John R. Tushar

Voyager Pharmaceutical Corp. develops and manufactures drugs for age-related diseases. The company was co-founded by David J. Corcoran and Patrick S. Smith, in February, 2001 and is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

eSight Corp. manufactures and sells electronic eyewear. The firm offers binocular, OLED color display that fits over prescription lenses, accelerometers, gyroscope, IR range finder and temperature sensor. The company was founded by Conrad W. Lewis in 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

TransEnterix is advancing the field of minimally invasive surgery through exploration, innovation and collaboration. Based in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, TransEnterix is a rapidly growing medical device company founded in 2006. Since its inception the company has designed, received FDA approval and launched the groundbreaking SPIDER Surgical System, which provides surgeons with enhanced capabilities by creating triangulation via single site access with flexible articulating instruments. The platform enables a whole new class of less invasive surgery - Flexible Laparoscopy - which builds on the proven technologies of laparoscopic surgery and catheter based medical treatments.

Hudson Respiratory Care, Inc. manufactures disposable respiratory care and anesthesia products. Its products include endotracheal tubes, anesthesia breathing circuits, masks, hygroscopic condenser humidifiers, bacteria, viral filters and gas sampling. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

410 Medical, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It develops LifeFlow for fluid resuscitation to help patients with life-threatening illnesses such as sepsis. The company was founded by Mark Donald Piehl and Luke Miller Roush in 2013 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Closure Medical Corp. designs, develops and manufactures biomaterial-based medical adhesive products such as family of DERMABOND Topical Skin Adhesive products to meet topical skin adhesive needs of physicians. It was founded by F. William Schmidt in 1990 and is located in Raleigh, NC