Social Responsibility in the Corporate World

By Mike Switzer

Published February 1, 2017 at 5:34 AM EST

Nineteen years ago, our next guest’s parents were running a successful environmental engineering company in Charleston when they heard about serious water supply problems in Honduras brought to light by Hurricane Mitch, and so they decided to help. After being unable to find an existing water treatment system that could fix the problem, they decided to build one. They ended up starting a nonprofit to work on this problem around the world.

Mike Switzer interviews George Greene, IV, president and chief operating officer of Water Mission in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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