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Dr. Jeffrey DiLisi has been selected as the new Chief Executive Officer for Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, SC. After a successful and extensive national search, Dr. Jeffrey DiLisi was selected to lead the 160-year-old, prestigious, and award-winning, four-hospital health system. Roper Hospital anchors Roper St. Francis Healthcare, St. Francis Hospital, Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital, and Roper St. Francis Berkeley Hospital; the 657-bed health system includes more than 117 facilities and doctors’ offices throughout the Lowcountry region.
Our sincerest congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey DiLisi and Roper St. Francis Healthcare!
Dr. DiLisi will join Roper St. Francis Healthcare on December 7th, 2020, after serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer & Operations for Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia. Virginia Hospital Center is an independent health system with a teaching hospital with 394 licensed beds, an employed physician group with practice locations throughout Northern Virginia, and net revenue of approximately $500 MM.
Dr. DiLisi is a data-driven physician executive with over ten years of healthcare leadership experience, increasing operational responsibilities, significant-quality, patient safety, growth, and financial results. He brings proven success in aligning the interests of a mixed Medical Staff with administrative and Board-level strategic priorities. Dr. DiLisi currently serves on the Board membership in CareFirst, the $10 B Maryland/DC/VA Blue Cross and Blue Shield operator. Jeff has an MBA from Duke University, his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College, and his undergraduate degree from Duke University. Dr. DiLisi is a Board Certified Internal Medicine physician. Dr. DiLisi and his family, are excited to be a part of the Charleston community.
Bookmaker Oddshark and Bookies have released the latest odds for the U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina and the presidency.
As of the week of October 19th, Democratic Candidate Joe Biden continues to hold a betting lead and Lindsay Graham still holds a slight betting lead though polls have this race is a virtual toss-up.
A celebration of life for Dr. Ade Ofunniyin, who passed away last Wednesday, October 14, will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2020, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM at Brittlebank Park
Dr. Ade Ofunniyin, the founder and CEO of the Gullah Society and grandson of the legendary blacksmith Philip Simmons.
His life and legacy have and will continue to leave a mark on the Charleston, Gullah, and Lowcountry community.
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC, October 20, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — Venture X®, a premium membership-based workspace community, is celebrating the opening of its newest location in North Charleston, SC. Previously a Serendipity Labs property, the 50,000 square-foot coworking space is housed in the Historic Mill Building at 4900 O’Hear Avenue, Suites 100 and 200.
Venture X Charleston – Garco Mill encourages local entrepreneurs and business professionals to join the festivities during two upcoming open house events. As the brand’s newest boutique workspace, Venture X Charleston – Garco Mill invites the community to stop by on Tuesday, October 20 to tour the ample facility and connect with other professionals.
“We are thrilled to welcome local businesses and entrepreneurs to our new facility so they can see for themselves the beautiful, spacious environment their company could call home,” said Tyler Evans, owner of Venture X Charleston – Garco Mill. “With shared and private work areas, meeting rooms equipped with the latest technology and best-in-class event space, we aim to cater to a variety of modern professional needs.”
In addition to services provided by Venture X, Garco Mill, clients will enjoy free parking, move-in ready offices, as well as the proximity to Park Circle’s thriving restaurant and retail district. The Historic Mill Building location was selected for its upscale aesthetic and aptitude for optimizing productivity and networking for organizations and professionals.
Two open house events are slated for Venture X Charleston – Garco Mill on Tuesday, October 20th. Open house lunch hour will take place from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., followed by an open house happy hour from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Food will be provided on-site and the event is open to the public. Guests are encouraged to register online in advance to ensure event attendance remains in keeping with capacity requirements for social distancing.
Venture X®, a brand of the United Franchise Group, is inspired by boutique hospitality brands where relationships, consistent quality, and value-added offerings are the cornerstone of the membership experience. Its “best-in-class” working environment is very appealing to corporate clients and professionals from every level. This is displayed in the diversity of its membership that ranges from entrepreneurs, creative professionals, and freelancers, to remote workers, startups, small businesses, government organizations, and teams from Fortune 500 companies.
