Year: 2018
How Paul Leone, Flagler’s heirs and a team of 2,200 keep The Breakers on top
As a high school student in Paris, Kentucky, Paul Leone helped out at his family’s 17-room Starlight Motor Court, sharing a room with his two brothers. These days, he’s still in the hotel business—as CEO of The Breakers in Palm Beach, one of the nation’s grandest hotels since it opened in 1926. The Breakers and … Read more
From NFL to Cannabis Entrepreneur
By Andrea Richard When Hervé Damas was a kid, he wanted to become an astronaut. That dream never came to fruition, but his career trajectory still has been nontraditional anyway. Today, he’s a medical cannabis doctor and entrepreneur, having opened Grassroots Medicine and Wellness in Wynwood earlier this year. Damas shared his story at a … Read more
Improving outcomes with new tools & procedures
powered by By Martin Lenkowsky; with additional reporting by Sally-Ann O’Dowd Using art to heal the sick and wounded, donning goggles to diagnose brain concussions, and a Palm Beach County hospital that wants patients to say “no to cheeseburgers,” are a few of the featured stories in this latest installment of SFBW’s series, “Innovations in … Read more
Holistic Approach
Behaviorial health center looks for medical issues By Martin Lenkowsky Undiagnosed medical problems can be an invisible barrier when addressing addiction and other types of behavioral health, which is why the Florida House Experience takes a broad look at its clients. Chief medical officer and physician Ahmed Howeedy describes FHE as being much more than … Read more
Art emerges as key component in wealth portfolios
By Sally-Ann O’Dowd Elaborate art collections—long overlooked by financial advisers managing clients’ money—are becoming an integral facet of wealth management, according to a global study presented at Fort Lauderdale’s ArtServe. “We are seeing an expanding class of ultra-high-net-worth buyers who believe contemporary art is megacool,” says Adriano Picinati di Torcello, director and global art and … Read more
South Florida’s Growing Foreign Trade Zone
By Darcie Lunsford The phones at IMS Worldwide, a Houston-based consulting firm that helps companies, local governments and real estate developers establish and operate foreign trade zones nationally, have been lighting up in recent months. As President Donald Trump amps up his trade-sheriff stance, the often-underused foreign trade zones program—established in the 1930s as a … Read more
Litigation Support Accounting Firms
Powered by Compiled by Gilberto Medina, Research Director South Florida Business & Wealth surveyed accounting firms to seek those that had the largest litigation support accounting practice groups. SFBW presents the findings of the research in the list that follows, ranked by number of South Florida litigation support CPAs, then number of litigation support partners. … Read more
How litigation support is crucial in case outcomes
Powered By For a story accompanying the latest entry in SFBW’s series of lists, some of the region’s top CPAs convened to talk shop and share insights about litigation support accounting practices during a roundtable discussion. The panelists: • Marta Alfonso, principal of management advisory services and CPA at MBAF. • Eric Santa Maria, partner … Read more
Top 100 South Florida Law Firms No. 51-75
Powered By Compiled by Gilberto Medina, Research Director South Florida Business & Wealth ranked the Top 100 South Florida law firms and is presenting them in segments of 25. This month we feature the law firms that rank 51-75. Ver Ploerg & Lumpkin leads the way as we present the next group of 25. Ranked … Read more