Consultant Profile: Kevin Weir Area Center: Charleston Title: Technology Commercialization Specialist Start Date: June 8, 2022 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC? ANSWER: Advanced materials and international business development across industrial markets with Shell Chemical, Dow Chemical Company and Milliken & Company. Business consultancy owner and director of product and service innovation. QUESTION: What motivated you to become an SC SBD

Name: Corinna Aiken Area Center: Orangeburg Title: Business Consultant Start Date: 3/1/2021 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC? ANSWER: Small Business Owner, as well as Organizational Consultant or Sales & Marketing Manager. I own and operate Mattress by Appointment Orangeburg. I received my Master of Business Administration in Dec 2020. Given my education and 10 years of management and marketing experience, I had planned to join a large an

Area Center: Sumter Title: Business Consultant Start Date: January 10, 2022 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC? ANSWER: My career background was in the office products distribution industry as a Director for Staples. We held contracts in the healthcare industry to distribute office products, janitorial products, office furniture, technology products as well as printed products. Our contracts ranged in sales from 30 million to 250 million dol

Consultant Profile: Brian Wheat Area Center: Orangeburg Title: Business Consultant Start Date: April 15, 2021 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC? ANSWER: I have trained and assisted hundreds of sustainable farmers in establishing and growing their businesses through work in the private and non-profit sectors. I also have a farm of my own and have worked as an educator in multiple areas, including as an adjunct instructor and through continui

Consultant Profile: Marco Antonio Rios Palacios Area Center: State Directors’ Office Title: Hispanic Business Consultant Start Date: February 15, 2022 QUESTION: What was your career track prior to joining the SC SBDC? ANSWER: I have an extensive background in business management and entrepreneurship, with experience ranging from human resources and retail to the hospitality and food and beverage industries. For over 14 years I managed sales and national business developme