Board Members

Executive Members

Beth Meredith (President)
Lowcountry Change Agent
New Carolina
1362 McMillan Avenue, Suite 100
North Charleston, SC 29405
Phone: 843-529-6293
Cell: 843-737-2949
bmeredith@newcarolina.org

Joe McDonald (Co-Vice President)
Belimed
2284 Clements Ferry Road
Charleston, SC 29492
Phone: 843-216-7424
Joe.McDonald@belimed.us

Ashley Hannah (Co-Vice President)
Interim Director
SC BIO
117 Gregor Mendel Circle
Greenwood, SC 29646
Phone: 864-953-3981
ahannah@scbio.org

Janet Scarborough (Treasurer/Secretary)
Treasurer and CFO
MUSC Foundation for Research Development
19 Hagood Avenue
Charleston, SC 29425
Phone: 843-876-1900
scarborj@musc.edu

Fred J. Gassaway
Executive Vice President for Marketing
Palmetto Economic Development Corp.
1201 Main St., Suite 1710
Columbia, SC 29201
803.254.9211 (office)
803.771.0233
fgassaway@SCpowerteam.com

Tony Boccanfuso
Office of Research and Health Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803.777.4305 (office)
amb@sc.edu

Rebecca Bullard-Dillard
Department of Biology
Claflin University
400 Magnolia Street
Orangeburg, SC 29115
803.535.5243 (office)
rdillard@claflin.edu

Pearce Gilbert
Argolyn Bioscience Inc.
2750 Speissegger Drive, Suite 110
North Charleston, SC  29405
843.266.0851 (office)
pgilbert@argolyn.com

Patricia A. Layton
Chair
Forestry and Natural Resources
Clemson University
261 Lehotsky Hall
Clemson, SC 29634
864.656.3303 (office)
playton@clemson.edu

Clare Morris
President
Clare Morris Agency
1237 Gadsden Street, Suite 200-L
Columbia, SC 29201
803.254.5597 (office)
clare@claremorrisagency.com

Jim Self
Executive Director, WW Business Development
Merck Vaccine Division
Merck & Co, Inc.
WP97-A335
770 Sumneytown Pike
West Point, PA 19486
215.652.6845 (office)
215.588.9311 (mobile)
james_self@merck.com

J. Guy Steenrod
Chief Executive Officer
IRIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
101 Technology Place
Florence, SC  29501
843.676.9007 (office)
guy.steenrod@irixpharma.com

Michael Bolick
President/CEO
Selah Technologies, LLC
657 South Mechanic Street
Pendleton, SC 29670
Phone: 864.248.4883
mbolick@selahtechnologies.com

Steve Johnson
President/CEO
CreatiVasc Medical LLC
330 East Coffee Street
Greenville, SC 29601
Phone: 864.380.8885
sjohnson@creativasc.com

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