Jack StuderAbout Co.Lab
Origin: The Company Lab grew out of CreateHere and was started in 2010No. served: 694 program participants, not counting individual mentoring or screeningLocation: First floor of the Edney Building at Market and 11th StreetsBudget: About $1 million a year from local foundations, Launch Tennessee and business donorsLeadership: Mike Bradshaw is being succeeded as interim executive director by Jack Studer while the board looks for a permanent headStaff: 10 employee staffPrograms: Business accelerator programs, Co.Starters, GigTank, 48Hour Launch, Teacherpreneur and others
Rick Hitchcock, former chairman of the board of CARTA, is interviewed as CARTA officials and others who were involved in the development of the free downtown electric shuttles gather at a meeting of the Times Free Press editorial board Wednesday.
True to its name, the Company Lab continues to experiment with new ways and means to help start more successful companies in Chattanooga.
A year after relocating to the Edney Building to help form the hub of Chattanooga’s new Innovation District, the Co.Lab is getting a new executive director and its board is developing a new strategic plan for the future.
Mike Bradshaw, a 62-year-old successful entrepreneur and manager who headed the Co.Lab for the past couple of years, is leaving his post to expand his work as director of the learning management system for Jensen Hughes Academy, a division of Jenson Hughes – one of the world’s biggest providers of fire protection and safety systems.
Bradshaw, whose new office is nine floors above the Co.Lab office he is vacating in the Edney Building, is being succeeded at the Co.Lab by Lamp Post Group partner Jack Studer, at least on an interim basis.