{"id":40680,"date":"2026-01-13T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40680"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:52:08","slug":"furman-featured-in-scbizs-south-carolina-500-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-featured-in-scbizs-south-carolina-500-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman featured in SCBiz\u2019s South Carolina 500 spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumni, employees and friends are highlighted in <a href=\"https:\/\/scbiz.com\/\">SC Biz News\u2019s<\/a> inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/scbiz.com\/south-carolina-500\/\">South Carolina 500<\/a> list, featuring leaders shaping the state\u2019s economic future.<\/p>\n<p>The honorees include Furman President Elizabeth Davis, along with Center for Innovative Leadership Executive Director Garrett Stern and the Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Executive Director Bryan Davis. Bryan Davis was previously featured on SC Biz News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/scbiz.com\/palmetto-power-list-2024\/\">Palmetto Power List 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The list also includes Furman Trustee and Spinx Co. CEO Steve Spinks, Trustee Emeritus and Hartness Development CEO Sean Hartness and Don Gordon, founding executive director of The Riley Institute and professor of politics and international affairs.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 other alumni, relatives and friends of the university made the list of people \u201cwho are driving innovation, creating jobs, building communities, and making South Carolina a better place to live and work,\u201d according to SC Biz News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 alumni, faculty, staff, trustees and other friends of Furman University were recognized among the most influential professionals in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":40707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2676,3065,3498,29,1744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-center-for-innovative-leadership","category-hill-institute-for-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-innovation-lab","category-riley-institute","category-sc-biz-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680","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\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40714,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40680\/revisions\/40714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}