About Venture X Venture X is a shared workspace and community that is a blend of boutique hotel and modern office styles, with a high level of design that feels professional and welcoming. We are designing beautiful spaces and developing an environment and community that people love coming to work every day. Venture X is part of a successful group of affiliated companies and brands under the United Franchise Group (UFG) and has been recognized by Inc. as one of the best co-working spaces in the United States. For more information about locations visit www.VentureX.com and for information about franchise opportunities visit www.venturexfranchise.comhttp://www.venturexfranchise.com.
About United Franchise Group
Led by Founder and CEO Ray Titus, United Franchise Group is home to an affiliated family of brands, including Signarama, Fully Promoted, Experimax, Jon Smith Subs, SuperGreen Solutions, Transworld Business Advisors, Accurate Franchising, Venture X, The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill, Network Lead Exchange and Resource Operations International (ROI). With over three decades in the franchising industry and more than 1,600 franchisees throughout the world, United Franchise Group offers unprecedented leadership and solid business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
President Clements announces University’s largest-ever gift, which positions Clemson’s College of Business to become a nationally recognized program for educating global leaders.
The nation’s top-rated business colleges have earned their reputation for excellence by building powerful programs that look beyond teaching the fundamentals and instead focus their energies on making a broad impact on today’s borderless business world.
Building such a powerhouse – and doing it in a manner consistent with Clemson’s land-grant mission of service to the state of South Carolina – has been a priority for President Jim Clements since his arrival in 2013.
President Clements, Billy and Ann together before a tour of the new business building in early 2020.
With this gift from longtime South Carolina philanthropists and friends of the University Wilbur O. “Billy” and Ann Powers, these cutting-edge plans have a home under the roof of the newly named Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business, which is housed in a new state-of-the-art building that opened this semester.
“This building and this gift are game changers for Clemson and the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business. Billy and Ann are longtime supporters of the University, and, once again, they have stepped up for Clemson. We are so grateful for their generosity and vision,” Clements said. “This is an incredible milestone for Clemson, not only because it is the largest gift in our history but also because it will truly transform the way we teach business at Clemson. This gift will enable the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business to reach new heights, growing to become one of the country’s best institutions for educating the next generation of global business leaders.”
A reflection of their business acumen and personal principles, Billy and Ann gave the gift so that they might make a difference in the lives of Clemson’s students. With its signature programs and a new, best-in-class facility, the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business is more than a gateway to Clemson University. It serves as a catalyst for commerce across South Carolina and enterprise around the world.

The dual-tower, five-story Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business features 176,000 square feet of building space. As part of the gift, the right structure will be named in honor of their grandson, Chandler L. Burns. Burns was a 2015 graduate of Clemson who died tragically after a short illness in 2016.
The power of programs
With highly relevant business skills taught in all majors; experiential, interdisciplinary learning; collaborative teamwork; internships; and cross-cultural/study abroad programs, the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business is positioned to make a significant impact for generations of Clemson students and South Carolina industries. It also serves as a major research hub for world-class scholars.
With over 60 years of flying experience, Billy credits learning to fly as one of his biggest life accomplishments.
“The generous support from the Powers family enables critical faculty research, professorships and fellowships; provides needed student scholarships; and enhances the prestige of our business degrees for years to come,” said Dean Wendy York. “The sun is rising on a new era of business education at Clemson University.”

The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business stands as a gateway to Clemson University and global business. The family’s $60 million gift will support Clemson’s new state-of-the-art business building as well as fund professorships, scholarships and support the College’s signature programs.
The gift will allow the College to attract leading faculty through endowed professorships, as well as provide significant merit and need-based financial aid to students in order to grow future generations of South Carolina business leaders.
In addition, the gift also will propel many of the College’s signature programs, including:
Business Analytics Today’s business world is driven by data. With a proper understanding of relevant data, managers can make more informed decisions that can help their businesses succeed. The business analytics program instills critical analytical skills needed for strategic, data-driven decision making. With each major featuring its own tailored set of skills, business analytics primes students to collect, interpret and apply data to make a significant contribution to businesses large and small. Graduating students with working knowledge of business analytics makes them highly attractive to hiring corporate partners and organizations.
