{"id":35753,"date":"2025-01-10T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35753"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:02:35","slug":"furman-staff-alumni-and-trustees-named-to-greenville-business-magazines-most-influential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-staff-alumni-and-trustees-named-to-greenville-business-magazines-most-influential\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman staff, alumni and trustees named to Greenville Business Magazine&#8217;s &#8216;Most Influential&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several individuals associated with Furman University were named to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirabelsmagazinecentral.com\/DigitalEdition\/index.html?id=7bc4ff84-bf73-4c87-bde6-97f304f66b6a\">Greenville Business Magazine&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;50 Most Influential&#8221; for 2024. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kevin Bryant, managing director of Marsh McLennan, Furman alumnus (1985, political science and member of Furman Men&#8217;s Basketball) and trustee<\/li>\n<li>Sean Hartness, CEO of Hartness Construction and Hartness Development and Furman trustee emeritus. Hartness was also named to Greenville Business Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;50 Most Influential Hall of Fame&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cal Hurst, president of Southern First Bank and Furman alumnus (2005, business administration and economics and team member of Furman Baseball) and<\/li>\n<li>Liz Seman, Furman chief of staff and liaison to the board of directors. Seman serves as vice chair of Greenville County Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others in the &#8220;Most Influential&#8221; include those who have participated in programs at Furman University through The Riley Institute and The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several individuals with ties to Furman are recognized in Greenville Business Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;50 Most Influential&#8221; for 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":32050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,2944,20,46,1581,3065,6,32,90,29],"tags":[3219,3218,490],"class_list":["post-35753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-board-of-trustees","category-business-and-accounting","category-economics","category-greenville-business-magazine","category-hill-institute-for-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-president","category-riley-institute","tag-50-most-influential","tag-greenville-business-magazine","tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35757,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions\/35757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}