Mike Cuddy Named President and Chief Executive Officer
of Technology 2020
The Technology 2020 Board of Directors announced today the appointment of Mike Cuddy as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Technology 2020, a regional economic development organization headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is dedicated to helping create new businesses and high quality jobs by capitalizing on the unique technology resources in the Tennessee Valley Corridor.
L. Mike Cuddy
Cuddy has dedicated his career to making East Tennessee a better place to live and work. He has worked for the past decade as the Vice President for Information Technology Services at SAIC, one of the region’s largest employers. Prior to joining SAIC, Cuddy supported the Department of Energy’s missions in Oak Ridge, working for thirty years in increasingly responsible positions for Union Carbide, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin Energy Systems. From 1994 to 1998, Cuddy was responsible for a $120 million Technology Services Business Unit with clients in both the federal and private sectors.
“A ten-person search committee, with the assistance of an executive search firm, conducted a national search for Tech 2020’s new President and CEO,” said search committee Chair Homer Fisher. “The position attracted interest from outstanding professionals across the country, and Mike Cuddy was unanimously our first choice. Mike has a rare combination of strategic leadership skills, highly successful business development experience, and a great passion, combined with an impressive vision for Technology 2020. He impressed the search committee and the staff with his ideas for and commitment to moving the organization forward in partnership with other organizations in our region.”
Cuddy has received two degrees from the University of Tennessee – a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Finance and Operations Research. He has been very active in community affairs, serving on the Boards of the Knox County E 911 district, the American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation, and on the UT President’s Committee on the Future of the University of Tennessee. He has also served as a founding board member of Technology 2020, and has been a member of the organization’s Financial Oversight and Executive Committee.
“Technology 2020 has proven to be a valuable part of our region’s support system for our entrepreneurs and technology based business community,” said Cuddy. “I am extremely pleased and excited to have been chosen to lead such an impressive organization that was created to support and enable the success of our sponsoring organizations and client companies. This is noble work and I intend to build upon the success of our former CEO, Tom Rogers and his predecessor, Alex Fischer. I look forward to working with the outstanding Tech 2020 Board of Directors as we focus on our partners and clients in delivering services that will make a difference for our regional economic success.”
Cuddy and his wife Carolyn live in Knoxville, where she serves as the Executive Director of the UT Center for Executive Education Leadership and Executive MBA Programs. He will begin his new career at Tech 2020 on October 6th.
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Teresa Nichols
Technology 2020
Phone: (865) 220-2020
Email: tnichols@tech2020.org