Michelle Livengood

This Greeneville native graduated cum laude from ETSU in 1984 with a B.B.A. degree. She returned to her alma mater 17 years later to be honored as its Outstanding Alumna.

Her career path between those years has led rapidly upward. After earning her business degree, she joined the audit staff of Price Waterhouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While with the firm, she expanded her areas of expertise, serving in several offices, including special experience as human resource manager for the company.

In 1993, she joined Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. as Director of Human Resources and was then promoted to Vice President of Strategic Planning. Her next promotion, to Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, called upon her experience in business management and her understanding of business people.

Krispy Kreme was poised for an initial public offering in 2000, and Livengood played a major role, planning and communicating across the nation that giant step which raised more than $68 million – the second most successful initial public offering that year. Then came another tremendous achievement, a follow-up offering in 2001 that raised more than $174 million. The corporation, producer of one of America’s best-loved confections, saw system-wide sales grow from $168 million in 1997 to more than $400 million last year.

Livengood is a CPA (inactive), a member of various professional organizations, and serves on the boards of directors of Junior Achievement of Northwest North Carolina and the Northwest North Carolina Second Harvest Food Bank. She also serves on the ETSU National Alumni Association Board of Directors.