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.
Jennie Brandon
Operations/Event Coordinator
Shannon Carr
Communications Director
Gerda Elpedes
Staff Accountant
Srijita Ghosh
Venture Advisor
John Gorman
Controller
Mark Lauinger
Senior Vice President Venture Development
Eduardo “Tito” Marchena
Program Manager
Marla O’Fallon
Operations Manager
Richard Rainey
Senior Venture Advisor
Michael J. Rohleder
Executive-in-Residence
Rex Smitherman
President
Darcy Wilborn
Vice President of Operations
Board of Directors
Rose Washington Jones, Chair
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation
Mark Poole, Vice Chair
BancFirst Vinita
Michael LaBrie, Secretary
McAfee & Taft
Howard Barnett, Jr.
The Barnett Family Law Firm
Michael Basch
Atento Capital
Steve Cropper
Philip Eller
Eller Detrich, P.C.
Tom Evans
Encompass Financial Services, Inc.
Christy Gillenwater
Greater Oklahoma City Chamber
Danny Hilliard
Chickasaw Nation
Arthur Jackson
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Phillip Kurtz
CareATC
Devon Laney
36 Degrees North
Rick McCune
Presbyterian Health Foundation
Jennifer McGrail
OCAST
Mark Nance
American Fidelity Corporation
David Pitts
Simmons Bank
Ryan Posey
HSI Sensing
Darryl Schmidt
BancFirst
Craig Shimasaki
Moleculera Labs, Inc.
James Spann
Boyd Street Ventures
Robert Thomas
Dr. Andrew Weyrich
OMRF
Roy Williams
Duane Wilson
LDW Services, LLC
Our Corporate Partners
