Fred Hutchison

As the founder of Hutchison Law Group, Fred Hutchison’s practice focuses on venture capital, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He has represented more than 300 entrepreneurial companies over the years and has worked with some of the Research Triangle’s leading technology companies, including Integrated Silicon Systems, Cree Research, Trimeris, SciQuest, Ganymede, Accipiter, OpenSite Technologies, and Icagen. Hutchison has served as a general partner in Research Triangle Ventures, a $10.3 million early stage venture capital fund focused on companies in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina. These investment activities—along with many years as a private angel investor—better equip him to advise clients on raising capital. 

Hutchison was the founding president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the country. He has also served as the chairman of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, the chairman of the Business Innovation Technology Advancement Center, and as founding chairman of The Sports Council in Raleigh. Most recently he has served as the chairman of the Triangle Community Foundation and co-chairman of the Entrepreneurial Advisory Committee for the Catalyst Project, whose goal is to increase the level of permanent philanthropic giving within the community. He is also co-chair of the Sponsorship Committee for the 2009 BIO Conference.