EO Nashville members make Fortune’s Inner City 100

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune magazine announced today its winners of the 2012 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in America. We’ve happy to report that three EO Nashville member companies made the cut: Emma [Clint Smith], ranked 27 CentreSource Inc. [Nicholas Holland], ranked 51 [...]

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EO Members Honored in Tech 25

In the November/December issue of Nashville Post magazine, which came out Friday, four EO Nashville members and their companies were honored as part of the Best Employes and Tech 25 lists. Best Employers 2011 Jerry Bostelman, Vaco Clint Smith, Emma Tom Turner, Document Solutions Inc. The Post used employee research company, The Work Institute, to [...]

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EO Nashville and EO Catalyst members honored as NEXT Award finalists

The Nashville Chamber has announced the finalists for its inaugural NEXT Awards that replaced its Future 50. Of course the finalists include EO and EO Catalyst members, who we’ve listed below. Congratulations to all finalists! 2011 Nashville Chamber NEXT Award finalists (Award finalists include both companies and individual entrepreneurs) EO Member Companies Honored Bernard Health [...]

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EO Nashville Members in the News

Three EO Nashville members were featured in this week’s Nashville Business Journal. John Kepley (Teknetex), Clint Smith (Emma) and Michael Burcham (Entrepreneur Center) were all named to the NBJ’s Technology Power Leaders list. Check out their bios below to read more. Also, the NBJ’s “Spotlight on Entrepreneurs” focused on the continued work on StartUp Tennessee, [...]

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EO Nashville and the Inc. 500|5000 List

1 in 4 Nashville Area Companies to Make the 2011 Inc. 500|5000 List are EO Nashville Members Of the current 88 EO Nashville members, 15% have been named to the Inc. 500|5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. EO Nashville member companies also make up 25% of Nashville-based companies on the Inc. 500|5000 [...]

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EO Members in the News: Rebecca Donner, Clint Smith, Andy Bailey and Sonny Clark

Today’s Nashville Business Journal includes stories on EO members Rebecca Donner, Clint Smith, Andy Bailey and Sonny Clark. The “Case Study” on Rebecca’s business, Inner Design Studio, features her firm’s turnkey solutions: “Firm offers turnkey design for health care“ The “Executive Profile” on Clint of Emma gives insight into the evolution of the email marketing [...]

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EO Nashville Member Company Emma Wins National Award

Join me in congratulating EO member and past president Clint Smith whose company Emma has been named one of the “2011 Top Small Company Workplaces” by Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces. One of 50 companies nationally to be recognized, Emma was the only Tennessee business to make the list. The annual contest recognizes small and [...]

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Nashville CEO Forums — An Overview

In this month’s Nashville Post Magazine, EO Nashville is prominently featured in a story about CEO forums. The story begins with a quote from member Tom Turner of DSi, and includes photos of past president Clint Smith of Emma and current president Debbie Gordon of S3 Consulting and Snappy Auctions. The story makes a great [...]

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Inner City 100

Two EO Nashville companies have been named to the Inner City 100, a list created by Fortune magazine of the 100 fastest growing businesses located in America’s urban cores. Emma, led by immediate EO past president Clint Smith, made the #10 spot on the list. Concept Technology Inc., led by EO member James Fields, came [...]

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More EO Nashville Award Winners!

The following two EO Nashville businesses were 2011 winners of the Nashville Business Journal’s Corporate Philanthropy awards: Crosslin & Associates PC (Justin Crosslin) Emma (Clint Smith) Check out today’s NBJ for the complete list of 2011 winners. An overall winner will be announced May 12 at a reception at the Hutton Hotel. Congratulations Justin and [...]

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