More than 50 complete 2014 South Carolina Economic Development Institute
December 3, 2014
COLUMBIA, SC – On Friday, November 14, more than 50 local leaders and development professionals from across South Carolina completed the 2014 South Carolina Economic Development Institute. Institute attendees received their Certificates of Completion during the final day of the 2014 Institute held at the City of Greer Events Complex.
During the quarterly, two-day sessions, participants traveled to different locations throughout the state that have been successful in community development and attracting and expanding their business and industrial base. Attendees gained insight into issues relating to: water and wastewater infrastructure, available industrial or business buildings and the importance other community development components necessary to attract investment.
The Institute is a partnership between the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the South Carolina Economic Developers’ Association (SCEDA). The program emphasizes elements necessary to be competitive in today’s global economy and educates supporters of economic development on emerging trends in community and economic development.
The Institute is open to participants from a wide variety of organizations and entities including city, town and county councils, local economic development practitioners, county economic development boards, county school boards, regional economic development boards, utility companies and local and state government employees.
Next year’s program will mark the silver anniversary for the Institute. The 2015 sessions will focus on leadership and communication skills, community development, business and industrial development and product development. The program will kick-off February 5 and 6 at the Palmetto Electric Cooperative in Hardeeville, S.C.
For more information on the 2015 Institute, interested attendees should visitwww.sceda.org or contact the South Carolina Economic Developers’ Association at 803-929-0305.
For photos of all participants that received a certificate of completion on November 14, please visit the S.C. Department of Commerce’s Flickr page.
2014 South Carolina Economic Development Institute graduates, listed alphabetically by last name:
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Name |
Organization |
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Debbie Amell |
Greenville Area Development Corporation |
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Shaun Barnes |
Comporium |
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Shawn Bell |
City of Abbeville |
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Julie Bolen |
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein |
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Darrell Booker |
OCDC |
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Dolly Bristow |
City of Columbia |
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Ransom Bryan, III |
Greenville Small Business Development Center |
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William Byrd |
William Levan Byrd, CPA, PC |
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Jackie Calvi-Mack |
SC Rural Infrastructure Authority |
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Billy Cassidy |
Town of Chesterfield |
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Sherrie Chapman |
Northeastern Technical College |
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Buddy Collins |
Marion County Council |
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Charles Edens |
Sumter County Council |
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Yates Giles |
City of Union |
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Bernie Hamby |
McCormick County Council |
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Michael Hemingway |
City of Florence |
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Les Hipp |
Newberry County |
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Rick Jiran |
Duke Energy |
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JoAnne Jones Evans |
Marlboro County Economic Dev. |
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Rick Kiernan |
Convergent Nonprofit Solutions |
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Martin Lane |
Rock Hill Econ. Dev. |
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Clint Leach |
SC Department of Agriculture |
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Chanel Lewis |
City of Hardeeville |
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Ted Luckadoo IV |
Town of Batesburg-Leesville |
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Darath Mackie |
Cely Construction Company |
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Brandon Madden |
Richland County |
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Sneha Minisandram |
SC Department of Commerce |
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Joe Mole, III |
Allendale County |
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Kelley Morabito |
SCBT |
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Paul Newhouse |
Wallace Thomson Hospital Dist. |
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Julie Norman |
Marion County EDC |
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Cynthia Pitts |
Upper Savannah REC |
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William Quantz |
TD Bank |
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Brian Rauschenbach |
Apprenticeship Carolina |
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Chuck Reynolds |
Commission of Public Works |
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C.D. Rhodes |
Pope Zeigler |
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Lisa Robbins |
Catawba Regional Education Center |
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Liz Rosinski |
SC Rural Infrastructure Authority |
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Torrey Rush |
Richland County Council |
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Sue Ryan |
City of Columbia |
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Kenneth Sales |
WC Development Corporation |
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Kay Self |
Greenwood Partnership Alliance |
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Jim Shrift |
readySC |
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Brandon Spence |
Apprenticeship Carolina |
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Joshua Stephens |
Oconee County |
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Lauren Thompson |
SC Department of Commerce |
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Phil Thompson-King |
Chester Sewer District |
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Brian Tucker |
Georgetown County Economic Dev. Comm. |
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Mike Tyler |
Public Private Partnership – Dillon County |
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Shawn Wood |
W.B. Guimarin & Co, Inc. |
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Sandi Worthy |
City of Chester |
About S.C. Department of Commerce
As South Carolina’s leading economic development agency, the Department of Commerce works to recruit new businesses and help existing business grow. Commerce has recruited world-class companies to South Carolina such as Boeing, Bridgeston, Continental, Monster.com, ZF Group, BMW and Google Inc. and also supports small and existing business, rural development initiatives and community development. Commerce partners with the S.C Technical College System via readySC to support workforce training and recruiting, and with the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, which provides worker training and employment opportunities within the state. South Carolina ranked first in the nation for attracting jobs through foreign investment, according to IBM-Plant Locatioin International reports in both 2012 and 2013. The state won the Gold Shovel Award and the Project of Year Award from Area Development magazine in 2012. For more information, visit www.SCcommerce.com.
