Board of Directors

Dale Jenkins
Board Member
After serving 26 years as the chief executive officer of Curi, Dale Jenkins joined Rise Capital as a board member in 2021.
Curi began in 1975 as Medical Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina, and earned the distinction of being recognized among Ward’s Top 50 property and casualty insurance companies in 2019 and 2020.
Prior to joining Curi, Dale spent 16 years with Ernst & Young, where he was a partner.
Dale has served as board president for the University of North Carolina Health Care System, the N.C. Chamber and Capital Associated Industries.
In 2014, Dale received Triangle Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement award and is a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. In 2019, Mr. Jenkins was awarded Wake Education Partnership’s Vernon Malone Friend of Education Award for his exceptional commitment to public education.
Dale currently serves on the boards of Wake Forest University, Orlando Health IMC, The Institute for Emerging Issues and Curi, and is chairman of the board of MyFutureNC.
Dale graduated from Wake Forest University in 1978 with a degree in accounting. He is a native of Rutherford County and currently lives in Raleigh.