Gary Baker graduated from college at Lipscomb University with an
accounting degree and then went on to study law at Vanderbilt School of Law,
where he got his JD degree.
He began his career at an accounting firm that then was
called Ernst and Ernst, which is now Ernst and Young. And then he proceeded to
start his own accounting firm. He also started his own law firm, owned to
NASCAR racetracks Nashville Superspeedway and Bristol Motor Speedway, and raced
He started a sports marketing company and brought Procter
and Gamble into sports marketing as they had never previously engaged in sports
marketing. He even started his own sports management company where he primarily
handled management of NASCAR drivers. He's the owner of Peterbilt truck
dealerships with locations in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky started Pinnacle
Truck and trailer, which is a dealer in Class eight and construction trailers
and is known to be the largest volume dealership in the nation for many brands
and was heavily involved with the development of Cool Springs as we know it