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Sustainable agriculture conference returns to Upstate JENNIFER OLADIPO | SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER

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The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) held its annual conference for the second time in Greenville last week at the Hyatt Regency downtown.

Profitability of family farms was among the major concerns voiced at the conference, said Elizabeth Read, CFSA communications and development director.

Proposed changes to the Food and Drug Administration’s Food Policy and Modernization act were also another important topic of conversation. Read said the policy was written with large-scale agricultural producers in mind, and therefore presents challenges for the smaller producers who are CFSA’s constituents. Food policy councils are forming across several states in order to address legislative issues.

CFSA advocates and provides training for organic family farms in the Carolinas. The group returned to Greenville because of foodrelated activity here and the venue’s ability to meet its requirements.

“Greenville has a lot of good things going in term of the food movement and farm-to-table,”

said Read. She added that the conference places a lot of demands on conference staff, such as requiring local food service companies that work with local farms. “Not all conference centers are

ture for Farmers,” encouraged farmers to scale up and discussed ways to maximize yield by using all parts of the land.

Such advice could help meet a rapidly growing demand among grocery chains in the Carolinas for organic food, which is mostly trucked in from other parts of the country, Read said. The current supply chain for food has been largely centralized, and so something like an ancillary chain needs to be developed for smaller producers.

Read said the conference was a needed fellowship opportunity for non-conventional farmers.

As the average age of American farmers is 58, it also serves to connect aging farmers who might be looking to get out of the business with young farmers in need of land, mentorship or business opportunities.

“Greenville has a lot of good things going in term of the food movement and farm-to-table.”

Elizabeth Read, Carolina Farm Steward Association

open to that type of collaboration, but they’ve been really great about it,” Read said of the Hyatt.

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Catching up with Perry Tuttle Peter Barth plays to win New condos planned for Markley Street

MONEY SHOT: Rep. Jeff Duncan speaks to the crowd gathered for the Palmetto Policy Forum’s second annual VisionSC Summit at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in downtown Greenville. The forum, created as an opportunity for South Carolina leaders to hear from national leaders on key “best practice” policies to advance opportunity and economic growth, was attended by key lawmakers, community leaders and citizen activists. See our story on page 11.

VERBATIM

On first impressions…

“Aesthetically, this is well done. One of the first impressions people get of an area is at the airport. When people step off the plane and set foot in the terminal, it gives them a glimpse of what the community is all about.”

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, praising the terminal renovations when traveling out of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport last week, as reported by the Spartanburg Herald Journal. GSP is moving into the second phase of Project WINGSPAN, its $125 million terminal improvement program.

TBA Word is Conn’s, the electronics and appliance store chain that just opened on Haywood Road, is expanding with a second Upstate location in Spartanburg at the Peachwood Shopping Center…

WORTH REPEATING “There are two things that I found when I walked into West End Coffee – the smell of coffee, which was nice, and the cursing, not so nice.”

Marcus Lemonis, star of CNBC’s “The Profit,” on the contentious relationship between the co-owners of the Greenville business.

“The average liberal arts graduate from a four-year college is making less than $40,000 or can’t find a position in their field. Meanwhile, we can’t fill technical jobs.”

Eric Spiegel, CEO of Siemens USA, on the lack of skilled workers for often high-paying technical jobs.

“It’s not who you are but whose you are. Other people are looking at you, be they your son, daughter, neighbor, coach. Someone out there is depending on you.”

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Travelers Rest, Laurens win Community Vibrancy Grants SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF

sjackson@communityjournals.com Travelers Rest and Laurens were the two winners announced last week of the 2014 Hughes Investments Elevate Upstate Community Vibrancy Grants.

The winners were announced at the Nov. 13 Ten at the Top (TATT) Regional Forum after five finalists provided a brief overview of their initiatives at the event. Ten at the Top is an organization that fosters collaboration, partnerships and strategic planning across the Upstate.

TATT said the finalists were chosen from 22

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applications submitted for the two grants available in 2014. Hughes Investments is contributing $10,000 per year to the program with the two winning recipients each year receiving $5,000 to support a new vibrancy initiative in the Upstate.

“I was absolutely amazed by the number of great ideas submitted for the program,” said Phil Hughes, president of Hughes Investments. “It was a real challenge to narrow the field from 22 applications to five finalists, to two winners.”

“The Elevate Upstate Community Vibrancy Grants are a great opportunity to provide seed funds to help communities increase the vibrancy and sense of place within their community,” said Dean Hybl, executive director of Ten at the Top. “Phil Hughes has been a great champion of the community vibrancy task force since the beginning and the idea for the grant program was his. Last year he surprised everyone by presenting a third grant and this year he decided to give all of the other finalists $1,000 to help get their projects started. It just illustrates how committed he is to helping our local communities grow their vibrancy and sense of place.”

Selection committee members include Hughes; Betsy Fleming, president of Converse College; and Terence Roberts, mayor of the City of Anderson.

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Clemson University will host a Subcontract Outreach event for general/special trade contractors on NEWS | TECHNOLOGY | 7 University December 3rd, 2014 from 3pm until 7pm. Please plan on joining Clemson and the following General Contractors to learn more about the various new, addition and SEE IT WORKTechnical College. renovation projects at Clemson University and Tri-County

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Just add sugar

Watch a video of the

Uses for Clemson scientist’s self-healing polymers self-healing polymer at General Contractors: upstatebusinessjournal.com. range from nail polish to military vehicles • Hogan Construction synthetic polymers are used in objects such as BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF • Holder Construction eyeglass lenses and credit cards. bjeffers@communityjournals.com • Juneau Construction Although there are self-healing products on the For Mary Poppins, a spoonful of sugar helped market for cellphones, Urban said they were • New South Construction the medicine go down. But for Clemson Universomewhat gimmicky.

• Marek Sherman Construction sity scientist Urban, sugar may be the He tests the polymers by using a razor to cut ingredient that brings self-healing polymers to them completely apart and then observing them • Turner Construction the masses. reattach themselves and heal like skin in about • polymers Whiting-Turner Previously, needed ultraviolet light an hour through chemical reactions.

Marek Urban, right, is developing polymers that heal themselves like skin.

to heal. Now chemical reactions between sugar, Photo provided The applications could lead to an extended carbon dioxide andare water in the air opportunities can occur There potential for ofallcartrades and said, information regarding the scope of each capital lifetime paint, Urban and also help Rajendra Bordia, chair of Clemson’s Departwithout sunlight. maintain bridges and have other infrastructure.

“The the project will be available.

Many major projects recently gotten approval from theand State and said ment of Materials Science Engineering, Urban said the self-healing polymers could be economical advantages are tremendous.” in a release, “While Urban’s research is exemplaBoard of polish Trustees such as new student housing projects, a new visitors center, new applied to University something as simple as nail or He hopes the self-healing polymers will be ry, he is also passionate about creating the next advanced educational as military vehicles: people centers andcould upgrades to athletic facilities.

Inthree addition, staff members will be available on the market in two or years, Clemson generation of engineers and scientists.” possibly go for weeks without having to reapply noting much of the development depends on costs Urban’s work is building on his previous reto address questions contracting with the University on IDCs and future contracts. nail polish,able or a military vehicleany in a desert sand- about and funding. search, which started around 2009 and was storm could self-repair damages. The applications “In terms … of research, this field has been so published in the journal Science. He said his new are almostPlease limitless,bring he said. business cards, resume project experience commercial license needed,” with he said.summary “Science willof drive innovation, discoveryand of using sugar is an add-on value for The technology Urban is developing is part of and innovation will drive technology.” existing materials, which will help keep developnumber. a demonstration project under the Department About 50-60 groups worldwide are now ment costs low because researchers and companies of Defense’s Corrosion Prevention and Control working on self-healing polymers, Urban said. can use already existing equipment.

