DANE BRADSHAWTitle: President and chief operating officer of Thunder EnterprisesAge: 27Education: Earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and a master’s degree in sports management while playing basketball for four years at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.Career: He authored “Vertical Leap: Inside the Rise of Tennessee Basketball,” after graduating from UT and then played for a year in the European professional basketball league. He joined Thunder Enterprises in 2008 to help start Taxi on Demand and later moved to marketing properties before being named president of Thunder Enterprises last fall.Personal: He and his wife have a 3-month-old child and reside in Knoxville.
Dane Bradshaw may not always have been the best basketball player on the court during his career with the Tennessee Vols or with the Den Helder Seals in the Netherlands professional basketball league.
But since the Memphis native joined his first basketball team in kindergarten, he always was the team captain picked by his coaches or teammates to lead his teams.
Last fall, after only three years working for Chattanooga developer John “Thunder” Thornton, Bradshaw was named president of Thunder Enterprises and “captain” of sorts for Thornton’s newest venture in Marion County.
Bradshaw is heading a sales effort being launched today to market home lots on Jasper Mountain to relocating retirees, vacation home buyers and area residents eager to enjoy the mountain vistas in the new “Jasper Highlands.”