Board Member, Vice Chairman (Retired)
Deloitte LLP
Dallas, TX

Roger Nanney retired as Vice Chairman of Deloitte LLP. He joined Deloitte in 1982 where he served as partner for 30 years. In that role, he held several leadership positions, including U.S. National Managing Partner and member of the Global Executive, Deloitte Private, Chief Operating Officer, Deloitte U.S. Clients and Industries, a member of the U.S. and Americas Operating Executive, and Mid-America regional managing partner. Additionally, Roger is currently a board member at Stephen Gould Corporation, Priority1 LLC, Freeman Company and Blackbaud.

Throughout his career, he served clients across several industries and geographies. He has experience in serving both mid-size and private companies as well as multinational public organizations and has provided a broad and in-depth perspective about the challenges clients face in today’s ever-changing business environment.

He is active in his community and serves a number of civic organizations. Roger’s most notable community service role is as a Trustee and Chairman of the University of South Carolina Business Partnership Foundation as well as Ambassador for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

A CPA and CMA, Roger received his BSBA and MACC from the University of South Carolina.

Chief Financial Officer
Domo
Menlo Park, CA

Bruce is the Chief Financial Officer of Domo, a public cloud-based enterprise software company focused on business intelligence and analytics. Prior to Domo, he was CFO of SuccessFactors, a human capital management company, guiding the company through a public offering, six acquisitions, and its $3.4 billion sale to SAP. Bruce has served as CFO for LANDesk Software, Ten-X, and FullTime Software. While at FullTime, he led its public offering and merger into Legato Systems, a company that was later acquired by EMC. An entrepreneur in his own right, Bruce founded Renaissance Software, serving as its CFO and head of sales before its sale to SunGard. Bruce began his career with Deloitte LLP in Atlanta, GA, before leaving to attend business school. Being Domo’s CFO gives him an added perk of getting to spend more time with his family at their Park City ski home.

Bruce is also currently a member of the board of directors and audit committee chair of Cambium Networks, a wireless infrastructure provider to increase internet access, Betterworks, a human capital management software company, and Human Interest, a provider of retirement plans for small and medium sized businesses.

Bruce holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of South Carolina and a M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Division CEO (Retired)
Synovus
Columbia, SC

C. W. Garnett, Retired Division CEO of Synovus, is a native of Columbia, South Carolina, with more than 31 years of banking experience. Prior to his role at Synovus, Garnett served as president and CEO of the National Bank of South Carolina. He joined NBSC as senior commercial lender in 1993, then as senior vice president, Upstate Regional Executive in 1996. In 1997, he served as executive vice president and his responsibilities were expanded to include Multi-Region Executive. Garnett was named president and CEO of NBSC in December 2003. He began his banking career with the C&S National Bank of South Carolina in 1984, serving in various management positions.

He attended the University of South Carolina before serving in the U.S. Air Force for four years. Garnett earned B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Puget Sound and is also a graduate of Louisiana State University’s Graduate School of Banking of the South.

Garnett is a past member of the South Carolina Centers of Economic Excellence Review Board, Central Carolina Economic Development Alliance Board and Executive Committee, Midlands Business Leadership Group Board and Executive Committee, Transitions Board of Directors, South Carolina Business and Industry Political Education Committee Board of Directors, University of South Carolina Board of Visitors, South Carolina Economics Board of Directors, University Associates and Palmetto Business Forum. He also served as Chairman of the SC Bankers Association and the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce.

Vice President
USC-Business Partnership Foundation
Columbia, SC

President
USC-Business Partnership Foundation 
Columbia, SC 

Board Liaison
USC – Business Partnership Foundation
Columbia, SC

National Service Line Leader – Tax
Forvis Mazars U.S.
Charlotte, NC

Trey has more than 20 years of experience working with large private and public companies in various industries. In his role as Client Service Partner, Trey is responsible for coordinating all firm services to the clients that he serves.

Trey served for five years as Market Managing Partner working with the firm’s Leaders in Charlotte executing the market’s growth and performance strategy, building high performing teams and leading community engagement and support.

Trey served for the previous three years as the Managing Partner of the DHG Tax Practice. In this role, Trey worked with leaders across the firm and throughout the tax practice executing our strategy focused on growth, leadership, talent/teams, client service, innovation, and financial performance.

Trey now serves as the National Service Leader for Tax with FORVIS. In this role, Trey is working with leaders across the firm and throughout the tax practice as we execute our strategy focused on growth, leadership, talent/teams, client service, innovation and financial performance.

