►Hotel Alba (Pictured above) opened as the first Tapestry Collection by Hilton hotel in Florida at 5303 W. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa.
►Tampa General Hospital and University of South Florida Health plan to form a joint venture organization that will bring USF physicians and the Tampa General Medical Group into a single entity.
►United Way Suncoast president and CEO, Suzanne McCormick has been named U.S. president of United Way Worldwide.
►Port Tampa Bay named Brian Giuliani vice president of operations.
►Syniverse, a Tampa-based business technology company, hired Vernon Irwin as senior vice president of enterprise business development.
►The board of directors of Frameworks of Tampa Bay appointed Elizabeth A. Reedy-Foley as chief executive officer.
►American Momentum Bank grew its association banking division with the addition of Tammy Zuknick as vice president of association banking.
►Tampa native Eddie Gomez Jr. was named as general manager of Century Buick GMC in Tampa.
►Matt Livesay has joined the trusts and estates practice group of Quarles & Brady as a lawyer in its Tampa office.
►Quest Workspaces opened a coworking space on the 19th and 26th floors of Rivergate Tower in downtown Tampa.
►The Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research named Betty Viamontes chief financial officer, who will oversee all aspects of financials and accounting, current systems and processes.
►Global law firm Greenberg Traurig expanded its intellectual property and technology practice in the firm’s Tampa office with the addition of shareholder Scott W. Doyle and senior associate Vishesh Narayen.
►Engage PEO, a professional employer organization providing human resource outsourcing to small and midsized businesses, added Tiffany Creter as vice president of sales for Florida, based in Tampa.
►Walbridge in Tampa named Justin Perrino (L) senior project manager and Jaime Lefebvre senior estimator.
►Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest named Joe Sawyer chief marketing officer and Darin Bunker vice president of engineering.
►BTI Partners, the company developing the Westshore Marina District, signed leases with Crave Spa and Salon Color Bar.
►Lykes Bros., in Tampa, named Johnnie P. James Jr. president and chief executive officer.
►Hold-Thyssen, a commercial real estate firm with offices in Clearwater and Winter Park, closed on a long-term lease for Counseling Center of Tampa Bay in the Bridgewater Professional Park, 4913 Van Dyke Road in Lutz.
►Tampa International Airport broke ground on the second phase of its master-plan expansion including 16 new express curbsides tailored to passengers without checked luggage.
►Berkadia arranged $33.5 million in acquisition financing for Lofton Place, a 280-unit multifamily community in Tampa, which was sold from Providence Management Company, a firm based in Glenview, Illinois.
►Moez Limayem, dean of the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, was named to the 2019-20 board of directors for AACSB International, a Tampa-based association dedicated to the advancement of college business schools.