NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release For More Information: Kristie Bohm Byrum, APR The Byrum Innovation Group 864.242.1102
kristiebyrum@byruminnovation.com
REED BYRUM ELECTED TO BOARD OF SC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Chair of Greenville’s Byrum Innovation Group Begins Two-Year Service GREENVILLE, SC, November 20, 2008 – Reed Bolton Byrum, Chair of Greenville’s The Byrum Innovation Group, has been elected to the Board of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce.
The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce is the state’s largest statewide broad-based business and industry trade association, representing more than 6,500 member companies and more than 600,000 member employees. The SC Chamber just completed its annual summit at Wild Dunes, where new Board members took their seats.
Byrum and his partner, Kristie Bohm Byrum, are the key executives of The Byrum Innovation Group, a strategic counseling firm that delivers Silicon Valley success to innovative companies operating in the Southeast. The Byrums founded BIG, Inc., in 2004 and together provide businesses with a collective experience of almost 50 years of advising corporate America. BIG, Inc., is a resource partner of SC Launch, a collaborative of the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), Clemson University, the University of South Carolina, and the Medical University of South Carolina to accelerate entrepreneurial growth of technology start-ups. 1
Byrum is a leading national corporate strategist in dealing with such critical issues as reputation, positioning and governance. Byrum is expert at positioning companies in the financial markets and commercial marketplaces. Byrum has served as a corporate executive for companies, ranging from technology and biomedical start-ups to the Fortune 100, like EDS and GE Capital, and as a senior consultant to global and regional counseling firms. He previously taught communications at The University of Texas at Austin and received a Texas Star award for career achievement in 2004.
Byrum, former national President and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America, is currently President of the South Carolina Public Relations Society of America and a member of the Board of the Southeast District of PRSA. He has served on the Boards of numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in California, New York, Texas, and South Carolina.
The Byrum Innovation Group and Chernoff Newman of Columbia announced last week a strategic joint venture that is designed to help large corporate CEOs and boards of directors successfully advance their businesses – particularly during these times of economic challenge and uncertainty.
Byrum is one of ten Greenville businesspersons serving on the SC Chamber Board. Other Greenvillians serving on the SC Chamber Board include: Steven Brandt, Publisher of The Greenville News; John Creech, Shareholder, Olgetree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart; Anna Ellefson, Shareholder, Haynesworth, Sinkler, Boyd; Mark Kent, President, KentWool; Ray Lattimore, President and CEO, Marketplace Staffing Services; Todd Mitchell, Chairman, Elliott Davis; Michael Riordan, President and CEO, Greenville Hospital System; Kenneth Smith, Senior Vice President, Fluor; and Dick Wilkerson, Chairman and CEO, Michelin North America.
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About Byrum Innovation Group (BIG, Inc.):
Byrum Innovation Group is a strategic counseling firm that delivers Silicon Valley success to innovative companies operating in the Southeast. BIG offers growth and positioning strategies to increase the value of companies and guides companies through transitions in governance and reputation.
About the SC Chamber:
The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s first state chamber Accredited with Distinction by the U.S. Chamber, is the state’s largest statewide broad-based business and industry trade association representing more than 6,500 member companies and more than 600,000 member employees, with 90 percent of membership comprised of small businesses. As the unified voice for business and industry, the Chamber is a catalyst for increasing per capita income and enhancing the state’s global competitiveness in order to improve the quality of life for all South Carolinians.
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