Program. For additional information, please visit http://www.clemson.edu/facilities/capital-projects/ The research also offers a vehicle for Clemson Keeping costs low is very important to Urban.

Polymer is often used as a synonym for plastic, students to learn and become excited about ad“If you’re going to build something that’s going according to Discovery.com, and the website says vancements in science, he said. to cost a fortune, why bother?”

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Social media makes poor employee screening tool JENNIFER OLADIPO | SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER

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Checking a job applicant’s Facebook profile might be a big mistake, according to new research out of Clemson University.

In studies that will be published next year, researchers Philip Roth and Jason Thatcher found no relationship between how employers rated Facebook profiles and how those people actually performed on the job. What’s more, AfricanAmericans and Hispanics were sometimes negatively affected by social media ratings.

Thatcher is director of Clemson’s Social Analytics Institute and Roth teaches courses in HR management. Roth said many people in hiring positions are surprised at the lack of correlation, assuming that Facebook captures personality and can therefore predict job performance.

“I would counsel organizations not to use Facebook or Twitter because there is no track record of either source predicting job performance,” Roth said. LinkedIn, the businessoriented social network, also lacks evidence of predicting job performance.

Roth said it is difficult to find precise information on just how many employers are

using social media screening in their hiring practices, but he estimates it could be between 25 and 40 percent.

One complicating factor is that employers cannot judge the veracity of information published on social media. If employers are choosing people with carefully crafted or faked profiles, those who are more honest could be getting short shrift.

There might also be unrecognized legal implications to screening with social media. Roth said the practice amounts to a test by federal government standards, and tests are supposed to have a track record of predicting job performance,

how it relates to job performance,” Roth said.

What does work? Roth said work samples that simulate the job, and cognitive ability tests that assess skills like verbal and mathematical ability are tried and true. So are structured interviews that start with a job description and ask all candidates the same types of questions.

Hiring is not always done by trained HR professionals, however, and the allure of information available on social media might be too strong for some people to ignore. “It’s a reflexive need to check the Internet. It’s almost like fool’s gold,” Roth said.

“I would counsel organizations not to use Facebook or Twitter because there is no track record of either source predicting job performance.”

Philip Roth, Clemson University researcher

especially if they adversely impact groups such as blacks and Hispanics.

As for exactly how and why employers are using people’s social media, the evidence is only anecdotal so far. They could be using it to prescreen applicants for interviews, study authors say.

“Some of them will tell you that they’re looking for this factor called judgment, but they find it very hard to define what judgment is or tell you

The use of social media in human resources management is largely uncharted territory in academia and the scant amount of research is slow to publish. Roth and Thatcher’s research is set to be published in the Journal of Management next year. Roth now is recruiting participants for a follow-up study; those interested can email him at rothp@clemson.edu.

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Rick Erwin’s West End Grille named to Top 100 sjackson@communityjournals.com Rick Erwin’s West End Grille has been named a winner of OpenTable Diners’ Choice Awards for the Top 100 Steakhouses in America.

The list of winners was chosen from more than 5 million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners between Nov. 1, 2013, and Oct. 31, 2014. More than 20,000 restaurants across the U.S. competed, with the top 100 awardwinning restaurants chosen that received the highest scores.

“We are very honored to receive

this award, and to have a top 100 steakhouse in America right here in Greenville is great,” said Rick Erwin. “What I’m most proud of is the staff that made it all happen.

We are pleased to know that the diners have thoroughly enjoyed their experience at the West End Grille and have given us these wonderful reviews.”

“The steakhouse transcends the average dining experience and is best described as a delicious ritual,” said Caroline Potter, OpenTable chief dining officer.

“We are thrilled to highlight the honorees of our inaugural Top 100 Steakhouse Diners’ Choice Awards for creating meat-driven meals that occupy a sacred place in our collective culinary consciousness.”

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Greenville business loses out on ‘The Profit’ BENJAMIN JEFFERS | STAFF

bjeffers@communityjournals.com Coffee Company was recently featured on “The Profit” on CNBC. On the show investor Marcus Lemonis uses his own money to help struggling businesses. But the contentious relationship between West End Coffee’s two co-owners proved to be a problem.

“There are two things that I found when I walked into West End Coffee – the smell of coffee, which was nice, and the cursing, not so nice,” Lemonis said during the episode.

West End is owned by John Brown and Becky Schramm, who were romantically involved when they purchased the company for $500,000. They split up as a couple but continued to run the business together.

West End did $840,000 in sales last year with $40,000 in profits. But Lemonis said the company was only working at 33 percent capacity. He wanted to help Brown and Schramm generate $3 million in sales with 50 percent margins.

While he praised Brown and

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The Greenville coffee roaster West End

Schramm’s passion, Lemonis spent most of the episode mediating between the business owners.

“I’m here to sell coffee. I’m not here to babysit,” he said on the show. Most of the conversations between Brown and Schramm devolved into a blame game of who was responsible for which task.

In the end, Lemonis walked out on the owners.

On West End’s website, Becky Schramm is not listed as a staff member. An employee who answered the phone at the company said he wasn’t sure if Schramm still worked at the company but thought she did.

Schramm’s son, Bryan, who was also shown in the episode, is listed on the company’s website as a junior roaster.

Neither Brown nor Schramm could be reached for comment by press time.

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JENNIFER OLADIPO | SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER

joladipo@communityjournals.com

The Columbia-based Palmetto Policy Forum met in Greenville this week to discuss economic drivers including energy development, education and tax policy. Offshore drilling in South Carolina took center stage during the energy panel discussion.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan said the state could potentially look forward to a 37.5 percent revenue-sharing deal with companies that drill off the South Carolina coast. He said such deals had netted billions of dollars for other states.

Afterward, James Knapp, a geologist with the University of South Carolina, called data currently used to assess oil reserves off the Atlantic coast “antiquated… We really don’t know what’s out there.”

Knapp, who was previously employed by Shell Oil, said currently 13 percent of the U.S. coast is open for oil exploration. He said he was a strong advocate for the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to become part of the federal government’s next five-year plan for oil and gas leasing for 2017 to 2022. He and other speakers advocated for

South Carolina to remain a part of that plan.

Discussion on Atlantic OCS oil exploration is increasing rapidly. The Associated Press reported last week that South Carolina officials were among others in attendance at a closed-door meeting with federal regulators and oil industry-funded groups to discuss offshore drilling.

Duncan said many conflicts around the world revolve around underlying energy issues, and that America’s allies are depending on the country to develop sources that could be alternatives to those in countries such as Russia and oil producers in the Middle East. “Russia’s just a gas station masquerading as a country,” he said. He also discussed economic multipliers that result from oil exploration.

In discussing other topics, presenters advocated heavily for state-level solutions to problems as opposed to federal solutions. U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint said in his opening address, “The best way to stem the tide in Washington and to get the federal government to stop fixing things, particularly things that aren’t broken, is to show them that things work best at the state level.”

