BASE Partners

BASE Resource Partners

BASE works with a range of Resource Partners to provide BASE Members with pro-bono business development services in areas including: funding, law, marketing and brand strategy, business development, accounting and IT. The relationship provides a business development opportunity with a vetted set of sustainable businesses for the Resource Partner and an opportunity for the BASE Members to access high quality business development services on a one-on-one basis. BASE continues to develop relationships with new Resource Partners on an ongoing basis.

BASE Members, contact Anna Kotchagova ( 919.962.4259), to connect with a Resource Partner.

Law

• Hutchison Law Group
• Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
• NC LEAP
• Smith Anderson
• Walker Lambe

Marketing and Brand Strategy

• Right Brain Brand Consulting
• Springleaf Strategies
• The Change

Business Development

• ActionCOACH
• Synergy Commercial Advisors
• Triple Bottom Line Consulting

Accounting

• Stancil & Company

Financing

• Financial Directions
• Harrington Bank

Information Technology

• ifPeople

BASE Mentors

• Scott Blackwell - Founder, Immaculate Baking Company
• Maria Kingery - Co-Founder, Southern Energy Management
• Aaron Lubeck - Partner, Trinity Design/Build
• Robert Oliva - CFO, PMI Ash Technologies
• Shawn Slome - Owner, Twig
• John Stanley - Director of Commercial Real Estate, Self-Help
• Daniel Whittaker - Managing Partner, Green Planet Catering
• John Young - Managing Director and Co-Founder, Dandelion Energy

BASE Advisory Board

• John Hardin - Acting Executive Director, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, North Carolina Department of Commerce and BASE Advisory Board Member
• Lisa Jones Christensen - Assistant Professor, Sustainable Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler School of Business
• Justyn J. Kasierski - Attorney, Hutchison Law Group
• Henry McKoy - Chairman, Fourth Sector Bancorp
• Bonny Moellenbrock - Executive Director, SJF Advisory Services
• Jonathan Philips - Managing Director, Anka Fund Management
• Beth M. Ritter - SVP Human Resources, Burt's Bees
• Brian Schneiderman - Vice-President and Director, Real Estate and Facilities Lending, Self-Help Credit Union and Ventures Fund
• Brett Smith - Founder, Counter Culture Coffee
• Tim Toben - Partner, Greenbridge Developments
• Jesse White - Director, UNC Office of Economic and Business Development
• M. Rhem Wooten, Jr. - President, Allied SynGas Corporation