Executives-in-Residence
The college's executives-in-residence are accomplished business people who volunteer time and expertise with faculty and students.
John Riddell, 2004-present
John Riddell is a graduate of the University of the South. He served as president of Turnbull Baking Company. He is director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Growth and writes a weekly column on entrepreneurship for the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
John is an adjunct professor at UTC and teaches international marketing and international management.
Judy Finley Stone, 2004-present
Judy is an alum of the UTC accounting program. She was employed with Joseph Decosimo & Co. for 10 years as a tax manager specializing in taxation of estates and trusts. She has been recognized for her contributions to the accounting profession and her outstanding volunteer efforts.
Judy serves on the Accounting Advisory Board and has taught business etiquette classes to current business students.
Lauren Templeton, 2010-present
Lauren C. Templeton is the founder and president of Lauren Templeton Capital Management, LLC; a value investing boutique located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The company is the general partner to the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund.
Ms. Templeton received a B.A. in Economics from the University of the South. She is the president and founder of the Southeastern Hedge Fund Association, Inc. (www.sehfa.com) based in Atlanta, Georgia. Given the broad interest in this organization Ms. Templeton has also consulted on the establishment of sister organizations in various other cities. In addition to these responsibilities Ms. Templeton also currently serves the following organizations: the Board of Trustees at the Baylor School, the Finance Advisory Board of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, and as Director of the Global Finance Center at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. In the past, Ms. Templeton has served as President of the Atlanta Hedge Fund Roundtable and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Memorial Hospital Foundation.
Ms. Templeton is also an active member of Rotary International. She serves on the investment committee of Chattanooga Rotary Club 103.
Lauren is the great niece of Sir John M. Templeton and is a current member of the John M. Templeton Foundation which was established in 1987. At JTF, Lauren serves on the compensation committee and assists in the oversight of the employee 401k plan.
Lauren Templeton began investing as a child under the heavy influence of her father as well as her late great-uncle, Sir John Templeton. Professionally speaking, Lauren began her career working with managed portfolios and investments in 1998, beginning as a junior associate at the financial advisor Homrich and Berg and later the hedge fund management company New Providence Advisors, both of Atlanta. In 2001, Lauren launched her own hedge fund management company which dedicates its efforts to the practice of value investing across the global markets, using the same methods learned from her great-uncle, Sir John Templeton. Ms. Templeton is also the co-author of, Investing the Templeton Way: The Market Beating Strategies of Value Investing Legendary Bargain Hunter, 2007, McGraw Hill, which has been translated into nine languages. Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and recent author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press. Lauren and Scott produce a quarterly investment report titled the Maximum Pessimism Report which is distributed worldwide (www.maximumpessimism.com). Lauren and Scott enjoy spending their free time with their nineteen month old daughter Mary Handly.
Jenny Whitener, 2010-present
Jenny is the Chief Executive of Bridge Consulting International in the US and former Global Director of Learning at Ernst & Young Consulting. With over 22 years of experience, Jenny specializes in leadership development, acceleration workshops, executive coaching & team development, and performance and rewards systems. An innovator in her field, she is known for research based needs analysis, use of acceleration and collaboration tools, active learning techniques in solution designs, experience with psychometric tools, and the linkage of knowledge management, learning and performance & rewards processes to achieve a total performance improvement solution. She also has experience in human resource management in the areas of competency modeling, recruiting and credentialing, performance coaching and management, culture change, organizational effectiveness, communications, and team dynamics. Her business experience includes marketing and sales, strategic planning, outsourcing, operational improvement, and de-Nuevo opportunities.
Jenny serves on the the Dean's Advisory Board.
