South Carolina Business Review

Neonatal resuscitation training for first responders

By Mike Switzer

Published October 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Ways To Subscribe

Lindsay Spurgeon, founder and executive director of the NeoHERO Foundation in Mt. Pleasant, SC

Assisting newborns with their breathing and circulation after birth is a specialized skill that you would think first responders would have. But the vast majority of them don’t, and that’s because it is, almost universally, not required. Our next guest’s Lowcountry nonprofit is trying to change that. Mike Switzer interviews Lindsay Spurgeon, founder and executive director of the NeoHERO Foundation in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Provided

NeoHERO

NeoHERO Foundation logo

Tags

Mike Switzer

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.

See stories by Mike Switzer