Russell Ingram

About Russell Ingram

COMPLEX PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST * Expert in optimizing underperforming projects and businesses * Astute business and systems analyst * Experienced community and economic developer * Effective technology project leader * Exceptional analytical thinker and problem solver * Excellent documentation, communication, and collaboration skills * Effective at C-suite consultative sales and new business development * Pragmatic financial manager and talent developer * Polished and persuasive communicator * Experienced with office, productivity, and collaboration software * Experienced with image editors and design, wireframing, and prototyping tools SPECIALTIES Complex project management * Analyze opportunities, establish project/resource plan, build consensus, execute, assess Mediation between business requirements and technology development * Lead business requirements assessment * Support agile technologists for iterative development and testing * Experienced with the technology development life cycle and development process Troubleshooting and turnaround management * Optimize underperforming businesses and initiatives * Assess barriers to objectives, discover solutions to key problems, execute and assess improvements People management * Recognize talent, mentor their development, evaluate performance, promote to new challenges Business development * Solicit growth opportunity insights from customers and constituents * Implement or acquire growth products or services. Behavior design * Evaluate, revise, or implement new incentives and cues to influence target behaviors Liaison between legal counsel and business * Guide counsel to structure transactions, ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate litigation risk Acquisition integration * Communicate acquirer culture, remove structural and staffing barriers to integration

Experience

1. Chief Operating Officer

   Epicenter Memphis

   Mar 2019 — Present

   Epicenter, the nonprofit hub of the greater Memphis entrepreneurial movement, uses collective impact and a systems approach to connect entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas to programming, capital, customers, and talent in order to create a just, inclusive, and growing economy that accrues to all Memphians.

Education

• Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management

  MBA, strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior

  2002 — 2004

• Harvard Business School Executive Education Programs

  Executive seminars, organizational and competitive strategy, strategic performance management, healthcare economics

  2005 — 2006

• The University of Memphis

  BA, English, Summa Cum Laude

  1994 — 1996

• University of Memphis

  MA, English, business communications and documentation

  1997 — 1999