BENELUXCONNECT - Key Persons
A native South Carolinian, Trip spent decades in South Carolina, as an Associated Press reporter covering state government, an Anheuser-Busch distributor running a $30 million operation across seven counties, and as director of a statewide non-profit which ran the SC Teacher of the Year Celebration. Publicly minded, he has served on numerous government and non-profit boards, including the SC Workforce Development Board.
In the fall of 2016, Trip moved to Brussels to be with his wife, a woman he met his first day at Duke University in 1978. Now, he works to connect his home region to his adopted country and northern Europe.