Max Fuller donates $5 million to UT at Chattanooga’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The program will be renamed in his honor.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that Max Fuller, a Co-Founder of trucking giant U.S. Xpress, has donated $5 million to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s (UTC) Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which will now bear his name.
Fuller graduated from UTC in 1975 with a degree in finance and business administration. During his studies, he also worked for his father’s company, Southwest Motor Freight, and what his dad didn’t teach him, the school did.
The article noted that Thomas Lyons, the Clarence E. Harris Chair of Excellence in Entrepreneurship at UTC, said Fuller’s gift will be a game changer for the center, which acts as the entrepreneurship program for the entire campus.
Fuller’s gift will enable the university to expand its paid internship programs, which include direct work with start-ups and support organizations like The Company Lab. It could also create an investment fund to support entrepreneurial ventures by students and alumni.
According to the article, Fuller and Patrick Quinn started U.S. Xpress in the 1980s with a fleet of about 45 trucks, which eventually grew to thousands of tractors and trailers and more than a billion dollars in revenue. In 2023, Knight-Swift Holdings bought the company for $808 million.
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