WHAT WE DO
From idea to enterprise, i2E helps build, launch, and grow great ideas.
We Serve
Innovators & entrepreneurs.
We have an open-door policy with entrepreneurs, regardless of their level of need. We provide infrastructure, resources, and support to prepare you for wherever you’re trying to go.
We Serve
Community.
We live in a special place, and we believe it’s our responsibility to make our community stronger. We do that through the direct support of innovators and entrepreneurs, by facilitating and circulating good news that boosts the reputation and credibility of the state, and by committing our resources to making Oklahoma a better place to live, work, start a business or family, and leave a legacy.
i2E receives state support from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology and is an integral part of Oklahoma’s Innovation Model.
Our Values
Accountable.
Your success is our success. We’ll give you our very best because we expect the same of you.
Objective.
We’ll give you clear, honest, well-intentioned advice, perspective, and direction, rooted in data and in our decades of experience.
Innovative.
We’re here to help ensure the next great ideas, businesses, and leaders make it to market.
The best in the business, here to help yours.
Meet our team
Through our decades of experience, connections, and proven success, we have what innovators and entrepreneurs need to build, launch and strategically grow their business.
Operations/Event Coordinator
Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Program Manager
Gerda Elpedes
Senior Accountant
Venture Advisor & Business Development Director
Controller
Senior Vice President Venture Development
Operations Manager
Senior Venture Advisor
Executive-in-Residence
President
Board of Directors
Rose Washington Jones, Chair
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation
Darryl Schmidt, Vice Chair
BancFirst
Michael LaBrie, Secretary
McAfee & Taft
Steve Cropper
Philip Eller
Eller Detrich, P.C.
Tom Evans
Encompass Financial Services, Inc.
Christy Gillenwater
Greater Oklahoma City Chamber
Danny Hilliard
Chickasaw Nation
Phillip Kurtz
CareATC
Devon Laney
Gradient
Rick McCune
Presbyterian Health Foundation
Jennifer McGrail
OCAST
Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
David Pitts
Simmons Bank
Ryan Posey
HSI Sensing
Mark Poole
BancFirst Vinita
Craig Shimasaki
Moleculera Biosciences
James Spann
Boyd Street Ventures
Robert Thomas
Dr. Andrew Weyrich
OMRF
Roy Williams
Duane Wilson
LDW Services, LLC
Our Corporate Partners
