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Picou Joins Sherman Board of Trustees

Todd A. Picou of Inman, SC, joins the Board of Trustees in March 2010. He is an entrepreneur within the health care industry who got his start as a nursing home operator in Louisiana and South Carolina. Picou is co-founder of Hospice Care of South Carolina, Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation, Executive Management Consultants, Allcare Medical, and Senior Care Consultants.

Picou earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in 1988 and later earned an MBA from Gardner-Webb University in 2003. He is a 2009 graduate of Leadership Spartanburg and Rural Leadership Spartanburg. He currently serves on the Board of the Alliance for Care at the End of Life, a Washington, DC, based organization that works with the government to ensure Americans get the proper care at the end of their life; he is a member of the Leadership Spartanburg Board of Regents and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Public Policy Committee.

When asked why he wanted to serve on Sherman’s Board, Picou states, “Sherman College has a unique opportunity to develop and grow. I have watched the college from afar and see a great future. I want to be a part of that future.”