Board

 

M. Edward Sellers, ChairmanEd Sellters

M. Edward Sellers is Chairman of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and the Companion group of companies. The Corporation’s businesses include health insurance, administrative services contracting, Medicare intermediary functions, Department of Defense TRICARE intermediary functions, a life insurance company, a property and casualty insurance company, computer technology businesses and an HMO.

Mr. Sellers joined BlueCross as President and Chief Operating Officer in September 1987. He was elected to the board of directors in 1989, became Chief Executive Officer in 1992 and was named Chairman in 2001. Today, BlueCross and BlueShield of South Carolina has over $2.9 billion in annual revenue and 13,000 employees located in sixteen states.

In prior assignments, Mr. Sellers worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Pittsburgh), the Boston Consulting Group (Boston), and the BlueCross and BlueShield Association (Chicago).

A native of Kentucky, Mr. Sellers is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Physics, and he has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Sellers chairs the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, a non-profit council of leadership in business, academia and government, whose mission is to drive a long-term economic development strategy for South Carolina based on Harvard Professor Michael Porter's concept of industrial clusters. Creating the Council was one of Dr. Porter’s key recommendations in Building the Competitive Advantage of South Carolina, unveiled in December 2003.

Executive Board

  • James A. Bennett, Executive Vice President, First Citizens Bank
  • John C.L. Darby, President & CEO, The Beach Company
  • Don Herriott, Director of Innovista Partnerships, University of South Carolina
  • Tecumseh (Tee) Hooper, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, General Wholesale Distributors, LLC
  • S. Hunter Howard, Jr., Upstate Managing Partner, Scott and Company
  • Darla D. Moore, Chairman, Palmetto Institute
  • Mack I. Whittle, Jr. Retired, Chairman & CEO, Carolina First Bank

Board of Directors

  • Paula Harper Bethea, Executive Director, SC Education Lottery
  • Joe Blanchard, President & CEO, Blanchard Machinery Company
  • Harris E. De Loach, Jr., Chairman, President & CEO, Sonoco Products Company
  • Clark S. Gillespy, Vice President Economic Development, Business Development, & Territorial Strategies, Duke Energy Carolinas  
  • W. Hayne Hipp, Greenville, SC
  • John Lumpkin, Jr., Columbia, South Carolina
  • Dalhi Myers, Columbia, South Carolina
  • Robert W. Pearce, Jr., Partner, Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
  • Eric C. Schweitzer, Attorney, Ogletree,Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
  • William C. "Bill" Smith, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Red Rock Developments, LLC
  • Joel A. Smith, III Dean Emeritus, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
  • Ted Creech, Director External Affairs, AT&T
  • Dr. Henry Tisdale, President, Claflin University
  • John Warner, President, Swamp Fox, LLC
  • Irv Welling III, Owner, Welling Strategic
  • M. William Youngblood, Shareholder, McNair Law Firm

Designated Seats

 

  • Dr. Jim Barker, President, Clemson University
  • Dr. Raymond Greenberg, MD, PhD, President, Medical University of South Carolina
  • Mrs. Heather Simmons Jones, CEO, Opus 3, LLC
  • The Honorable Robert W. Harrell, Jr., Speaker, South Carolina House of Representatives  
  • Dr. Harris Pastides, President, University of South Carolina
  • The Honorable Nikki G. Setzler, Senator, South Carolina
  • Dr. Darrel Staat, President, South Carolina Technical College Systems