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Mr. Gupton has twenty-nine years of public accounting experience and serves as a business advisor to technology companies in early stages of development and funding. Mr. Gupton is a founder and general partner of Research Triangle Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments. He is a founder and president of Research Triangle Family Officer, LLC, a company providing wealth management services for families in the Research Triangle area. He is a director of Ardent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private pharmaceutical company developing products for the pain and urinary incontinence markets. He is currently a co-founder and start-up chief financial officer for Alphavax, Inc., a vaccine company based on new genomic vector technology from the University of North Carolina and has served in a similar capacity for Cogent Neuroscience, Inc., Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc., SARCO, Inc. and Trimeris, Inc. He joined Hughes Pittman & Gupton, L.L.P. in 1992 after 19 years with KPMG. His practice is centered on entrepreneurial businesses and their founders that include owner-managed businesses and investor-financed technology companies in the Triangle. Mr. Gupton has served as the engagement partner and business advisor to private and public company clients ranging from start-up companies financed by private venture capital to multinational public companies. He has experience auditing companies in a wide range of industries including life sciences, information technology, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, construction, retirement plans, financial institutions, governmental, government contracting, mortgage banking, non-profit and real estate. Before joining Hughes Pittman & Gupton, he was previously with KPMG Peat Marwick in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for nineteen years, nine years as an audit partner. During his career at KPMG, his responsibilities included administrative partner-in-charge of the audit department, associate SEC reviewing partner, professional practice/quality control partner and director of financial services. Mr. Gupton received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the North Carolina Association of CPAs and the Florida Institute of CPAs. | 