Lurlene Irvin is a serial entrepreneur. As a little girl in the Arkansas Delta, she learned the basics of owning a business from her soy bean farming grandparents, and from her parents who were college administrators and teachers. Her first business was selling fresh vegetables from a plot of land on her grandparents farm. That spirit of planting seeds and creating something great lead her to pursue a degree in business from the University of Mississippi.Since college, Dr. Irvin has held managerial positions with Trustmark Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Nissan North America. She has started several businesses, and assisted many others through her work as Director of Business Development and Economic Research at Jackson State University. Dr. Irvin, an economist by education and training, currently works a business consultant focusing on helping entrepreneurs locate funding for their ventures.
