
Consultant Profile: Todd Phillips
Area Center: Rock Hill
Title: Area Manager and Business Consultant
Start Date: April 1, 2019 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC network?
ANSWER: Spent 34 years in Marketing in the consumer packaged goods industry. Included tenures at Glaxo Smithkline, Heinz, Lance, Snyder's Lance and Shearer's Foods. Also spent 6 years at a large advertising agency - Della Femina McNamee, Inc, where I was an account executive for the Stouffer's Frozen Foods

Consultant Profile: Scott Beardmore
Area Center: Winthrop
Title: Business Consultant
Start Date: June 18, 2018 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC network?
ANSWER: My work history revolves around management and sales. Starting at age fifteen in North Myrtle Beach as a Putt-Putt manager to starting and owning a nationwide retail services business, my life has always been in the retail and sales world. In 2007, I started a retail services company with an old business acquaintanc

Consultant Profile: Robert Jones
Area Center: Charleston
Title: Business Consultant
Start Date: September 2016 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC network?
ANSWER: Following graduation from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, Robert worked at the Summerville Journal-Scene newspaper as a reporter/photographer. He then worked for the Boy Scouts of America as a District Executive in Charleston and Georgetown, SC. Robert moved backed to Charlesto

Consultant Profile: Bob Jones
Area Center: Columbia
Title: Business Consultant
Start Date: March 18, 2019 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC network?
ANSWER: I have worked in large corporations for 26 years. The last 22 years I have worked with startup companies and small businesses. I have worked with 10 startup companies directly where I was Vice President and have consulted with over 250 pre-startup and startup companies with the SBDC in Larimer County Colorado.
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Consultant Profile: Ben Calhoun
Area Center: Greenwood
Title: Business Consultant
Start Date: February 8, 2018 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC network?
ANSWER: I have over 20 years of professional experience in consumer finance, management, and consulting. Prior to coming on board with the SC SBDC, I served as the C.F.O. for a non-profit organization and owned a financial counseling business. My experiences as a Branch, District, and Regional Manager in the field of con