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Sharon Self
Named development manager for the Greenville office of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Self has 18 years of experience in community development, fundraising and nonprofit management for a number of Greenville companies including Proterra, the law firm of Gallivan White and Boyd and the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.
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Cortney Newmans
Named business development director at Lima One Capital. Newmans will oversee development in nine states and the District of Columbia. He will head sales operations as well as provide senior-level management to the business development teams. Newmans will also drive expansion efforts into new markets.
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Mac Carpenter
Named president of KBR Building Group. Carpenter has been with KBR for 25 years. He served as executive vice president for the past 10 years. He headed the design-build team that managed Boeing’s 787 South Carolina Expansion in North Charleston.
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Will Teasdale
Named site manager at chemical-company BASF’s Seneca plant. Teasdale has experience as a production manager and production engineer with Ciba before it was acquired by BASF in 2009. Most recently, he served as the manager of the BASF site in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Teressa Currier
Named vice president of capital markets at FinTrust Investment Advisors. Currier has over 30 years of institutional fixed income experience. She was previously with Morgan Keegan as vice president of fixed income capital markets. She will provide clients trade execution, settlements and portfolio processing.
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BANKING
Southern First Bancshares, Inc., hired Wade Shugart as executive vice president and senior lender for the Columbia market. Shugart has over 35 years of banking experience, most recently as regional vice president for Wells Fargo Bank, and has also held positions with The South Financial Group, Synovus Corporation (NBSC) and C & S National Bank.
DEVELOPMENT
GreenWood, Inc., named Bob Gafner as maintenance site supervisor and Greg Hyatt as maintenance data analyst for the company’s aviation engine manufacturing project site in South Carolina. Gafner has 17 years of maintenance experience in the automotive and the food and beverage industries. Hyatt’s experience includes service with the United States Air Force in advanced electronics with additional electronics engineering training from Greenville Technical College.
EDUCATION
Denise Godwin was named secretary of the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association. Godwin is the Workers’ Compensation Coordinator for Clemson University Office of Risk Management, where she has managed claims for the past six years. She holds the Certified Workers’ Comp Counselor and the Certified Professional Insurance Woman designations.
Southern Wesleyan University named Anthony Payne as associate vice president for development in the Office of Advancement. Payne has experience in fund development, relationship building, management, special events and marketing. Most recently, Payne was executive director of the March of Dimes, Upstate South Carolina Division, where he oversaw the fundraising efforts for 10 Upstate counties with an annual fundraising budget of $2.5 million.
Clemson University’s Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program added Amy Clayton, Don Mabry and Matt Phillips to its Advancement Board for Real Estate Development. Clayton is a Commercial Real Estate Attorney at Nexsen Pruet. She practices in the areas of commercial real estate transactions, commercial finance, commercial leasing, commercial property tax appeals, business formations and general real estate and corporate law. Mabry is the senior vice president and chief development officer for Simpson Housing. His primary responsibility is overseeing the company’s in-house development operations across the country. Phillips is the vice president of real estate for The Hutton Company. He leads the team responsible for developing grocery anchored shopping centers.
Serita Acker, director of Clemson University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program, won the Women of Color magazine’s College-Level Promotion of Education award. Acker helps offer mentoring, networking, tutoring, professional development opportunities and a living-and-learning community for sophomore students. she also oversees several academic summer camps and outreach programs for students in the K-12 system.
Junior Achievement of Upstate SC announced the following 2014-2015 board members: Marty Bauer, managing director, accelerator, The Iron Yard; Karen Burgess, president, Brown Mackie College; John Farrall, sales manager, Louis P. Batson; Tami Finely, K-12 social studies academic specialist, Greenville County School District; Robert J. Hughes lll, urban development director, Hughes Development Corporation; Hank Hyatt, vice president, economic development, Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce; and Tracy Kramer, professor and former dean, Graduate School of Business, North Greenville University.
IT
EDTS hired Jeff Davis as a business technology advisor and Gregg Pothier as a network administrator. Davis has experience in sales, marketing, account management and network design. He previously worked for Merit Technologies. Pothier has almost ten years of experience providing network management, virtualization, security and advanced infrastructure solutions to government, non-profit and health care organization. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Cisco Certified Network Associate and LabTech Certified Professional.
MARKETING/PR
Infinity Marketing promoted Kayla Halchak and Jack Rogers to media coordinators and Kadie Zahnd to senior media buyer. Halchak has worked as an intern and media assistant with the company since 2013. She is responsible for maintenance on Infinity’s grocery team account. Rogers began as a media assistant seven months ago and will now manage the media placement and planning for the manufactured housing team. Zahnd began as a media buyer and now handles media planning and buying as well as overall account management for healthcare and television clients.
Jackson Motorsports Group hired Brian Blair as program manager and Jason Kazian as account executive. Blair will oversee crew and tire inventory, educate race guests, support hospitality activities and assist with on-site marketing activities at race events. Kazian will work with automotive clients as an account executive with a focus on sales and marketing. He will help develop and execute marketing campaigns, events and product launches.
