Dennis Rabon of First National Business Corporation

After graduating with a BS in Management and an MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management, Dennis began his career in commercial durable goods distribution with Michelin North America, developing the dealer network and growing national fleet sales. Continuing in the commercial trucking industry, Dennis took positions of increasing responsibility in dealer development, market management, channel management, and manufacturing plant management. In 1999, Dennis joined Airgate PCS as Market Manager with responsibility for launching the Sprint PCS Market in Columbia, SC. Shortly thereafter, Dennis was promoted to Regional Vice President, responsible for sales, marketing, and profit and loss for the NC, SC, and GA region. Dennis was promoted to Executive Vice President, with sole responsibility for IPCS, a wholly owned subsidiary with marketing, sales, distribution, and engineering responsibility for the Midwest United States. The entrepreneurial bug bit hard in 2002, and Dennis started VisionWireless, which quickly became the largest Sprint PCS business partner in the US, generating over $4.6 million in new annual recurring revenue in its’ first year of business. In 2005, the bug bit once again, and Dennis opened the first of what would become five franchised fitness centers. In August of 2007, Dennis sold one of his fitness centers after listing with First National Business Company (SC). The experience was “...so professional, so simple, and so perfectly organized, I wanted to own the business”. In November, 2007, Dennis Rabon bought FNBC-SC, and has since more than doubled the number of brokers to serve business owners and buyers in South Carolina.