Other speakers included Steve Moore chief economist at the Heritage Foundation; Matt

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Group advocates coastal oil drilling

Dr. Jim Knapp, University of South Carolina, speaks to the crowd gathered for the Palmetto Policy Forum’s second annual VisionSC Summit at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in downtown Greenville. The Forum, created as an opportunity for South Carolina leaders to hear from national leaders on key “best practice” policies to advance opportunity and economic growth, was attended by key lawmakers, community leaders and citizen activists.

Mayer, COO of the Liberty Foundation; and Meka Childs, former state deputy superintendent of education .

Greenville Mayor Knox White was presented with the inaugural Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Vision in Leadership Award at the Palmetto Policy Council’s VisionSC conference on Monday.

White, a former Campbell congressional staffer, was recognized for his visionary leadership in the transformation of Greenville. He in turn expressed his longtime admiration of Campbell, who is credited with bringing BMW to the Upstate as the textile industry folded up.

“I’ve always felt that here in the city of Greenville, we ride on his wings,” White said.

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Mayor wins inaugural Carroll Campbell award

VisionSC’s inaugural Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Vision in Leadership Award was given to Greenville mayor and former Campbell staffer Knox White, for his visionary leadership in the transformation of Greenville. From left: Marsha White, Knox White, Iris Campbell and Carroll Campbell III.

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Working together to fix workforce pipeline STEM, training programs, apprenticeships all can help ensure global competitiveness

By ED PARRIS, president, Phillips Staffing South Carolina, we have a problem.

Unemployment is down. Job announcements are up. The economy is growing. Business confidence is improving. Capital investment is accelerating.

So what’s the problem?

South Carolina­—and just about all of America— lacks a ready-and-available workforce pipeline to sustain momentum and ensure our competitiveness in the global economy. It’s a big, complex challenge, with no silver-bullet solutions. It’s one we need to fix together.

There is a startling imbalance in today’s labor market as we emerge from the recession. Manufacturers in particular are struggling to fill hundreds of thousands of open jobs. Across South Carolina, our skilled and experienced workforce— long a point of pride and competitive advantage— is at risk of becoming a weakness.

This is partially driven by retirements, as boomers leave the workforce. It’s exacerbated by the fact that many young people—tomorrow’s workforce—lack critical science, technology, engineering and math skills to follow them in the emerging technology-driven economy.

The recession also sapped funds for apprenticeship programs at many companies. And manufacturing itself has done a poor job of replacing its image of “physical, dirty, labor-intensive work with a limited career path.” The reality of today’s exciting manufacturing careers includes working with computers, robotics and commanding, in some cases, salaries that can pay $100,000 or more with overtime.

This perfect storm has resulted in a lack of skilled machinists, welders, electricians, multiskilled maintenance workers and quality technicians – just a few of many positions that pay well yet are going unfilled.

“The average liberal arts graduate from a fouryear college is making less than $40,000 or can’t find a position in their field,” noted Eric Spiegel, CEO of Siemens USA, in a recent interview.

“Meanwhile, we can’t fill technical jobs (many of which start at $55,000 a year).”

Solving this dilemma requires action on many fronts—renewed focus on technical education, increased skills training and expansion of apprenticeship programs among them.

Our public schools are refocusing curricula to include greater emphasis on STEM—science, technology, engineering and math—components.

This long-term commitment will pay major dividends over time.

Training programs are receiving renewed emphasis from such initiatives as the Upstate’s Career Skills Now (CSN) program (CareerSkillsNow.com), which helps individuals build careers with today’s manufacturers. CSN links unemployed or lower-skill workers to training for higher-skill, high-value jobs that are difficult to fill. Training can take as little as six weeks, after which there are placement opportunities at excellent starting wages for upwards of 80 percent of participants. A youth version of Career Skills Now has been launched in Greenville County to help those aged 17-21 gain essential training and launch careers.

Apprenticeship programs are receiving a boost through the Apprenticeship Carolina program (ApprenticeshipCarolina.com), which launched in 2007. Back then, only 90 companies in the state had apprenticeship programs, according to program director Brad Neese. Today, the program serves 670 companies and more than 11,000 apprentices. Neese and others credit a combination of the state’s German companies—BMW and Bosch brought the German apprenticeship system with them—along with a state tax credit of $1,000 per

year per apprentice in helping build momentum.

In 2012, ACT chose South Carolina to participate in the Certified Work Ready Communities Program, and now certifies counties as South Carolina Work Ready Communities (SCWRC) based on meeting established high school graduation rates, soft skills development, business commitment, and National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) holders, which builds upon Work Keys, the gold standard in job skills assessment. Today, every South Carolina county is signed on to participate in SCWRC. Phillips Staffing has trained three professionals and completed dozens of job profiles for employers who support SCWRC efforts, helping those organizations find ideal candidate matches for each profiled position. These profiling services are currently available at no cost to businesses through Gov. Haley’s Work Ready Communities initiative on a first-come, first-served basis.

South Carolina must demonstrate that we are capable of providing a pipeline of workers who have the requisite skills to do the jobs of tomorrow, or we risk losing the confidence – and investment—of companies who would consider relocating and expanding here.

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Why? 89% of the time, it was for attitudinal reasons and only 11% of the time for a lack of skill (Murphy 2011).

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4. INHERENT TALENT MATTERS. Back in 2001, author Jim Collins said, “A practice that Good to Great companies consistently

used to determine the ‘right’ people was to place greater weight on character attributes [inherent talent] than on specific educational background or practical skills, specialized knowledge or work experience.” Workers can learn new skills any time, but attitude, effort, and traits are solidified early in life.

5. BIG DATA MAY BE THE ANSWER. As Boomers age out of the workforce, employers are

seeking new solutions to matching candidates with opportunities. High performance organizations are increasingly investing in the power of predictive analytics to identify candidates who are naturally hard-wired for success in specific job roles. After all, if Amazon can predict which book you should read next, why can’t Big Data predict which candidates will be high performers in your company?

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Catching up with Perry Tuttle Former Clemson and pro football standout still scoring points in a different way

Former Clemson University and NFL football player, author and inspirational speaker Perry Tuttle talks with adolescent boys at Generations Group Home during a tour of the facility.

Tuttle was the keynote speaker at a recent fundraising dinner for the benefit of the Group Home.

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On New Year’s Eve, 1981, Clemson senior Perry Tuttle was in Miami preparing for his last collegiate football game. He was a gifted receiver headed for the NFL, but barely known outside the business of college and professional football.

A week or so later, he heard from Marcus Allen, a running back at Southern Cal University. Tuttle expected him to say congratulations – the Clemson Tigers had beaten the Nebraska Cornhuskers 22-15 in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day for the school’s first National Championship in football.

Instead, Allen said, “Do you know you’re on the cover?”

Tuttle had just become the first (and so far only) Clemson athlete to make the cover of Sports Illustrated – it showed him catching the winning touchdown pass against Nebraska in his final game.

And now, 33 years later, Tuttle’s SI cover continues to open doors for him and the motivational work he does for others.

Perry, start with the SI cover of your Orange Bowl catch. How relevant was that moment to who and what you are now?

In all the time I played football – college, NFL, and CFL – the SI cover was one of the most exciting moments for me. When that happened, my whole life changed. After I quit playing football, I got involved in inspirational speaking, sports marketing and sports ministry. So far, I’ve part-

“On the stage that I now have, I represent not just my family, but also Clemson and that ’81 team.

That’s why I do what I do.” nered with more than 100 organizations. That catch and that cover have been with me for every one of them.

What got you into doing this kind of work?

