Brian Wood is head golf professional at Memphis National Golf Club, a role in which he oversees a variety of functions related to the club's operations. Wood, a PGA professional and member of the Tennessee Section of the PGA of America, previously served as assistant golf professional at Windyke Country Club.

2. Last Word: Wessman Trouble, Selling 495 Union and An Underground Film Icon - Friday, February 17, 2017

When Wessman Development came to town last year with the idea of a boutique hotel, the Palm Springs, California company was part of the flood of smaller hotel projects Memphis was seeing and is still seeing. Then the company added another hotel and just this month the redevelopment of a building on Madison west of Second Street as apartments with retail on the ground floor. In a very short period of time, Wessman has had a lot of plans for Memphis.

3. NuVasive Receives 11-Year PILOT, Will Invest $116 Million - Friday, February 17, 2017

Medical device company NuVasive Inc. has been approved for an 11-year tax incentive that will allow them to invest $116 million into their southeast Memphis facility and create 15 net new jobs.

4. Litigator Kimberly Hodges Joins Ogletree Deakins - Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Kimberly Hodges has joined Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C., one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, as a shareholder in the Memphis office. Hodges has 16 years’ experience as an attorney focused on employment law counseling and litigation. She comes to Ogletree Deakins from Federal Express Corp., where she served as lead counsel – litigation and employment.

5. NuVasive CEO Lukianov Resigns After Reimbursement Probe - Thursday, April 2, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) – Spinal device maker NuVasive says Chairman and CEO Alex Lukianov resigned after the board concluded he didn't follow expense reimbursement and personnel policies.

NuVasive says Lukianov resigned Saturday after an investigation by the board of directors. The company, which makes products used in minimally-invasive spine surgeries, said Lukianov didn't live up to its standards but that the amounts of money involved don't appear to be large enough to affect its financial results.

6. Green Means Green - Tuesday, December 13, 2011

As national real estate guru Jonathan David Miller said at last week’s Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate Outlook for the Mid-South, in the rare event that new construction is taking place for office users, going green is standard in today’s economy.

7. Medtronic Wins $101M Jury Decision - Thursday, September 22, 2011

Medtronic Inc. announced Tuesday, Sept. 20, that a federal jury has ordered rival spinal implant maker NuVasive Inc. to pay $101.2 million in damages for infringing on three of Medtronic’s patents.

8. Medtronic Says it has Prevailed in Spinal Patent Suit - Wednesday, September 21, 2011

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. said Tuesday that a federal jury has ordered rival NuVasive to pay $101.2 million in damages for infringing on three of Medtronic's spinal patents.

9. inferno Wins Five Davey Awards - Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Memphis marketing and advertising firm inferno has won five 2010 Davey Awards.

inferno’s awards include Gold Awards in the small business category for Strategic Alternatives LLC’s Pour Attire website, and in the announcements/greetings category for the firm’s Tenferno Campaign.

10. NuVasive Files Permit to Renovate Southeast Memphis Facility - Tuesday, February 9, 2010

4670 E. Shelby Drive
Memphis, TN 38118
Permit Amount: $1.6 Million

Project Cost: $1.6 million
Permit Date: Applied February 2010
Completion: TBA
Owner: NuVasive Inc.
Tenant: NuVasive Inc.
Contractor: Montgomery Martin Contractors LLC
Architect: Looney Ricks Kiss Architects Inc.

11. NuVasive Files Permit To Renovate Facility - Tuesday, February 2, 2010

NuVasive Inc. has filed a $1.6 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement to renovate its building at 4670 E. Shelby Drive in the Oakhaven/Village Parkway area.

12. FedEx Institute of Technology Names Mandle Executive Director - Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Shaye R. Mandle has been named executive director of the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. Previously, he worked for the Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), where he led the business activities of SAIC's Reconnaissance and Surveillance Operation. Mandle has worked as a district director for the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, and as a legislative liaison to the Illinois Department of Revenue.

13. New Nursing School, Other Developments Beef Up Local Bioscience Sector - Monday, November 13, 2006

Talk to Dr. Steve Bares for even a little while about Memphis' emerging bioscience industry, and he'll usually offer up a meaty metaphor to describe either himself, his thoughts on new developments or a forecast of things to come.

14. NuVasive Moves Into Memphis Biotech Sector - Monday, August 7, 2006

The prescription being offered to medical device makers by the City of Memphis is a fascinating thing to watch because it can be distilled into two simple words: Come hither.

Some of the most potent ingredients in that prescription include Memphis' central location and FedEx's presence in the city. Both of those are key reasons behind the recent purchase of a 100,000-square-foot warehouse in Memphis by NuVasive Inc., a San Diego-based company that manufactures devices for minimally invasive spinal surgery.

15. Archived Article: Lead - Wednesday, June 15, 2005
By Andy Meek

Creative Fire Sparks Agencys Growth

Marketing firm inferno racks up industry accolades

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

When the Memphis advertising and marketing agency known as inferno shifted its offices last year from Central...