DATE: February 26, 2008
CONTACT:
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, (843) 554-7226 ext. 117
ebusch@clemson.edu
WRITER:
Angela Nixon, (864) 656-0382
anixon@clemson.edu
Clemson hires development director for Restoration Institute
CLEMSON – Clemson University has hired Elizabeth Colbert-Busch as the director of development for its Restoration Institute in North Charleston. Her role will be to work with individuals and corporations to build relationships that will help develop the institute.
Colbert-Busch comes to Clemson from the Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) where she was director of sales and marketing for the company’s South Atlantic region. In that position, she was responsible for all trade lane development and implementation of the regional business plan, budget objectives and financial goals, as well as promoting international maritime relations and business activity for the region.
“With her solid background in the corporate world and her passion for higher education, Elizabeth will be a tremendous asset to the university-wide efforts of Clemson’s Restoration Institute,” said John Kelly, executive director of the institute.
Colbert-Busch graduated from the College of Charleston in 1988 with a degree in intermodal transportation and logistics management. After completing a South Carolina State Ports Authority business development internship, she worked in Washington, D.C, to complete her studies on government maritime relations. She joined the OOCL staff in November 1988.
She was the aide to Henry L. Wen, vice president of public affairs for Associated Maritime Industries Inc., the liaison between OOCL and federal and state governments. She served as chairwoman of the 2006 S.C. International Trade Conference, chairwoman of the Maritime Association Port of Charleston and member of the board of directors of the Propeller Club Port of Charleston, which named her regional member of the year. She was a founding member of the Charleston Women in International Trade and was the first woman voted by the industry as the National Transportation Week Leader of the Year.
Colbert-Busch has served on the College of Charleston’s Business College Alumni Advisory Board and currently serves on the college’s Intermodal Transportation and Logistics Management Program Advisory Committee. She has lectured on ocean transportation and intermodalism, market economy and trends, homeland security industry challenges and recently published an industry article on improving the cargo throughput process under industry dynamic growth and demand on U.S. infrastructure.
She is married to Claus Wyman Busch III and has three children – Mary Legare Middleton, Robert Walker Legare Jr. and Catherine Ann Legare – and two grandchildren.