Memphis - 1987

INROADS/Memphis opened with 28 interns in 1987.

The Commercial Appeal ($25,000), Goldsmiths’s ($7,500), Memphis Light, Gas, and Water ($7,500), Richards Medical ($5,000), Holiday Corporation ($5,000), IBM ($5,000), Way Venture Fund ($5,000), South Central Bell ($5,000), Boatmen’s Bank ($2,500), Coopers & Lybrand ($2,5000), Kroger ($2,000), E.H. Crump ($2,000) and Cargill ($1,000) gave funds to support the start-up of the affiliate.

In addition to the above companies, carrier, First American Bank, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, and WMC-TV sponsored interns.
Initial Board members were:
David Adair, Managing Partner, Peat Marwick Main
Gary Baldwin, President, Buckman Laboratories
Robert Bird, Managing Partner, Coopers & Lybrand
Leslie Dale, District Manager, South Central Bell
Beverly Goines, AVP, Union Planters National Bank
Cato Johnson, SVP, Methodist Health System
Tom Martin, President, First American Bank-Memphis
Carl Papa, Branch Manager, IBM
Larry Papasan, President, Memphis Light, Gas & Water
Larry Pressley, SVP, Boatmen’s Bank of Tennessee
Rudi Scheldt, President, Hohenberg Bros
Gerhard Seblatnigg, Director of Information Systems, International Paper
Gary Shorb, President, Regional Medical Center
John Thomason, Attorney, Thomason, Hendrix, Harvey & Blanchard

By the year 2000, INROADS/Memphis had 51 interns.