When I was a college freshman, I went home to Winston-Salem to watch my brother Eddie compete in the Special Olympics. Eddie was born with Down syndrome, and in one of the races he was way ahead of the other runners. Then he just stopped to wait for them to catch up. I was screaming, “Run! You’ve got to win!” He won, but barely, and I just remember thinking, “I would never do that,” but seeing him perform that act

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of kindness introduced me to a different way of competing. I thought of winning as a one-way street, but that moment changed things for me and led me to what I’m doing now.

Was there anything besides Eddie’s inspiration that made you stay in motivational work instead of doing something else?

Yes. In our society, some of us do not have a voice, but there are also people like me who do.

That is what motivates me, and I am fortunate enough to be in a position to act as a voice for people who need it.

You’ve been in Greenville representing a place called Generations Group Home [a home in Fountain Inn for boys caught in sexual abuse cycle]. How does the public stage you spoke of help groups like this one?

Generations Group Home was started in 1991, the year before I retired from the Canadian Football League. They’re taking teenage boys who’ve been traumatized, and as a result have started down the wrong path. Generations is working hard to steer them in the right direction.

After having visited their facilities and meeting

“In our society, some of us do not have a voice, but there are also people like me who do.

That is what motivates me.”

Is it easier or harder for you to speak on a stage before a group of several hundred than it was to play football in front of 80,000 at Death Valley?

Speaking before a group is much harder. In football, if you play well and certainly if you win, people cheer and are all for the team. As a football player, there’s always the next game. In public speaking, however, your words really matter.

You’ve got that one moment in front of the group to really make an impact.

the boys, I’ve seen the positive impact they’ve made not only with the boys, but with the law enforcement system and our society. But not everyone knows that. Personally, I really want to see them win and succeed and have healthy productive lives. I also want others to become more involved and help get these boys on the right track. So this year, Generations had their inaugural fundraiser on Nov. 13 at the Poinsett Club and asked me to be their keynote speaker. I’m excited to speak to my experiences with meeting their staff and the boys.

Any particular memory stand out from the last 25 years of public speaking?

Two memories actually, but I’ll tell you this one.

I was speaking on a college campus and the topic was “Unpacking.” I had a suitcase on stage as a prop and was addressing the fact that everyone carries an invisible suitcase full of things we don’t want others to see. The theme of the speech was that how you unpack your suitcase will determine how you live your life. After the speech, a young girl dressed in all black [in the middle of the summer] came up to me and said, “I want to unpack,” and pulled up her sleeve to show me all of these scars where she had tried to commit suicide. I talked to her … and a few weeks later I checked back in with one of the university counselors … and she had totally turned her life around.

So for anyone who hasn’t heard you in person, what do you try to leave people with when you have the public stage?

More than anything, I want to inspire people so that they know even though mistakes are made, life as they know it isn’t over. A really important thing I like to address is that, it’s not who you are but whose you are. Other people are looking at you, be they your son, daughter, neighbor, coach.

Someone out there is depending on you.

Speaking of which, I understand that you are depending on, or hoping for, a cure for something you’re carrying in your own invisible suitcase.

VITAL STATISTICS Age: 55 Hometown: Lexington, N.C. Currently: Charlotte, N.C. Occupation: Founder of sports marketing firm Perry Tuttle Company Inspirational speaker and leadership coach Chaplain of the Charlotte Bobcats Author of four books: “The House of Jesse,” “Mom, I Want to Know You,” “Dad, I Want to Know You” and “What White People Want to Know About Black People But Are Afraid To Ask.”

FOOTBALL CAREER: Position: Wide receiver Clemson University, 1978-1981: 17 touchdown receptions (including gamewinning Orange Bowl catch in 1981), 2,534 receiving yards, 150 receptions.

NFL: First-round draft pick in 1982. Two seasons with the Buffalo bills, followed by short stints with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons.

CFL: Six seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

FAMILY: Wife: Loretta Children: Korde Arrington, Karsynn McKenna, Karigan Rose, Kanyon Maxwell, Kallaway Delainee and Kambridge Ayce.

I started off with glaucoma and now have macular degeneration, a condition that threatens my eyesight, but usually shows up in older adults.

I found out about five or six years ago when I was playing golf with a good friend. I hit a great shot down the middle of the fairway, but I couldn’t see where it went … and at the next hole, the same thing happened. That’s when I knew something was wrong.

Is it treatable?

I’ve had 11 operations so far. The 12th one’s coming up. We’re trying different things and I’m remaining optimistic.

It sounds, though, like the illness and the speaking and everything that’s happened with you in the last 33 years relates in some way back to your football days at Clemson. Does it?

Oh, yes. Ties to those days are still very strong.

My family, my relationships and my speaking engagements all tie back to Clemson because my time at Clemson did change my life. The university means a lot to me. The 1981 championship team and coach Danny Ford mean a lot to me.

On the stage that I now have, I represent not just my family, but also Clemson and that ’81 team.

In a lot of ways, that’s why I do what I do.

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Peter Barth keeps playing to win The Iron Yard founder’s journey from college dropout to leading one of the largest coding academies in the country Photos by Greg Beckner

Peter Barth, CEO and partner of The Iron Yard, speaks at a TEDx event at the NEXT Innovation Center in Greenville.

JENNIFER OLADIPO SENIOR BUSINESS WRITER joladipo@communityjournals.com Peter Barth’s path to headmaster of a phalanx of accelerator hopefuls and code school teachers and managers isn’t one onlookers would expect. The Iron Yard CEO’s journey includes a friendship with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street, and a stint as a rare college dropout among financial advisors at Morgan Stanley.

After that, he spent several years revamping and developing the technology side of HR management company SinglePoint. Then he founded the Iron Yard in 2011, which began as a startup accelerator and now includes coworking spaces and Web development schools in 11 cities throughout the South.

The son of a church planter for the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA), Barth is on his own mission to spread the word about alternative coding education and put in place the organizations that will make it happen. He sat down with UBJ recently to talk about his professional path

and the drive to always be doing something new, and do it better.

WHY DID YOU DROP OUT OF VANDERBILT?

Have you seen the movie “Wolf of Wall Street”?

I met [protagonist] Jordan Belfort about two months before the point in the movie where he sinks a yacht. During college, I worked at a country club on the North Shore of Long Island where he

TALK ABOUT YOUR TIME ON WALL STREET.

Yeah, crazy time on Wall Street. It felt like playing school sports all over again, high impact.

I worked at a brokerage firm called Duke & Company. Like with any brokerage firm on Wall Street, you come in as a cold caller. We didn’t even get chairs, just tables and stacks of leads. I probably made 400 calls a day. But it was the best sales training you could ever have, and I thrived

“Two of the 10 companies in every class are going to return the money and make a profit.

That’s just the reality of the world we play in, so it doesn’t really keep me up at night.” happened to be a member. It also happened to be the mob club. All the members were kind of under John Gotti’s organization. It was bizarre, but everybody knew it; the New York City detectives had their annual outing there.

I didn’t know anything about [Belfort’s] business problems, but we got to be friends because I’d keep the club open late for him so he could do business there. Through that relationship, guys convinced me I could make a whole lot more money on Wall Street than if I finished school.

because it was super competitive. I moved up and became one of five principals out of 800 guys in the firm.

Everything until that point had been legitimate.

