CCI - Key Persons


Abebe Rorissa

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Director
Abebe Rorissa Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Director of the School of Information Sciences arorissa@utk.edu Profile

Adam Brown

Job Titles:
  • Executive Strategist

Alaka Williams

Job Titles:
  • SVP, People & Culture / Discovery, Inc.

Alisa Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Principal & Founder / Alisa Harrison & Associates, LLC

Amy Forrester

Job Titles:
  • Member of the RIC Standing

Anne Holt Blackburn

Job Titles:
  • Reporter

Beth Meko

Job Titles:
  • Member of the RIC Standing

Bonnie Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Retired Founder / Information International Associates

Brad Lampley

Job Titles:
  • Partner in Charge / Government Team Leader / Adams & Reese LLP

Carol Poston

Job Titles:
  • Senior Marketing Development Manager

Cathy G. Ackermann - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President

Cecelia J. Prewett - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Charles Tombras

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / the Tombras Group

Charlotte Mecklenburg

Job Titles:
  • Library

Chuck Jones

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Common Wealth Charlotte, Inc.

Courtney C. Childers

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director, School of Journalism and Electronic Media

Danuta Nitecki

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Libraries and Professor, College of Computing and Informatics

David Bohan

Job Titles:
  • Retired Chairman & Founder / Bohan

Deb Woolley

Job Titles:
  • Owner

Ed Ingle

Job Titles:
  • President / New Lantern Partners

Elizabeth Avery Foster

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations
Elizabeth Avery Foster Director of the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations ejavery@utk.edu Profile

Emma Herbert

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I, MS, PR )

Emma Herrington

Job Titles:
  • Ad Club

Hilda Murray - EVP

Job Titles:
  • EVP
  • Owner

J. Phenise Poole - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Deputy General Counsel
  • Senior Vice President

Jacqueline C. Cavnar - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Jalen Blue

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, CS )

Jamie Lonie

Job Titles:
  • Nonprofit Digital Marketing Strategist

Jamil Price

Job Titles:
  • HR Leader / North America University

Janna Abraham - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO

Jeffrey A. Boyd

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jess Barfield

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, SIS )

Joe Mazer

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Ex - Officio

John T. Williams

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer ( Retired ) the Regional Eye Center

Jon Hess

Job Titles:
  • Director of the School of Communication Studies
Jon Hess Director of the School of Communication Studies jonhess@utk.edu Profile

Julie Longmire

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs & Advising
  • Ex - Officio

Karen Jones-Zach

Job Titles:
  • Member of the RIC Standing

Larry Patrick - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

Laura Miller - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Leslie Osborne

Job Titles:
  • Founder & Chief Executive Officer / Watauga Group

Marcellus Turner - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chief Librarian

Mark McNeely

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Martha S. (Missy) Wallen

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Knoxville Pinnacle Financial Partners

McNeely Brockman

Job Titles:
  • Public Relations

Meghana Pamidi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the RIC Standing

Najwa Albaqami

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I PhD, PR )

Peyton Manning

Job Titles:
  • Retired NFL Quarterback

Rex L. Repass

Job Titles:
  • President / Research America Inc.

Ryan McGee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Writer

Sandra Treadway

Job Titles:
  • Librarian of Virginia / Library of Virginia

Scott Greeves

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, President ( C & I, PhD, ADPR )

Sharon Price John - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • President

Snigdha Dhar

Job Titles:
  • Senior Account Executive

Stephanie Frazier

Job Titles:
  • Senior Client Success Lead

Stephen Land

Land's philanthropic support of the College of Communication and Information, comes in the form of a bequest to establish the Land Family Communications Endowed Scholarship and to fund the Land CCI Ambassadors Program.

Suzie Allard - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Associate Dean for Research

Tim Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Director of Operations & Client Development

Tonya Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Manager / Rothschild & Co

Traci Lively

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Association, Vice President ( C & I, PhD, CS )

Vandana Singh - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Virginia Kupritz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
  • Ex - Officio