Frank Butler

Frank is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC).
His doctorate is in Strategic Management with a support area of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
He has published several book chapters and numerous papers in academic journals and practitioner journals including Harvard Business Review.
He has consulted with founders, top managers, and boards of directors from new ventures to large, established organizations, both for profit and non-profit.
Additionally, he provides tailored leadership training, teaches executive education classes in the U.S.
and Mexico, and a course on managing across borders in Germany.
Frank currently serves on the board of directors for EIRSYSTEM, Inc. Prior to academia, Frank co-founded an IT networking and technical support company.
After selling the company, he worked for a software development firm that provided software to the healthcare industry.
He moved to Germany for several years and worked for a multinational IT company responsible for international sales, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.
He also worked for BearingPoint as an IT consultant.
He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D.
from Florida State University.