But when my first IPO deal came around – which would have my name on it for signing off – I could tell immediately it was a bogus company. It was supposed to be an Alabama company but all the guys were from New York. I even knew a couple from the country club. So I immediately left for Morgan Stanley. A year later Duke got shut down.

upstatebusinessjournal.com DID THE WILD ACTIVITIES ENTICE YOU?

No, because it was completely against who I was. At Duke there wasn’t all the stuff with prostitutes, but drugs were super common. On the desk, open, people would do all kinds of crazy stuff. It was weird, like watching a movie. My whole time there was six months.

WHEN YOU LOOK BACK, DO YOU SEE ANY CENTRAL THREAD TO YOUR CAREER?

You can look at all of them as very entrepreneurial endeavors. Working at a brokerage firm is very much building your own business. I didn’t realize that at the time, but I think that’s what I really enjoyed about it. Even with the payroll thing, I wasn’t the founder but I got to be very entrepreneurial in my role.

Also, both my parents are super entrepreneurial. My mom’s owned four or five children’s clothing stores in the cities we’ve lived in, and my dad’s done the same thing with churches.

DO YOU SEE A PARALLEL BETWEEN YOUR FATHER’S WORK AND YOUR OWN?

Yep. Last year I invited him to the meeting of all the managing directors of Iron Yard accelerators and he said, “We do exactly the same thing.”

He looks for young, talented guys native to an area who want to start a church, coaches them on the business aspects of it, brings them back to the U.S. to raise the funds to do it. It’s exactly what we do in the accelerators.

WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE PART OF YOUR WORK NOW?

Paperwork and real estate. There’s a ton of it because we’re growing so fast. In the last month I’ve executed eight leases and they were all very time-consuming.

WITH ALL THE INVESTING YOU’VE DONE, DOES IT STILL FEEL RISKY?

Yeah, super risky. But we know that going in.

Two of the 10 companies in every class are going to return the money and make a profit. That’s just the reality of the world we play in, so it doesn’t really keep me up at night. My personality anyway is kind of way off to the right of the risk spectrum.

That’s part of what I like: high risk, high reward.

PETER BARTH Education: Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University Career: Iron Yard, SinglePoint, Morgan Stanley (formerly Dean Witter), Duke & Company Startups in Iron Yard’s portfolio: 56 Family: Wife, Melinda, and five children Now reading: “Edge of Eternity” by Ken Follett, a historical fiction Leisure time: Mostly kids’ activities and family outings

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Find the bright spots, and keep entrepreneurs in the Upstate THE UPSTATE’S STARTUP CULTURE

By JOHN WARNER, publisher, Swampfox Find the bright spots, and do more of that.

That’s the rallying cry of startup entrepreneurs in a world filled with ambiguity, uncertainty and risk.

Startup entrepreneurs are on a mission of customer discovery, not yet one of execution. As individuals and as a community, we need a vibrant, robust startup culture supporting entrepreneurs leading transformational change, or we risk being overwhelmed by it. I’ve experienced both in my career.

As vice president of strategy and communications at KEMET in the early 2000s, I was the public face announcing thousands of layoffs caused by shock waves from the 2000 technology bust. Folks in KEMET’s North American manufacturing plants excelled at processes and procedures developed in the late 1980s, before North American electronic manufacturing customers sold their plants to contract manufacturers who moved them to Asia. Eventually Asian customers asked why they were buying parts made halfway around the world, and to a person every KEMET senior manager knew we were toast.

People who performed at an excellent level for decades found themselves laid off through no fault of their own.

In 1996, I led a group investing in a small organic grocery store in Asheville called Earth Fare. While it now seems obvious, at the time it was uncertain if organics were a coming trend in the deeply conservative Southeast. After sales at the second store in Charleston started strong but then collapsed, Asheville’s liberal culture seemed a Southeastern anomaly. Earth Fare eventually gained its footing and found its customers, growing into the largest regional organic grocery store chain in the United States.

Helping to lead Earth Fare was a lot more fun and lucrative than enduring KEMET. In developing our startup culture, let’s find the bright spots and do more of that.

While we don’t have a Stanford in South Carolina, our research universities are considerably stronger than they were. Brian McSharry and I cofounded a company with Clemson bioengineering professor Delphine Dean and her Ph.D. student Kayla Gainey. Accessible Diagnostics is developing a way to inkjet-print a glucose test strip for a nickel versus a dollar for the market-leading strip. Delphine told us she didn’t want to be an entrepreneur, so Brian and I started the company ourselves and tapped into the local ecosystem in ways she couldn’t.

This is just one of many opportunities at our research universities. Thomas Crawford, an advanced materials researcher at the University of South Carolina, started a company, MagAssemble, which is commercializing a process to discretely place nanoscale structures in specific places, say the end of an optical fiber. In the future, a technician may diagnose a problem with the optical fibers in your house and in his truck use the MagAssemble process to make a component that fixes your problem. Like Delphine, Thomas is seeking business partners who can help with the customer discovery and business model innovation necessary for MagAssemble to succeed in the market.

The risk if we don’t fix this problem is that companies that are started here will leave in search of capital elsewhere.

Among non-university initiatives attracting top talent to the region is the Iron Yard, which currently runs a digital health care incubator in Spartanburg. Jon-Michial Carter is a serial entrepreneur who participated in the Iron Yards and decided to stay here because of the quality of life. Jon-Michial founded ChartSpan to allow individuals to create their own electronic medical record, which is useful for people who are medical record keepers, in particular moms and those with chronic diseases.

A warning flare was fired by two Furman stu-

Clemson Ph.D. student Kayla Gainey with the GlucoSense meter Photo Provided

dents who recently started a highly successful social media site, Yik Yak, which has raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital. Where is Yik Yak located? Not in Greenville, but in Atlanta.

KEEPING ENTREPRENEURS HERE

Two major related challenges are faced by almost every startup entrepreneur in our community. First, collectively we don’t have a systematic process for successfully launching high-growth startup companies. There are best practices in other parts of the country for dealing with the ambiguity of startups based on the idea that entrepreneurs first have merely a business hypothesis. Success is not proving the hypothesis is right, because it probably isn’t. Success is iterating from the initial hypothesis to a business model that delivers value customers will pay for.

The lack of a startup culture results in a severe lack of seed capital. Investors here typically want to invest only after customers are discovered and a business model is clear, which isn’t true seed capital. Entrepreneurs who have successfully raised significant seed capital, like Jon-Michial Carter, have to go outside the area to find it. One entrepreneur with Silicon Valley experience told me it takes him 10 times as long here to raise capital as it does there. The risk, if we don’t fix this problem, is that companies like Yik Yak that are started here will leave in search of capital elsewhere.

The path forward is clear. Find the bright spots, and do more of that.

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Bringing the debit card back to life

Mobile pay services prove that reports of the death of the debit card have been greatly exaggerated Conclusion of a two-part series on the future of mobile payments

By LAURA HAIGHT, president, portfoliosc.com It seems like a crowded field of mobile pay players emerged overnight. But Google Wallet has been operational for several years, while Current C and Softcard have been in development.

With mobile payments you use your existing card accounts, but connect them to your device.

Because you are never handing over your physical card and the merchant (the weak link in the security chain) is never actually getting your account info, the legions of debit card users who have been hammered by hackers in recent years can feel much safer using their accounts.

Terry Garner, senior vice president for deposit operations for Southern First Bank, has been comparing these services from a financial institution perspective. That means protecting both the customer account and the bank’s interests.

There are a lot of analysts doing the same thing through different lenses: security, convenience, the cool-tech factor.

