Apple Inc.’s October 2012 acquisition of Melbourne-based AuthenTec left the latter’s founder, Scott Moody, finally well off it’s safe to say.
After the Apple deal concluded, the former Harris Corp. engineer relocated from the Space Coast to his beloved North Carolina — where he had attended North Carolina State University and met his wife of 37 years — and planned a life of quiet retirement.
His plan was to toss some venture capital money here, do some consulting work there. He’d probably make a few pep talks and question-and-answer sessions with budding entrepreneurs in North Carolina’s famed Research Triangle.
