Charlie Brock

Charlie is a Director of FourBridges Capital Advisors, a middle-market investment bank based in Chattanooga. He also serves as a director and organizer of CapitalMark Bank & Trust. Previously, he held marketing and sales positions with Brock Candy Company and its successor, Brach & Brock Confections. In 1998, he helped start Foxmark Media, growing it into one of the nation's leading mall advertising companies. As the company's CEO and largest shareholder, he structured two rounds of private financing before selling the company in 2006 to Australian based EYE Corp, one of the world's leading out-of-home media companies. Following the sale to EYE, Charlie formed Brock Partnerships, a real estate and investment fund. Charlie is an active member of the Atlanta chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization, a worldwide network of over 7,000 entrepreneurs / business owners. Charlie serves on the Investment Committee of the Tennessee Angel Fund, as well as the advisory board of InnovateHere.

David Belitz

David has served as the CFO for the Lupton Family office for 12 years. As part of his duties he has participated in the management of the family trusts private equity program that has now invested in over 70 private equity and venture capital funds. David has also served as the interim CFO or COO for two early stage technology companies that Mr. Lupton invested in Atlanta. For one of these investments, David oversaw the development of a wireless platform for utilities and sold the company to a large utility services company. David serves on the board of the remaining industrial wireless company currently. David is a member of the Xmi High Growth Fund and serves on the InnovateHere vetting team and advisory board. David has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from UTK, Masters in Accounting from UTK and an MBA from UTC.

Roddy Bailey

Roddy is a partner at Miller & Martin, PLLC, in their business transactions group. Roddy focus areas include the areas of mergers and acquisitions and securities. Roddy has advised numerous companies in capital raising efforts, including angel financing, growth and late stage venture capital financing, initial public offerings of equity securities, follow-on offerings and placements of debt securities. Roddy has assisted a technology company raise late stage venture capital as a prelude to an initial public offering. He has also assisted a software technology company in obtaining multiple rounds of venture capital funding to promote growth and sales and marketing expansion. Roddy has served as counsel to a leading provider of sampling systems to the life sciences industry in its capital raising efforts. Roddy also represents a private equity fund in connection with its acquisition and divestiture transactions as well as another fund that utilizes federal tax credits to make investments. Roddy was named as an "Up and Coming" individual in Chambers USA (2006). Roddy received his J.D. from Syracuse and B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jack Studer

After growing up on Signal Mountain and graduating from Baylor, Jack attended Princeton where he studied Operations Research and Financial Engineering. He then worked for Credit Suisse in their Investment Banking Division, working primarily on M&A and IPO transactions for clients such as Google, Omniture, Blackstone, Oracle, HP and many others. He then co-founded DraftSpace, a document security SaaS company in London which was later sold to the Copal Group. He is currently a partner at the Lamp Post Group, which is a venture incubator based in Chattanooga, TN.

Stephen Culp

Stephen Culp is Founder and Chairman of Smart Furniture, Inc., and Founder and CEO of Delegator.com. Starting in a Stanford professor's garage and launching the company in Chattanooga in 2001, Stephen designed the patented Smart Furniture® system and a web-based business model called Design on Demand®. As CEO, Stephen led the company through exponential growth, raised venture capital, and positioned Smart Furniture as an industry leader in innovation, customer service and marketplace ethics. In 2009, Stephen founded Delegator, Inc. so that growing businesses, like Smart Furniture, can focus on their core mission and delegate the rest. An attorney, Naval Reserve Officer, and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Stephen serves on the local boards of the RiverCity Company, Chamber of Commerce, Trust for Public Land, CreateHere, Innovate Here, Chattanooga STAND, the Ochs Center, and a draft project called Causeway, with a mission to support civic entrepreneurism. A varsity fencer in college, Stephen graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and Stanford Law School, where he was also a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. Stephen believes in an entrepreneurial approach to basically everything.

Miller Wellborn

Miller has 25 years of experience in the transportation industry. He formerly served as the president of Welborn Transport and Boyd Bros. Transportation. Most recently, he has served as president of Welborn and Associates, a transportation consulting firm which specializes in truckload operations and mergers and acquisitions. Miller attended the University of Alabama. He currently serves as a partner at the Lamp Post Group, a venture incubator in Chattanooga, TN, as Chairman of the Board for Big Oak Ranch, a Christian childrens home in Gadsden, Ala., and as an elder at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, where he attends with his wife Karen and three daughters. He formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta, Birmingham Branch.