But in the mobile pay arena, only one thing really matters: security. And that’s where Apple Pay gets an edge.

APPLE PAY doesn’t store your credit card anywhere. In fact, it only has your credit card data once – when it passes it along to your card issuer for verification. Once approved (in milliseconds), the issuer sends a device account number (DAN) back to Apple. This is stored in a dedicated chip in your iPhone. When you make a purchase, that DAN along with a one-time use token is used for authentication. Neither Apple or the merchant ever have your credit card number or PIN. To activate your payment, you use your fingerprint via Touch ID. There’s no app to find and open, no choices to make. The payment function is built

into the NFC chip. You tap your phone to the payment terminal, authorize with your fingerprint and you’re done. Of course, you’ll need the Apple Watch or iPhone 6.

GOOGLE WALLET uses a token rather than maintaining the credit card information on your phone, but it does store your financial information in the cloud (yes, they say “securely stored”). It also tracks your purchasing habits, theoretically to improve your shopping “experience” by delivering up personalized offers (ads). The wallet is more versatile and will work with both bar-code scanning technology, which is used by Current C, and Near Field Communications (NFC). And they offer fraud monitoring and protection.

CURRENT C – a consortium of major retailers led by Wal-Mart – was the solution to reducing the 2.5 percent fees charged by various credit card companies that eat into the often tight profit margins. Current C is not designed for flexibility or ease of use for the consumer, but rather to save money for the retailer. Currently in an extended pilot, the system uses a proprietary app that will scan a QR code. That initiates the sending of a token to your financial institution which then authorizes an ACH (automated clearinghouse) transaction from your checking account. Current C can also work with gift cards.

Current C was dealt a big PR blow recently when it was announced that its database had already been hacked.

Email addresses, not card numbers, were reported to have been exposed. But the inci-

dent itself doesn’t instill tremendous confidence.

The other two mobile payment players at the moment are PAYPAL and your friendly mobile carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T) who are bringing you SOFTCARD. PayPal has an app for Android and iOS that adds the security of an eight-digit PIN to secure your transaction. It also only works with retailers who are signed on in-network, and there aren’t a lot of those. The app will tell you which retailers near you are in-network.

Finally, the Softcard. Yes, there’s an app for that, too, and it uses the NFC functionality. But you’re not going to see it on iPhones for at least a year. Apple confirmed last week that there was a one-year lockdown on any other NFC applications, so you won’t see the Softcard in the App Store for a while. But it is working on Android phones. Want to test it out? Head over to McDonalds where you can pay for your Big Mac with a tap at the counter or the drive-thru. Unlike many other retailers, Micky D’s is all-inclusive – accepting Google Wallet, Softcard and Apple Pay. All these systems have one similarity: They keep your credit or debit card out of the hands of the merchant. For that reason, if for no other, Garner says, the “debit card is not dead.” Combined with new EMV cards, new merchant terminals and the security built into mobile payments, you may be safer than you’ve ever been.

But that doesn’t mean you can let your guard down or stop monitoring your accounts. Somewhere in Eastern Europe, the cybercriminal who sold your Social Security number on the black market is working out how to crack this new tech.

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AWARDED

Sarah Anders

Anjali Joseph

Mark Nantz

Hugh Allen

W. Larry Gluck

Hired as an account executive for Community Journals.

Anders brings five years experience in sales and sales management in the manufacturing and operational equipment industries. A Greenville native, she earned her degree in packaging science from Clemson University.

Named first Endowed Chair in Architecture + Health Design and Research in Clemson University’s School of Architecture. Joseph joins Clemson after nine years with the Center for Health Design in California. She will anchor an approved multi-institutional SmartState initiative in health facilities design and testing.

Named executive vice president/market leader for Bon Secours St. Francis and Bon Secours Charity and Enterprise Strategic Initiatives for Bon Secours Health System Inc. Nantz is CEO of Bon Secours St. Francis Health System. His new position will include leading enterprise strategic initiatives for the Maryland-based health system.

Named commercial real estate regional director for TD Bank.

Allen is responsible for leading a team of lenders. He has more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience. He most recently served as Mid-Atlantic CRE division manager at Wells Fargo.

Received the Dr. Charles Townes Individual Lifetime Achievement Award from InnoVision. Gluck is medical director of the Cancer Institute of Greenville Health System.

The annual award is presented for a commitment to the advancement of technology and the betterment of the South Carolina community.

BANKING

FINANCE

NBSC, a division of Synovus Bank, appointed Nayef H. Samhat and Toya Hampton Green to its South Carolina board of directors. Samhat is president of Wofford College. He has served as provost and professor of political science and international studies at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Green is special counsel in the Charleston office of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd. She works on the public finance team and focuses her practice on school district financing.

FinTrust Investment Advisors hired Mike Gordon, Paul Gordon and Melissa Rogers. Prior to joining FinTrust, Mike and Paul Gordon were registered with Raymond James Financial Services. Mike Gordon has provided tax advice to clients for more than 30 years. Paul Gordon’s experience includes advanced financial planning, corporate plans, securities research and selection. Rogers has a medical background and will serve as a registered sales assistant.

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Leadership Management International Inc. hired Michael Van Pelt as the managing director in the Upstate. Van Pelt has more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications, insurance and nonprofit agencies. He will assist individual and organizational clients in becoming more effective and results-oriented.

Gallivan, White & Boyd P.A. shareholder Ron Wray was elected president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association and GWB partners Johnston Cox and Breon Walker were elected to continue on the SCDTAA board of directors. Wray has more than 22 years of experience in law. His practice focuses on commercial transportation and complex litigation with an emphasis on railroad law, trucking, products liability, class actions and appellate work.

EDUCATION Presbyterian College appointed Brittany Reese as alumni association representative. She will also serve on the board of trustees. She served as a law clerk to Lamar W. Sizemore and Ed Ennis and worked as an associate at Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta. She recently joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia in Macon.

ENGINEERING Peter Strub, a principal and senior vice president in TranSystems’ Greenville office, was selected as the next chair elect/chairman for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Strub has 33 years of experience in engineering and design including project management, comprehensive location and design studies and the preparation of preliminary and final right-of-way and construction plans for major highway improvement programs.

MARKETING/PR Jackson Marketing Group hired Katie Brown as staff accountant and Jill Workman as public relations representative. Brown previously worked for M33 Integrated Solutions for five years and received two promotions. Her past experience includes handling audits, auditor reports and accounts payable for vendors and clients. Workman will manage public relations activities for B2B and B2C clients, ranging from content creation to social media to media relations. She spent the last five years coordinating marketing and PR for the Virtual Community School of Ohio.

VisitGreenvilleSC hired Nathan Kittrell as sales manager. Kittrell will focus on bringing future

corporate, association and education meetings and conventions to Greenville. Kittrell previously interned for VisitGreenvilleSC while studying business administration at Bob Jones University.

REAL ESTATE The Cliffs hired Kent Smith as vice president of real estate sales. He will oversee real estate operations of the seven luxury mountain and lake communities in the western Carolinas. Most recently, Kent served as broker-in-charge for Walnut Cove Realty, a real estate company responsible for on-site sales at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Arden, N.C. Smith will oversee all seven Cliffs communities.

Windsor/Aughtry Company has added Laurens Nicholson and Carrie Hertwig to its team. The Nicholson/Hertwig team will specialize in office and investment sales and leasing, as well as industrial sales. Nicholson has worked in commercial real estate investment for more than 20 years. Hertwig brings commercial lending experience from years spent in the banking industry.

