SCBIO Celebrates Five Years

By Mike Switzer

Published October 29, 2015 at 4:49 AM EDT

Our next guest's organization is celebrating five years of helping South Carolina companies who are innovating medicines, medical equipment, diagnostics and bio materials, bring those products to market. And they're celebrating with their annual conference and job fair in Charleston on November 5 th and 6 th .

Mike Switzer interviews Wayne Roper, president of SCBIO , based in Greenville, SC.

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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.

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