Targeting the Organ Transplant Market

By Mike Switzer

Published October 26, 2018 at 5:27 AM EDT

In the case of your unfortunate demise, are you an organ donor? Our next guest says there is a critical need for organ donations and that’s why his company focuses on developing products for that market. And why SCRA’s entrepreneurial program, SC Launch, invested $200,000 in his company earlier this year.

Mike Switzer interviews John Bruens, CEO of Global Transplant Solutions in Duncan, 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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