Board of Directors

Executive Committee

2011 Chairman
Joe Cook, Jr.
Principal, Mountain Group Capital, Nashville

2011 Vice Chairman
Samuel Lynch, D.M.D., D.M.Sc.
President, BioMimetic Therapeutics, Nashville

2011 Treasurer
Steve Bares, Ph.D.
President, Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Memphis

2011 Secretary
Glenn Perdue
Managing Member, Kraft Analytics, Nashville

2011 Corporate Counsel
Mark Manner
Managing Partner, Harwell, Howard, Hyne, Gabbert & Manner, Nashville

2011 Corporate Counsel
Thomas Ballard
Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Initiatives Pershing Yoakley & Associates, P.C., Knoxville

Alan Bentley
Vice Chancellor, Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercializatione

Bill Taaffe
Retired, ICON Clinical Research, Nashville

Kelly Tiller, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Genera Energy, Knoxville

Laura Whitsitt
Senior Vice President, Global Research and Innovation, Smith and Nephew, Memphis

Directors

David Black, Ph.D.
President, Aegis Sciences Corporation, Nashville

J. Mark Bledsoe
Partner, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, Nashville

Pat Cannon, R.N.
Director of State Government Affairs, Allergan, Inc., Nashville

Kim Denton
President, Oak Ridge Economic Partnership, Oak Ridge

Leigh Anne Downes
Director, Biomedical Business Development, Memphis Regional Chamber, Memphis

Jim Frierson
Executive Director, Advanced Transportation Technology Institute, Chattanooga

Richard Magid, PhD
VP, Health Science Center Office, University of Tennessee Research Institute, Memphis

Bob Morris
Business Services, Butler Snow, Memphis

Kenneth (Pete) Moss
President, Frazier Barnes & Associates, Memphis

Gary Stevenson
Managing Partner, MB Venture Partners, LLC, Memphis

McDavid Stilwell
Director of Corporate Communications and Financial Analysis, GTx, Inc., Memphis

Ted Townsend
Regional Director of Greater Memphis, Tennessee Department of Community & Economic Development, Memphis

Ken Woody
President, Innova, Memphis

Caroline Young
President, Nashville Health Care Council, Nashville

Dana Zukierski
Partner, Ernst & Young, LLP, Nashville

 

Ex Officio Members

Robert Acuff, Ph.D.
Director of Government Relations, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City

Bruce Doeg
Shareholder, Baker Donelson, Nashville

Judsen Schneider
GA Representative, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, Nashville

Leslie Wisner-Lynch
President and CEO, Tennessee Technology Development Corporation, Nashville