Are you an entrepreneur, service provider, investor or economic developer?
The Mississippi Technology Alliance’s Venture Coaching Academy
can give you the tools to coach new ventures to success.
Designed for busy professionals, this course teaches you how to size up a client,
evaluate the deal and prepare the client to pitch the deal to investors.

Congratulations to our latest Venture Coaching Fellow Graduates:

De Anna Adams Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University
Sumesh Arora Mississippi Technology Alliance
Tom Atkins Mississippi State University
Wayne Averett Renasant Center for IDEAs
Shanda Barrett Mississippi Technology Alliance
La Tasha Bibb Mississippi Technology Alliance
Joel Bomgar Bomgar
Natalie Boudreaux Mississippi Technology Alliance
John Brandon Mississippi Development Authority
Gwen Catchings Mississippi Valley State University
Nichole D’Andrea Alabama Southern Community College
Bruce Deer Neopolas Technology
Joe Fanguy Mississippi State University
Stacey Gaines Mississippi Technology Alliance
Kim Gallaspy Mississippi Technology Alliance
Sheldon Grizzle Create Here
Glen Haab Alabama Southern Community College
Matt Harrison Texas Instruments Inc.
James Hendricks University of Mississippi SBDC
John Hendrix Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Lurlene Irvin Jackson State University
Tony Jeff Mississippi Technology Alliance
Lylla Joe Mississippi Technology Alliance
Joe Jordan Mississippi State University
Billy Klauser Mississippi Development Authority
Clay Lewis Mississippi Development Authority
Nathan McNeill Bomgar
Andrew Murff University of Mississippi
Don Pital Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Center
Brad Prewitt Prewitt Group
Chris Reed The Montgomery Institute
Robert Sheely Mississippi State University
Christie Sledge Delta State University SBDC
Bob Smira Lawrence County Community Development Association
Ken Sones Mississippi Development Authority
William Spears The Juliet Collective
Bubba Weir Mississippi Technology Alliance
Stephen Whitt The Innovation Center
Joan Wilkinson Southwest Mississippi Community College
Sue Wright Hancock County Development Commission

To learn more about the Venture Coaching Academy, contact Stacey Gaines at sgaines@mta.ms or 601-960-3610.

This project is partially funded by a grant from the United States Department of Labor.