CORRECTION: An item last week incorrectly described the hiring of Jennifer Lackey and the promotion of Abby Gary. Lackey is the manager of HTI Organizational Solutions, the newest division of Human Technologies Inc. Gary is the director of professional services for HTI Employment Solutions.

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Upstate chambers unite to support port deepening The leaders of the Upstate Chamber Coalition have voiced their full support for the proposed deepening of the Port of Charleston to 52 feet.

“This project is absolutely essential to the Upstate’s economic future,” said the leaders in a letter addressed to Mark Messersmith of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Charleston district. “On behalf of the 8,000 businesses in our 12 Chambers of Commerce, the Upstate Chamber Coalition proudly joins Gov. Nikki Haley and the S.C. General Assembly in demonstrating statewide support for this project.”

“The Port of Charleston is the global link for the Upstate economy,” said Mark Owens, president and CEO of the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce. “Greer’s Inland Port allows companies to get their goods to market faster and will take tens of thousands of trucks off of Interstate 26.

This port deepening project is critical for the continued expansion of the Inland Port, the expansion of the Upstate economy, and the security of the more than 112,000 Upstate jobs that depend on the Port.”

Nearly 60 percent of the goods leaving the Port of Charleston come from the Upstate, notes the letter, signed by all 12 Chamber leaders. “There is a total of nearly $21.4 billion in economic output in the Upstate and 127,000 jobs that directly depend on using the port,” the letter said.

BUSINESS BRIEFS YOU CAN’ T MISS

rial Hospital, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital Inc. in Greenville; GHS Greer Memorial Hospital and UHS of Greenville LLC in Greer; and Mary Black Health System LLC in Spartanburg.

DialAmerica adds 100 jobs in Greenville

Teleservices company DialAmerica announced the expansion of its contact center operations, and additional job opportunities, at its contact center located on Roper Mountain Road in Greenville. To support growing client demand, DialAmerica will hire 100 contact center agents, said the company in a release.

DialAmerica will host two hiring events on Saturday, Dec. 6, and Friday, Dec. 12, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for interested candidates.

The new contact center agents will support entertainment and financial services programs.

Candidates interested in joining DialAmerica can view all available positions, including job responsibilities, and submit an employment application online at dialamerica.com/careers, or contact Consquela Thomas at 864-297-6500 or Greenvillerec@Dialamerica.com.

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Joint Commission names top-performing hospitals

The Joint Commission released its annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety.” The number of hospitals recognized as top performers increased by 11 percent from last year to 1,224 hospitals.

The report found that of the 56 hospitals that submitted data last year, 20 were recognized as top performers, the same number as last year.

The following Upstate hospitals were named to the Top Performer on Key Quality Measures program: AnMed Health in Anderson; Baptist Easley Hospital in Easley; GHS Patewood Memo-

Advance America, a national provider of payday loans and other financial services, has recently become aware of a new wave of scams targeting consumers throughout the country.

The scam artists pose as Advance America representatives to collect money from unsuspecting consumers.

Over the past few weeks, scammers have contacted consumers claiming that they have been pre-approved for a loan, and then asking them to purchase a prepaid debit card or wire money as a processing fee or good-faith deposit.

In other cases, scammers seek to collect on unpaid payday loan debt, often threatening arrest or legal action or demanding personal financial information over the phone. Scammers have gone as far as sending fraudulent loan documents using

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the Advance America logo, including to consumers in states in which Advance America does not operate.

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, president and CEO of Spartanburg-based Advance America, said in a release, “Legitimate payday lenders such as Advance America are highly regulated at both the state and federal level and will never use the kind of fraudulent and illegal tactics employed by scam artists.”

If individuals suspect they are being scammed, they should report it immediately to local law enforcement and to the lender that the scammer claims to represent. Advance America customers can call 888-310-4238.

Workforce development for unemployed youth A partnership of the Greenville County Workforce Development and Greenville Technical College hosted a Youth Career Fair Thursday targeted at unemployed 17- to 21-year-olds in Greenville County.

The career fair provided attendees with the opportunity to receive free job training, earn their GED or high school diploma, get paid on-the-job experience and take advantage of job placement support.

“Greenville County youth, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who may have dropped out of school prior to graduation, represent an important constituency in our community, and this program is designed to help them develop the skills and talents to become long-term contributors to the community and to support their families,” Natalie Milom, program manager at Greenville Region Workforce Collaborative, said in a release.

The free training was valued at more than $2,200 for initial training, and included additional counseling in financial management, career planning and other factors essential to maintaining and advancing in a career opportunity.

John Baker, Career Skills Now executive director, said in the release, “This is an opportunity for an individual to change his or her life for the better, and to create opportunities to learn, grow and build a career they can be proud of.”

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New Wofford stadium to open in 2017 SHERRY JACKSON | STAFF sjackson@communityjournals.com @SJackson_CJ Jerry Richardson, Carolina Panthers founder, owner and Wofford alumni and trustee, is making a generous donation to Wofford College to build a new indoor stadium that will house a basketball arena, volleyball venue, locker rooms and other facilities.

College officials announced that Richardson, who graduated from Wofford College in 1959 and played football for the Wofford Terriers, provided the charitable contribution to fund the 92,000-square-foot facility that will include a 3,400-seat basketball arena and a 500-seat volleyball competition venue. Richardson wanted the actual amount to remain undisclosed. The facility will replace Benjamin Johnson Arena, which will continue to be used for intramural and campus recreational activities.

The new indoor stadium will be adjacent to the north end of Gibbs Stadium, where the Terriers play football.

The announcement comes less than a month after the college announced that Richardson would fund the Rosalind S. Richardson Center for the Arts to house academic programs in theatre arts, visual arts and art history.

“It truly has been an exciting few weeks for Wofford College, and we are so grateful for Jerry Richardson making two major gifts to the college to make two major elements of our recently adopted strategic vision a reality—our Rosalind S. Richardson Center for the Arts and now the Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium,” Wofford President Nayef H. Samhat said. “This new arena will provide our women’s and men’s basketball and volleyball teams with a state-of-the-art facility in which to showcase their talents and host their opponents. It will be a gem that will shine for decades to come.”

The Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium will serve as the home for women’s basketball, men’s basketball and volleyball and will have a seating capacity for non-athletics functions, such as commencement and concerts, of 4,500. It will include home and visitor lockers for multiple sports, a state-of-the-art training room, coaches’ offices and locker rooms and team meeting rooms.

Other features include a video board and ribbon boards, plus designated areas specifically designed for students, fans, children and donors. Four open-air suites also are planned.

“I was so fortunate to have built so many great friendships while I was a student at Wofford, and those friendships have led directly to the success I have enjoyed,” Richardson said. “Without

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Wofford’s influence on my life, I would not have been able to achieve everything I have. It is important to me to give back to my alma mater for all that it and the relationships I built here have given to me and my family.”

Construction on the facility will begin in fall 2015 with the opening slated for September 2017.

Jerry and Rosalind Richardson (right) joined Wofford College officials at the unveiling of the stadium plans.

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Former Dixie’s Tavern to get rooftop bar The former Dixie’s Tavern building at the corner of Brown and East North streets is getting a rooftop bar and new storefront, according to plans filed with the City of Greenville Design Review Board.

