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Our Strategic Alliance Partners
Our Diamond Sponsors
High Rock Partners
Kenneth Marks, the Founder and Managing Partner at High Rock Partners, has a long-standing relationship with EO Raleigh-Durham. Kenneth served as a founding YPO sponsor of the Chapter during its founding 20 years ago. High Rock Partners is a boutique firm of strategic and M&A advisors, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, serving leaders of emerging growth and middle market companies. They assist owners and management in selling their company; making acquisitions; making key strategic decisions; navigating and executing on transitions of ownership; accelerating growth to the next level; and to re-position their company to optimize performance. They use a unique and proven blend of experiences and tools in strategy, mergers & acquisitions, financing and deals coupled with leadership and creative solutions to achieve your desired outcome. As a firm, their focus is on strategy, exits (selling your business), acquisitions, financing and turnarounds.
Live Oak Bank
Live Oak Bank, the #1 SBA 7(a) lender by dollar amount for FY 2022, helps buyers nationwide in most industries by providing business acquisition financing utilizing both SBA and conventional financing facilities with no minimum collateral requirements. If you have a project that exceeds the SBA 7(a) $5 million limit, our combination financing program is a creative solution. We pair an SBA 7(a) loan ($5 million) with a conventional loan up to $4 million and a line of credit when appropriate. Our clients enjoy an efficient, simpler, faster loan process and a customer experience you won’t find with other banks. With our dedication to efficiency, collaboration and deep knowledge, we’ll take you where you need to go. To learn more visit liveoakbank.com.
RHA Wealth
Whatever your personal goals may be, we will work with you to develop a customized financial strategy designed to help you pursue what’s most important to you.
Our mission is to understand you and your priorities. To take the time, to ask hard, smart questions and to listen carefully, then to understand, in great detail, exactly where your wealth stands today, and where you'd like it to be tomorrow. We help you design, implement and periodically monitor a customized wealth management strategy that helps you and your family pursue your personal financial goals while managing investment risk. Our wealth management approach is about using wealth to help turn goals into reality.
WorkSmart
As a provider of managed IT services, WorkSmart partners with local small & mid-sized businesses to help fuel their growth by simplifying IT. We help make our client's IT infrastructure secure and reliable, support their team when issues arise, and provide guidance on making IT work for their goals.
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
Wyrick Robbins is a founder-focused law firm with a collaborative culture and a mission to assist growth-oriented businesses. We handle financial and corporate transactions, commercial litigation, and other legal needs for a diverse range of clients. Our practical business experience and accumulated legal knowledge allow us to serve as trusted advisers to founders, investors, directors, and management who want to run, grow and sell successful companies.
Our practice groups include:
Appellate Litigation
Banking & Financial Institutions
Capital Markets
Commercial Litigation
Commercial Real Estate
Emerging Companies
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Environmental, Regulatory & Administrative Law
Family Law
Government Contracting
Healthcare
Investment Funds
Labor & Employment
Licensing & Technology Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Privacy & Data Security
Tax
Trademarks
Trusts & Estates
Our Platinum Sponsors
City Club
Vibrant energy meets classic Carolina style at City Club Raleigh, the city’s go-to destination for high-tech business amenities, outstanding personalized service, and world-class fun. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, it is the place where industry, professional and civic leaders gather for meaningful business connections and vibrant social activity. Our Club experiences include networking nights, round tables, work-life balance workshops, wine & whiskey tastings and lunch and learn activities all provided with a fabulous view of Downtown Raleigh. We offer meeting and coworking spaces, a full ballroom, and an Executive Chef with 2 restaurants. Finally, our members also have access to the industry-leading Invited Network of hundreds of country clubs and business clubs nationwide. Plus, special offerings at more than 1,000 hotels, resorts, and entertainment venues.
Close HR Conections
A woman-owned small business (WOSB) and founded in 2009 by Ann Close, Close HR Connections was established to provide onsite, as needed, fractional People Management/HR Solutions that embody our fundamental beliefs in integrity, faith-based leadership, hard work, honesty, character, helping others, and building and sustaining long-term relationships
We service a variety of industries utilizing our practical boots-on-the-ground services including such industries as software technology, landscaping, healthcare, hospitality, construction services, engineering, accounting services, and more. Close HR strives to provide People Management/HR solutions that help our clients increase their bottom line.
Don Williams Global
My mission is to help others, help others. I offer 1 on 1 consulting along every step of the Customer Journey Map: The experience you deliver to your customers far outweighs their judgment of your actual product or service.
Grow your business and work with me on; Mindset, Branding, Marketing & Sales, Culture/Customer Experience &/or Leadership.
My new Micro Learning Academy provides “next gen” rapid learning of essential skills for entrepreneurs. The debut product is my 3X Author training and Book Builder software that does most of the heavy lifting in writing your own book. Nothing builds trust, authority and sales like being a published Author. All of my training is based in the fact that Easy + Fast + Fun = Smart.
Rankin McKenzie
Rankin McKenzie has been a trusted provider of high-quality and cost-effective part-time CFO and Controller personnel. We ensure clients have the right people when they need them so they are able to focus on what matters… growing their business and taking it to the next level; to the point where they transition to a full time resource. We understand the importance of financial integrity to remain transparent and credible to investors, board members, and auditors. Reliable and with impeccable ethics, all our people appreciate and fully value our clients time, money and trust. We have built our reputation on consistently guiding our clients to success - our clients success has been our business goal too. Over the past 15 years, we have helped companies in all sectors, of all sizes, and at all lifecycle stages – focusing on the Triangle region of North Carolina.
Culture Index
Culture Index is a strategic advisory firm that works with visionary entrepreneurs, CEOs and business leaders to scale and transform organizations using laser accurate applied analytics instead of instincts.
Dean is a serial entrepreneur and serves as a Culture Index consultant to CEOs of fast-growing companies across country. His expertise focuses on impacting top and bottom-line results by helping CEOs get out of their own way and put the right team around them to scale. Over the last several years, Dean helped to launch and grow Bunker Labs, a nonprofit geared towards helping veterans and military spouses start and grow companies, Dean worked to expand the organization to 40 locations across the country in support of 10,000+ businesses.
