Board of Directors, Officers
UTRF Board of Directors
- Chair: Waymon Hickman, Senior Chairman, First Farmers & Merchants Bank, Columbia, Tennessee
- Vice Chair: Murray R. Deal, Vice President, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee
- Kennard D. Brown, JD, MPA, Ph.D.; Executive Vice Chancellor & COO, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Jim Roberto, Associate Lab Director, UT-Battelle, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- George Cates, Chairman (Retired), Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.
- Charles E. Wharton, President and CEO, Poplar Creek Farms, LLC, Winchester, Tennessee
- Wayne T. Davis, Dean, UT College of Engineering, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Leslie Wisner-Lynch, President and CEO, Tennessee Technology Development Corporation
Health Science Center Executive Committee Members
- Chair: Kennard D. Brown JD, MPA, Ph.D.; Executive Vice Chancellor & COO, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Frank Chan, Ph.D., Senior Director, Medtronic Restorative Therapies Group, Memphis, Tennessee
- Lawrence Pfeffer, Ph.D., UT Health Science Center
- David D. Stevens, Private Investor, Naples, Florida
Multi-Disciplinary Executive Committee Members
- Chair: Wayne T. Davis, Dean, UT College of Engineering, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Charles E. Wharton, President and CEO, Poplar Creek Farms, LLC, Winchester, Tennessee
- Jayesh Doshi, President and CEO, eSpin Technologies Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee
- William F. Brown, Dean, Ph.D., UT AgResearch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Thomas C. Rogers, ORNL Director of Industrial and Economic Development Partnerships, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Officers
- Chair: Waymon Hickman, Senior Chairman, First Farmers & Merchants Bank, Columbia, Tennessee
- Vice Chair: Murray R. Deal, Vice President, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee
- President: Dick R. Gourley, PharmD., UT Research Foundation
- Vice President—Multi-Disciplinary Office: David Washburn, MBA, CLP, UT Research Foundation
- Vice President—Health Science Center Office: Richard Magid, Ph. D., UT Research Foundation
- Treasurer: Mark A. Paganelli, CPA, Executive Director, Administration and Finance, Office of the Treasurer, University of Tennessee
- Assistant Treasurer: Ron Maples, Controller, University of Tennessee
- Secretary and General Counsel: William E. Mason, Esq., Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee
Audit Committee
- Chair: Wayne T. Davis, Dean, UT College of Engineering, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Murray R. Deal, Vice President, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee
