Board of Directors

Thomas Ballard
Director, Partnerships Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Robert Covington
Partner
SSM Partners

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

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

Craig Fitzhugh
Representative
Tennessee State Legislature

James Frierson
Executive Director
Advanced Transportation Technology Institute

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

Margaret Mahery
Executive Director
Tennessee Municipal League

Dan Marcum
Managing Partner
Marcum Capital

Ted Nelson
Chairman
Mill Masters, Inc.

James Phillips
Managing Partner,
Pinnacle Investments

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

Michael Woodruff, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Research
East Tennessee State University