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Accomplished business leader with three decades of experience as a leader in the mattress retail industry, Edwin Shoffner currently serves as the president of Mattress Wholesale and Mattress By Appointment, which are both located in Greenville, South Carolina. A season ticket holder with the Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers, Edwin Shoffner spends his time away from work attending live sporting events. The Charlotte Hornets joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as an expansion team ahead of the 1988-1989 season. Like many expansion teams, Charlotte’s early seasons were defined by inconsistency. The team had a 96-232 record over four years before going 44-38 during the 1992-1993 season, the franchise’s first with a winning record. Before long, the team had joined the ranks of Eastern Conference teams competing for a spot in the playoffs. The Hornets experienced their most prolonged period of success between 1994 and 1998. Led by a one-two scoring punch of Alonzo Mour...

Edwin Shoffner serves as the president of Mattress by Appointment and Mattress Wholesale. He brings three decades of experience in mattress retailing to his companies. Beyond his businesses, Edwin Shoffner is dedicated to underwater exploration as a certified scuba diver, advanced open water diver, and rescue diver. Ocean diving provides a myriad of new experiences, either as a hobby or even a profession. Here are some of them. - Enter a new world: The average depth of the ocean is more than 12,000 feet, which means there's a ton to explore - Get rid of gravity: Scuba diving grants you the ability to simply move through a special space without either floating or sinking.  - Try Underwater photography : The ocean is full of highly photogenic scenery, from colorful fish to dramatic underwater landscapes. Thanks to the latest technology, taking photos beneath the waves has never been easier. - Learn the hand signals: Scuba divers communicate underwater using hand signals. Learni...

Edwin Shoffner has been with six different mattress companies over more than a decade in the field, and currently serves Mattress by Appointment and Mattress Wholesale as president. Edwin Shoffner also loves to attend sporting events, and holds season tickets for the Charlotte Hornets. The Charlotte Hornets have a unique history among sports franchises, due to the migration of a previous Charlotte Hornets franchise. The team that played in Charlotte during the 1990s moved to New Orleans in 2002 and lost the rights to the Hornets name and lineage when it became the New Orleans Pelicans. The new Hornets franchise, created in 2004 and initially known as the Charlotte Bobcats, inherited the history of the previous Hornets, giving it a “best year” nearly a decade before its creation. The change also had an effect on the career statistics of one player who followed the original Hornets to New Orleans. Baron Davis, an NBA All-Star in 2002 and 2004, is considered to have been an All-Star wi...

Edwin Shoffner is an experienced sales professional and senior administrator who heads two companies in Greenville, South Carolina. Away from his work, Edwin Shoffner enjoys scuba diving. He holds multiple certifications through the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), including Advanced Open Water Diver certification .  The leading organization dedicated to training and educating recreational scuba divers, PADI has issued more than 25 million certifications around the world. In addition to overseeing basic Open Water Diver certification, the organization offers a range of specialized certifications. PADI’s Advanced Open Water Diver course is designed to expand scuba skills beyond the basic Open Water Diver level and build diving confidence under a variety of circumstances. To become certified, a candidate must complete a total of five recorded dives, three of which can be of the diver’s choosing. The other two required dives, the Deep Dive and the Underwater N...