Sales Innovation The sales innovation program aims to develop proficiency in understanding techniques for effective sales, especially in the service, technical and health care fields. The program, and the collaborative efforts coming out of it, is on its way to becoming a national hub for excellence in sales education and research. The efforts of this program seek to drive change in processes and systems for better customer experiences and organizational growth.
Value Chain and Advanced Manufacturing The value chain and advanced manufacturing program leverages existing faculty expertise and industry needs to create market-relevant educational programs. Team collaboration incorporates the business, science and engineering disciplines, exposing students to cross-college cooperation and vendor relationship management found in a diverse, global workplace.
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial studies and entrepreneurial thinking are critical in startups as well as established businesses. The entrepreneurship program engages all colleges to co-deliver interdisciplinary coursework. In addition, the program leverages on-campus organizations, entrepreneurial alumni and venture funding sources to complete the ecosystem.
Brand Marketing and Graphics In the brand marketing and graphics communications programs, students are prepared with market-relevant skills. There are hands-on experiences at the Erwin Center for Brand Communications, Department of Graphic Communications, Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics and Sonoco FRESH (food packaging). From branding to positioning, from digital marketing to applied materials production, students learn and develop best practices under the guidance of industry specialists. Through these programs, students make a significant impact on current corporate partnerships.
Leadership Inspired by the high bar set by the Thomas F. Chapman Leadership Scholars program, this focus on leadership builds upon Clemson’s history of producing principled leaders of business and industry and now exemplifies the business expertise and ethics of Billy and Ann Powers. Dean York stresses that leadership “is a choice, not a title” and that those skills are what help students make a difference in their future positions, regardless of their majors. The program focuses on the responsibility to make a positive difference wherever you are.
Economics The Capitalism Institute and Hayek Center are unique in teaching the values of free enterprise. In the world-ranked economics program, nationally noted scholars support research and the Ph.D. program in the John E. Walker Department of Economics. As economics is a way of thinking, this program teaches students how the application of principles affects business decisions, public policy issues and everyday life, and how trade in open or free markets, and the surrounding activities, impact economies by providing growth opportunities.
MBA Our MBA program is highly regarded for its innovative, applied approach to advanced business topics. Students enrich their classroom experience by collaborating with prestigious domestic and international companies on real-world projects. They network with executives, entrepreneurs and HR professionals throughout the program and access personalized, individual career counseling and job placement assistance including employer networking forums. In fall 2019, a flexible, fully online MBA program launched to better serve nontraditional or working students.
From the ground up The wheels of change can turn slowly, especially when it comes to the physical transformation of a college campus. It requires active participants, a course of action and time. Plans for the new building for business began more than a decade ago, but it was only recently that construction was completed, just in time for the 2020 Fall semester.’
President Clements, Dean York and others knew it would take more than a new building alone to elevate Clemson’s business college to national recognition as a top-public program.
The vision for a 21st-century business school requires a gathering of sharp-minded thinkers working together on a new mission to equip students with the skills, knowledge and values to thrive and make an impact on the business world. From practitioners, associate professors and tenured faculty to department heads, those inside the College required exceptional expertise and dedication in order to teach students how to succeed in a dynamic global economy.
Included in those great thinkers are longtime philanthropists Billy and Ann Powers, also people of vision who speak often and openly about the value of setting lofty goals. They quickly recognized the College’s mission and saw how it aligned with their shared desire to build something without equal in South Carolina. In turn, they gave the largest gift ever awarded to Clemson University and one of the largest gifts to a public institution of higher education in the state. With this gift, the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business is positioned to be a major contributor to the University’s rise in stature and academic relevance. Dean York and her staff and faculty will employ interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and colleges to further the development of ethical leadership skills and entrepreneurial thinking in students.
With President Jim Clements, Dean Wendy York and a member of the construction team, Billy and Ann Powers stand on a terrace located in Chandler L. Burns Hall.