The plans show the addition of a 200-seat outdoor patio with a bar on the top of the building. The entrance on East North Street would be “spruced up” and the current side patio area would remain.

The plans will be reviewed at the Dec. 4 Design Review Board meeting.

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Condos will feature granite countertops, hardwood floors and stainless steel appliances—“higher-end finishes that you would expect to find in a high-end condo,” said Anderssen.

Parking for the units will be located on-site, underneath the building, said Anderssen, with each condo having one designated parking space.

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IMAGINE UPSTATE BRAINSTORMS FOR MARCH EVENT iMAGINE Upstate gathered about 50 members of the community together last week to put their minds to work in a brainstorming session. Ryan Heafy, executive director of iMAGINE Upstate, asked attendees to think of solutions to raising community awareness and recruiting volunteers for the weeklong event March 28-April 4. The goal of iMAGINE Upstate is to develop more STEM-related programs in the Upstate to increase workforce development. The event will conclude with a downtown festival.

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Today the area is no longer considered country. McDonald’s occupies the site of the former McCuen home. Augusta Street is no longer a dirt road but a four-lane road connecting downtown Greenville to the interstate and beyond. A thriving business district has grown along the road with a variety of retail shops and restaurants available for patrons.

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The home of David and Hallie McCuen on Augusta Street is thought to have been constructed around 1919. David McCuen, a cotton broker, was a charter member of the Greenville Rotary Club. When the home was completed the area was considered in the country, with the pavement and trolley line of Augusta Street ending at Prentiss Avenue. Upon David McCuen’s death in 1951 local newspaper columnist Chas Garrison, who knew McCuen, wrote, “He knew no other way than to treat everyone as though they were creatures created in God’s image. Rank or so-called station in life made no difference to him. All felt the sincerity and the friendliness of the man.”

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jackson Marketing Group’s 25 Years 1988 Jackson Dawson opens in Greenville at Downtown Airport

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with a majority of them utilizing the general aviation airport as a “corporate gateway to the city.”

In 1997, Jackson and his son, Darrell, launched Jackson Motorsports Group. The new division was designed to sell race tires and go to racetracks to sell and mount the tires. Darrell Jackson now serves as president of the motorsports group and Larry Jackson has two other children and a son-in-law who work there. Jackson said all his children started at the bottom and “earned their way up.”

Jackson kept the Jackson-Dawson branches in Detroit and others in Los Angeles and New York until he sold his portion of that partnership in 2009 as part of his estate planning.

The company now operates a small office in Charlotte, but its main headquarters are in Greenville in a large office space off Woodruff Road, complete with a vision gallery that displays local artwork and an auditorium Jackson makes available for non-profit use. The Motorsports Group is housed in an additional 26,000 square feet building just down the street, and the agency is currently looking for another 20,000 square feet.

Jackson said JMG has expanded into other verticals such as financial, healthcare, manufacturing and pro-bono work, but still has a strong focus on the auto industry and transportation. It’s

Chairman larry Jackson, Jackson marketing Group. Photos by Greg Beckner / Staff

Jackson Marketing Group celebrates 25 years By sherry Jackson | staff | sjackson@communityjournals.com

Solve. Serve. Grow. Those three words summarize Jackson Marketing Group’s guiding principles, and according to owner Larry Jackson, form the motivation that has kept the firm thriving for the past 25 years.

Jackson graduated from Bob Jones University with a degree in video and film production and started his 41-year career in the communications industry with the U.S. Army’s Public Information Office. He served during

Vietnam, where he said he was “luckily” stationed in the middle of Texas at Fort Hood.

He left the service and went to work in public affairs and motorsports at Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

After a stint at Bell and Howell, where he was responsible for managing Ford’s dealer marketing and training, the entrepreneurial bug hit and he co-founded Jackson-Dawson Marketing Communications, a company specializing in dealer training and product launches for the auto industry in 1980.

In 1987, Jackson wanted to move back south and thought Greenville would be a good fit. An avid pilot, he

learned of an opportunity to purchase Cornerstone Aviation, a fixed base operation (FBO) that served as a service station for the Greenville Downtown Airport, providing fuel, maintenance and storage.

In fact, when he started the Greenville office of what is now Jackson Marketing Group (JMG) in 1988, the offices were housed on the second floor in an airport hangar.

“Clients would get distracted by the airplanes in the hangars and we’d have to corral them to get back upstairs to the meeting,” Jackson said.

Jackson sold the FBO in 1993, but says it was a great way to get to know Greenville’s fathers and leaders

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also one of the few marketing companies in South Carolina to handle all aspects of a project in-house, with four suites handling video production, copywriting, media and research and web design.

Clients include heavyweights such as BMW, Bob Jones University, the Peace Center, Michelin and Sage Automotive. Recent projects have included an interactive mobile application for Milliken’s arboretum and 600-acre Spartanburg campus and a marketing campaign for the 2013 Big League World Series.

“In my opinion, our greatest single achievement is the longevity of our client relationships,” said Darrell Jackson. “Our first client from back in 1988 is still a client today. I can count on one hand the number of clients who have gone elsewhere in the past decade.”

Larry Jackson says his Christian faith and belief in service to others, coupled with business values rooted in solving clients’ problems, have kept

2009 Jackson Dawson changes name to Jackson marketing Group when larry sells his partnership in Detroit and lA 2003

2009-2012 Jackson marketing Group named a top BtoB agency by BtoB magazine 4 years running

him going and growing his business over the years. He is passionate about giving back and outreach to non-profits. The company was recently awarded the Community Foundation Spirit Award.

The company reaffirmed its commitment to serving the community last week by celebrating its 25th anniversary with a birthday party and a 25-hour Serve-A-Thon partnership with Hands on Greenville and Habitat for Humanity. JMG’s 103 full-time employees worked in shifts around the clock on October 22 and 23 to help construct a house for a deserving family.

As Jackson inches towards retirement, he says he hasn’t quite figured out his succession plan yet, but sees the companies staying under the same umbrella. He wants to continue to strategically grow the business.

“From the beginning, my father has taught me that this business is all about our people – both our clients and our associates,” said his son, Darrell. “We have created a focus and a culture that strives to solve problems, serve people and grow careers.”

Darrell Jackson said he wants to “continue helping lead a culture where we solve, serve and grow. If we are successful, we will continue to grow towards our ultimate goal of becoming the leading integrated marketing communications brand in the Southeast.”

2011 Jackson marketing Group/Jackson motorsports Group employee base reaches 100 people

2008 2012 Jackson marketing Group recognized by Community Foundation with Creative spirit Award

pro-bono/non-proFit Clients American Red Cross of Western Carolinas Metropolitan Arts Council Artisphere Big League World Series The Wilds Advance SC South Carolina Charities, Inc. Aloft Hidden Treasure Christian School

CoMMUnitY inVolVeMent & boarD positions lArry JACkson (ChAirmAn): Bob Jones University Board chairman, The Wilds Christian Camp and Conference Center board member, Gospel Fellowship Association board member, Past Greenville Area Development Corporation board member, Past Chamber of Commerce Headquarters Recruiting Committee member, Past Greenville Tech Foundation board member David Jones (Vice President Client services, Chief marketing officer): Hands on Greenville board chairman mike Zeller (Vice President, Brand marketing): Artisphere Board, Metropolitan Arts Council Board, American Red Cross Board, Greenville Tech Foundation Board, South Carolina Chamber Board eric Jackson (Jackson motorsports Group sales specialist): Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club Advisory Board

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