Professional & Civic Involvement

• USC-Business Partnership Foundation Trustee
• Young Black Leadership Alliance Board of Directors
• United Way of Central Carolinas Board of Directors (past)
• Charlotte Regional Partnership Executive Committee & Board of Directors (past)
• Charlotte Chamber Talent Development and Diversity Initiative (past)
• Charlotte Chamber Board of Directors (past)
• Charlotte City Club Finance Committee (past)
• FAD Board, USC School of Accounting (past)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
•  North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants

Education

• University of South Carolina
  • Master of Taxation
  • Bachelor of Science Accounting
• Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education
• Harvard Business School Executive Education

President and CEO
South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
Columbia, SC

A stalwart of South Carolina’s business community for decades, Brenan brings a unique perspective to the BPF Board of Trustees. Brenan spent decades in South Carolina’s banking industry before retiring in 2023 as the Regional President for the South Carolina Region of Truist Bank. Prior to that, Brenan was Regional President in South Carolina for the BB&T Corporation before its merger with SunTrust, which created Truist Bank.

Having a passion for building strong communities and families, Brenan has also served the state through numerous civic and philanthropic groups. He received the Humanitarian of the Year Award by United Way of the Midlands in 2012, he has served on the boards of the South Carolina Philharmonic, the United Way Association of South Carolina, the Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics Foundation, the South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities Foundation, the South Carolina State Board of Education, and many more.

Mike holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Bowling Green State University.

Managing Director
Dallas International Trading and Solutions
Hilton Head, SC

Carlton B. Dallas, DBA, managing director of Dallas International Trading and Solutions, focuses on

1. International business development
2. Business turnarounds, capital/expense management and operational excellence
3. Leadership development where Carlton created the Dallas Leadership System and its derivative Interpersonal Network Mining.

Carlton is a resident of Hilton Head Island, SC, after retiring from the Chevron Corporation, as regional marketing director for 33 countries which comprised the $13 billion in revenues, Africa/Middle East/Pakistan/Europe (AMEPE) Region headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. In this capacity, Carlton directed the functions of pricing, promotion and advertising, capital investment, mergers and acquisitions, strategic market entry/exits including a $750 million asset divestment program, and was the business leader managing the deployment of SAP in southern Africa, the first “downstream” deployment outside the continental U.S. This deployment was a multi-million project with over 200 people assigned to the project.

Prior to the Cape Town assignment, Carlton was president/CEO for Chevron Eastern Caribbean, Ltd, a $500 Million Chevron subsidiary of 17 countries/islands headquartered in Bridgetown, Barbados.

During his international assignments, within a three-year span, Carlton helped lead the new AMEPE Region from its creation to second most profitable out of five operating regions around the world. Carlton held operational responsibility for the sale and disposition of over $750 million in assets during a global rationalization campaign and while executing this divestiture, won the Chairman’s Award from the Chevron Corporation for his work in “extracting” two Chevron employees held in a Congolese prison. 

Carlton started his career as a third-shift clerk in a station, culminating with responsibility for assets on five continents. He has moved 19 times in his career and has visited/lived in or managed assets in 71 countries.

In retirement, Carlton was recently named CEO of a start-up medical products company based in the U.S.

Carlton attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is a graduate of the University of Maryland with post graduate programs completed at the University of Chicago, UNC-CH Kenan Flagler School of Business, Cornell University, and the Center for Creative Leadership.

Vice President, Human Resources, General Counsel and Secretary
Sonoco
Hartsville, SC

John M. Florence, Jr., 41, is Sonoco’s Vice President, Human Resources, General Counsel and Secretary. Previously, he served as Sonoco’s Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from 2016-2018. He joined Sonoco in 2015 as the Company’s Corporate Attorney. In addition to managing legal work for the company, Florence manages Sonoco’s Corporate Secretary and governance function.

Prior to Sonoco, Florence worked as an attorney at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. in Columbia, S.C., where he handled legal work for Sonoco and other clients.  He holds an MBA from the University of South Carolina, a JD from Samford University and a BA in English from Presbyterian College.

Florence and his wife, Jeanette, live in Columbia with their three children.  He is a member of the American Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, Richland County Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel. Florence also serves on the Board of Trustees, Governors School for Science and Mathematics; Board of Directors, Coker University; is a Member of the USC  Moore School of Business Partnership Foundation; and a 2018 Graduate of Liberty Fellows.

Vice President – Power Generation
Dominion Energy
Cayce, SC

Iris Griffin is vice president–Power Generation for Dominion Energy South Carolina.  She is responsible for the power generating fleet serving approximately 800,000 customer accounts principally in South Carolina’s Midlands and Lowcountry.  Griffin previously served as vice president–Financial Management and Integration for Dominion Energy South Carolina, in which she was responsible for the organization’s finance functions. She assumed her current role in February 2021.

