Management Solutions is a national award-winning performance management and consulting services firm that specializes in improving organizational performance through proven sustainable solutions, customized to meet its clients and partners’ needs. Known for our engineering processes which are driven by advanced technological knowledge, enhanced professional standards and innovative solutions, we consistently deliver significant cost reductions, improved efficiencies, expedited project completion and increased business value to our clients. Our Gold Standard performance management and consulting services ensure our clients the best, most reliable and innovative business solutions. We delivers customized and sustainable management and consultation services to a wide variety of government agencies and commercial businesses. Utilizing advanced technologies and practices, our performance management and consulting services provide value far beyond a stated scope of work. Management Solutions maintains a culture of innovation that fosters creative thinking, and advances efforts to create enhanced economic and business value for every client. Each member of the Management Solutions team works hard and puts forth our best professional effort to achieve every project for every client on time, on budget, every time. But we also realize that our work is only part of our identities, we take time to have fun, recognize personal achievements and give back to the community as well. We promote a work environment that recognizes we are part of something larger. We believe in being good stewards in our local community and offer opportunities to our employees to participate in charitable work with a larger cause. This ability to engage and give back strengthens our own sense of family and community, improves our teamwork skills as an organization, and adds strength to our individual and collective ability to achieve optimal results. We are a certified EDWOSB and also an 8(a) firm.
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Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS) is a recognized market leader in providing the worldwide nuclear power industry with equipment, training, and services to verify the performance of process instrumentation and control (I&C) systems.
Merrick & Company is an employee-owned engineering, architecture, surveying, and geospatial firm, headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Sears Merrick, a former engineering professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, founded our company in 1955 in Denver. Our initial focus on structural engineering quickly expanded into power engineering, surveying and other types of engineering across Colorado.
Though Merrick has grown to serve customers outside of Colorado, we haven’t outgrown our founder’s belief in the value of employee ownership: “If a man works for himself, he is much more committed.”
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Shift Thermal was founded in 2017 by two engineering PhDs from Cornell University to help solve for the missing link in our sustainable energy future: energy storage. The company moved to Tennessee to join the inaugural cohort of Innovation Crossroads, a DOE-funded entrepreneurship program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Over the next two years, the team invented IHEX technology and built a deep scientific understanding of its capabilities. Since graduation from the ORNL program, with support from NSF and DOE, our team has expanded with talented scientists and engineers, brought IHEX to commercial scale, and partnered with multinational HVAC firms to realize our founding vision.
WastAway, based in Morrison, Tenn., is a leading green technology company boasting a multi-patented equipment design and processing system that converts municipal solid waste (MSW) to fuel, achieving 85% landfill diversion. WastAway’s technology removes metals (ferrous and non-ferrous), plastics, glass and ceramics for recycling and converts the remaining waste into sterile carbon rich sustainable engineered fuel for a variety of uses. Its renewable – negative carbon footprint – products include a soil enrichment additive; a proven, high-BTU coal replacement fuel for cement kilns, power plants, steel mills, pulp mills and other solid fuel users; biofuels through gasification and pyrolysis; renewable natural gas (RNG) through anaerobic digestion and building materials through extrusion processes. WastAway was founded in 2002 as a subsidiary of Bouldin Corporation, which began in 1959 as Bouldin & Lawson, a manufacturer of agricultural and horticultural machinery for the greenhouse and nursery industries. For more information, visit www.wastaway.com.
Harvey Abouelata, founder of AREA51.SOLAR, boasts a rich history in business management, strategy, sales, marketing, and public relations, with a special focus on renewable energy. Graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1984, he began his career by developing cost accounting and estimating software for manufacturing. His proficiency in accounting and metric data collection paved the way for his involvement in business launches, reorganizations, and market introductions of new technologies.
Harvey is renowned for his expertise in creating successful sales and marketing strategies, business plans, and economic development strategies. His approach is marked by key phrases like “fast cycle time”, “In God we trust and all others must provide data,” and “Build the win in for all stakeholders.” His tenure in the solar industry is particularly noteworthy, where he successfully secured millions in grants for local companies and the state of Tennessee.
Catbird Consulting brings new and emerging technologies to market. We support academic, government, industrial, and R&D organizations, matching emerging technologies to markets, partnerships, and novel uses.
We focus on advanced technology adaptation, technology/R&D scouting, and new venture development. Using customer and market discovery best practices, we find product-market fit and develop it into efficient business models . Model and market evaluations inform development of sustainable funding plans and partnering strategies for a range of technologies, government/university R&D, and private-sector industries.
We are strategically located in Tennessee’s Technology Corridor near Oak Ridge National Lab, and other major research institutions.
Chroma Energy Group provides solar engineering, procurement and construction services across the Southeast, Midwest and beyond. With a team of more than 14 solar photovoltaic (PV) experts, Chroma Energy Group provides contracting services for utilities, government, industrial and commercial businesses and is committed to high standards of workmanship, cost-effective construction and quality products.
Founded in March 2023 by Ed Rottmann, Chroma Energy Group focuses on solar installation with an eye toward future growth into other renewable energy sources and products, such as storage and other clean technology initiatives.
CO.LAB is a 501c3 nonprofit based in Chattanooga, TN that accelerates early-stage startups in the sustainable mobility space.
We believe that your venture can make the world a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable place – if provided with the right resources. Our organization has the connections, means, and motivation to help you move the needle of progress forward.
Eonix is an early stage energy storage company. Our mission is to dramatically increase the energy density of next-generation energy storage technologies. Born from the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, New York in early 2013, the primary focus of Eonix is the development of advanced ionic liquid electrolytes to be used in ultracapacitors.
For over 200 years, private colleges have been serving the Volunteer state. In 1956, the precursor of the Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association (TICUA) was established to promote better cooperation among private institutions throughout the state of Tennessee. TICUA is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of member college presidents and corporate and civic leaders. Daily activities are coordinated by a five member staff.
TICUA engages Tennessee’s private colleges and universities to work collaboratively in areas of public policy, cost containment, and professional development to better serve the state and its citizens. The association counts among its membership each independent, non-profit, accredited college and university in Tennessee with a traditional arts and science curriculum. In addition, there are several non-profit, accredited members that specialize in such fields as medicine, dentistry, optometry, and technology.
TICUA is a tax-exempt charitable organization under federal and state laws. All contributions are tax deductible in accordance with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code. The association’s fiscal year is January 1st to December 31st.
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, IACMI, is a partnership of industry, academic institutions, as well as federal, state, and local governments that are working together to benefit the nation’s energy and economic security. This diverse public/private partnership validates manufacturing technologies that respond to private industry’s need for faster and more cost, material, and energy-efficient composite manufacturing, including recycling at the end of product life. IACMI’s research and development programs are driven by major industry participation with a focus on reducing technical risk and developing a robust supply chain to support a growing advanced composites industry.
IACMI broadly engages educational, economic development, trade, and professional organizations to build the skills and workforce critical to the growth of composite industry companies of all sizes.
IACMI is managed by Collaborative Composite Solutions Corporation (CCS), a not-for-profit organization established by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation.