Team Members
Student Client Specialists
Michael Lane
Founder of MakerSync, LLC
Mechanical Engineering (’19)
Calvin Waddy
Founder, Glaance, LLC
Finance (’18)
Madison Grant
Founder, Jitterbean’s Coffee, LLC
Business Administration (’19)
Jacob Miller
Founder, Black Creek Innovations, LLC
Marketing (’20)
Landon Casey
Founder, EM-Boards, LLC
Computer Engineering (’19)
Entrepreneurship Center Advisory Board (ECAB)
Executive Members
Boyce Adams, Sr.
President & CEO, BankTEL Systems, Inc. (bio)
Timothy Duncan
Founder, Talos Energy, LLC (bio)
Greg Hinkebein
Owner, Mississippi Global Technologies (bio)
Martin F. Jue
President and Founder, MFJ Enterprises, Inc.
David Latham
Principal, Butler Snow Advisory Services (bio)
Tom Livingston
Vice President, Retail & Licensing, Southern Classics
Wade Patterson
Co-Founder/CEO (Acq.), Synapse Wireless, Inc. (bio)
Robert “RJ” Reed
President, Reed Food Technology
John Walters
Co-Founder and President, NIGP Code Services (Acq.), Periscope Holdings, Inc. (bio)
Ben Walton
President, Mississippi Angel Network
Faculty Members
Charles Freeman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Apparel, Textiles and Merchandising
Randy Follett, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Danny Holt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Melissa Moore, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Robert Moore, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Allison Pearson, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Rodney Pearson, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Byron Williams, Ph.D.
Computer Science