| Bio
Charlie Ragland is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Business in Marketing, Management, and Entrepreneurship. His courses include New Venture Creation, Small Business Entrepreneurship (MBA), International Management (MBA), Business-to-Business Marketing, and Business Communications.
He founded the Ragland Group in 2000 with the purpose of "helping companies grow". His clients range from global multi-national corporations to emerging companies, including GE Plastics, BASF, Saint-Gobain Vetrotex America, Owens-Corning, Avery Dennison, Polymer Group, Microwave Synergy, and Dale Buchanan & Associates.
His commercial experience includes more than twenty-five years in sales, marketing, business management, and general management roles with Owens-Corning, GE Plastics, BFGoodrich - Geon Vinyl Division, AlliedSignal Plastics, and SI Corp.
Charlie has diversified industry experience in engineering materials, polymers, plastics, fabrics, fibers, additives, composites, ready-mix concrete, and specialty chemicals. He has a global perspecitve with international experience in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia) and Europe.
He earned his BSBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. |
