Comporium Ventures Managing Director Russell Cook was elected new Board Chair for SCICU at the Board’s September 26 meeting at Furman University. Jerry Cheatham, Director of Financial Analysis at Hartsville, SC-headquartered Sonoco, was named chair-elect. Profiles for SCICU’s new Board leadership may be read here.
The SCICU Board also elected eleven South Carolina business and education leaders as new trustees. The profiles of the eleven new trustees may be read here.
The newly-elected Class of 2020 trustees are as follows:
- LaJoia Broughton (Director, External Communications – SC Retirement System Investment Commission)
- Christian Corts (SC Corporate Banking Manager – BB&T)
- Ted Gentry (Member/Attorney – Wyche PA)
- Lou Kennedy (President / CEO – Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation)
- Brad Love (Shareholder / Attorney – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA)
- James McFadden (Avionics Manager – Interstate Turbine Management)
- Chakisse Newton (Principal – Cardinal Consulting Company)
- Walter Shealy (Financial Consultant – Shealy Consulting Group / WDS Investments)
- David Smalls (Director – Colleton County Legislative Delegation)
- Patricia Wharton Whitener (Attorney – Whitener and Wharton PA)
- Dale Willis (Global General Manager, Cables Management Business – Milliken & Company)
The following trustees were approved for a second three-year term:
- Henry Barton (Vice President, Government Affairs – SCANA Corporation)
- Clyde Bess (Consultant – Bess & Associates)
- Jay Lasater (Commercial Bank Executive – South State Bank)
- Lucy Grey McIver (Assistant General Counsel – Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC)
- Kevin Short (Senior Vice President, Middle Market Banking / Carolinas Director – TD Bank)
The Board also recognized the following outgoing trustees for their invaluable service to independent higher education in South Carolina:
- Dr. JoAnne Anderson (Retired, Former Executive Director – SC Education Oversight Committee)
- Paul Bopp (Complex Manager – BB&T Scott Stringfellow)
- Steven Bryant (CEO – SYSTEMTEC)
- Lonnie Emard (Tech Differential)
- Laura Hart (Attorney – Duff White & Turner)
- Neil Jones (Chief Accounting Officer – Colliers International SC)
- Kathy McKinney (Shareholder / Attorney – Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA)
- Larry Watt (Executive Director – SCISA)
The roster for the SCICU 2017-18 Board of Trustees may be accessed here.