All corporation are required to register as a foreign entity in every State. Industrial Heat LLC has no such registration in North Carolina. Where they incorporate means nothing when they fail to register in the State they claim to be doing business. It is effect nullifies their corporate status in North Carolina.
Rossi has a history of doing this. Several of his corporations are improperly registered or not registered and use other people’s names.
“in every State”
Correction: “...in every State they do business.”
JT Vaughn is a senior analyst with Cherokee and director of the Cherokee Challenge. The Cherokee Challenge is a competition and accelerator designed to launch high impact environmental startups. Through the Challenge, Cherokee invests seed stage capital in a portfolio of environmental startups. Mr. Vaughn also works to develop brownfield real estate and other venture investment opportunities for Cherokee.
Mr. Vaughn is on the Board of Directors of ABAN, the Advisory Board of the HUB Raleigh and is an Ambassador for the Center for Entrepreneurial Development (CED). Previously he worked with Selam Awassa Business Group, the Center for Creative Leadership and Cherokee Gives Back, all in Ethiopia. Mr. Vaughn received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a minor in Entrepreneurship, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The more interesting person at Cherokee is John Mazzarino......from his bio:
Mr. Mazzarino was formerly a manager at Bain & Company, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. Previously, he worked at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., consulting on policy issues with EPA, HUD, DOE and other federal agencies. He serves on the advisory board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is on the boards of Oak Ranch Children’s Home and Hometown America, an owner of manufactured housing communities. Mr. Mazzarino received a BA from Colgate University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MS in Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he enrolled after initially entering MIT’s PhD program in Operations Research.
If it matters, Mr. Mazzarino is fluent in Italian, according to his LinkedIn page.