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Scenes from CEO Connect with Richard and Andrea Gonzmart Williams (PHOTOS)(VIDEO)

| Jo-Lynn Brown

Tampa Bay Business and Wealth held its June CEO Connect with Richard Gonzmart and Andrea Gonzmart Williams, owners of the Columbia Restaurant and the 1905 Family of Restaurants.

Presenting sponsors included The Bank of Tampa, Nperspective, CLA (CliftonLarsenAllen) and the Sunshine State Economic Development Corp., or SEDCO.

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

You can read the cover story here.

Photos by Tacy Briggs-Troncoso

Video by Empowering Creative

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