Erin Ford is the current Interim CEO of SCBIO, recently transitioning from Executive Vice President and COO. Ms. Ford works on corporate strategies emanating from the organization’s three statewide offices, its Board, and hundreds of supporting Members and Investors.  Her comprehensive responsibilities include serving as primary lead for SCBIO’s business operations and finances, championing investor relations and existing industry strategies, and spearheading integrated marketing initiatives. She previously served as sales and marketing executive at Poly-Med, a global innovation company that is developing absorbable polymers and constructs for the medical device industry, during which she served on the SCBIO Board of Directors. Before her role at Poly-Med, Inc., Erin was a business recruitment officer at the Upstate SC Alliance.  She served as the main point of contact for life sciences companies interested in expanding or locating in South Carolina. While at the Upstate Alliance, Ms. Ford served as an ex-officio SCBIO board member from 2013-2015 and led a regional biosciences task force comprised of industry executives from across the region. Erin also has extensive television experience as a documentary producer and sportscaster.

She received her B.A. in Communication from La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Sam currently serves as Marketing Director for SCBIO where his extensive marketing career allows him to successfully implement all marketing and communications strategies, as well as overall image and branding. Sam also leads the team in preparing all annual marketing plans and works to create a calendar of campaigns and events. He is also responsible for the marketing budget and is the lead planner for SCBIO’s annual conference and its associated committee. Sam Patrick’s varied marketing career includes work directing strategic communications for such organizations as DOW, Publix Super Markets, SouthTrust Corporation, Wachovia, Datastream Systems, Ryland Homes, Club Corporation of America, State of South Carolina Tourism, Elliott Davis and Advantica/Denny’s among them. With a background in industries including consumer goods, technology, economic development, financial services and professional services, Sam founded Patrick Marketing & Communications, Inc. (PM&C) in 2005 to assist organizations seeking to deploy innovative marketing and communications to accelerate their profitable growth. Sam also serves as Director of Marketing for Greenville Area Development Corporation (the official economic development arm of Greenville County, SC) and NHE Inc. (which provides professional association management and apartment management to high quality communities across the Southeast). Sam’s involvements include the American Advertising Federation, South Carolina Association of CPAs, Miracle Hill Ministries, Senior Action, and Southeast Life Sciences. He speaks and writes regularly on various marketing and growth topics. Sam is a proud graduate of The University of Georgia where he holds a B.A. in Journalism, Public Relations and Marketing. 

Morgan is the Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations Manager of SCBIO where she manages board communications, executive activities, investor relations and event affairs, while assisting with a variety of public relations and marketing initiatives. She also helps spearhead SCBIO's life sciences workforce initiatives, specializing in K – 12 life sciences education efforts.

Before SCBIO, Morgan was employed as Lead Quality and Corporate Affairs Intern with Nephron Pharmaceuticals, a multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing company in West Columbia, SC.

Due to COVID-19, she is in her second year as Miss South Carolina where she travels across the state speaking with students, teachers, legislators, corporate professionals, and others to promote her initiative of Stronger With STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) to further develop the state’s 21^st-century STEM workforce. Morgan is a summa-cum laude graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Genetics and minor in business administration.  

Experienced senior bioengineering student at Clemson University and Senior Intern at SCBIO. Current work at Clemson includes development of a personal isolation unit to combat COVID-19, creation of children's STEM outreach activities, development of an umbilical cord care kit, and medical device reprocessing research. 

Ashlea is an intern for SCBIO. She is a senior Microbiology major with a Biomedicine concentration and double minoring in Biology and Psychology at Clemson University. Before SCBIO, Ashlea interned with the Greenwood Genetic Center in the Summer of 2019 where she worked in the Cytogenetics laboratory and participated in research for an uncommon genetic disorder of a microduplication of a chromosome. Her primary role is to help with SCBIO’s Investor Relations Manager, Morgan Nichols. While Ashlea has been an Intern for SCBIO, she has played a part in  the  Young Women in Life Science Conference, Board Retreats, Student-Industry Networking Events, SCBIO Bootcamp, SCBIO Job Board, Talent & Workforce Task Force Sessions, CEO Roundtable, and other events. Ashlea has taken lead roles on planning the Student-Industry Networking Events with Industry and four year universities. She continues to purse opportunities to gauge student members to connect more with SCBIO and surrounding industry. Ashlea is heavily involved in her major at Clemson University where she published a literature review on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the Spring of 2019 and attended a dental mission study abroad trip to serve in another country. Outside of academics, Ashlea has held many leadership positions such as the Student Alumni Council Director of Membership, a Recruitment Committee member for the Clemson University Guide Association, and is currently serving as the Freshman Council Director.

McKenna is an intern at SCBIO. She is a junior Microbiology major with a concentration in Biomedicine and a minor in Business Administration at Clemson University Honors College. In addition to SCBIO, McKenna is a Clinical Microbiology Intern at Paratek Pharmaceuticals.