Prior to the merger with Dominion Energy, Griffin served as chief financial officer and treasurer for SCANA Corporation. During her time with SCANA, she also was vice president of finance and held leadership roles in Audit Services, Privacy, Corporate Compliance, Investor Relations, and Rate and Regulatory Affairs. Before joining SCANA, she worked at Scott McElveen in Columbia, South Carolina, and Ernst & Young in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In addition to serving as the finance committee Chair for the University of South Carolina – Business Partnership Foundation, Griffin also serves the community as a member of the board for Congaree Land Trust and audit committee chair for Transitions/Midlands Housing Authority. She previously served in leadership roles for the boards of Central SC Habitat for Humanity, City Year Columbia, Columbia Museum of Art, Senior Resources and Columbia City Ballet.

Griffin earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a Master of Accountancy from the University of South Carolina and is a certified public accountant in South Carolina.

CEO
Caliber Collision Centers
Lewisville, TX

Steve Grimshaw is chief executive officer of Caliber Collision Centers, the largest collision repair company in the U.S.

Since Grimshaw joined in 2009, Caliber Collision has grown from 68 locations in two states to 651 locations in 19 states across the U.S. Concurrently, Caliber’s revenue has increased from $284 million to more than $2.4 billion.

Prior to joining Caliber, Grimshaw served as executive vice president and general manager at Safety‐Kleen Systems, one of the nation’s largest environmental services companies.

Under Steve’s inspirational leadership, Caliber Collision’s philanthropic efforts are tightly woven into the fabric of the Caliber culture including the annual Rhythm Restoration Food Drive with more than 10 million meals collected for children in need of nutritious meals and the Caliber Recycled Rides program which has donated more than 150 vehicles to military and first responder families in need of reliable transportation.

Grimshaw is a board member of the Dallas Division of the American Heart Association and chaired the 2016 Côtes du Coeur event raising a record $4 million to fight heart disease and stroke.   

He also sits on the board for 22Kill, an organization dedicated to ending military veteran suicide.

Grimshaw and Caliber also received the 2016 Ernst & Young Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the services category and were a national finalist. 

Grimshaw is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He has been married to his wife Melissa for 23 years and  they have three children: Brittany, Henry and Steven.

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Lori Hair is the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Lori is responsible for the organization’s overall financial stewardship including Financial Services, Treasury, Investment Management, Tax, Cost and Budget, Mergers and Acquisitions, Human Resources, Legal and the General Services division. She has been CFO since 2021 and previously served as Vice President, Controller and Assistant Treasurer.

Lori has more than 20 years of broad financial leadership experience primarily within the insurance industry. Under Lori’s leadership and the work of her team, she ensures accurate and timely financial reporting, investment management, and economic modeling and forecasting. Additionally, she oversees the Company’s Human Resources division, which manages a workforce of over 16,000 employees, as well as the Legal Services division. Lastly, she ensures our facilities are operating effectively. Lori joined BlueCross in 2007 where she began her career within the Controller’s division as the Financial Reporting Director, overseeing the Company’s regulatory and external financial statement processes. She later assumed Controllership, Treasury, Investment Management, and Tax responsibilities prior to her promotion to Chief Financial Officer.

In addition to her internal leadership role at the Company, Lori also represents BlueCross and BlueShield of South Carolina as a Director and member of the Audit Committee of Plan Investment Fund, Inc., a mutual fund available exclusively for licensees and affiliates of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. She also serves as a Board member of the Blue Venture Fund, a corporate venture fund program owned and governed by Blue Plans and affiliates, that invest in venture and growth opportunities within healthcare technology, healthcare services and clinical services. She is also a member of National Employee Benefits Administration, an employee benefits trust, where she also serves as a member of the Investment Committee. In addition, she serves as a Director and Treasurer on numerous affiliated Company Boards. Lori also serves on the Board of the University of South Carolina Education Foundation, where she is also a member of the Investment Committee.

Lori is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Accountancy from the University of South Carolina.

President and CEO
McGuireWoods Consulting LLC
Columbia, SC

Gov. James Hodges is a partner with McGuireWoods LLP and is the president and CEO with McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. He advises clients on energy, health care, education, economic development and other issues, dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C.

Hodges provides strategic and policy advice to a wide range of clients dealing with issues with the nation's governors and state level cabinet agencies. He has assisted clients on matters in all fifty states, and regularly works with clients having matters at the National Governor's Association, Democratic Governors Association, Democratic Attorney Generals Association, and National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Hodges served as a national co-chair of the Obama for President Campaign in 2008, and regularly advises political and business leaders on a wide range of state, regional and national policy issues.

