COLUMBIA, S.C. – 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 visit www.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:
Name
Organization
Debbie Amell
Greenville Area Development Corporation
Shaun Barnes
Comporium
Shawn Bell
City of Abbeville
Julie Bolen
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
Darrell Booker
OCDC
Dolly Bristow
City of Columbia
Ransom Bryan, III
Greenville Small Business Development Center
William Byrd
William Levan Byrd, CPA, PC
Jackie Calvi-Mack
SC Rural Infrastructure Authority
Billy Cassidy
Town of Chesterfield
Sherrie Chapman
Northeastern Technical College
Buddy Collins
Marion County Council
Charles Edens
Sumter County Council
Yates Giles
City of Union
Bernie Hamby
McCormick County Council
Michael Hemingway
City of Florence
Les Hipp
Newberry County
Rick Jiran
Duke Energy
JoAnne Jones Evans
Marlboro County Economic Dev.
Rick Kiernan
Convergent Nonprofit Solutions
Martin Lane
Rock Hill Econ. Dev.
Clint Leach
SC Department of Agriculture
Chanel Lewis
City of Hardeeville
Ted Luckadoo IV
Town of Batesburg-Leesville
Darath Mackie
Cely Construction Company
Brandon Madden
Richland County
Sneha Minisandram
SC Department of Commerce
Joe Mole, III
Allendale County
Kelley Morabito
SCBT
Paul Newhouse
Wallace Thomson Hospital Dist.
Julie Norman
Marion County EDC
Cynthia Pitts
Upper Savannah REC
William Quantz
TD Bank
Brian Rauschenbach
Apprenticeship Carolina
Chuck Reynolds
Commission of Public Works
C.D. Rhodes
Pope Zeigler
Lisa Robbins
Catawba Regional Education Center
Liz Rosinski
SC Rural Infrastructure Authority
Torrey Rush
Richland County Council
Sue Ryan
City of Columbia
Kenneth Sales
WC Development Corporation
Kay Self
Greenwood Partnership Alliance
Jim Shrift
readySC
Brandon Spence
Apprenticeship Carolina
Joshua Stephens
Oconee County
Lauren Thompson
SC Department of Commerce
Phil Thompson-King
Chester Sewer District
Brian Tucker
Georgetown County Economic Dev. Comm.
Mike Tyler
Public Private Partnership - Dillon County
Shawn Wood
W.B. Guimarin & Co, Inc.
Sandi Worthy
City of Chester