SC Life Sciences Industry and the Coronavirus

By Mike Switzer

Published March 20, 2020 at 5:30 AM EDT

The concerns over the coronavirus pandemic continue to cause business events in our state to be cancelled or postponed. Including a Life Sciences Bootcamp that was to be held this week. That’s an industry which generates a $12 billion economic impact in South Carolina.

Mike Switzer interviews Sam Konduros, president and CEO of SCBIO in Greenville, SC.

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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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