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InnoVision awards program celebrates innovation in SC

By Mike Switzer

Published October 27, 2021 at 5:28 AM EDT

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For the past 23 years, our next guest’s organization has been showcasing our state’s innovation leaders with an annual awards program. Because of the pandemic this event, like many others, has gone virtual. But she says, that has actually been a positive.

Mike Switzer interviews Amy Robichaud, board chair at InnoVision in Greenville, SC. This year’s annual InnoVision awards program is Nov. 9, 2021.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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