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South Carolina's Insurance IT Cluster Continues to Grow

Sam McGuckin
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

Over the past decade our state’s capital city has become a nationally recognized insurance information technology hub, and in the process, creating a tremendous number of jobs.  Companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Siebels Bruce, CSC, Duck Creek, and our next guest’s company which began as a USC Technology Incubator business that recently led to another big player in that industry coming to South Carolina.

Mike Switzer interviews Sam McGuckin, is with Capgemini in Columbia, 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.