UNC Clean Tech Speaker
Doug Speight
Biography
Doug Speight is Executive Director for American Underground, a campus for entrepreneurs in Durham, NC. American Underground is home to 275 startups and a diverse startup scene dubbed “The Startup Hub of The South,” by CNBC. Speight is formerly founder and CEO of Cathedral Leasing, a B2B equipment finance firm and one of seven 2016 Entrepreneurs in Residence for Google and CODE2040. Speight has served as co-founder and/or founder for four tech startups, in addition to leading technology transfer and commercialization divisions for NC A&T State University, NASA and the Department of Energy. He has served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the GIGTANK venture accelerator, the nation’s first 3D printing venture accelerator and holds several patents for 3D printing technology. Speight earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology from NC A&T State University and a MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.