfo Corp. provides intelligence solutions, integrating software, data, online tools, and professional services to provide value from location-based information and drive more insightful decisions for businesses and government. Its solutions are available in multiple languages through a network of strategic partners and distribution channels in 60 countries. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Troy, NY.y

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Ltd. is a British company that engages in the prevention, treatment, causes, and cure for diabetes. The CEO of the non-profit company is Karen Addington.