Upstate Financier Grows Winners

By Mike Switzer

Published February 17, 2016 at 5:41 AM EST

Last fall, SCBizNews held it's annual Roaring 20's event which is their ranking of the 20 fastest growing small and large companies in South Carolina. Our next guest, amazingly, runs three of the winners in the small company category.

Mike Switzer interviews Trevor Gordon, founder and CEO of Sandlapper Securities (#14), Sandlapper Capital Investments (#4), and TSWR Development (#3), all based 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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