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Turner College Management Professor's Father Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Memphis

The Spring 2025 graduation ceremony at the University of Memphis was a big one for Turner College management professor Phil Bryant and his family. During the ceremony Bryant's father, Ben, received an honorary doctorate degree and Phil was able to participate in the hooding portion of that event. "I’m excited, humbled, and honored to be a part of my dad’s hooding ceremony tomorrow at the University of Memphis," Phil Bryant explained the day before the ceremony. Ben Bryant is currently Executive-in-Residence at the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Memphis, assisting with advice, direction and mentoring for the initiatives within the Center. He is also a member of the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, the Management Information Systems Advisory Council, the U of M President’s Innovation Board, and a former Executive-in-Residence of the FedEx Institute of Technology. Ben Bryant is Vice-Chairman of the University of Memphis Board of Visitors and is a past President of the Tiger Athletics Advisory Board. He is a past member of the President's Research Foundation Board, and in 1999, he was given the University's Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2010, Ben Bryant received the Tennessee Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Philanthropy and is a chartered member of the University of Memphis Athletic Ambassador Club. He formerly served on the Board of Directors for Monogram Food Solutions. He has served as president of Cook Systems International, president of BCB Investment Group and Chairman and CEO of SCB Computer Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCBI) of which he was a founder of as Seltmann, Cobb & Bryant, Management Consultants in 1976. Ben Bryant was inducted into the Society of Entrepreneurs in 1999. Lastly, he received BBA in Accounting in 1968 from Memphis State University, and an MS in Management Information Systems from the University of Memphis in 1995. 

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