Entrepreneurs' Club

JOHNSON CITY  (Nov. 6, 2018) — The Entrepreneurs’ Club at East Tennessee State University will welcome guest speaker Louie Gump at its meeting on Monday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m. in Sam Wilson Hall, room 322.

The co-founder of East Tennessee Hospice (first Hospice in Johnson City) and Hands-On Museum will present “Nifty Nuggets about Leadership.” His talk is free and open to the public.

Gump is a native of Johnson City and was a Morehead-Cain Scholar at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After serving two years in the U.S. Navy as a destroyer officer, he returned to Johnson City to work with family finance businesses and several years later they acquired, expanded and sold a local pharmaceutical distribution company. After serving as president of a public company subsidiary, Gump started Impact Management and is actively involved in the entrepreneurial sector.

In addition to being the Founder of the Roan Scholars Leadership Program at ETSU and a member of its Steering Committee, Gump is also a member of both the Junior Achievement the ETSU College of Business and Technology Halls of Fame, as well as the Bank of Tennessee Board of Directors.

Directions to Sam Wilson Hall are available at www.etsu.edu/maps/. For additional information, contact Mitzi Brookshear at brookshe@etsu.edu or 423-439-7444. For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.


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