Louise Brady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Piedmont Capital Partners, LLC, which builds companies resulting from Technology Innovations from Academia. Their portfolio consists of 3D Manufacturing, Energy, Biotech and Software companies. She is also Managing Partner and Co-Founder of a second Venture Capital Fund with Robert Long called Piedmont Capital Investments, LLC. This fund focuses on Transformational Technologies in early-stage ventures. She serves on the boards of five portfolio companies. Prior to joining Piedmont Capital Partners, LLC, Ms. Brady was Vice President of Investments with Wells Fargo Advisors. She began her career with Bank of America as Vice President of Commercial Lending. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for the two public companies, Comcast Corporation and Travel and Leisure Company. She also serves on the following non-profit boards; the Bryan Foundation, Piedmont Triad Partnership, UNC Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship and Shift_Ed. Ms. Brady received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Industrial Relations and Economics.