One Liners Hillsborough

Tampa’s Pamela Muma was honored with the Junior Achievement National Centennial Leadership Award
and visited the
New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the organization’s 100th anniversary. (Photo Credit: NYSE)

►Quarles & Brady’s commercial litigation group named Benjamin Brown as the Tampa firm’s new Florida litigation chair.

►Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick in Tampa expanded its land use and zoning practice team with the addition of lawyers David B. Singer and Matt Newton.

John Paul J. Sosa 

ForCare Medical Group in Tampa added primary care physician and LifeStyle medical expert John Paul J. Sosa to its team.

►Craig Mayfield has been appointed managing partner of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings’ Tampa office.

Hill Ward Henderson shareholder B. Ben Dachepalli was appointed by Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, and subsequently confirmed by the city council, to serve a four-year term as a member of the Tampa Housing Authority.

►Courtesy Toyota of Brandon opened a $30 million, 91,000-square-foot facility at 9210 E. Adamo Drive in Brandon.

►American Marketing Association Tampa Bay inducted Tampa International Airport into the Marketing Hall of Fame as part of the associations’  Marketer of the Year Awards.

►GTE Financial named Tina Fischer to its supervisory committee.

►Paul Grove has been named president and CEO of WEDU-Channel 3, the Tampa Bay area’s PBS television affiliate.

The University of South Florida named Steve Currall, of Southern Methodist University, its next president.

►Feldman Equities in Tampa named Baharea Larsen executive vice president of leasing and marketing.

►Dan Galbraith was named chief operating officer at Baldwin Risk Partners in Tampa.

Lara Roeske Fernandez

►Trenam Law shareholder Lara Roeske Fernandez has been included among BTI’s Client Service All-Stars 2019. 

►Alan List, CEO and president of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

►The Dikman Co.’s Erika Zipfel Matscherz received the Member to Member Deal of the Year award at the Florida Gulf Coast Commercial Association of Realtors annual Pinnacle Awards.

►Chase Pattillo, the former head of brokerage services for commercial real estate brokerage firm CBRE’s Tampa office, was hired by multifamily developer Fore Property Co. to open and lead its Tampa office.

Hill Ward Henderson shareholder Dennis P. Waggoner was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America.

Allister Place

►Berkadia arranged the $43.2 million sale and $34.6 million financing of Allister Place, a 384-unit multifamily asset located in Tampa.

►Virgo Investment Group committed $18 million to Peerfit, a Tampa-based digital health company.

►Centene Corp. acquired Tampa’s WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG).

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