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WHAT WE DO

From idea to enterprise, i2E helps build, launch, and grow great ideas.

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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.

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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.

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Jennie Brandon

Jennie Brandon

Operations/Event Coordinator

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Shannon Carr

Shannon Carr

Communications Director

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Gerda Elpedes

Gerda Elpedes

Staff Accountant

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Srijita Ghosh

Venture Advisor

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John Gorman

John Gorman

Controller

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Mark Lauringer

Mark Lauinger

Senior Vice President Venture Development

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Eduardo Marchena

Eduardo “Tito” Marchena

Program Manager

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Marla O'Fallon

Marla O’Fallon

Operations Manager

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Richard Rainey

Richard Rainey

Senior Venture Advisor

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Michael J. Rohleder

Michael J. Rohleder

Executive-in-Residence

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Rex Smitherman

Rex Smitherman

President

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Darcy Wilbourn

Darcy Wilborn

Vice President of Operations

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Board of Directors

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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

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OKC, OK 73104
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Tulsa, OK 74103
+1 (918) 582.5592

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