Additional Info

• Presentation Title

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• Presenter name

  Rickey McCallum

• Presenter title

  Vice President for Business Development

• Presenter affiliation

  UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm

• Presentation Date Monday, 11 March 2024
• Description

  Rickey McCallum will provide an overview of all the strategic developments taking place at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm. He will highlight the vision, mission, and alignment of the park to the University of Tennessee, the Knoxville community, and across the state.
  

  He will discuss current and future research buildings under development and the plan to build a hotel and conference center. That project has advanced to the Request for Proposals stage in January 2024.

  
  A new entrepreneurship ecosystem — called the SPARK Innovation Center — and CleanTech Accelerator Programs are also key initiatives of the research park.
  
  

  Other notable developments are the new TDOT interchange road at the research park, its Outdoor Cultural & Recreational Center development, and potential parking garages.

• Biosketch(es)

  Rickey McCallum was born and raised in Knoxville. He graduated 2000 from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga with a B.S. in Sports Administration and double minor in Sports Marketing and Management.

  Before joining the University of Tennessee in 2014 he had extensive careers with Enterprise-Rent-a-Car of Tennessee, Dale Carnegie Training, and Tennessee Valley Authority.

  He is celebrating ten years at the University of Tennessee. Before his current position at the UT Research Park, he worked for five years in UTK's Office of Corporate & Industry Engagement.