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Scenes from CEO Connect with Fran Galati (PHOTOS)

| Jo-Lynn Brown

Tampa Bay Business and Wealth held its May CEO Connect with Fran Galati, an owner of Galati (along with her brothers), who also functions as human resources and information technology director, at Galati Yachts.

Presenting sponsors included the CI Group, Corex Legal, Mauldin & Jenkins. The host sponsor was Jackson’s Bistro Bar & Sushi, in Tampa.

Bridgette Bello, CEO and publisher of TBBW, interviewed Galati in front of a sold-out live audience.

You can read the Galati’s cover story here.

Photos by Tacy Briggs-Troncoso

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