Rick Spruill

Jan 30, 2025 | towncarolina.com | Rick Spruill

Zylö’s Scott Pancoast shares secrets gleaned from more than 20 years in the innovation economy“Innovation” is much more than a buzzword for Zylö Therapeutics CEO and founder Scott Pancoast. Armed with a degree in economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Pancoast eventually headed West three decades ago, where he left a traditional corporate setting to step into a role making venture investments for a family in San Diego, California.

Jan 9, 2025 | upstatebusinessjournal.com | Rick Spruill

Tabbi founder and CEO Brad Loflin learned from a decade in restaurant management that efficiency in all things – especially the all-important process of paying the bill – is key to customer satisfaction. So when he experienced first-hand a lack of efficiency while traveling for business, he decided to do something about it. “I was traveling a lot for work, moving in and out of hotels, restaurants, Ubers, airports,” Loflin said.

Jan 7, 2025 | upstatebusinessjournal.com | Rick Spruill

Jackie Herr grew up in northeast Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia. So why is she now pouring her hard-won experience as a marketing-communications executive into a bunch of Clemson students? Because Clemson University has become something of a family affair. Herr’s daughter chose Clemson in 2018, which is when Herr and her husband, Scott, relocated to Greenville from Irvine, California.

Dec 31, 2024 | towncarolina.com | Rick Spruill

The son of Kurdish immigrants expands on his parents’ American Dream with Aesthetic Built clothing lineAlend Barzenji’s entrepreneurial roots extend halfway across the world. The son of Kurdish immigrants says some of his earliest memories involve his family’s arduous asylum journey from the Kurdish state of Iraq to the United States. “We immigrated to the US in 1997,” he says. “My dad was working for Global Partners, which was a nonprofit organization attached to the Clinton administration.

Nov 27, 2024 | towncarolina.com | Rick Spruill

Adult ice hockey leagues offer fun and fitness at The PavilionAfter a $5 million renovation in 2020, the ice rink at Greenville County’s The Pavilion on Scottswood Road in Taylors, South Carolina, has elevated its game. “We have ice hockey, figure skating, and even curling now,” Pavilion Manager Jai Gillian says of the 185-foot-long-by-80-foot-wide sheet of ice. “Our ice is smaller, but it’s good ice. We really baby it.