“The building and our academic direction are becoming a launchpad for students to become revolutionary change agents who will make positive contributions to business and industry in South Carolina, across our nation and beyond,” said Dean York. Work ethic
Regardless of the classes students take, the major they pursue and opportunities they choose to engage with, donor Billy Powers explains that a single piece of advice is relevant to anyone pursuing college and a dream: “Apply yourself the best you can with the means you have,” he said. “You can’t start on top. It’s a learning process,” he continued. “Then you’ve got to have initiative and discipline to reach your goals.”
With over 60 years of flying experience, Billy credits learning to fly as one of his biggest life accomplishments.
But the key to success, Powers said, is hard work. “You always want to do the very best you are able to do, and if you plan well, you can accomplish more. This gift is about helping Clemson students grow and be the best they can be.”
Visionary leadership and a transformational gift that enabled that vision to come to life position the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business as a place that will prime innovation, foster scholarship and impact global business for the foreseeable future in South Carolina and beyond.
“Since the original gift that created the University, there has never been a more transformational gift in the history of Clemson than this,” said President Clements. “We are incredibly grateful to Billy and Ann for their generosity.”
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Charleston, S.C. – Frampton Construction Company, LLC, a full-service construction firm providing planning and design support, preconstruction, and construction services, has been named one of the 40 fastest-growing companies in South Carolina for 2020 by SC Biz News. Twenty large companies and 20 small companies were named to the statewide Roaring Twenties list presented annually by SC Biz News. This honor recognizes the state’s fastest-growing companies based on both dollar and percentage increases in revenue from 2018-2019.
Rankings were revealed at a virtual event honoring the winners on
October 15th. Frampton ranked #1 in the large company category.
Chad Frampton, president of Frampton Construction, commented, “We’re honored to be on this prestigious list of top-performing companies in South Carolina, and being named as the fastest-growing is beyond humbling. One of our guiding principles at Frampton Construction is ‘building the future’ and backed by our team of hard-working professionals and our valued clients, we’re committed to continuing that tradition for many years to come.”
Company size was determined by gross revenue: A small company was considered as having $10 million and under in revenue. Large companies were classified as having over $10 million in revenue.
Profiles of the winning companies will be published in the winter issue of SCBIZ magazine.
Frampton Construction is a full-service construction firm offering planning and design support, preconstruction, and construction services. The dedicated team of professionals takes pride in building strong relationships with clients while providing the highest quality of service. They deliver executive leadership and personal oversight throughout the building process while working diligently to exceed the expectations of every client. With offices in Charleston, S.C., and Charlotte, N.C., the company is positioned to manage projects in the Carolinas and beyond. For more information, please visit http://frampton.construction/ or call 843-572-2400 (Charleston) or 704-900-0511 (Charlotte).
With a celebrity chef, a delicious meal, and Grammy-winning musicians, this South Carolina charity fundraiser checks all the boxes. What makes it unique is that it will happen in the privacy of your own home.
Mill Village Farms, a nonprofit that provides boxes of produce and healthy food to families in need, has staged a series of “Culinary Concerts” over the past year as a fundraiser. Those who register are instructed to pick up a box of ingredients ahead of time at various spots across South Carolina. During the event, professional chefs demonstrate how to prepare a meal using the ingredients, and musicians provide entertainment.
The Oct. 26 Culinary Concert will be live-streamed from Daufuskie Island. It will feature “The Gullah Diva” Sallie Ann Robinson, a cookbook author and Gullah-Geechee cuisine expert from Daufuskie, along with Taylor Griffin, executive chef of the Calibogue Club at Haig Point, and Shaun Garcia, executive chef of Soby’s in Greenville. The chefs will demonstrate ‘Fuskie Shrimp & Blue Crab Burgers, Country Chicken Stew, and Sweet Potato Cornbread.
Charleston-based folk band Ranky Tanky, winner of the 2019 Grammy for Best Regional Roots album, will perform live.
The $150 registration fee — $100 of the cost is a tax-deductible donation — includes ingredients for a three-course dinner for two with a cocktail pairing and a bottle of wine.
Choose where you will pick up your box of ingredients at one of eight locations. Participating locations include sites in Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head, and Daufuskie, as well as others across the state.
Watch the live stream starting at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 26 on Mill Village Farms’ Facebook page. Anyone can watch the broadcast, but participants are limited to areas where boxes can be distributed.
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