Background
Orrin H. Ingram II was born on July 5, 1960. His late father was E. Bronson Ingram II and his mother is Martha R. Ingram.
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Orrin Ingram II
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Vanderbilt University.
Career
He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Industries and the Chairman of Barge Company. His paternal great-great-grandfather, Orrin Henry, was a lumber baron in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and early invested in Friedrich Weyerhäuser"s timber investments, later known as the Weyerhaeuser corporation. received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University in 1982. started his career at Materials Company and Barge Company. He has been the President of Industries since 1996, and its Chief Executive Officer since 1999.
He sits on the Boards of eSkye Solutions, Micro, Barge Company, SunTrust Bank Banks, Coca-Cola Enterprises, The Krystal Company, FirstBank, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.
He has served on the Strategic Advisory Boards of SunCom and Tennessee Valley Ventures. In July 2011, he sold Materials Company to Pine Bluff Sand.
He has sat on the Boards of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. is a former Chairman of the United States Polo Association and the Polo Training Foundation, where he still serves as an Honorary Director. In 1996, he played on the American team in South Africa with James Armstrong, Adolfo Cambiaso and Tod Rackley.
He has organized charity polo games at his RiverView Farm in Franklin, Tennessee.
He is the patron of the Riverview Polo Team. is a "waterfowler, turkey, and big game hunter." He also practices fox hunting. He is the Masters of the Hillsboro Hounds. In 2010, he went fox-hunting with Olympic show-jumper Markus Fuchs. serves on the Board of Directors of Boys & Girls Clubs of America for Middle Tennessee, Nashville Public Education Foundation, the executive committee of the United Way for Metropolitan Nashville, the Wetlands America Trust Board for Ducks Unlimited.
He is the 2005 recipient of the Doctor Thomas F. Frist, Junior.
Excellence in Volunteer Leadership Award of the United Way. A Republican, supported George West. Bush in 2000 and 2004, John McCain in 2000 and 2008.
He has also supported Fred Thompson, Lindsey Graham, Tom DeLay, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. In 2015, donated United States$1,500 in political contributions to Republican candidate David Fox"s failed campaign to become the new Mayor of Nashville.
Achievements
Membership
He is a member of the Nashville Polo Club. He is a member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, and the United States. Sportsmen"s Alliance.
