Wolf Den Pitch Competition

• Nature’s Throne – The world’s first outdoor chair that combines a comfortable camping chair with a discreet, portable toilet to enhance outdoor experiences and eliminate uncomfortable bathroom situations.
• Illuminary – A contemporary, uniquely engineered take on light decorations with a multipurpose and educative goal to aesthetically illuminate an atmosphere while also shedding light on the significant holidays and festivals they are used to commemorate.
• BioSensys – Wearable sleeve designed to continuously detect and measure lactate levels in patients and can wirelessly transmit readings to clinicians for faster intervention.
• Discomfort Club – Helping people overcome limitations by taking actionable steps outside of their comfort zone.
• SportLens – A cutting-edge sports camera that automatically tracks your movements and transforms your gameplay into cinematic highlight videos, offering personalized coaching and performance analysis for a reasonable price.

Providing Q and A and deciding their fate will be our live Judges, the Wolves:

Felicia Trujillo – Founder of Food Seen, a boutique marketing studio elevating food and food-adjacent brands, including agtech, CPG, manufacturing, food service and more through social media marketing, public relations, content creation and digital ads.

Additionally, Felicia is a partner at The Kitchen Raleigh, a consultancy for food, beverage and hospitality brands and the founder of The Lotus Room, a space designed for professional women to connect, learn and be inspired through social opportunities and informative sessions.

Suresh Bhagchandaniis the President of ExecSocks, a subscription sock delivery service. He currently works for one of the fortune 20 technology companies as a Senior Sales Manager, where he manages a team of young consultants as he mentors them to originate and manage new and existing business. It’s said that “if you dress confident, you feel confident” and Execsocks lets you do that in just the right way.

Parker Mayes – A recent NC State marketing grad with a background in sales and entrepreneurship. During his time at NC State, he spent a year and a half helping Dale Carnegie Training launch and sell their Next Gen Leadership Program and helped a marketing startup to launch and grow their business to their first 50 clients as their first employee.

Now since graduating, he’s taken this entrepreneurial sales experience to launch two companies of his own: Inbound Revenue, a sales company that helps marketing agencies build their sales funnels effectively and LetsGo, a consumer subscription business that’s a personal assistant for busy professionals.