Jason Simon
Jason would love to meet with Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. Jason is a former Naval Officer, F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, and executive coach with 20+ years of leadership experience spanning the U.S. Navy, a SaaS startup, and coaching senior leaders. He believes leadership starts with leading yourself first; owning your patterns, your defaults, […]
Kim Henry
Kim would love to meet with Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. Kim Henry is an accomplished independent financial advisor driven by a passion for empowering individuals and businesses to achieve lasting financial security. She specializes in comprehensive financial planning, retirement income management, long-term care planning, employee and employer benefit design, small business planning, […]
John McCulley
John would love to meet with Novice Founders, Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. Johnny Mack (John McCulley) is a healthcare technology executive and operational strategist with more than two decades of experience building software systems, leading high-performance teams, and solving complex logistics problems at scale. As VP of Operations at OnDemand Connect, Johnny […]
Andria Yates
Andria would love to meet with Growth Stage and Executive Level Founders. Andria is an advisor, consultant, and educator. At UTK, she is a leadership coach in the Executive MBA program and teaches undergraduates, in addition to serving as a past EIR for the UT Research Foundation. She has taught/teaches across the university: Department of Management & Entrepreneurship; […]
Drew Ellis
Drew would love to meet with Novices, Early Stage, Growth Stage, and Executive Level Founders. I am a double UTK grad: my first degree is in mechanical engineering and my second is a law degree. After graduating from engineering school, I worked in a variety of engineering roles with the bulk being in mechanical design engineering. From there, […]
Tricia Dahlstrom
Tricia would love to meet with Executive Level Founders. Tricia Dahlstrom is the proud owner of Upkeep Business LLC, a company she created to help business owners better understand the numbers that drive their profitability. Having been surrounded by entrepreneurship her entire life, she had seen many small business successes and failures, and she passionately wanted to […]
Erin Reece
Erin would love to meet with Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. I am an accountant turned financial therapist with a passion for helping entrepreneurs build healthy financial foundations to increase profit and maximize their impact. With over a decade of experience in public and corporate accounting and five years as the owner of a […]
Bill Malkes
Bill would love to meet with Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. William A. Malkes Sr. is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with a diverse career spanning multiple industries. As CEO of GRIDSMART Technologies, he led a $94 million acquisition by Cubic Corporation. Malkes has raised over $150 million in risk capital and overseen several […]
Alex Gambino
Alex would love to meet with Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. Alex Gambino is a Registered Patent and Intellectual Property Attorney at Thrive IP®. Alex has successfully applied for and secured numerous patents, trademark registrations, and copyright registrations for his clients. He also has experience in various facets of intellectual property litigation, contract drafting […]
Chris Trump
Chris would love to meet with Novices, Early Stage, Growth Stage Businesses, and Executive Level Founders. Chris Trump, a graduate from the University of Tennessee College of Law, specializes in providing outside general counsel services to businesses of all sizes throughout East Tennessee. An active participant in the area’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, Chris is particularly passionate about representing start-ups […]
