WhosOnTheMove SC

Scott Newitt and Jim Irvin met through the wine business, became friends, and then decided to go into business together and open a distillery in Charleston, South Carolina. Scott and Jim's first product, a muscadine wine flavored vodka named Firefly, met with modest success. The product that they came up with in 2008, Sweet Tea Vodka, literally blew up. Within several months of launching Sweet Tea...

A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Hsu, President, College of Charleston by Alan Cooper

Shelly is a retired veteran and served on Air Force Two. After leaving the Air Force, Shelly was committed to protecting the United States and did this through cyber security. In 2020, she founded Waite SLTS, a cyber security firm that focuses on finding and fixing vulnerabilities to protect its customers and partners. Shelly is also passionate about helping others and has collaborated with some o...

After trying different recipes at cookouts with family and friends, Monique and her husband Chevalo Wilsondebriano created a hamburger marinade that blew their guests away. The burgers were so good that they decided to try and sell them and formed the Charleston Gourmet Burger Company. Monique is originally from New Jersey and founded this company in Charleston, South Carolina. She credits the loc...

Founded in the beautiful and historic city of Charleston, SC, Poe Group Advisors is the premier accounting practice intermediary firm in the industry. With practices located throughout the U.S. and Canada, the company is known for its seamless process approach to facilitating the buying and selling of CPA firms.

For nearly a century, Columbia International University (CIU) has educated people from a biblical worldview to impact the nations with the message of Christ. Today, they continue that effort, offering 19 undergraduate majors, graduate and seminary programs, professional certificates, and convenient online programs for working adults.

We kick off the renewal of the Entrepreneur Minute in the Upstate with an interview with the CEO and co-founder of ChartSpan, Jon-Michial Carter. ChartSpan is a company based in Greenville that has attracted over $30M in venture funding and in 2021, they are the largest, managed service provider of chronic care management programs in the United States.

Karen Jenkins is the president and CEO of KRJ Consulting, a full-service consulting firm providing companies and their employees with the skills and resources to become more committed to their performance, empowered to effect change and be prepared for the journey ahead. She is an entrepreneur dedicated to giving back to the community. In 2020, she was named the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Ri...

HI Mark Capital is a new Charleston-based venture fund launched by Herbert Drayton III. Over the past 15 years, Herbert has founded, bought, and sold a dozen companies in the software, healthcare, IT, and training sectors. The aim of his latest venture, HI Mark Capital, is to raise a $15 million fund for Black, brown, and women-owned businesses, an ownership group that is underrepresented in the S...

The health care delivery system in this country and in this state is complex and involves a lot of moving parts. Elected officials are often required to make decisions on a variety of issues that affect health both directly and indirectly. Today's conversation is with Maya Pack, the Executive Director of the South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public Health (the SC IMPH). They are a non profit...

Located in Greenville, Ryan Beasley Law represents people facing charges in state and federal courts throughout Upstate of South Carolina, from drunk driving and drug possession to serious felony offenses. Their background defending clients in the local courts enables them to provide game-changing representation in a person's hour of need. The key to their success is that they have developed stron...

Vigilent Labs is a Vigilent Inc. company established in 2019 to provide unique solutions to the detection, identification and assessment of health and bio-threats to the healthcare community. In October 2020, Vigilent Labs announced that the it is investing more than $104.6 million and will create over 400 new jobs at its state-of-the-art COVID-19 test manufacturing facility in the Charleston Navy...

Sustain SC is an organization that is setting the table for conversations between businesses and local stakeholders, so that sustainability investments can be made in South Carolina — benefiting both our economic and natural resource infrastructures. - https://www.sustainsouthcarolina.org/

In 2009, Bill Mitchell began tailoring clothes in his parents basement on his mothers sewing machine. As he entered his final year at Clemson University, he gained a reputation for tailoring clothes and after lots of practice created a pair of jeans from scratch. Within one year, he had a waiting list of 400 people waiting for something unique. Today he is the entrepreneur behind Billiam Jeans and...

Charlton Singleton is a member of the Grammy award winning band Ranky Tanky, has his own touring ensemble, is artistic director and conductor of the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, is organist and choir director of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Charleston and was named inaugural artist-in-residence at the renovated Gaillard Center in Charleston. In 2021, he received the South Carolina Governor’s Award...

From humble beginnings, the AHA has grown into the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. Lizzie Smith, who at age four had open heart surgery, is now the Director of Development at the AHA and gearing up for the annual Midlands Heart Walk on Saturday, March 27.

The Historic Charleston Foundation was founded in 1947 with a broad mission of historic preservation of one of the most unique cities in North America. Today, historic preservation has evolved into more than a movement to simply save historic buildings. The Foundation has broadened its scope into balancing the needs of modern society with protecting the sensitive fabric of the historic district.

An interview with visual artist Susan Klein. Susan is an Associate Professor of Art at the College of Charleston. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. In the Fall of 2020, Susan was one of 100 individual artist grant recipients handpicked by the esteemed Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation is a leader in providing financial resources to both emergi...

Many IT companies come in with big promises, a good start, and then disappear until you have problems. Eric Hester founded Umbrella with the idea of creating something different in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) space. He wanted to focus on people and relationships. Umbrella, which is located in Simpsonville, SC, is focused on working alongside you in =our business, constantly evolving your te...

In this conversation, we sit down with Laurens Mayor Nathan Senn to learn about the challenges of being mayor and some of the exciting things happening in Laurens.

Optus Bank was founded 100 years ago by visionary African American leaders who established Victory Savings and Loan to provide access to capital to individuals and business excluded from the banking system. Today, the bank is now called Optus Bank, but the focus remains the same. It is a community bank whose mission is to close the wealth gap created by systemic disparities in the financial indust...

One thing we know from 2020 is that there is a rising tide of consciousness in our society today, resulting in the very real need for businesses to lead with greater purpose and intention. That’s why two marketing and communications firms with a shared commitment to social consciousness have joined forces to create the Responsible Brand Toolkit. The two companies are Riggs Partners in based in Col...

Tom Mullikin, SC Floodwater Commission by Alan Cooper

With hemp now legal to grow and process in 46 states, and 33 states with legal medical marijuana programs, the domestic marketplace confronts one big challenge: a broken supply chain connecting farmer’s fields to end-users. Hempgrid aims to fix that business problem.

Scott Gould, Author by Alan Cooper