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.
Scott Meacham
CEO
Rex Smitherman
President
Mark Lauinger
Senior VP of Client Services
Michael J. Rohleder
Executive-in-Residence
Judy Beech
Vice President & Director of Finance
Richard Rainey
Senior Venture Advisor
Malachi Blankenship
Venture Advisor & Director of Business Development
Srijita Dia Ghosh
Venture Advisor
Meredith Wilkerson
Life Sciences Venture Advisor & OKBio Director
Darcy Wilborn
Director of Client Engagement & Entrepreneurial Programs
Taleya Mayberry
Program Manager
Jennie Brandon
Executive Assistant
Gerda Elpedes
Staff Accountant
Marla O’Fallon
Tulsa Operations Coordinator
Board of Directors
Mark Poole, Chair
BancFirst Vinita
Brad Krieger, Vice Chair
Arvest Bank
Michael LaBrie, Secretary
McAfee & Taft
Howard Barnett, Jr.
The Barnett Family Law Firm
Michael Basch
Atento Capital
Leslie Batchelor
Center for Economic Development Law
Steve Cropper
Carl Edwards
Price Edwards Company
Philip Eller
Eller Detrich, P.C.
Tom Evans
Encompass Financial Services, Inc.
Chris Fleming
REHCO, LLC
Danny Hilliard
Chickasaw Nation
Phillip Kurtz
CareATC
Hershel Lamirand III
Capital Development Strategies
Devon Laney
36 Degrees North
Jennifer McGrail
OCAST
Justin McLaughlin
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
David Pitts
Simmons Bank
Ryan Posey
HSI Sensing
Claudia San Pedro
Sonic Corporation
Meg Salyer
Broadway Realty
Darryl Schmidt
BancFirst
Craig Shimasaki
Moleculera Labs, Inc.
Robert Thomas
George Kaiser Family Foundation
Rose Washington
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation
Roy Williams
Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
Duane Wilson
LDW Services, LLC
Dr. Andrew Weyrich
OMRF
Our Corporate Partners
