Meet Our Team

We’re a group of passionate, community-minded people who believe that mutual advancement is the best (perhaps the only) way forward. If you succeed, we succeed—your win is everyone’s win. 

By bringing accelerator best practices to historically underserved populations, we fully expect to find genius where nobody was looking.

  • Anthony Young

    Anthony Young

    President & CEO

  • Nate Smith

    Nate Smith

    Director of Programs

  • Choya Johnson

    Choya Johnson

    Entrepreneurial Programs Specialist

  • Gillian Tinnin

    Gillian Tinnin

    Marketing & Engagement Specialist

  • Faith Choi

    Faith Choi

    Events & Experience Manager

Four women walking into Epicenter headquarters.

About Epicenter

Epicenter leads the connected and collaborative entrepreneur ecosystem in the Memphis and Delta region. Using a systems approach, Epicenter drives strategy and measures impact among a network of economic development, academic, corporate, and government partners to increase support to new and existing tech startups, creative and student tech entrepreneurs, and others across industries and stages of growth. Epicenter and its partners connect these entrepreneurs and their innovative ideas to programming, capital, customers, and talent in order to create a just, inclusive, and growing economy that accrues to all Memphians. For more information visit epicentermemphis.org.