A graduate from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Michele Buck has held senior leadership roles at Kraft, the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo and The Hersey Company.
A graduate from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Michele Buck has held senior leadership roles at Kraft, the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo and The Hersey Company.
With degrees from Carolina in journalism and business administration, Jason Kilar went on to become a visionary in digital media.
A pharmacist in New Bern, Caleb Bradham had a $1 million company on his hands when he launched Pepsi-Cola in 1898.
DeSimone’s breakthroughs to improve human health include 3D printed dentures, nanomedicines for cancer therapy, drug delivery devices that can be implanted and tailored to a patient’s needs and an inhalable pulmonary vaccine platform that can be used to target diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia.
DeSimone has nearly 200 patents issued in his name, with more than 200 pending, and is one of the few people who has been elected to all three branches of the U.S. National Academies.
UNC-Chapel Hill has been named an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public Land Grant Universities.
