Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council members Mary Shafer Gill of ARiES Energy and Tom Ballard of Pershing Yoakley & Associates participated in the Knoxville Entrepreneur Roundtable on November 7, 2014 at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center.

The panelists discussed how startup companies succeed and what factors are influencing entrepreneurship in the area. Perhaps the most captivating questions of the afternoon: “How can Knoxville grow into becoming the South’s mecca for entrepreneurship?”

Click here for a recap of the Roundtable, as told through the eyes of Cameo Jonas, a University of Tennessee student who attended the event.