Board of Directors

Thomas Ballard
Director, Partnerships Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Bruce C. Doeg
Managing Shareholder, Nashville office
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz

William Evans, Pharm.D.
Director and CEO
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Craig Fitzhugh
Representative
Tennessee State Legislature

James Frierson
Executive Director
Advanced Transportation Technology Institute

Bill Haslam
Mayor
City of Knoxville

Kenneth Holroyd, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kevin Humphries
Senior Vice President, Technology Systems
FedEx

Matthew Kisber
Commissioner, Department of Economic and Community Development
State of Tennessee

Mark Maddox
Representative
Tennessee State Legislature

Dan Marcum
Managing Partner
Marcum Capital

Randy McNally
Senator
Tennessee State Legislature

Ted Nelson
Chairman
Mill Masters, Inc.

Mike Niederhauser
Director
First Vision Bank

James Phillips
Managing Partner,
Pinnacle Investments

Andrew Seamons
Managing Partner,
Pittco Capital Partners

Paula Short, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Tennessee Board of Regents

J. Daniel Stewart, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research
University of Tennessee

Ron Washington
District Manger
Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corporation

Leslie Wisner-Lynch, D.D.S., D.M.Sc.
Director of Applied Research
BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc.

J. Stewart Witzeman, Ph.D.
Director, Eastman Research Division
Eastman Chemical Company