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• Jon Good, CEO, NAI Earle Furman • Ryan Heafy, executive director, iMAGINE Upstate • Jim Hendrix, owner, The Graphic Cow • Nika White, vice president of diversity and inclusion, Greenville Chamber After UBJ posted these names online, 17,642 people engaged in the Facebook Wild Card campaign and digital voting site, and with 1,644 likes, comments and shares and 2,987 website votes, the Wild Card was selected. The Who’s Who class of 2015 was now complete.
6. Celebrating the winners On Thursday, March 26, winners were acknowledged at a private event in front of a Who’s Who audience of the Upstate’s business leaders. The special edition of UBJ you’re reading now was also created to call attention to the activities and accomplishments of this year’s Who’s Who honorees.
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