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Charlie Brock
President and CEO, Launch Tennessee: Heads public-private entrepreneurship venture that focuses on high-growth innovative companies and organizes annual 36|86 conference. Served as general partner of angel investment group Chattanooga Renaissance Fund.
Keith Durbin
CIO and Director of Information Technology Services Department, Metro Government: Leads city government’s open data project, an innovative program that features data sets and tech tools that allow citizens to track election results, permits to own domesticated hens and everything in between. Previously served as Metro Council member and in IT consulting for HCA.
Tim Estes
CEO, Digital Reasoning: Leads what is arguably today’s hottest name in Nashville tech sector. Cognitive computing company has attracted funding from CIA’s VC arm, HCA and big Wall Street names and has grown Cool Springs-based staff to several hundred.
Tammy Hawes
Founder and CEO, Virsys12: Started tech career at HCA in ’80s and was CIO at Central Parking and Paradigm Health. Launched health care-focused Virsys12 in 2011 and has grown the Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner company to over 20 employees.
Beth Hoeg
President, Women in Technology of Tennessee and COO, Trinisys: Directs operations for the growing Brentwood-based health software company. Prominent proponent of diversifying the notoriously male-dominated tech sector.
Ann Howard
Managing Partner, Centresource: One of three leaders, along with Janet Timmons and Brandon Valentine, of Germantown software development shop. Oversees strategy and operations, has been in tech space for more than a decade after starting career in public radio.
Eliza Brock Marcum
Owner, Eliza Brock Software: Software engineer with a focus on web applications and entrepreneurship. Has helped train nearly 200 developers in Nashville, including during three-plus years at Nashville Software School.
Peter Marcum
Managing Partner, Dev Digital: Key member of web services company that boasts more than 850 clients, including some Fortune 500 organizations. A tech entrepreneur who has founded and grown several area companies.
Brian Moyer
President and CEO, Nashville Technology Council: Named leader of the local tech trade group in September, coming from the health care sector. Serial entrepreneur is a past president of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s Tennessee chapter.
Marty Paslick
Senior VP and CIO, HCA: A 28-year HCA veteran. Leads the company’s information technology and services department, which provide IT strategy and support for HCA’s nearly 300 hospitals and surgery centers.
Joelle Phillips
President, AT&T Tennessee: Oversees AT&T’s regulatory, legislative and community affairs activities throughout the state. Became president in August 2013 after serving as general attorney. Prominent in past year's fiber fight.
Steve Proctor
CEO, Edgenet: After joining a team of investors in acquiring the Nashville-based software-as-a-service company out of bankruptcy in 2014, last year secured a big investment from a California-based tech-and-software-specific private equity firm. Initiated a partnership with Google involving Edgenet’s shopping marketplace software.
Chris Sloan
Nicole Tremblett
VP of Information Technology and Services, HCA Holdings: Responsible for strategy and planning for team of 4,500+ across country. Tech Council board chair who led clinical product and business performance work before stepping into current role in 2013.
John Wark
President, Founder & President, Nashville Software School: NSS has supported the growth of Nashville's tech workforce by training 385 junior software developers since 2012. Nonprofit business model provides access to tech careers for the economically disadvantaged and members of groups traditionally underrepresented in tech careers.
Tourism Greg Adkins
President and CEO, Tennessee Hospitality and Tourism Association: Former Metro councilman and executive director of the Tennessee Public Transportation Association. Leads Nashville-based 1,800-member entity that is state hospitality industry’s resource for information and education.
Jan Freitag
Senior Vice President of Lodging Insights, STR Inc.: The face of a team that includes Chairman and Co-Founder Randy Smith and President and CEO Amanda Hite. Helps lead what has become of the international lodging industry’s major data providers.
Jeff Lane
Shareholder, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz: Corporate and intellectual property lawyer specializing in new businesses. Has represented numerous early-stage, high-growth companies in funding, vendor and customer contracts, and mergers and acquisitions.
Founder, Lane Motor Museum: Established nonprofit cultural attraction in 2002 in ex-Sunbeam Bakery building. Museum focuses on European vehicles and bills itself as showcasing one of the world's top collection of Czech cars.
Clint Smith
Owner, Johnny Cash Museum, Nudie's Honky Tonk & Patsy Cline Museum: Has overseen, since its opening in 2013, an the expansion of the Cash Museum on Third Avenue South and the opening of Nudie's Honky Tonk on Lower Broad. Will unveil this spring the Patsy Cline Museum.
Founding Partner, Emma: Has successfully expanded pioneering local email marketing business to include offices in New York, Portland and Australia with more than 180-plus employees. Firm produces succesful Marketing United Conference.
Bill Miller
Adding data to the public’s purview It may not sound revolutionary, but opening up an entire government’s data to the public is not common practice. That’s the task (or one of them, rather) assigned to Keith Durbin, chief information officer and director of the information technology services department of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, a position he has held since 2009. (Before that, Durbin served as a member of Metro Council and as an IT consultant with HCA.) Issued in early 2016, Mayor Megan Barry’s Open Data Executive Order directed that Metro data be freely available to the public unless specific privacy, security or regulatory concerns prevented it. Opening data by default “is a seismic shift from the traditional approach to making data available to Tennesseans only upon request,” Durbin says. And that data is not just sitting stagnant at data.nashville.gov — the city will release more public data assets and begin to cultivate data visualization and analysis skills both internally and with Nashville’s citizens in the next year, Durbin says. “Keith Durbin has been a tremendous asset to Mayor Barry’s efforts to create a more connected Nashville that embraces the technologies of tomorrow to solve the problems of today,” says Sean Braisted, the mayor’s spokesperson. His work ensures “that we are a more open, transparent and accessible government." > Stephen Elliott
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