As governor of South Carolina, he led efforts to improve the state's education system, including establishing the education lottery that is credited with providing more than 100,000 scholarships. He is also responsible for funding "First Steps," a public-private preschool readiness program. Under his leadership, the South Carolina Department of Commerce achieved record breaking economic development results. Since 2003, he has been the CEO of Hodges Consulting, a business, government relations, and economic development consulting firm.

Hodges received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University, the Citadel, Winthrop University and Francis Marion University. While earning his law degree at the University of South Carolina, he was a member of the mock trial team and received the Compleat Lawyer Silver Medallion. As an undergraduate, he was named Outstanding Senior in Economics.

Hodges has been selected to “America’s Best Lawyers” since 2009.

Finance Executive (retired)
Accenture Corporation
Charlotte, NC

Lloyd Emerson Johnson is an independent director and experienced corporate executive with over 40 years of progressive senior leadership, mostly in leading edge Fortune 500 companies. Johnson retired from Accenture Corporation in 2015 and currently serves on four public company boards. At the time of his retirement, he was the Director of Global Finance and Audit. His career includes senior finance leadership positions with Delphi Corporation, Emerson Corporation and Sara Lee Corporation. Johnson has extensive experience in risk oversight, finance, governance, mergers and acquisitions, and large private company CFO experience.

Johnson is a current board member of Apogee Enterprises (Nasdaq: APOG) where he has chaired the audit committee since 2018. He also serves on the board of Beazer Homes Corporation (NYSE: BZH) as a member of both the audit and compensation committees. In August 2021, Lloyd joined the Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE) board where he serves on the audit committee and the governance and compliance committee. He joined the board of VSE Corporation (Nasdaq: VSEC) in July of 2022.

Active in national and local community service, Lloyd serves on the national board of AARP as Second Vice Chairman and Audit and Finance Committee Chair and is a board member of the NACD Carolinas Chapter. Lloyd is also the immediate past board chair of AARP Foundation.

Johnson has served on the United Way of the Carolinas Board of Directors and as a board member of the United Way Legacy Foundation. He also served on the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. Lloyd served on the advisory committee and chaired the governance committee during the formation of the Moore School Black Alumni Alliance.

Lloyd was recognized by Boards and Directors Magazine as one of 25 Directors to Watch in 2020 and 2018. He was also recognized by Savoy Magazine as one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors in 2017 and 2021.

Lloyd holds an MBA from the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and a Masters of Accountancy (1981) and a BSBA in Accounting (1980) from the Darla Moore Business School at the University of South Carolina. He is a CPA, NACD Board Governance Fellow and holds the NACD Directorship Certification.

Chairman
Bank of Clarendon
Manning, SC

A native of South Carolina, Rose is a third-generation banker who has dedicated the past 25 years of her professional career in banking, with the majority of that time in Executive Management and Marketing at the Bank of Clarendon in Manning, South Carolina.  In 2017, she was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Clarendon.

She is passionate about all things South Carolina, with a specific passion for the health and well- being of rural South Carolina and those individuals living and working in our rural communities.  She believes that "the soul of South Carolina lives in the rural areas of our great state and it is our responsibility to insure the viability of these communities for years to come." She holds a specific interest in improving financial literacy though education and training for both students and adults.

She holds a degree in Finance and Economics from Converse College and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.  She is a Certified Financial Marketing Professional and has completed the American Bankers Association School of Bank Marketing. She is a 2001 graduate of Leadership South Carolina and is a member of the 2017 Liberty Fellowship Class.

She serves as director for the South Carolina Bankers Association, serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina and is the Chair of its Audit and Compliance Committee, and serves as a member of the Board of Governors for Coastal Carolina Hospital. 

President, Chief Investment Officer
Greenwood Capital
Greenville, SC

Walter B. Todd, III is President and Chief Investment Officer of Greenwood Capital, one of the largest independent registered investment advisory firms headquartered in South Carolina, with more than $1.5 billion in assets under management. Mr. Todd oversees Greenwood Capital’s disciplined top-down macro-economic investment philosophy and its highly experienced Investment Team, delivering a diverse offering of investment objective-based ETF Asset Allocation Strategies, as well as traditional Equity and Fixed Income Investment Strategies.

Mr. Todd has 30 years of experience in the financial industry and joined Greenwood Capital in 2002. Prior to joining Greenwood Capital, he served as an Investment Banking Associate at Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Group in New York. He has also worked as an analyst for First Union Capital Markets Group in Charlotte, NC. Mr. Todd received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Washington & Lee University, where, upon graduation, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Mr. Todd earned his M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School – University of Pennsylvania where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar in May 1999.

Mr. Todd is regularly featured on Bloomberg, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, and BBC, as well as quoted through Reuters, the Associated Press, Bloomberg and other national and international print, radio and television outlets.

President 
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Dean
Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC